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Shoppers stand outside a Bed Bath & Beyond store in New Jersey.

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  • Business

Bed Bath & the great Beyond: How the home goods giant went bankrupt

The retailer once triumphed over rivals as a "category killer" with its blue coupons. Now, it's become rudderless, turbulent and broke. Here's what happened.

April 24, 2023
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  • Alina Selyukh
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell speaks to the media at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Shell is out of his job after an "inappropriate relationship."

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  • Media

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is out after an 'inappropriate relationship'

Shell apologized for an "inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company," and said he was "truly sorry" for letting down colleagues.

April 23, 2023
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  • Willem Marx
A worker dumps empty cans of Miller High Life beer into a machine to be crushed at the Westlandia plant in Ypres, Belgium, on Monday.

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  • Europe

The 'Champagne of Beers' gets crushed in Belgium

Belgian customs destroyed a shipment of 2,352 cans of Miller High Life after the Champagne trade body called foul over the "Champagne of Beers" slogan.

April 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The logo of news website BuzzFeed in 2014. The company announced it was undergoing a 15% reduction in force and ending its news division.

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  • National

BuzzFeed shutters its newsroom as the company undergoes layoffs

BuzzFeed News started in 2012 and grew to have more than 100 journalists across the world. Moving forward, BuzzFeed will concentrate news efforts in HuffPost, the company said.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Majd Al-Waheidi
A game at the Oakland Coliseum in July 23, 2022. The Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a new stadium in Las Vegas.

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  • Sports

The Oakland A's are on the verge of moving to Las Vegas

Team officials said they had signed an agreement to buy a 49-acre site near the Strip for a new stadium. The team's departure would leave Oakland with no major pro sports teams.

April 21, 2023
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  • Becky Sullivan
A Lyft logo is installed on a Lyft driver's car in Pittsburgh. The company announced this week that its making major cuts to its staff in a cost-saving move.

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  • Business

Lyft is the latest tech company to cut jobs

Lyft will "significantly reduce" its staff to cut costs, said CEO David Risher, who took over as the ride-hailing company's leader just this week.

April 21, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on April 20, 2023, shows Elon Musk's account on a smartphone. Under Musk as CEO, Twitter has changed how it labels accounts.

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  • Technology

Twitter removes all labels about government ties from NPR and other outlets

The social media platform also dropped the "state-affiliated" label from propaganda outlets in Russia and China.

April 21, 2023
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  • Mary Yang
Wax 'N' Facts in Little Five Points in Atlanta.

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  • News

Author: Record stores offer 'singular take' on a city's history

Saturday, April 22nd is Record Store Day, a day devoted to the celebration of the culture of independent record stores. The new book 'Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History' shares stories of the influence these stores have had over the past half-century.

April 21, 2023
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  • Peter Biello

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  • Arts & Life

When you realize your favorite new song was written and performed by ... AI

Artificial intelligence technology can now create new songs that sound like they're the work of real artists, which introduces creative possibilities — and raises legal and ethical questions.

April 21, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Lineage Logistics' new produce facility in Port Wentworth

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  • Business

Produce logistics facility opens outside Savannah, promising fresher food for consumers

Lineage Logistics said it chose Port Wentworth due to its close proximity to the Port of Savannah.

April 21, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
GPB News NPR

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  • Media

BuzzFeed News is shutting down as part of companywide layoffs

NPR's Michel Martin talks to reporter and former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith about the development that BuzzFeed is shutting down its Pulitzer-winning news division as the company lays off staff.

April 21, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
Gwinnett County election workers prepare to handle ballots as part of the recount for the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 16, 2020, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Nearly two and a half years after the election, voting machine companies, election workers and even a local postmaster have filed defamation cases tied to conspiracy theories that have spread about the election.

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  • Media

There are even more 2020 election defamation suits beyond the Fox-Dominion case

In addition to the Dominion case against Fox News, more than a dozen similar cases related to lies spread about the 2020 election are slowly making their way through the legal system.

April 20, 2023
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  • Lisa Hagen
Facebook's Meta logo sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2021. Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a laws

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  • Law

Facebook users can apply for their portion of a $725 million lawsuit settlement

The settlement stems from a lawsuit alleging Facebook developers sold user data to Cambridge Analytica, a former political consulting firm, to target people in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

April 20, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
GPB News NPR

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  • Space

SpaceX rocket explodes shortly after test-flight takeoff in Texas

SpaceX's new stainless-steel rocket named Starship exploded Thursday just four minutes after liftoff. In a statement, the company said, "with a test like this, success comes from what we learn."

April 20, 2023
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Brendan Byrne
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, seen here in a Feb. 1, 2023 file photo, says President Biden wants to keep talks about government spending separate from a bill needed to raise the debt limit.

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  • Politics

First raise the debt limit. Then we can talk about spending, the White House insists

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients says debt limit talks and spending negotiations must be kept separate — despite House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's insistence they be tied together.

April 20, 2023
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  • Asma Khalid
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