Business
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Royal Mail £350m in red but 'back on track', according to owner
The results came days before a crunch deadline that could see the 508-year-old firm fall into foreign ownership for the first time.
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Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case in 'Rust' shooting to continue
Alec Baldwin is set to stand trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 killing of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after a...
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Trump's Truth Social struggles to grow its user base, according to new data
Former President Donald Trump's media company is worth more than $8 billion on the stock market despite making under $800,000 in revenue last quarter.
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Will schools finally pay student-athletes? What a historic settlement means for the NCAA and players
Could college athletes really start getting paid directly by their schools, ending decades of acrimony over the issue?
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UAW challenges Mercedes-Benz union vote, asks NLRB for new election
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union is challenging the results of last week’s organizing vote of Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama, in which...
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Advertisers boost spending at retailers such as Walmart and Amazon as TV shrinks
The next frontier for the ad market isn’t on TV — it’s at screens near points of sale.
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U.S. tourist facing jail in Turks and Caicos for possessing ammunition is released
An American man who was facing up to 12 years in jail on this Caribbean island for bringing 20 rounds of ammunition on a vacation has been freed...
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Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are bridging divides at the office
The ‘universal language’ of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé is improving life at work and building bonds between bosses and co-workers.
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It wasn't the endless shrimp that doomed Red Lobster. How private equity pinched the seafood chain.
When a private-equity firm bought Red Lobster in 2014, it sold the land under the restaurants for $1.5 billion. Now the restaurants can't pay the...
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Cadbury owner Mondelez fined €337.5m by EU for anti-competitive practices
The confectionery giant, formerly Kraft Foods, was discovered to have unlawfully restricted cross-border trade of certain products.
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Abrdn boss Stephen Bird quits asset manager
Stephen Bird has stepped down as the investment group's chief executive, but will remain at the company until the end of June to enable a smooth...
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Coventry's £750m takeover of Co-op Bank confirmed
The West Midlands group agreed to buy the Co-op Bank last month in a £780million deal to create Britain's seventh-largest lender, with millions of...