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One of America’s biggest and longest-running franchises filed for bankruptcy Monday after reporting record losses and growing debt troubles due to the rising e-commerce economy. Retail giant Sears, which also owns Kmart, is shutting down roughly 150 stores after filing for Chapter 11…
China sold off another $3 billion-worth of US sovereign debt last week, piling on to new anti-dumping tariffs on US chemicals and duties on $60 billion-worth of US goods introduced last month. But China’s real secret retaliatory measures may come…
SAN FRANCISCO (Sputnik) – California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters that he is hopeful Russia and the United States will find a way to boost business and academic dialogue. “We have the sanctions so that creates problems but I would say…
Just one week after Facebook purged hundreds of independent journalist and activist pages from its platform, the company’s top cyber official revealed that the social media giant is considering the removal of hacked information from showing up in newsfeeds. An…
After exploding into the night sky, supernovae gradually fade from sight over several weeks or months or even years. Some astronomers hypothesize that our solar system was created as a result of a distant supernova. The discovery of a unique supernova,…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Last week’s aborted Soyuz flight to ISS will create short-term logistical challenges but is unlikely to hinder the ability of the United States and Russia to work together in exploring outer space, US veteran Astronaut Scott Kelly,…
