At Toys ‘R’ Us, ‘There Is Nothing Left’: The Day It Closed for Good

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11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

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Novartis chairman says Alcon worth $20 billion-$30 billion: Finanz und Wirtschaft

ZURICH (Reuters) - The chairman of Swiss drugmaker Novartis expects Alcon to be valued at between $20 billion and $30 billion when the opthalmic devices unit is spun off to shareholders next year, he said in an interview with Finanz und Wirtschaft.

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First confirmed sighting of a great white shark off Majorca in 40 years

The last time a great white shark was spotted near Spain's Balearic Islands was in 1976.

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What It Costs to Be Smuggled Across the U.S. Border

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These 20 Representatives Have Not Had a Primary Challenger for at Least a Decade

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Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry

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War Robbed Him of His Family, Then His Eyes, Then His Love

By MUJIB MASHAL from NYT World https://ift.tt/2tTky24

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Kennedy’s Retirement Could Threaten Efforts to End Partisan Gerrymandering

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A Long Journey North for Migrants That May End Where It Started

By TODD HEISLER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2lI9NMr

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Conjuring Spirits in Florida

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Thai cave rescue: A country in prayer

Rescuers have been searching for a group of boys who went to explore a cave with their football coach.

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Spain’s Migrant Wave Grows, Even as Europe’s Subsides

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WW2 pilot takes helicopter to make comrade's funeral

94-year-old WW2 glider pilot takes his first helicopter flight to attend comrade's funeral.

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Donald Trump gets prank call on Air Force One

Donald Trump was fooled by a comedian into taking a prank call while on board Air Force One.

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Luxury’s Chess Masters Prepare for a New Game

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CryptoWatch: Bitcoin’s plunge means one thing: calls for rallies to $25,000 by year-end are fading—fast

Bitcoin prices carve out a fresh near-term nadir, extending a downtrend that has taken hold of the world’s No. 1 virtual currency since a May peak and raising doubts about bullish prognostications for the virtual currency.

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How Visa and Mastercard could benefit from a settlement over card-swipe fees

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., which appear poised to settle a multibillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit, are sitting pretty, analysts say.

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Market Extra: Here’s the key question for U.S. investors about the trade skirmish with China

Can U.S. stocks remain resilient if pressure mounts on China’s yuan and equities?

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Personal Finance Daily: Abortion could be banned in the U.S. and Bill Gates’s summer book picks

Friday’s top personal finance stories

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The Tell: Investors pull $30 billion out of stocks in 2nd-largest weekly outflow on record: BAML

Investors yanked $30 billion out of global equities in the last week as trade-war worries mounted, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts, who drew a parallel with the environment that accompanied the Asia crisis in 1998.

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Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks finish higher but post weekly losses

U.S. stocks close higher Friday even as the earlier rally in financial shares flamed out but for the week, all major benchmarks were lower due to ongoing trade war-related jitters.

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The Wall Street Journal: GM warns tariffs could hurt its business, raise cost of cars

General Motors Co. warns the Trump administration Friday that tariffs on vehicle imports would hurt its competitiveness, cost U.S. jobs and result in “a smaller GM.”

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