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US-China trade snarls as world’s biggest economies brace for divorce

Chinese exporters scrambled to respond to crushing US tariffs by hiking prices, cancelling shipments and rerouting goods to other countries,…

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Travel

Disney World’s Private VIP Tours Start at $450 an Hour—Here’s What They’re Really Like

On this whirlwind holiday visit, there would be no last-minute Ubers, crowded bus rides, or harried car rentals to the…

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Science

The lush past of the world’s largest desert

The Empty Quarter (Rub' al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent…

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Business

Headcount at the world’s largest real estate brokerage is shrinking, and two lawsuits claiming sexual assaults inside the company may offer clues as to why 

eXp Realty was a real-estate juggernaut that swelled to more than 80,000 agents based on a revenue-share plan that paid…

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Science

Soil conditions significantly increase rainfall in world’s megastorm hotspots

Storm forecasting is traditionally based on studying atmospheric conditions but ground-breaking research that also looks at land surface conditions is…

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Travel

Why Civility Starts With Civets: The Ugly Truth Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee

Civits are dying for your coffee. Today is World Civet Day—a day most people have never heard of but one…

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Politics

How the World’s Reacting to Trump’s Latest Tariffs

Donald Trump’s promised “Liberation Day” was originally planned for April 1, but the U.S. President told reporters he pushed it…

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Science

World’s smallest pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice

A dissolvable pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and powered by light could become an invaluable tool for…

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Politics

Viewing the Trade War From the World’s Shopping Mall

Christmas comes early to Yiwu, a bustling entrepôt just a couple hours by train from China’s coastal megacity of Shanghai.…

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Business

Trump sets auto tariffs at 25%, drawing swift backlash. ‘The tariffs announced today will harm—not help,’ says world’s largest business association.

Auto stocks including General Motors and Stellantis tumbled as manufacturers awaited President Trump’s latest tariff announcement on Wednesday. The Dow…

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