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Fewer sales, more supply and Millennial ‘X' factor: Housing experts forecast 2019 market

National experts predict Chicago will have the worst housing market in the country in 2019. But some local experts and industry observers say the situation is much more...
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Italy regulator gives TIM's network separation plan thumbs down

3 hours ago | Reuters

Telecom Italia has suffered a setback in its plan to assuage pressures for a separation of its prized network assets by placing them into a wholly owned subsidiary, as the...
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Brexit bonus? More first-time buyers enter the UK housing market

3 hours ago | The Real Deal New York

The pace of home sales in the U.K. to first-time buyers accelerated in November, a financial trade association reported. The number of mortgage loans to first-time home buyers...
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Sorrell's S4 Capital seeks more deals in digital-only drive

7 hours ago | Reuters

Martin Sorrell is on the lookout for acquisitions to expand his new advertising venture S4 Capital, aiming to capitalize on the disruption sweeping the industry by pursuing a...
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The crooked car rental industry might be improving

15 hours ago | New York Post

Dear John: I travel a lot, and the car rental industry - all brands - should truly be investigated for their business practices. Please continue your research, as you'll find...
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Lawmakers file bill for oversight, transparency on Southie condo plan

16 hours ago | Boston Herald

State lawmakers filed legislation Friday to have oversight of the Massport deed restriction in South Boston, as developers plan to build swanky condos and hotels in an...
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Gloomy forecast for Davos: crises aplenty, but few world leaders plan to attend

22 hours ago | National Post

MILAN - An array of crises will keep several world leaders away from the annual World Economic Forum in Davos next week, which takes place against a backdrop of deepening gloom...
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World of Concrete coming to Las Vegas next week

22 hours ago | Review Journal

Representatives of the nation's concrete industry need only take a quick look around to see how their craft is changing the Las Vegas skyline.
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$200,000 is available in specialty crop grants

22 hours ago | Miami Herald

Approximately $200,000 is available in federal grant funding for specialty crop industries in Vermont. The state Agency of Agriculture says the money will go to projects that...
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These weren't the droids they were looking for: Japanese robot-hotel lays off its “annoying” android staff, pivots to humans

23 hours ago | The Real Deal New York

The failed roll-out of a Japanese robot-staffed hotel is a cautionary tale for those who think similar consumer-technology will revolutionize the hospitality industry. The...
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Trump offers a 'Dreamers' deal for border-money proposal

Speaking from the White House, Trump said he was offering a "commonsense compromise both parties should embrace." Read more ...

Trump's 'common-sense compromise' on immigration to end the government...

President Donald Trump on Saturday offered Democrats an immigration deal that would exchange his requested $5.7 billion in border-wall funding with temporary protections for... Read more ...

New York City wants you to know how sanitary your favorite hot dog stand is

Thanks to a new law, New York City will be giving more than 5,000 food carts and trucks letter grades based on their sanitation. The grades are similar to ones restaurants have... Read more ...

Trump will reportedly bring DACA to shutdown negotiations in 'major...

President Donald Trump is set to make an announcement Saturday afternoon that multiple reports have described will be a fresh offer to negotiate with Democratic... Read more ...

What Mueller's extraordinarily unprecedented move to dispute BuzzFeed's...

Experts are flummoxed by a statement the special counsel Robert Mueller put out disputing a BuzzFeed News report that indicated President Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to lie... Read more ...

Sony Drops R.Kelly in Response to Sexual Abuse Allegations

Sony Music has dissolved its working relationship with R.Kelly after years of public calls for the label to do so. The movement, called MuteRKelly, is in response to... Read more ...

'It's history repeating itself': Experts say the Trump-Cohen situation is...

Historians, members of Congress, and legal experts are reacting to a bombshell BuzzFeed News report on President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen by referencing the first article... Read more ...

A low-flying military plane zoomed through downtown Nashville without...

Nashville residents panicked on Friday after a low-flying military plane circled the downtown core, appearing to narrowly miss buildings. Residents took to social media Friday... Read more ...

376 migrants, including 179 kids, used 7 tunnels to get under the US border...

Hundreds of migrants used tunnels to get under the border fence in Arizona earlier this week, ABC News reported. Video footage the outlet obtained shows the reported 376... Read more ...

Kellogg's released Peeps cereal and it's a marshmallow-flavored cereal with...

Peeps and Kellogg's have teamed up to create Kellogg's Peeps marshmallow-flavored cereal. The cereal contains colorful marshmallow-flavored cereal crisps and... Read more ...