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Boeing crisis goes from bad to worse

Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis has been largely self-inflicted, but now it’s passing some of consequences onto its suppliers. A crash of an Ethiopian Airlines-manned Max in March — just five months after a Lion Air jet of the same type went down — has put the planemaker at the center of a political, legal and increasingly financial firestorm where ...

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Zuckerberg’s rules would hurt everyone but Facebook

Facebook Inc. has mastered an array of corporate aptitudes — including its use of euphemism and obfuscation. So when its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, writes an op-ed asking governments to impose some new regulation on his company, a little skepticism is in order. Make that a lot of skepticism. Zuckerberg’s proposals, published in Washington Post, cover four topics: “harmful content,” elections, ...

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Despite May’s swerve, the best Brexit is no Brexit

UK Prime Minister Theresa May stopped trying to get her fellow Tories to back her plan for quitting the European Union (EU), and asked the opposition Labour Party to come to her aid. Could this be that most elusive of Brexit developments: progress? Not exactly. For many reasons — politics, self-interest, the fundamentally incoherent task at hand — May and ...

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