Retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has held the top spot in revenue generation among publicly traded companies for about 20 years now (it dethroned ExxonMobil in 2001). E-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) climbed through the ranks of publicly traded companies to reach the unofficial No. 2 spot last year (China Petroleum & Chemical is technically No. 2, but it is majority-owned by the Chinese government).
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Spencer Turnbull carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, Alex Bohm hit a pair of three-run homers and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago White Sox 7-0 on Friday night to extend their winning streak to four. Chicago has lost seven of eight and 12 of 14, dropping to a major league-worst 3-16. The White Sox have been shut out seven times and are hitting a major league-low .190. Turnbull (2-0) didn't allow a hit until Gavin Sheets singled into right field with one o
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Ballots were being counted Friday night at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the United Auto Workers union was optimistic it would win a vote to decide whether it will represent the factory’s 4,300 production workers. Union observers watching the vote count by the National Labor Relations Board reported that the union was winning 800 to 293 about an hour after voting ended. The tallies could not be independently verified by The Associated Press, and th
After a nationwide spike in murders during and immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic, a new analysis shows those numbers might be coming down, and in some places the rate is in freefall.
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Six special letters from the 1960s between two unlikely pen pals have sold at auction for thousands of dollars. They were sent to a Second World War veteran-turned-artist in Ontario by acclaimed Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis. Heidi Petracek reports on what led to the long distance connection and where the letters are now.
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Here in Canada, you might think our climate and numerous lakes would protect us from severe water shortages. But a rapidly-heating planet means warmer winters and drastically smaller snowpacks — which makes the prospect of serious and prolonged drought a reality. Now, stakeholders in Alberta have signed a series of historic agreements about how water will be shared. Heather Yourex-West explains.
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