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Why pay raises are elusive even with US unemployment so low

WASHINGTON — With U.S. unemployment at a 17-year low and businesses complaining that they can’t fill jobs, you might expect pay to be rising sharply as companies try to attract or keep workers. It’s...

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Nations to work on curbing climate change despite Trump

BERLIN — Governments, scientists, industry groups and environmental campaigners are meeting in Germany next week to discuss implementing a global agreement to curb climate change, despite uncertainty...

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GOP tax bill would end deduction for wildfire and earthquake victims — but...

By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The House Republican tax bill would eliminate the deduction for personal losses from wildfires, earthquakes and other natural disasters, but keep the...

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Dish’s third-quarter loss of 129,000 customers includes every single...

After taking a beating from the hurricanes that pummeled Puerto Rico in September, Dish Network said Thursday it paused service for 145,000 customers who lost service on the island so they wouldn’t be...

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Hurricane sets off fierce debate about leaving Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The disaster wrought by Hurricane Maria has set off an anguished debate across Puerto Rico, where friends, family and co-workers are arguing fiercely over the morality of...

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Hurricane Harvey’s “Biblical” rainfall is getting more likely

WASHINGTON — The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before the end of the...

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Home Depot’s post-hurricane boom comes at expense of profit

By Matt Townsend, Bloomberg Home Depot saw sales surge in the wake of this year’s barrage of hurricanes, but the storms still took a toll on the retailer’s bottom line. Even as cleanup and rebuilding...

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Puerto Ricans came for jobs in Steamboat Springs but found much more

By John Russell, Steamboat Pilot & Today STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — When Carlos Acosta arrived in Steamboat Springs in December 2016, he knew he would have a job, a steady source of income to...

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Advocates say Texas exploiting day laborers after Harvey

HOUSTON — Guillermo Miranda Vazquez starts his day in a parking lot near the Home Depot where he easily finds work alongside other day laborers who are cleaning up Houston after Hurricane Harvey. Some...

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U.S. awarded $30M in contracts for Puerto Rico storm victims to unproven...

WASHINGTON — After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal...

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NTSB cites weak safety culture by owner of the freighter El Faro, which sank...

The owner of the sunken cargo ship El Faro had a weak corporate safety culture that contributed to the vessel’s demise and the deaths of 33 mariners, federal accident investigators said on Tuesday. The...

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Global warming boosted Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall by at least 15 percent,...

NEW ORLEANS – There’s a theme lurking under the giant science meeting here along the Mississippi River: Extreme weather really is getting more extreme because of climate change. The human influence on...

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Lack of transparency clouds Texas spending after Hurricane Harvey

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed, but it’s unclear how the state is spending its share...

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Thousands of Puerto Rico police owed overtime call in sick

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Thousands of police officers are calling in sick every day in Puerto Rico, partly to press demands for unpaid overtime pay for hurricane recovery efforts as concerns grow over...

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U.S. stocks mount milestone-shattering run in 2017

Taken a look at your stock portfolio lately? It’s a good bet it’s racked up solid gains for the year. Wall Street has taken stock investors on a mostly smooth, record-shattering ride in 2017. The major...

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More than 3 months after Hurricane Maria, barely half of Puerto Rico has power

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico authorities said Friday that nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria, sparking...

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Storm slaps coastal South with most snow in nearly 3 decades

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina with their heaviest snowfall in...

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East coast storm gone, but cold will stick around through weekend

BOSTON — Frigid temperatures, some that felt as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region dug out from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow,...

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Xcel sending workers to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria recovery

More than 60 Xcel Energy workers will soon be navigating a mountainous region of Puerto Rico, pitching in on efforts to fully restore electricity to the hurricane-damaged U.S. territory. Xcel is among...

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Puerto Rico fears post-Maria murder surge: 11 days, 32 slain

CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — Before the sun rose on the first day of 2018, someone called 911 to report the charred, bullet-riddled body of a man with a snake-like tattoo on his left hand, lying beside a...

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