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The nationwide opioid epidemic has led to a sharp increase of teens and young adults dying from drug overdoses, according to new research published Thursday. Death rates from drug overdoses for people between the ages of 15 and 24 rose by 19.75% from 2006 to 2015, according to a study […]

The international community needs to reestablish a world order based on rules as the rise of China coincides with the decline in European and American power, according to business and politics experts. Those comments came at a Tuesday conference in Singapore focused on predicting and investing in the trends that […]

Self-made billionaire Jack Dorsey has enjoyed success of epic proportions since founding social networking giant Twitter in 2006. But if he could go back to that time and build the business again, there are some things he would do differently, the 42-year-old CEO said Tuesday. Speaking at TED 2019 in […]

The National Basketball Association is not resting on its laurels despite reaching an audience of more than 600 million people in China. In China, there were 640 million people who watched “some element of NBA content,” said Derrick Chang, CEO of NBA China, who was talking about viewership during the […]

This is the worst year for measles in the U.S. since the disease was declared eradicated from the country in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. As of Wednesday afternoon, 695 cases of measles have been confirmed in 22 states, the agency said, surpassing the previous […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif does not believe U.S. President Donald Trump wants war with Iran, but he told Reuters on Wednesday that Trump could be lured into a conflict. “I don’t think he wants war,” Zarif said in an interview at the Iranian mission to the United Nations […]

Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn braced investors for another quarter in the red during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday. In response to questions about challenges ahead for Tesla in 2019, Kirkhorn said: “We did make pricing adjustments to our products in Q1 which puts pressure on margins, so […]

With a long-awaited announcement Thursday morning that he is running for president, former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to instantly became the front-runner in a crowded primary field. For weeks, polls have shown the 76-year-old Democrat holding steady as the 2020 favorite of more than a quarter of his […]

More and more companies are turning to the emerging subscription economy, and it could be time for the manufacturing industry to tune in, Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo told CNBC Wednesday. “They know how you use your product. They provide a service to you,” Tzuo said in a sit down with […]

Domino’s Pizza seeks to expand its global footprint to 25,000 stores in order to achieve its top objectives and build its market share, CEO Ritch Allison told CNBC Wednesday. That’s nearly 10,000 more locations in addition to its existing pizza joints in more than 85 markets. The franchise is the […]