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If you’re fretting about how long it’s taking to get your Global Entry renewal, take a breath. If you’ve submitted your application and its status continues to say “pending,” your privileges will last a year beyond the original expiration date. The program, which gives approved applicants expedited re-entry through U.S. Customs and through airport security…

Donny and Marie Osmond recently closed their 11-year run at the Flamingo Las Vegas. The hotel-casino’s steakhouse shut down too. Now, the resort plans a new $10-million restaurant this spring called Bugsy & Meyer’s Steakhouse, a swanky, white-tablecloth restaurant that will inhabit the space of Center Cut steakhouse, which closed last September. Bugsy & Meyer’s…

Consumer finance pioneer Steve Streit, a former disc jockey who put prepaid debit cards in the wallets of millions of Americans, is retiring as chief executive of Green Dot, which has seen its stock plummet this year amid an onslaught of competition from a new generation of financial technology companies. Streit, 57, will also retire…

LAS VEGAS —  Nevada gambling regulators unanimously declared Thursday that they have jurisdiction to discipline former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn over allegations of workplace sexual misconduct. His attorneys had argued that the state has no authority because Wynn isn’t licensed or involved in the gambling industry. The Nevada Gaming Commission did not, however, decide…

NEW YORK —  Pregnant women, people older than 65 and people with weakened immune systems should throw away store-bought salads made with hard-boiled eggs because of a food poisoning outbreak linked to a Georgia company, health officials said Thursday. Seven people in five states have been reported ill so far, including someone who died in Texas,…

For Arik Tendler, growing up in a family of stone fabricators and entrepreneurs meant everyone worked. At 5 years old, you’re cleaning the floors. At 10, you’re assisting the professional stone fabricators with simple drilling, and by 15, cutting and installing stone. Decades later, Tendler graduated to spearhead Caesarstone’s entry into the U.S. market in…

Christmas and I go steady for about a month. Then we break up. Everything in moderation. Well, except the holidays. Last week, I tipped the tree lot attendant 20 bucks, which is pretty generous. I once worked a charity tree lot myself, so I know the backbreaking work and how the sap coats your palms…

NEW DELHI —  Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet service to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have so far left eight people dead and more than 1,200 others detained. Thousands of protesters stood inside and…

PERTH, Australia —  Two volunteer firefighters died Thursday while battling wildfires ravaging Australia’s most populous state, forcing Prime Minister Scott Morrison to cut short his family holiday as authorities braced for temperatures to soar in New South Wales at the weekend. Geoffrey Keaton, 32, and Andrew O’Dwyer, 36, were in a truck convoy fighting blazes southwest…

In a partisan vote, the Democratic-controlled House approved two articles of impeachment charging President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES The Impeachment Standoff Under normal circumstances, the impeachment of President Trump would now be headed to the Senate and the president would…