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19% of all home sales in Las Vegas Valley falling through, report says

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The Las Vegas Valley has seen one of the biggest year-over-year jumps in home purchase agreement cancellations in the U.S., according to a new report from Redfin.

According to the report, 19% of all residential real estate transactions, a 3.5% jump, were canceled last December. This places the Las Vegas Valley as 8th in the country for largest ...Read more

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YouTube TV introduces lower-priced sports and news packages

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YouTube TV will start offering customers lower-priced channel packages, including one aimed at sports fans.

The Google-owned pay-TV service announced Monday it will roll out more than 10 plans that will be priced below a full YouTube TV subscription that offers more than 100 channels.

The introduction, which will begin over the next few weeks,...Read more

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Casinos won big in 2025 even as Las Vegas saw first post-COVID tourism decline

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Las Vegas Strip and downtown casinos closed out 2025 with a slight uptick in gambling revenue despite a significant drop in visitors and signs of pricing fatigue among customers, according to public data and industry analysts.

The Las Vegas gaming industry avoided a noteworthy downturn, and experts say the end-of-year numbers reflect a healthy ...Read more

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What to know about Elon Musk's merger of SpaceX with his AI company

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Elon Musk recently announced what seemed like an odd pairing of his companies: SpaceX was acquiring xAI, the artificial intelligence firm that also owns the social media platform X.

The merger combines a highly profitable rocket company with an AI startup that is burning through billions of dollars as it competes with OpenAI and other rivals ...Read more

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Paramount sweetens its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery

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Paramount Skydance has sweetened its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, adding a $2.8-billion "break fee" for Netflix and a payment to shareholders set to increase for every quarter after Jan. 1, 2027, that the transaction does not close.

However, it's not clear the latest move will do much to sway Warner Bros. Discovery's board, which has ...Read more

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Twin Cities immigration crackdown delays home construction, slows real estate market

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Twin Cities home builders are falling behind schedule as the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota has fueled a shortage of roofing, drywall and other construction workers, according to developers and real estate agents.

People are not listing their existing homes as planned because their new-build homes are not ready, said Redfin real ...Read more

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Chicago Tribune offers 30% premium to buy Daily Herald suburban newspaper

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A new potential buyer has thrown its hat in the ring for the Daily Herald, a newspaper serving Chicago's northern, northwestern and western suburbs.

On Sunday, the Chicago Tribune took out a full-page ad in its own paper offering the employee owners of the Daily Herald a 30% premium over “anyone else” to acquire their newspaper.

The ...Read more

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Ford has a 'hangover suit' amid anti-DUI push

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DEARBORN, Michigan — New pushes for anti-drunken driving policies have been underway as deadlines to set standards for technologies that monitor for impairment and distraction in future cars and trucks have come and gone. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, in December introduced a bill that would order car and truck makers to add alcohol ...Read more

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Former federal workers are taking up local government jobs

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Some federal workers aren’t leaving public service altogether. They’re landing jobs in local government.

A job-seeking platform managed by national nonprofit Work for America is helping some workers find those new roles. The service is relatively new but predates President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce in 2025.

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Stuck with a Synergy gift card? Don't count on getting that money back

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After Synergy World, a San Diego gift and loyalty card company, announced it was shutting down and planning to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, the company told its customers they can no longer use Synergy’s gift cards.

Until a bankruptcy court filing, little will be known publicly about Synergy’s finances or the state of its gift ...Read more

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Eddie Bauer to close its Seattle headquarters, lay off 60 workers

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SEATTLE — Eddie Bauer's store operator plans to permanently shutter its headquarters in Seattle and lay off 60 workers in the process, according to a state filing.

The Seattle-based outdoor apparel brand's Sodo office at 2200 First Avenue South will close, and all 60 employees who work there will lose their jobs between April and June, per a ...Read more

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Trial starts in LA lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube knew apps harmed kids

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A landmark civil trial that will ask jurors to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for pushing a product that they allegedly knew was harmful to children began Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, with attorneys sparring for more than four hours in combative opening arguments.

The closely watched test case could ...Read more

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For Gopuff, Super Monday is the national holiday

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Sunday’s Super Bowl LX, featuring some 66 ads costing corporate brands an average $8 million for half a minute, shone a light on America’s snacking trends, tracked closely by Gopuff, the Philadelphia-based national delivery service.

The game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, also featuring Bad Bunny’s Spanish-...Read more

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Target cuts 500 roles across supply-chain, store-support teams

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Target Corp. is cutting about 500 roles to simplify operations, a move it says will improve the customer experience in stores.

The company is aiming to “streamline our field structure and better empower our store directors to meet guests’ needs,” Chief Stores Officer Adrienne Costanzo and Chief Supply Chain and Logistics Officer Gretchen...Read more

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Fain offers vision for UAW growth in South amid coming political season

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WASHINGTON — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, fresh off negotiating a tentative contract at a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee, presented a bold goal Monday of adding 25,000 new members employed by foreign automakers in the U.S. South within the next two years.

The labor leader, addressing the UAW's national political conference in ...Read more

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Former Gov. Chris Christie joins fight against prediction markets; Coinbase sues Nevada regulators

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One of the key figures behind the national spread of sports betting in the United States has taken up the fight against prediction markets as a form of wagering.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie serves as an adviser to the American Gaming Association on prediction markets, the entities that sell event contracts to investors on current ...Read more

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Chicago Auto Show returns with plenty of EVs and a resurgence of gas-powered muscle

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In recent years, the Chicago Auto Show has been steering toward electric vehicles, following the ambitious state and national agenda to convert the industry from combustion engines to cleaner technology, incentivized by governmental tax credits and rebates.

While EVs are still center stage at the 2026 auto show, which opens today at McCormick ...Read more

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Records show deeper ties between Epstein, ex-Microsoft exec Myhrvold

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Previously undisclosed correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold released by the Justice Department last month point to a longtime connection between the two men.

Epstein, the financier and accused sex trafficker, and Myhrvold frequently exchanged emails and regularly met, both in Seattle and New York...Read more

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UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record

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WASHINGTON — The Ford Motor Co. employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to the company's Dearborn Truck Plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official confirmed Monday.

"TJ, we got your back," United Auto Workers Vice President Laura Dickerson said during a Washington, D.C., speech ...Read more

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Stellantis sells stake in Windsor battery plant to Koreans for $100

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Stellantis NV on Friday sold its 49% stake in a Canadian battery plant for $100 after the automaker behind brands including Jeep and Dodge announced $26.5 billion in electric vehicle-related losses amid a major pivot back to gas-powered vehicles.

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution now fully owns the Windsor, Ontario, battery plant ...Read more