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When I was a teenager, I bought my first car. It was a Toyota Tercel with a few hundred miles on it and cost less than $10,000. Granted, this was 30 years ago.Now that I have a daughter turning 17, I envisioned a similar scenario. She has worked — and saved — since the age of 13, and I assumed she could at least pitch in for a reasonably priced pre-owned model.But, boy, has the used car market changed. For starters, prices have increased enormously.Anyone who has stayed away from the car market in recent years is in for a…

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President Joe Biden called out Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor and Trump campaign surrogate, for hypocrisy on immigration on Saturday, saying Musk launched his long career in the U.S. as an “illegal worker” before becoming the world’s wealthiest man.The president made these remarks at a campaign event to support Democrats that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.Labeling Musk as former President Donald Trump’s wealthy new “ally,” Biden said, “That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here when he was here,” referring to Musk.”He was supposed to be in…

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Jim Donovan, the Cleveland Browns’ longtime radio play-by-play man, died Saturday after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 68.Donovan became the full-time voice of the Browns upon the team’s return to the NFL in 1999 and held the job until the start of this season when he retired to focus on his health.He was still attending training camp practices and called the team’s preseason games the week before his retirement. Donovan was a relentless worker whose energetic calls were recognized and treasured by Browns fans throughout the country. His signature call was “Run, William, Run” as William Green helped…

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The best negotiators Mark Cuban has worked with — or against — have something in common: They’re willing to compromise.Expert dealmakers know not to rush or nitpick when bargaining, says the billionaire entrepreneur and investor. “One: They’re patient because they know what they’re trying to accomplish,” Cuban, 66, tells CNBC Make It. “Two: They don’t try to win every deal point. It’s OK to give something in order to get the deal done.”Cuban tries to showcase those qualities as an investor judge on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” where he often practices patient silence — sitting quietly while his fellow panelists offer…

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LOS ANGELES — Carlton Fisk … Kirby Puckett … Derek Jeter … David Freese.As he smoothed the dirt in the batter’s box in the 10th inning Friday night, Freddie Freeman never could have envisioned he’d be spending the rest of his life hanging out with those October legends.But then walk-off magic happened.Before the next wave of Freeman’s bat, no living human could lean back in an easy chair and describe to you what a walk-off, lead-flipping, extra-inning World Series grand slam looked like. But we can now. It looks exactly like this. FREDDIE FREEMAN WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM. #WORLDSERIES pic.twitter.com/5MIY5CaX6a —…

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The first time Victor M. Sweeney observed an embalming, it was for an 18-year-old woman who had died in a car crash just before her high school graduation. At the time, Sweeney was just 18 years old himself.He had seen dead bodies before, but this was his first “hands-on experience with someone my own age,” he tells CNBC Make It. “That was extremely challenging.”At the time, Sweeney was working his first job in the funeral industry as an assistant in a funeral home, “dusting caskets and carrying flowers,” he says.Already set on a career in the funeral business, Sweeney’s boss…

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It’s a compelling slate of games this weekend, including five ranked matchups, four of which feature double-digit spreads. (Any chance the favorites cover — or even win — all of those?) Plus a Friday night bout that could determine the Group of 5 team in the College Football Playoff, as well as an undefeated team without its star quarterback and another undefeated team that is a road underdog to an unranked opponent. And Coach Prime in #Big12AfterDark. Spooky season, indeed.Let’s rank the top 10 games of Week 9, starting with honorable mentions and counting down.Honorable Mention: Louisville at Boston College…

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United Airlines is the best-performing U.S. airline stock this year. It wants to be the most profitable carrier, too.United shares are up more than 80% since Jan. 1, more than double the gains of Delta Air Lines, the country’s most profitable airline.United has been flying for nearly a century and is the world’s largest airline by capacity. The Chicago-based carrier has been trying to expand its profits by investing heavily in roomier seats and growing a network that will excite high-spending travelers, with routes going beyond vacation bread-and-butter destinations and into places like Greenland and Mongolia.”We’ve been able to offer…

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When Tesla CFO Zachary Kirkhorn stepped down last August, Wall Street analysts and investors alike were unnerved. The stock shed more than $23 billion on the news, with one top tech analyst describing the announcement as “a blow in the near term” and a “big surprise to the Street.” It was the second CFO departure in just four years. The resignation of previous finance chief Deepak Ahuja in 2019 also tanked the stock. The leadership shakeup at the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker may have caught the market off guard, but it’s a part of a larger turnover trend among…

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