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The Justice Department says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software allows landlords nationwide to set rents above market rate and deprives renters of the benefits of competition. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

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DOJ accuses real estate software company of helping landlords collude to raise rents

The lawsuit says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

August 23, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Frank Moten (Samuel L. Jackson) and Cadillac Richie (Terrence Howard) on Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist Season 1 Episode 2.

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  • Television

Atlanta-filmed Muhammad Ali 'Fight Night' series takes viewers — and shoppers — back to the 1970s

As part of an Aug. 24 promotion for the new Peacock drama series, Fight Night: Million Dollar Heist, businesses will feature retro prices for everything from fried chicken sandwiches to manicures, in hopes of taking viewers back to 1970 Atlanta, where the real-life hold-up happened. 

August 23, 2024
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  • Sonia Murray

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9 smart ways to slash your grocery bill

Food prices are still high, but your grocery bill doesn't have to be. Beth Moncel, founder of Budget Bytes, shares smart tips how to save money at the supermarket.

August 23, 2024
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Vladan Jakovljevic checks his beehives outside the village of Gornje Nedeljice, in the fertile Jadar Valley, in western Serbia, on Aug. 6.

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A lithium mine in Serbia could rev up Europe's e-vehicles, but opposition is fierce

A proposed lithium mine in Serbia is spurring protests over its potential impact on the environment. The mineral is in high demand because it’s crucial for the batteries that run electric vehicles.

August 23, 2024
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  • Rob Schmitz
A railwayman inspects the locomotive of a Canadian National Railroad train, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 in Metairie, La.

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Canada orders a third party to mediate a labor dispute between railways and employees

Negotiations between Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and the Teamsters union, which represents 10,000 of the companies' employees, began about a year ago.

August 23, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
A customer purchases gas in June at a station in Chicago.

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Gas prices are down. We could be headed for lows not seen since 2021

Pump prices having been falling all summer, and as Labor Day approaches, they're 47 cents lower than this time last year. Some analysts see $3 gasoline in our future.

August 23, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
Director Francis Ford Coppola at the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. on March 27, 2022.

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Lionsgate apologizes to Coppola for now-pulled 'Megalopolis’ trailer

“We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error,” a Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement.

August 22, 2024
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  • Mandalit del Barco
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Not Joe Biden’s DNC: 6 takeaways so far. Plus, new COVID-19 vaccines on the way

Tim Walz stepped into the spotlight last night at the DNC giving the crowd a pep talk. Here are five other takeaways from the convention so far. And, new COVID-19 vaccines are on the way.

August 22, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
A worker climbs aboard a locomotive at a CPKC rail yard on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo.

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  • Economy

Labor dispute stops Canadian rail freight and could cause economic disruption in U.S.

Both of Canada’s major freight railroads have come to a full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers, an impasse that may bring economic disruption in Canada and the U.S.

August 22, 2024
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 Jon Stewart returned to <em>The Daily Show</em> in February, hosting once per week.

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Jon Stewart doesn't feel vindicated bringing 'The Daily Show' to a Harris-led DNC

Stewart and The Daily Show’s executive producer Jennifer Flanz say the show is “clicking” with correspondents in the host chair. Is that a sustainable format for the late night comedy show? They’ll revisit that question after the DNC.

August 21, 2024
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  • Eric Deggans
U.S. employers added fewer jobs in the 12 months ending in March than had been reported, according to a preliminary count by the Labor Department. The revised figures suggest employers added 2.1 million jobs during the year, not 2.9 million in the original count.

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  • Economy

U.S. added fewer jobs in the past year than initially reported

A preliminary report from the Labor Department shows U.S. employers added 818,000 fewer jobs in the year ending in March than initially reported. The news comes during an election season in which the economy is a key issue.

August 21, 2024
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  • Scott Horsley
A Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck is displayed for sale at a Ford dealership on Aug. 21 in Glendale, Calif. Ford says it is upending its electric vehicle strategy for North American vehicles to focus on hybrids, citing consumers' demands for affordability and longer ranges.

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  • Business

Ford scraps all-electric SUV plan, saying drivers want hybrids

Ford will write down hundreds of millions of dollars because of the pivot. A key reason for the change, an analyst tells NPR, is that big batteries bring big costs.

August 21, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Italian firefighter divers bring ashore in a green bag the body of one of the victims of the U.K.-flag vessel Bayesian on Wednesday. The luxury sail yacht was hit by a violent sudden storm and sunk early Monday, while at anchor off the Sicilian village of Porticello near Palermo, in southern Italy.

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  • Europe

Divers find 5 bodies during search of yacht wreckage off Sicily

The search continued for one more missing passenger on a yacht that sank off Sicily and questions intensified about why the vessel went down so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

August 21, 2024
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"Noncompetes block workers from freely switching jobs, depriving them of higher wages and better working conditions, and depriving businesses of a talent pool that they need to build and expand," said FTC Chair Lina Khan when the noncompete ban was introduced.

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  • Business

Federal judge throws out U.S. ban on noncompetes

A federal judge in Texas has struck down the government's ban on noncompetes. An estimated 30 million U.S. workers are subject to the employment agreements.

August 21, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Mike Lynch remains missing after a luxury yacht sank off of Sicily's coast. Lynch, who sold his tech firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011, had recently been acquitted of fraud charges related to the sale.

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  • World

Who are Mike Lynch and the other people missing after a yacht sank in Sicily?

Lynch, a tech entrepreneur, had recently been acquitted on federal fraud charges in the U.S. The yacht he was on, the Bayesian, sank two days after Lynch's co-defendant was killed by a car.

August 21, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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