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A fledgling, fast-evolving technology threatens the best efforts of social media’s biggest companies to tamp down disinformation during political season. Need proof? Seeing and hearing is disbelieving. See full story.
Trump administration siphoned almost $4 million from 9/11 first responders fund: report
The Treasury Department has withheld money for firefighters treated by the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, the New York Daily News reports See full story.
The current selloff may end up emboldening the bulls, if the last tech bubble is a guide
One strategist says a bubble is forming in the market — but the current selloff might not prick it. See full story.
The COVID-19 pandemic is about to enter its most treacherous phase
The assumption that we’re past the worst of the pandemic could be dangerously wrong. In fact, the more dangerous phase of the crisis may actually be coming this fall. See full story.
Climate change is huge risk for the American financial system, a major new bipartisan report says
U.S. banks, agricultural and oil interests, as well as regulators and investors, require a unified front in accounting for climate-change risk, says the first comprehensive government report on such efforts. See full story.
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Only America, Brazil and Hungary are worse off now than when the Social Progress Index began a decade ago See full story.
