February 2026 jobs report:

The U.S. economy lost jobs in February, a month marred by severe winter weather and a strike at a major health-care provider, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 for the month, compared with the estimate for 50,000 and below the downwardly revised January total of 126,000. February marked the…

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More drugs should be over-the-counter

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary told CNBC that he believes “everything should be over-the-counter” unless a drug is unsafe, addictive or requires monitoring – doubling down on a push that some in the pharmaceutical industry have questioned.  In an interview on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Makary said the FDA’s aims to make changes…

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Furniture retailers face existential threat

President Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” could be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this week. Regardless of the ruling, there’s little comfort to be found for the furniture industry. Furniture importers are facing steep, and in some cases stacking, import duties after the industry was hit with higher tariffs on…

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Abandoned and decaying: What’s left inside Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ after years grounded? | World News

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’. For nearly a decade, the Boeing 727 once owned by Jeffrey Epstein has sat motionless on an outdoor slab in Brunswick, Georgia — its once-polished fuselage streaked with grime, its engines removed, its interior frozen in a kind of disquieting time capsule.Nicknamed the “Lolita Express” by the press, a moniker…

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‘Some caution is reasonable,’ advisor says

Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty Images As headlines swirl about trouble in the private credit market, investors might wonder whether it means significant problems lie ahead for these assets. Right now, pockets of weakness exist. Those shouldn’t be ignored, but they don’t foretell a broad-based meltdown among private credit funds, some financial advisors say….

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