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The Mueller Report is an overnight bestseller

by Danielle Chiriguayo
Apr 19, 2019
Book publishers are cashing in on the public's intrigue.
Robert Mueller, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testifies at a hearing on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2011 in Washington, D.C. 
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Facebook Fallout

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the new data war

by Molly Wood
Mar 19, 2018
How Cambridge Analytica may have impacted our elections and how Facebook helped.
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What you need to know about Twitter, Facebook and election interference

by Jana Kasperkevic
Sep 29, 2017
Tech companies are in the hot seat over ads linked to foreign accounts.
This week Twitter announced it removed more than a 200 accounts that violated its policies.
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Study: Less-educated white people face alarming mortality increases

by Mark Garrison
Mar 23, 2017
There's an alarming increase in suicides among less-educated Americans, the Brookings Institution reports.
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Trump's former campaign chairman had plan to benefit Putin government

by Marketplace Contributor
Mar 22, 2017
Paul Manafort secretly worked for a billionaire to advance the interests of the Russian president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits USA House in the Olympic Village in Sochi, Russia back in 2014.
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The Valley's Problem with Empathy

by Kai Ryssdal and Adhiti Bandlamudi
Dec 5, 2016
Silicon Valley's advancements in technology are groundbreaking, but can displace jobs for many people.
In a world of algorithms and technological processes, the customer at the end of that process is sometimes reduced to a number or statistic.
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My Economy: Free college "changed my life"

by Amy Scott
Nov 23, 2016
Mike Essl is fighting to bring back free tuition at New York's Cooper Union.
Mike Essl, a graduate and acting dean of the Cooper Union School of Art, bears a tattoo of the college's iconic Foundation Building.
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What we mean when we talk about the working class

by Reema Khrais
Nov 21, 2016
White working-class voters helped propel Donald Trump into the White House.
Supporters stand for the national anthem during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the W.L. Zorn Arena November 1, 2016 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.   
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Donald Trump's first 100 days plan, annotated

by Marketplace Staff
Nov 18, 2016
What the president-elect says he'll do, with our notes.
President-elect Donald Trump gives greets people in the crowd after delivering his acceptance speech at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City. 
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Chart of the day: Presidential pay

by Marketplace Staff
Nov 14, 2016
Donald Trump will be the third president to decline a salary.
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