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Gold, once among this year’s best-performing commodities, is on track for a fourth week of losses.

Gold Prices Lose Their Bullish Momentum
Gold—once among this year’s best-performing commodities—has tumbled to nearly two-month lows, hurt by waning investor anxiety and expectations for a steady pace of interest-rates hikes.
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If you can pass written exams, safety tests and background checks, congrats! Maybe you can be a dog walker.

Want a Job as a Dog Walker? It’s Just Like Getting into Harvard
Uber-like apps, some of which accept 5% of applicants, require biographical questionnaires, background checks, video interview, written tests, online safety courses
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How an Israeli intelligence agent turned Hollywood ​​producer became a political problem for his prime minister.

Hollywood Producer in the Spotlight in Netanyahu Probe
Arnon Milchan, an Israeli intelligence agent turned Hollywood producer, has long cultivated ties with his country’s leaders. Now, he has become a political problem for the prime minister.
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Border Patrol reported about 281,000 arrests at the Mexican border in 11 months through August, versus 408,000 in the 12 preceding months.

U.S. Border Crossings Are Fewer, Riskier and More Expensive
Though would-be immigrants from all over the world have long been caught trying to illegally cross the U.S. border, migrants are now making more treacherous journeys, paying more for them, and being caught more often.
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Is what we know about Russian interference in the presidential election just the tip of the iceberg?

Five Things to Know About Hidden Russian Influence on Facebook, Twitter, Google
Congressional investigations looking into Russian interference in the election have ensnared Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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For Amazon's second headquarters, CEO Jeff Bezos may choose a spot close to home. That doesn't narrow it down.

The Many Places Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Calls Home
The Amazon chief owns multiple properties, including a more than 300,000-acre Texas ranch. In choosing a site for the company’s second headquarters, known as HQ2, will he seek a spot close to home?
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This U.S. disaster relief fund is spending $200 million a day to help the recovery from the summer's massive hurricanes.

White House Asks Congress to Approve $29 Billion Hurricane Relief Package
The White House is requesting Congress approve a $29 billion relief package to help Americans affected by recent natural disasters, including those in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.
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The 62-year-old writes novels of 'great emotional force' and gets a cash award worth $1.1 million.

Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go,” has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal, from Editor in Chief Gerard Baker.
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Western and Asia car makers take to Twitter to welcome Saudi women to the driver's seat.

Car Makers Woo Millions of Saudi Women as Driving Ban Ends
Saudi Arabia’s decision last week to lift its ban on women drivers has opened up a large market for car makers searching for growth, and the competition has already begun.
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The battle for America's laundry has moved from the showroom floor to Washington.

Trade’s Test Case: Your Washing Machine
The Trump administration has vowed to take a fresh look at a wide range of protectionist powers to help American companies. Whirlpool is testing that resolve, seeking to revive a long-dormant trade weapon to fend off foreign-made washing machines. One question: Will consumers be better off?
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Beef is back for dinner for millennials who want to know more about the origins of their food.

Beef Industry Aims to Herd Millennials With Nostalgic Ad
The U.S. beef industry is resurrecting its 25-year-old tagline, “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner,” for a marketing campaign aimed at young consumers with childhood memories of the slogan.
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Relations have often been tense among former Soviet republics in Central Asia—but that is starting to change.

Long-Feuding Central Asia Nations Move to Reconcile
Post-Soviet Central Asia, a patchwork of often hostile nations separated by seesawing frontiers, is moving to put old disputes aside and embrace a level of cooperation unseen in decades.
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This Wall Street regulator has a portfolio bigger than some hedge funds, but its returns are nothing to brag about.

Wall Street Regulator Is Also an Investor—With Meager Returns
Finra’s $1.6 billion portfolio has returned 3.4% annually, versus 6% for a half-stock, half-bond portfolio
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NATO will increase its counterterrorism funding next year by roughly 1% after pressure from President Trump—and despite concerns from France.

Is the U.S. shale boom about to hit a wall? 'Their ability to spew forth infinite streams of oil is really just a myth.'

U.S. Shale Juggernaut Shows Signs of Fatigue
American shale drillers, which defied expectations and upended traditional oil markets by increasing production in the face of lower prices, are finally showing signs of slowing down.
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