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An antiaging crowd latched onto the diabetes drug metformin hoping it would extend lifespan. Studies give conflicting results.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/longevity-metformin-anti-aging-biohacking-diabetes-16443b03?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

Call people in or close the office like McDonald’s? Midweek or Friday? Executives weigh the best way to let people go.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-rules-of-layoffs-f827ada7?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

Cinema admissions haven’t recovered sufficiently to cure the hangover of financial distress left in the wake of Covid-19.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/movie-theater-industry-pain-intensifies-even-as-pandemic-eases-3d885242?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

Interest-rate increases and banking turmoil push down demand for multifamily buildings.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apartment-building-sales-drop-74-the-most-in-14-years-9a80aa48?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

Xylazine, known as the street drug tranq or zombie heroin, is increasingly being found in fentanyl and heroin. It’s known to cause open wounds.

     

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/733701542/0/usatoday-newstopstories~How-xylazine-%E2%80%93-a-tranquilizer-showing-up-in-fentanyl-%E2%80%93-makes-it-harder-to-slow-overdose-deaths/

You may be unable to prevent an abusive ex-spouse from working at your company, but you may still have recourse depending on your circumstances.

     

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/733705853/0/usatoday-newstopstories~My-abusive-ex-applied-for-a-job-at-my-company-Can-I-stop-him-Ask-HR/

Aircraft close calls have been rising, prompting safety concerns. WSJ goes inside the air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to see how controllers juggle around 2,100 flights every day.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-aircraft-collisions-are-avoided-at-the-worlds-busiest-airport-af42cef7?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

U.K. authorities said TikTok failed to get consent from the parents of children on its platform and didn’t do enough to remove underage users.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-fined-15-8-million-by-u-k-regulator-for-misuse-of-childrens-data-47088dbf?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

Two legendary vocalists and one of Nashville’s most prolific songwriters will take their place in the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year.

     

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~/733709177/0/usatoday-newstopstories~Patty-Loveless-Tanya-Tucker-and-Bob-McDill-to-join-the-Country-Music-Hall-of-Fame/

Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an exoplanet and the star that it orbits, both located 12 light-years away from Earth. The signal suggests that the Earth-size planet may have a magnetic field and perhaps even an atmosphere.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/world/exoplanet-radio-signal-scn/index.html