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Attempts to sterilize our surroundings can kill off bacteria critical for human health—or, even worse, inadvertently promote the survival and evolution of superbugshttps://trib.al/Mvd2pdP 

Microloans can help people make a living, but lockdowns are making them harder to pay backhttps://trib.al/eSCxQZa 

With Facebook, the FTC wants to achieve something that hasn’t happened in four decades: the breakup of one of America’s biggest companieshttps://trib.al/ZvHZcws 

Your relatives are probably going to talk a lot about Bitcoin over the holidayshttps://trib.al/ldCYup8 

Pope Francis is on a mission to overhaul Vatican finances, but scandals that have erupted under his watch raise doubts about how much progress has been madehttps://trib.al/wId51F6 

The biggest vaccination effort in history has begun. Track where the vaccines are in the approval process and distributionhttps://trib.al/to9bYZl 

The company invented the modern breast pump and led the cultural shift that made its use ubiquitous. Today’s mothers don’t seem impressedhttps://trib.al/x2TTP8s 

Expanding child care and lowering costs could deliver a $1.6 trillion boost to the U.S. economyhttps://trib.al/sua0Km5 

When oil prices went negative on April 20, a guy called Cuddles and eight of his pals pounced, making $660 million. Did they breach market rules—or simply pull off one of the greatest trades ever?https://trib.al/BZEt0r6 

The goal before the next Covid-size disaster: to make stockpiling largely a thing of the pasthttps://trib.al/l5EqlTn 

Robinhood is losing thousands of traders to a China-owned rivalhttps://trib.al/Ag7eNCt 

These 10 collectable cars are expected to see double-digit value growth in 2021https://trib.al/8A8Fo2v 

The coronavirus pandemic is making Chinese brands stronger in Chinahttps://trib.al/w1AL5b7 

Airbnb’s future depends on a post-pandemic travel boomhttps://trib.al/O05hwZj 

U.S. viewership of foreign-language shows on Netflix is growing more than 50% this yearhttps://trib.al/EQqT0Y6 

Imma is an influencer with 300,000+ Instagram followers. She’s also computer-generatedhttps://trib.al/oIaXptx 

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the world’s two richest men who committed billions of dollars of their own money to a private space race, are now eligible for an extra boost from the federal government: a tax break intended to help poor communitieshttps://trib.al/KKahV18 

Coronavirus long haulers tell us their symptoms and how the disease has devastated their liveshttps://trib.al/jRyzsOc 

There's still time to follow South Korea's lockdown-free Covid strategy: As other nations locked down or let the coronavirus run rampant, the country found a middle way—and a road map for future pandemicshttps://trib.al/WDPIwWi