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How much can a $20,000 high-yield savings account earn this August?

Savers can effectively grow their $20,000 deposit with a top high-yield savings account opened this August. Getty Images High-yield savings accounts have many attractive features for savers, especially in recent years. When inflation and higher interest rates eroded the purchasing power of the dollar, savers were better able to balance …

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Google to spend $1 billion on AI education and job training in the U.S.

Google said it will provide U.S. colleges and universities with $1 billion worth of artificial intelligence education and job training tools, the company announced Wednesday.  The three-year commitment will also make the programs available to non-profits, free of cost, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said …

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Photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and today

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights—that’s how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  On Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress bomber delivered its payload, dubbed Little Boy, onto the unsuspecting civilians of Hiroshima. Three …

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Primark owner to buy 135-year-old business in huge deal

PRIMARK’S London-listed parent company is set to make a huge deal to buy a 135-year old business. The deal that will unite brands Kingsmill and Hovis under the same ownership is expected to be announced by the end of the week. 3 Hovis has been parented by private equity firm …

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