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Ana Martinez, a medical assistant at the Sea Mar Community Health Center, gives a patient a flu shot in Seattle.

Flu season lands hard on New York and southern U.S.

August 19, 2019 at 4:02 a.m.

After a slow start, influenza is beginning to take hold across the U.S. The good news is that it's unlikely to be as bad as last season, when almost 80,000...

A Sears store at 63rd and Halsted Streets

Sears prepares for possible liquidation as Chairman Edward Lampert’s bid fails

January 7, 2019 at 9:02 a.m.

Sears Holdings Corp. is preparing to potentially wind down the iconic retailer after Chairman Edward Lampert's bid to buy several hundred stores out of bankruptcy fell short of bankers' qualifications,...

Are smarter people more or less likely to believe false things? Experts are strangely divided.

Does intelligence offer immunity against fake news? It’s debatable

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

One might suspect scientists of belaboring the obvious with the recent study called "Belief in Fake News Is Associated With Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism and Reduced Analytical Thinking." The conclusion...

U.S. stocks dropped again on Thursday after Apple warned that its first-quarter sales would be less than expected.

Markets wrap: Apple woes send stocks swooning as treasuries jump

August 22, 2019 at 10:13 a.m.

U.S. stocks sank after a factory gauge dropped the most in a decade and Apple cut its sales outlook, adding to concern that global growth is slowing. Treasuries rallied and...

A monitor displays stock market information on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Jan. 2, 2019.

Analysis: Bad stuff the stock market worried about is starting to happen

January 4, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

All of a sudden, the fundamentals aren't looking as strong. First it was Apple's $5 billion revenue miss, hints of which lopped 30 percent from its stock over three months....

Robotic arms insert shock absorbers on a line of vehicles on the assembly line at the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Oct. 30, 2018.

Robots aren’t yet killing off all our jobs, World Bank says

January 3, 2019 at 9:49 a.m.

The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist says, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are...

A Toys R Us Asia store is seen Dec. 9, 2018, in Shanghai. More than a year after the Toys R Us chain filed for bankruptcy, forcing the closure of hundreds of stores and layoffs of 33,000 workers in the U.S., Toys R Us Asia is very much alive.

Toy stores, under siege in the U.S., find new life in China

December 27, 2018 at 4:08 p.m.

Toys R Us outlets are closed in the U.S., but the brand's stores are still a popular destination for Shanghai resident Pan Wei. A 35-year-old manager for an entertainment company,...

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, is seen at a Sept. 13, 2018, event in Washington, D.C. His fortune peaked at $168 billion in September but had tumbled $53 billion as of Dec. 21.

Break out the tiny, expensive violins: World’s richest people have lost $511 billion in 2018

August 22, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

The richest people on Earth lost $511 billion this year after record first-half gains were obliterated by a succession of bruising market selloffs. Global trade tensions and worries about a...

My favorite nonfiction books of 2018

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

Just in time for all the year-end lists, here are my nominees for the best nonfiction books of 2018. I haven’t read everything published this year, but I read a...

Williams-Sonoma sues Amazon, accuses it of copying West Elm furniture

December 19, 2018 at 11:00 a.m.

Williams-Sonoma is suing Amazon in a challenge to the online retailer's private-label push that started with batteries, baby wipes and phone chargers and has expanded to include clothing, toys and...

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