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Peanut Butter Walks Into a Chocolate Cookie Bar

One of my most favorite cookies in the whole wide world is the dark chocolate peanut butter chip cookie at Levain Bakery in New York. It’s the chocolate-peanut butter combo, of course, but it’s also the fact that this massive cookie, with its fudgy, soft center, kind of qualifies as …

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Musk Wins Appeal Over Tweet He Had to Delete About Union Push

A federal appeals court handed Elon Musk a victory in a freedom-of-speech case on Friday by overturning an earlier ruling in a dispute between the billionaire and the National Labor Relations Board. In March last year, three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New …

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China Tightens Its Hold on Minerals Needed to Make Computer Chips

The vise-tight grip that China wields over the mining and refining of rare minerals, crucial ingredients of today’s most advanced technologies, is about to become even stronger. In a series of steps made in recent weeks, the Chinese government has made it considerably harder for foreign companies, particularly semiconductor manufacturers, …

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