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Boeing’s Starliner Is Returning to Earth Without Its Crew
The spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station later on Friday and return to Earth, with its future in question.
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U.S. Dockworkers Are Bracing for a Strike at Major American Ports
Dockworkers from Maine to Texas are finalizing strike plans with less than a month remaining on their labor contract and no negotiations scheduled with port employers, raising the prospects of an Oct. 1 walkout that would hit the U.S. economy in the weeks before the presidential election.
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Case for Half-Point Bank of Canada Cut Is Building
BMO Capital Markets chief economist Doug Porter says the likelihood of a deeper half-point interest rate cut from the Bank of Canada is increasing following the details from Canada’s August employment data.
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‘Bamboula’: L.M. Gottschalk’s Heady Musical Mixture
The New Orleans virtuoso’s 1848 piano composition is a landmark of the all-embracing American repertoire, combining Haitian rhythms with contemplative episodes and Chopinesque cascades.
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Five Best: Presidential Biographies
Selected by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, the author, most recently, of ‘Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedent That Forged the Republic.’
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Oil Gains Slightly After U.S. Jobs Report
Oil prices edged higher after U.S. jobs growth slightly rebounded in August, leaving the Fed on track to start cutting rates later this month.