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White House plans for funding to ease ports and supply chains

The Biden administration rolled out plans on Tuesday to identify and pay for possible upgrades to U.S. ports within the next 90 days — hoping to ultimately tamp down the inflation being caused by ships waiting to dock and a shortage of truck drivers to haul goods. As the U.S…. Read More

Biden’s Thanksgiving won’t have you saying thanks

Any cash saved from last year’s cancelled Thanksgiving might be about to go down the drain – because a series of new reports shows how this year’s holiday is about to become the most expensive ever. You can blame the lack of workers, empty shelves and out-of-control inflation that has… Read More

Gladys Knight’s son goes prison for tax crimes

The son of R&B legend Gladys Knight has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for the restaurants that bore his mother’s name, federal prosecutors in Atlanta said. Shanga Hankerson opened his first restaurant, Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles, in Atlanta in 1997…. Read More

October jobs report shows faster gains as delta fades

After two disappointing months of hiring, a key question overhanging Friday’s U.S. jobs report for October will be whether companies found more success this time in filling millions of open positions. Economists have forecast that employers added roughly 400,000 jobs last month, according to a survey by the data provider… Read More

Tiny house sold for big price: $315,000

A tiny home in a wealthy Boston suburb has sold after about a month on the market, albeit for far less than the original asking price of almost $450,000. The roughly 250-square-foot (23-square-meter) home in Newton sold on Monday for $315,000, according to Coldwell Banker Realty’s Hans Brings Results agency…. Read More

Global shares up after Fed pledges to wind down economic aid

Global shares rose Thursday, boosted by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will begin winding down the extraordinary aid for the economy it has been providing since the early days of the pandemic. France’s CAC 40 added 0.5% in early trading to 6,984.21, while Germany’s DAX rose 0.5% to… Read More

New data: Service sector expands at record pace in October

The rate of expansion in the U.S. services sector, where most Americans work, hit a record high in October as demand remained strong even as supply chain problems persisted. The Institute for Supply Management reported Wednesday that its monthly survey of service industries — which includes restaurants and bars, trucking… Read More

Talk radio host gets life in prison for bilking listeners

A Texas radio host was sentenced to three life prison sentences Monday for a Ponzi scheme in which he bilked elderly listeners out of their retirement savings… which amounted to millions of dollars. William Neil “Doc” Gallagher also got a 30-year prison sentence from state District Judge Elizabeth Beach for… Read More

Facebook deletes data of 1B people amid privacy concerns

Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for… Read More

Tesla recall may start fight between safety regulators and tech industry

Tesla has issued a recall that automatically sent a software update fixing a safety problem in its electric vehicles, apparently heading off a looming confrontation with U.S. safety regulators. But recall documents posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website Tuesday don’t address another safety issue specified by the… Read More