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Wednesday, Feb 7 Walgreens has adopted a companywide policy that allows people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity after a customer said she was discriminated against at a California store. |
| Attorney General Lisa Madigan and 16 other state attorneys general have banded together in opposition to a proposed federal rule change that they say would allow employers to pocket the hard-earned tips of hourly workers. |
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| Bus drivers for Chicago Public Schools ratified a union contract that raises wages, has new insurance coverage — and makes Super Bowl Sunday a paid holiday. |
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| Liquidation sales start today at closing Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores, but the list includes fewer locations than the chain first sought to shutter. |
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| Tronc has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune and other California based assets to Los Angeles biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong for $500 million in cash. |
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| Foam cups at Dunkin' Donuts will soon be history, removing what the company estimates will be a billion of them each year from the waste stream. |
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| The competition among low-calorie ice creams is heating up. |
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| Small business owners may want to hand out bonuses and raises now that there's a new tax law, but many don't know if they'll have any wealth to share. |
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| After several days of wild mood swings, the stock market has finally chilled out. And so should investors, experts say. |
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