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Obamacare is boosting economic health in US

  Obamacare gave Americans a lot to argue about before it became law in 2010. One contentious question concerned its eventual economic effect, with supporters saying it would invigorate businesses by freeing them from burdensome healthcare costs and opponents warning of a drag produced by tax increases and government bureaucracy. A decade’s worth of data has now rendered a partial ...

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China Eastern 737 jet crashes with more than 130 on board

  Bloomberg A China Eastern Airlines Corp Boeing Co 737-800NG plane carrying 132 people crashed in China’s southwestern province of Guangxi. According to FlightRadar24, China Eastern flight MU5735 was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou, and radar tracking shows the aircraft descending steeply. Eyewitness videos posted to social media showed a forest fire on a mountainside at what was purported to ...

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Cathay rallies as Hong Kong plans to ease curbs

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd shares jumped to their highest intraday level since June 2020 on Monday morning as Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that a flight ban on nine countries would be lifted and mandatory quarantine eased to seven days from 14. The shares rose as much as 4.9% before paring their gain to 0.8% at the ...

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