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In North Carolina, Democrats Get Two Shots to Strike a Blow Against Republicans The new election in North Carolina’s contested Ninth Congressional District provides an opening for Democrats on two fronts.

How the Job Market Looked at the Start of the Year, Shutdown and All .

The Morning Download: 5G, U.S. vs. Huawei, Set to Dominate Barcelona Mobile Event On the eve of Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress, Washington’s efforts to paint the world’s largest provider of telecom gear as a spying threat appears to be getting push back, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Republicans Weighing a Long-Shot Challenge to Trump Might Take a Lesson From Democrats A small group of Republican politicians have shown an interest in challenging President Trump in a primary contest next year, and those who have are focusing on a line of criticism that polling and recent political history suggests won’t resonate with the party’s core voters.

Real Time Economics: Why Aren’t Companies Investing More?.

Quest Diagnostics Combines IT, Digital Role With New Tech Chief The medical diagnostic-information provider this week named a chief information and digital officer, combining two enterprise technology roles.

How Low Interest Rates Can Freeze the Economy .

Real Time Economics: The Global Trade Slump .

Sanders Sees Room in Crowded Democratic Primary. Will Biden?Former Vice President Joe Biden could reshape the Democratic field if he joins the primary.

The Morning Download: Top Data Tools Leverage Machine Learning Rivaling the amount of data available today to the enterprise is the growing number of capabilities designed to extract insight and support decision making.

Top Data Trend of 2019? It’s Not Blockchain Blockchain, the digital ledger underlying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has dropped to the bottom of Gartner Inc.’s annual list of the most disruptive data and analytics capabilities for enterprise IT – replaced by tools that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Real Time Economics: Trump Says China Tariff Deadline Could Slide .

Real Time Economics: Will Trump’s Tariffs Knock Down Trade Barriers?.

Why Older Couples Must Look Beyond Life Expectancy When Planning for Retirement Married couples don’t always take a holistic approach when accounting for how life expectancy impacts their retirement plan, says WSJ Wealth Expert Benjamin Harris.

Let’s Make It Easier for People to Work Later in Life A first step is for employers to let older workers know that they can stick around.

Americans Believe in Talking About End-of-Life Issues. They Just Don’t Do It.Only 18% of people age 55 and over say they act on putting a legacy plan in place, according to an Age Wave/Merrill Lynch Wealth Management study.

GOP Strategy Emerges in Amendment to Yemen Bill A successful House Republican effort to amend a Democratic bill limiting U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen signals how Republicans may plan to use their limited minority powers in the chamber.

The Green New Deal’s Global Blind Spot The Green New Deal targets U.S. emissions. But the harm from global warming–extreme weather, heat, rising sea levels–comes from global emissions, Greg Ip writes.

On Trump Declaration, Democrats Have Reasons to Wait President Trump's plan to declare a national emergency to provide more money for border barriers was quickly criticized by lawmakers in both parties on Thursday. But any Congressional action opposing the national emergency is unlikely to come in the immediate future.

Real Time Economics: The U.S. Economy Gets a Downgrade .