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DigiKey is one of the world's largest marketplaces for electronic components, shipping global orders from a single warehouse in Thief River Falls, Minn.

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  • Business

A small U.S. town grew a big company. Can it weather the tariff blizzard?

A rural Minnesota town is home to the biggest tech giant you've never heard of. Now it's riding out an unprecedented kind of storm.

April 25, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Sales of existing homes slipped in March, amid elevated mortgage rates. Here, a home for sale in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2023.

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  • National

Home sales just posted their biggest monthly fall since 2022

More inventory hitting the market was expected to drive sales. Instead, existing home sales suggest a continued slump in the housing market, with mortgage rates hurting affordability.

April 25, 2025
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  • Laurel Wamsley
A customer shops for groceries at a Chicago supermarket.

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  • Business

Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers

Makers of our food and home essentials, including Pepsi and Procter & Gamble, are cutting their financial forecasts for the year and predicting lower sales or profits than before.

April 25, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland, pictured in 2023, is putting the brand up for sale two years after announcing plans for a second event.

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  • Pop Culture

Fyre Festival's embattled founder is selling the brand: 'It's time to pass the torch'

Billy McFarland says he will sell the brand "to an operator that can fully realize its vision." The news comes days after the postponement of Fyre Festival 2, which was scheduled for late May.

April 25, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
A pump jack in New Mexico's San Juan Basin. This is one of the country's oldest federal lands drilling areas. Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.

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  • Business

Oil companies expected a big business boom under Trump. Now they're worried

Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.

April 24, 2025
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  • Kirk Siegler
The Department of Education says it will resume collections on defaulted student loans on May 5, affecting some 5 million borrowers nationwide.

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  • Education

What to know as the government begins collections on defaulted student debt

The Department of Education says it will resume collections on May 5 and send wage garnishment notices "later this summer." Here's how to know — and what to do — if you'll be affected.

April 24, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
In 2001, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates comments at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., on the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to overturn a lower court's ruling that the software giant be broken up.

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  • Technology

Decades later, the Microsoft antitrust case casts a shadow over the Google trial

A nearly 30-year-old legal case looms large over the U.S. government's antitrust case against Google. A judge is hearing arguments to decide the penalties to levy against the search giant.

April 24, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
An airplane flies over the container ship Alexandra at the Port Newark Container Terminal on April 18 in Newark, N.J.

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  • National

A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

A dozen states have sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade to stop its tariff policy, challenging Trump's claim that he could arbitrarily impose tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

April 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Jason Furman, professor at Harvard Kennedy School, speaks at a panel discussion during the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.

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  • Economy

Why Fed independence matters, according to economist Jason Furman

NPR talks with Jason Furman, an economist and Harvard professor, about Trump's management of the economy.

April 23, 2025
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  • Steve Inskeep
An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen.

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  • Health

Eli Lilly sues companies selling alternative versions of its weight loss drug

The drug company Eli Lilly is suing four telehealth companies for allegedly selling copies made by compounding pharmacies of its drug Zepbound.

April 23, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin
Customers visit an Apple Store in Beijing, April 10.

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  • Economy

Stocks gain on hopes Trump will ease tensions with the Fed -- and China

The Dow Jones advanced after Trump said he wouldn't fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell and on hopes of easing tensions over tariffs with China.

April 23, 2025
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  • Rafael Nam and
  • Scott Horsley
Customers visit an Apple Store in Beijing, April 10.

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  • Technology

The European Union hits Apple and Meta with 700 million euros in fines

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook's parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc's digital competition rules.

April 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Elon Musk and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer listen during a cabinet meeting in White House on March 24,.

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  • Business

As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he'll spend less time on DOGE

Elon Musk says he'll cut back his work with the federal government to one to two days per week. He said demand for Teslas is still strong, despite protests and plunging sales.

April 23, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske
People gathered to protest the Trump administration during the 'Hands Off' protest on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on April 5, 2025.

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  • Climate

Environmental groups say Trump administration violated their free-speech rights

A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration violated the free-speech rights of nonprofits and municipalities that have had federal funding for climate and environmental projects frozen or cancelled.

April 23, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leaves Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in New York. A jury has concluded <em>The New York Times </em>did not libel Palin in a 2017 editorial that contained an error that she says damaged her reputation.

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  • Media

Jury finds 'The New York Times' did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

A jury concluded that The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had argued that an error in a 2017 Times editorial damaged her reputation.

April 22, 2025
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