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Carolyn Hax: Parent feels ‘personally rejected’ that son won’t have friends over
A parent feels hurt their 17-year-old son doesn’t want to invite his friends over to the cluttered family home.
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X Reverses Slowed Access to News Outlets, but Rival Sites Still Affected
Elon Musk’s social media service “throttled” access to sites such as Substack and Facebook, according to an analysis, but began reversing the slow access to news sites.
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Prosecutors Detail Evidence Against Sam Bankman-Fried
In a filing, prosecutors laid out the evidence they plan to use to convict the founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, who faces trial in October.
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Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Wisconsin News Site Out of Business
When a north-central Wisconsin news site reported that a businessman had uttered a homophobic slur, he sued, claiming defamation. The legal bills are piling up.
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A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job
Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and robots, which can reduce the timelines and waste that have made construction increasingly costly.
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Country Garden: Why Its Financial Crisis Poses a Risk to China
Country Garden was China’s biggest real estate developer. Now it is staring down default, facing billions of dollars in losses and $200 billion in unpaid bills.
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First Solar Finds That Forced Labor Was Used in Its Malaysian Ops
The company, First Solar, said an independent review had found that subcontractors used unethical recruitment tactics and withheld pay from workers.
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China Suspends Report on Youth Unemployment, Which Was at a Record High
The Chinese government said it would no longer release monthly data about unemployment in young people, which had risen each month this year and reached 21.3 percent.
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Newly appointed Judge Scott McAfee gets Trump criminal case in Georgia
McAfee was previously a federal and state prosecutor and the Georgia inspector general, investigating claims of state government fraud, waste and abuse.
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Trump co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira pleads not guilty in documents case
De Oliveira, a 56-year-old Floridian, is the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home and private club.