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Alibaba, China's E-Commerce Giant, Made More Than $25 Billion On Singles' Day

8:46pm November 13, 2017

The Chinese company Alibaba just celebrated Singles' Day, a sale that this year racked in more than $25 billion. That dwarfs Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales in the United States.

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Sean Hannity's Losing Advertisers After Showing Support For Roy Moore

4:58pm November 13, 2017

by David Folkenflik

Sean Hannity is getting increasingly lonely in his defense of Roy Moore after accusations that the Senate candidate initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl in 1979. Critics are calling for a boycott of Hannity — with some success.

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Apple's Philip Schiller unveiled the Face ID feature in September. Less than a week after the iPhone X was released, a Vietnamese security firm said it had cracked Face ID using a specially made mask.

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Security Firm Says Extremely Creepy Mask Cracks iPhone X's Face ID

4:58pm November 13, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

A video shows the Vietnam-based Bkav apparently bypassing the feature. Apple has touted the function as secure since it was unveiled in September.

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Radhika Jones, then deputy managing editor of Time, seen at a 2014 gala thrown by the magazine in New York City.

Radhika Jones Tapped To Be New Editor-In-Chief Of 'Vanity Fair'

4:23pm November 13, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Jones, editorial director of books at The New York Times, will become the magazine's fifth editor-in-chief since its modern revival — and just its second in the past quarter-century.

Asian leaders and President Trump pose for a photo during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Manila on Monday.

Trump In Asia: A 'Rebalance' Toward Trade

2:41pm November 13, 2017

by Satu Limaye

The Trump administration's engagement with Asia has matched the Obama administration's. What's changed are the priorities: elevating commercial issues to equal or higher priority than security issues.

Republicans in Congress have proposed a large cut in the tax rate that U.S. corporations pay. The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is seen here on March 31.

Is A Corporate Tax Cut Really What The Economy Needs Right Now?

11:15am November 13, 2017

by Jim Zarroli

Supporters of the tax cut say it will lead to more hiring and faster growth. But the evidence isn't so clear-cut.

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National

Making Sense Of The Paradise Papers Dump And Its Ties To The Trump Administration

6:16pm November 12, 2017

The Paradise Papers dump revealed the extent to which the wealthy hide their assets from the government through offshore tax havens. Michael Montgomery of the Center for Investigative Reporting is one of hundreds of journalists poring over the papers.

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Charred hills are visible behind field workers as they pick Syrah grapes during a harvest operation on October 25, 2017 in Kenwood, California.

After Fires, California Wine Country Wants Tourists Back

5:44pm November 11, 2017

by Farida Jhabvala Romero

Tasting rooms have been nearly empty when normally they'd be packed.

A man rides a Mobike bicycle past the CCTV Headquarters building in Beijing.

World News

The Startup That's Helping Bring Bikes Back To China's Streets

8:14am November 11, 2017

MoBike, China's first bike-share company, is worth $3 billion. "I personally like riding bicycles," says the company's 35-year-old president Hu Weiwei. "I was thinking, 'How can I bring bikes back?'"

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Trump Talks 'America First' In Asia

8:07am November 11, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Wendy Cutler, a former U.S. trade representative, about President Trump's "America first" speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vietnam.