President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced support for Oracle Corp. to buy the US operations of TikTok, adding a fresh wrinkle to the offering for the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Oracle ORCL, + 2.20% is a new contractor in the negotiations for TikTok, whose owner ByteDance Ltd. a fall deadline for …
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Home Depot Inc. published Tuesday its strongest quarterly sales in nearly 20 years, as the largest home improvement retailer benefited from the growing interest in household projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. Revenue for the Atlanta-based retailer rose 23% to $ 38.05 billion in the May-July period, up from $ 30.84 …
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday afternoon delivered a heartfelt message from Joe Biden on day two of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, giving the former vice president another impetus to his national bona fides of security. “Joe Biden will be a president, we will all be …
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Rep. Ross Spano lost the GOP nomination to Scott Franklin, the Lakeland City Commissioner, who attacked Spano over an investigation into allegations of potential campaign funding violations in the race for Central Florida’s 15th Congress District. Last November, Spano said it intended to “cooperate fully with the Department of Justice” …
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Some hopeful signs began to emerge when the US recorded the lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases in nearly eight weeks and hospitalizations continued to decline. But recent outbreaks in a number of schools and universities across the country have shown that catching the virus remains a challenge. The …
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