Barnaby Joyce will return to parliament as Australia's deputy prime minister after winning a special election on Saturday, five weeks after he was forced to step down for being a dual national in breach of the constitution. Joyce, 50, claimed victory in the rural seat of New England, winning 63 percent of
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Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA), speaks during a news conference at the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese, Italy, on Saturday, Dec. 2. Photographer: Federico Bernini/Bloomberg. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles revealed that it's in talks with South Korea's Hyundai
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A few dozen private college endowments could dodge a bullet with the sweeping tax bill approved by the Senate early Saturday morning after a last-minute amendment. A tweak to the tax overhaul introduced Friday night doubled the threshold for applying a new levy of 1.4 percent on colleges' annual
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Gibson and his team will continue to adjust procedures and make changes to bring transparency to the office and to bring every aspect of the department into compliance with state law and good governmental accounting practices. Currently, they are about one-third of the way toward ironing out the
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