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Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in UK prison

Bloomberg Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to nearly a year in jail for skipping bail as he prepares to fight extradition to the US. Assange was last month found guilty of bail violations following his dramatic arrest in London. The 47-year-old had been holed up inside the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 as he sought to escape questioning in a ...

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Trump can do a lot more to help manufacturing

Why should the US government try to help the manufacturing? Although factory work used to offer a pay premium, this has disappeared in recent years: Manufacturing workers also tend to work long, grueling hours. But because of automation and global supply chains, mass manufacturing employment isn’t poised for a comeback in the US; either things will be made by low-wage ...

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Twitter’s recovery looks like real thing

Last year, I wasn’t sure that Twitter Inc.’s recovery was real. Now, it looks as if it is. Twitter is not out of the woods, but it’s clear the company has stabilised financially after a long stretch of wobbles. Advertising sales rose 18 percent in the first quarter, the company reported. That was the fifth consecutive period of healthy gains. ...

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