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• Former FTX crypto executive pleads guilty to making millions in illegal campaign contributions

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 30

  A former top executive at the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty Thursday to making tens of millions of dollars in illegal campaign...

• Arizona Goodwill employee finds skull with fake eye inside box of donated items

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 32

  A worker at a Goodyear, Arizona, Goodwill made a macabre discovery in a box of donated items Tuesday: a human skull with a fake glass green eye.

• New book says Musk ordered Starlink satellites turned off during Ukrainian attack

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 32

  A new biography of billionaire Elon Musk sheds light on how much control the tech mogul had over the war in Ukraine.

• Maui beckons tourists, and their dollars, to stave off economic disaster after wildfires

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 48

  Richie Olsten has been in Maui's helicopter tour business for a half-century, so long he's developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy:...

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• Federal judge deals another serious blow to proposed copper-nickel mine on edge Minnesota wilderness

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 27

  A federal judge has dealt another serious setback to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in...

• Legal sports betting opens to fanfare in Kentucky; governor makes the first wager

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 26

  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear plunked down a $20 bet Thursday on two home-state college football teams - and against an arch-nemesis school - in a...

• Joseph Fiordaliso, who championed clean energy as head of New Jersey utilities board, dies at 78

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 41

  Joseph Fiordaliso, who was implementing one of the country's most aggressive clean energy programs as head of New Jersey's state utilities...

• UAW delivers offer to Ford a week before strike deadline

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 22

  The United Auto Workers produced what may be the final counteroffer before a strike hits Ford in the labor battle.

• Warner Bros. Discovery's boss calls on Hollywood to end strikes

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 30

  Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said all of Hollywood needs to come together to resolve the strikes and return to work as soon as possible.

• 2 men plead guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 33

  Two men have pleaded guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state in attacks that left thousands without power on Christmas Day.

• The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly and Utah has failed to stop it, a new lawsuit says

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 25

  Utah officials have pushed the Great Salt Lake to the brink of an ecological collapse because they allowed upstream water to be diverted for...

• Most modern cars sell user information to data miners, study finds

  7-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 24

  Modern cars are collecting user data and selling it at record rates, according to a new study this week.