The Trump hotel: gold, glitz and lawsuits

Jul 20, 2017
Maryland and DC have filed a suit that says the president's hotel has an unfair advantage.
A construction worker carries away trash as security staff patrol outside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. during the hotel's opening in 2016.
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Digital platforms expected to lift Visa’s third quarter earnings

Jul 20, 2017
Visa is set to report third-quarter earnings today after market close and all signs are pointing to good news.

Disability rights advocates sue Uber over inaccessibility

Jul 20, 2017
Disability Rights Advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against Uber.

Can a better-designed bike helmet make people safer on the road?

Jul 19, 2017
Gloria Hwang, the founder and CEO of helmet company Thousand, thinks so.
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Will corporate tax reform boost President Trump’s promise of more manufacturing jobs?

Jul 18, 2017
We’re in the middle of another theme week at the White House. This time it’s “Made in America Week.” President Trump is expected to issue a declaration tomorrow highlighting the importance of American manufacturing. He’s promised to help U.S. companies by lowering corporate taxes from their current 35 percent to 15 percent. But will reduced […]

Coursera has a new partner to offer employees courses worldwide

Jul 18, 2017
Remember MOOCs, the massive open online courses that promised to transform college as we know it? That hasn’t happened, exactly. But MOOCs are alive and growing. And today, one big provider, Coursera, has announced a new partnership with the insurance company AXA to offer free courses to their nearly 150 thousand employees around the world.  […]

Reinventing a summer classic, water balloons

Jul 17, 2017
Josh Malone, inventor of the "Bunch-o-Balloons" water balloon toy, talks about how the idea came to be.
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The agriculture industry urges caution on the NAFTA renegotiation

Jul 17, 2017
The Trump Administration released its objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, our trade deal with Mexico and Canada. President Trump has called NAFTA the worst trade deal ever, citing factory jobs that moved to Mexico. The Trump Administration wants to “maintain existing reciprocal duty-free market access for agricultural goods” and […]

Rooftop solar has a good decade but a bad year

Jul 17, 2017
Solar energy has grown prodigiously over the last eight years. But 2017 has been tough, especially for rooftop solar companies.
Developers of the Table Rock Ridge subdivision outside Golden, Colorado, require all homes be sold with rooftop solar panels already installed.
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Chicago's skyline looking north is visible from a window of the Sears Skydeck. 
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