Graduate Students Clear Hurdle in Effort to Form Union and other top stories.

• Graduate Students Clear Hurdle in Effort to Form Union

  The three Democratic members of the board made up the majority; the lone Republican member dissented. A fifth spot on the board has been vacant since last year.Highly educated workers in other fields have also chafed at a growing sense of their own powerlessness. Recent law school graduates have lamented their rising debt and declining prospects for landing a law firm job. Many medical interns and residents have unionized in recent years, while a group of doctors at a medical center in Oregon f..

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• US Existing Home Sales Fell Sharply in July

  

  WASHINGTON—Sales of previously owned homes slipped in July, a sign the U.S. housing-market recovery could be uneven as limited inventory and rising prices put purchases out of reach for some Americans. The pace of existing home sales decreased 3.2% last month from June to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.39 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. It was the first time sales had decreased since February....

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• Tesla's Innovations Are Transforming The Auto Industry

  

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• Uber Lets Drivers Hail an IRA with Betterment

  

  Aug. 24, 2016 9:05 a.m. ET Uber Technologies Inc. is partnering with robo advice provider Betterment Inc. to offer thousands of its drivers access to retirement accounts. The popular ride-sharing network started notifying drivers in Seattle, Boston, Chicago and New Jersey on Wednesday that they could sign up for individual retirement accounts managed by Betterment’s investing algorithm through their Uber app. “Tens of thousands of drivers” in those cities will be the first to pi..

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• Secrets of ultra stealth submarines revealed in massive leak

  

  The Indian government is investigating the leak of more than 22,000 pages of documents that reveal secret data about its new high-tech fleet of submarines. The leak, first reported by The Australian, includes sensitive information about the Scorpene submarines designed by French defense contractor DCNS for the Indian Navy. The documents detail the stealth submarines' sensors, torpedo launch systems, as well as communications and navigation capabilities. "What I understand right now is tha..

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• Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight

  

  Image copyright sbna Image caption The ÂŁ25m plane is understood to have sustained damage to its cockpit The world's longest aircraft - the Airlander 10 - has been damaged after nosediving on landing during its second test flight.The 302ft (92m) long aircraft - which is part plane and part airship - was damaged during the flight from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire.The ÂŁ25m craft is understood to have sustained damage to its cockpit when it hit t..

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• Another Portugal Bank Needs Help, This Time for $5.7 Billion

  

  LISBON, Portugal — For Portuguese taxpayers fed up with coming to the rescue of troubled banks, there's bad news: another one needs help.The government says it has won provisional approval from European authorities to recapitalize Portugal's biggest bank by assets, state-owned Caixa Geral de Depositos, with 5.1 billion euros ($5.7 billion).The Finance Ministry said in a statement the government will inject 2.7 billion euros into CGD. Also, it will convert 960 million euros' worth of governme..

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• Clinton, Kaine make pitch to small businesses with tax breaks, other measures

  

  Hillary Clinton and her vice-presidential pick, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), at a rally in Miami in July. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) DENVER — Hillary Clinton’s campaign pushed a package of tax breaks and other initiatives Tuesday aimed at making it easier for small businesses to get started and continue operating — part of a bid to cast the Democrat as friendlier to their interests than Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The package — a mix of new and previously released propos..

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• Qantas Soars to Record Profit as Pain Pays Dividend

  

  Aug. 24, 2016 2:46 a.m. ET SYDNEY—A first dividend payment in seven years marks a big turnaround for Qantas Airways Ltd. QAN 1.47 % , which as recently as 2014 had been selling terminals, deferring plane orders and laying off staff to stem losses from a bruising battle for dominance in Australia’s skies. It also comes as some of its biggest regional rivals, including Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. CPCAY 1.40 % , remain in a funk. Qantas, known as the “Flying Kangaroo,..

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• Pfizer grabs AZ antibiotics in $1.5B deal. Pre-split prep or just another sales-boosting buy?

  

  It’s been a busy week for Pfizer. Fresh off its $14 billion deal for Medivation, the drug giant is snapping up a portfolio of AstraZeneca antibiotics for up to $1.5 billion--a portfolio that just happens to include four products shared with Pfizer’s most recent megamerger prospect, Allergan. The AstraZeneca small-molecule drugs will join Pfizer’s Essential Medicines business, the division that now includes Hospira and its biosimilars as well as a range of older Pfizer brands--the very division t..

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