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As healthcare costs soar, it’s not only individual Americans feeling the financial pain and looking to make trade-offs. Employers are scouring for ways to cut back and generous paid parental leave is among the employee benefits on the chopping block.Zoom Communications announced tweaks to its parental leave policy to bring the benefit more in line with market norms. Zoom employees who give birth now have access to 18 weeks of paid leave, down from 22 to 24 weeks previously, a spokesperson said. Non-birthing parents receive 10 weeks from 16 weeks.Zoom is not alone in scrutinizing some of the more generous…

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From left, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., and FBI Director Kash Patel conduct a news conference at the Department of Justice about Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting, on Monday, April 27, 2026.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesU.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, shot a Secret Service agent as he attempted to storm the Washington Hilton ballroom last weekend. Pirro, speaking on CNN’s “State of…

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Motorists make their way past an anti-U.S. billboard referring to President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, installed on a building at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 2, 2026. A senior Iranian military officer said on May 2 that renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran was “likely,” hours after President Donald Trump said he was “not satisfied” with a new Iranian negotiating proposal.- | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump said that he had yet to review the exact wording of a new Iranian peace proposal but ⁠he was unlikely to accept it, because the…

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Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOPEC+ has agreed an increase in oil output of 188,000 barrels per day, the cartel said on Sunday, as it pushes on with production in the first meeting since the loss of its key member, the United Arab Emirates.The group of seven major oil producers announced it would increase June production by slightly less than May’s output hike of 206,000 bpd. Sunday’s figure excludes the United Arab Emirates share of output, which officially departed OPEC on May 1. The seven countries included Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman.”In their collective commitment to…

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Investors are grappling with elevated oil prices and persistent geopolitical tensions, but those who can ignore short-term noise may be better positioned for the long run.An opportunity to pick some attractive stocks with solid long-term growth potential is emerging, and investors can use the ratings of top Wall Street analysts to inform their search. The recommendations and analysis of these experts can provide useful insights for stock selection. Here are three stocks favored by some of Wall Street’s top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.Seagate TechnologyThis week’s first pick is storage solutions provider Seagate…

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