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President Trump will likely sign legislation today that fundamentally alters the tobacco industry, changing America's legal smoking age from 18 to 21.

California is opening up public roads to self-driving commercial vehicles.

Five billionaires have given to billionaire Tom Steyer's quixotic quest to capture the Democratic presidential nomination.

Critics sense a disturbance in the Force with The Rise of Skywalker, but their frowns are unlikely to prevent the film from hauling in well over $1 billion at the box office.

I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a victor,” says Mellody Hobson, president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, a $13 billion money management firm. “If I could do anything for other people, it's to help them to see my life as an example of what you can overcome.”

Naples, Megève, France and Székesfehérvár, Hungary lead our list of the best European cities to invest in.

The Bank of England has a new governor. Andrew Bailey, current head of the U.K.’s financial industry regulator, is seen as a "safe pair of hands" to lead the oldest central bank in the world.

The first officer at the controls of an Amazon Air cargo flight that crashed in Texas in February appeared confused, crying out that the plane had stalled during the final moments and putting it into a steep dive, fact-finding reports released by the U.S. National Transport Safety Board on Thursday suggest.


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This Is How You Can Create Your Own Real-Life Death Star

Even though Star Wars' Death Star is ultimately destroyed, rebuilt, and destroyed again, the idea of packing an enormous amount of destructive power into a single shot seems to defy scientific explanation. However, experimental advances have made what was once an idea exclusive to science fiction a real-life possibility.


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