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Spotify Gave Subscribers Music and Podcasts. Next: Audiobooks.
A year after adding à la carte sales of audiobooks, Spotify is offering paying subscribers 15 hours of books a month.
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China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It.
China’s brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading to America. We spoke to them to ask why.
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A Rural Michigan Town Is the Latest Battleground in the U.S.-China Fight
Firestorms over Chinese investments, like a battery factory in Green Charter Township, are erupting as officials weigh the risks of taking money from an adversary.
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Takeaways From a New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried
“Going Infinite,” by Michael Lewis, offers a behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall.
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What to Know About Sam Bankman-Fried’s Fraud Trial
Mr. Bankman-Fried is accused of orchestrating a vast scheme to siphon billions of dollars of FTX customer money.
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Live updates: Kevin McCarthy tells House Republicans he won’t run again for speaker
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Monday introduced the resolution to remove Kevin McCarthy from his job as House speaker after weeks of threatening to do so.
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McCarthy lost his House speaker job. How it happened, and what’s next.
And what this says about the House and the Republican Party
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Laphonza Butler sworn in as the third Black female senator in history
Laphonza Butler was tapped by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the term of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last week.
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The GOP courts another backlash over its own chaos. But will it matter?
One party has proved objectively more chaotic and has struggled mightily to govern. Yet Americans don’t seem particularly bothered.
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Gaetz’s Ouster of McCarthy Draws Attention to His Ethics Issues
Representative Matt Gaetz is facing a House Committee inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of funds. Representative Kevin McCarthy has argued Mr. Gaetz’s move against his speakership is payback.