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The federal government shut down Backpage.com and indicted seven executives on multiple charges. (screen grab/backpage.com)
Politics & Policy

Backpage.com maintains ‘good standing’ as Delaware LLC

Despite its website being shut down by the federal government due to a criminal investigation, Backpage.com remains in “good standing ...

7 years ago

Andrea Conyers and her daughter Aviana, 7, went back-to-school shopping in Hinesville, Ga., earlier this month.
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Money

What’s in your shopping cart? A battleground for global trade

Seven-year-old Aviana Conyers bounces around the bustling back-to-school aisles of a Walmart Supercenter.

7 years ago

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Lifestyle

Burnout

Guests: Christina Maslach, Kristen Lee, Alex Neason If you have a stressful, busy job, chances are that from time ...

Air Date: August 20, 2018 10:00 am

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NewsWorks Tonight, August 10, 2018

Campbell’s Soup company is feeling pressure from investors to put itself up for sale. Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at the Gallup ...

Air Date: August 10, 2018

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The logo for Campbell's Soup appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, May 18, 2018. Campbell Soup plunged 10.9 percent after announcing that its CEO, Denise Morrison, was retiring effectively immediately. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Money

Activist investor blasts ‘abysmal leadership’ at Campbell Soup Co., urges sale

This year Campbell’s earnings declined, its stock price dropped, and its CEO retired.

7 years ago

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Contract signing by ACEA Executive Director Lauren H. Moore Jr. with USDA loan specialist Joseph Henry (seated to left) and (standing, from left) Max Slusher, ACEA business development director; Michael Zumpino, Triad Associates chairman and CEO; Noel McGuire, ACEA business aviation representative; and Steve Kehs, Triad Associates vice president. (Provided)
Community

Atlantic County looking to expand aviation industry

Officials want to build up the area as a place for good jobs that are not in the tourism business

7 years ago

Money

WSFS to acquire Philadelphia’s Beneficial Bancorp in $1.5 billion deal

WSFS Financial and Beneficial Bancorp, Inc. signed an agreement that calls for the Wilmington financial services company to acquire the Philadelphia community bank.

7 years ago

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
Politics & Policy

Civic groups push for independent review of Delaware LLC laws

LLCs are sometimes used to hide money laundering, arms dealing, drug trafficking and human trafficking, contends an open government group.

7 years ago

NASA has named nine astronauts to crew the first test flights and missions of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. (From left) Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover. (NASA)
NPR
Science

NASA announces crew for first commercial space flights

In 2019, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule and Boeing's CST-100 Starliner are both scheduled to blast off on test flights with NASA astronauts on board.

7 years ago

Bryn Sobott of the FREO2 Foundation presents his group's solution to pneumonia treatment — an oxygen delivery machine that can operate using the energy generated by running water — at a pitch competition organized by Saving Lives At Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development in Washington, D.C. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Health

It’s ‘Shark Tank’ for global health inventions

Ten participants showcased a variety of innovations, each in different stages of development.

7 years ago

Mike Tyson, left, stands with fight promoter Don King during a news conference on Wednesday, June 25, 1987. (AP Photo/Paul Burnett)
Arts & Entertainment

Atlantic City ready to roll the dice again on boxing

There was a moment of time when Atlantic City evoked images of Tyson and Gatti as much as tables and gamblers.

7 years ago

The Spotted Laternfly. (Photo courtesy of the N.J. Department of Agriculture)
Community

New Jersey issues ‘quarantine’ for items carrying spotted lanternflies

Articles most likely to carry the insect native to China, India and Vietnam include bicycles, tents, motor homes, plant containers, and lawnmowers.

7 years ago

A man sits on a promotional gimmick in the form of a bomb and the U.S. flag outside a U.S. apparel shop at a shopping mall in Beijing. China says it’s girded for a trade war with the U.S. and can give as good as it gets, but behind the official bravado lies a deep unease over trade friction with Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Politics & Policy

China announces $60B of US goods for tariff retaliation

China on Friday announced a $60 billion list of U.S. goods including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals for retaliation if Washington goes ahead with its tariff threat.

7 years ago

An artist's rendering shows the City Winery exterior in the new Fashion District. (JPRA Architects)
Arts & Entertainment

Toasting latest addition as Philly’s Fashion District moves toward ’19 opening

City Winery is the newest tenant at Fashion District Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Apple, the world's most valuable publicly traded company, became first to reach the milestone $1 trillion market value. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Apple becomes world’s 1st private-sector company worth $1 trillion

Apple's share price reached an all-time high above $207 on Thursday.

7 years ago

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