Wal-Mart pushes healthier foods and lower prices nationwide
Wal-Mart plans to reform thousands of store brand products to cut sodium and sugar while pressuring suppliers to follow. It pledges cheaper produce, more stores in food deserts, and First Lady Michelle Obama endorses the move as a potential marketplace transformation. Experts say Wal-Mart’s scale could shift consumer eating, diabetes, and heart disease risk with broader access to healthier options.
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Schmidt to relinquish Google CEO role to Larry Page
Notable tech veteran Eric Schmidt steps down as Google chief executive after a decade, citing a shift toward behind the scenes work while remaining executive chairman to advise Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Page and Brin, both co-founders, push Google toward new leadership.
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Markets End Lower Amid Mixed Trading Across Stocks and Commodities
The Dow fell to 11822.80 with a 2.49 point gain in weekly terms, while the Nasdaq slipped to 2704.29 and the S&P 500 declined to 1280.26. Treasury yields rose to 4.63 percent. corn traded at 1275 cents, soybeans at 1414 cents, wheat at 886 cents. oil fell by 2.22 to 89.59 per barrel.
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Estate gift funds KU scholarships from Basehor educators
Two longtime Basehor teachers Ward L Kiester and Irene Kiester provided a $780000 estate gift to Kansas University creating three scholarships. Two honors will bear their names and a third honors their son Ward L Kiester II, a 1972 KU alumnus who died in a car crash. The couple also endowed $75000 for Basehor United Methodist Church and $75000 for the Basehor Linwood school district.
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Tax reform debate faces long, divisive path in Congress
Washington weighs simpler tax rules amid a divided legislature. Obama and leaders from both parties push for reform as lawmakers acknowledge the difficulty of removing winners and losers in a system decades in the making. Budget pressures and political divides complicate prospects for a sweeping overhaul.
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