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Amazon, the business that upended the retailing industry and transformed the way we shop for just about everything, is jumping out ahead of the pack again, announcing a minimum wage of $15 an hour for its U.S. employees that could force other big companies to raise their pay. Given Amazon's size and clout, the move Tuesday is a major victory for the $15-an-hour movement, which has organized protests of fast-food, gas station and other low-paid workers.
Waiting for reasonable and responsible NRA members - and don't tell me there aren't plenty of them - to step forward and support reasonable restrictions on gun sales and ownership.
Donald Trump changed some of his facts to fit his agenda Monday, pitching shades of truth and misconceptions in what was billed as a major economic policy speech.
The father of a 27-year-old man who worked for the Democratic National Committee said his son wanted to "make the world better," that he worked tirelessly in the community and stayed focused on politics. But on Sunday morning in Washington, D.C., Seth Conrad Rich, the DNC's voter expansion data director, was fatally shot.
A young Jewish staffer for the Democratic National Committee was shot dead in an apparent robbery near his home in Washington, D.C. Seth Conrad Rich, 27, was shot early Sunday morning in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, near the Capitol, about a block from his home. Police in announcing the killing did not ascribe a motive, but his father, Joel, told the Washington Post that the police believe his son may have been the victim of a botched robbery.
While the biggest question of this presidential election year has yet to be answered, some stability should return to the stock market from now until November 8. "U.S. stocks swamp foreign ones in the back half of presidential election years," Forbes.com contributor Ken Fisher explains. "You should love that no one has heard thismeaning it isn't now discounted into pricing and thus remains a good bet," he said.