Costco returns raise eyebrows
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Evelyn Juarez is a proud, card-carrying executive member of Costco. She jokes it’s the only black card she owns.
Juarez had never returned a purchase. But then her 2-year-old daughter smuggled a bucket of slime into the living room and slopped the blue goo on her ivory-colored rug.
Juarez tapped Costco's famous no-questions-asked return policy, which has become the subject of spirited online debate.
Did stock sales violate ethics rules?
Several top Trump administration officials sold off stock market holdings in the days leading up to the president’s announcements of sweeping tariffs that sparked fears of a global trade war and rattled financial markets.
Sales by top officials, including Cabinet members, their deputies and senior White House officials, were clustered in two 10-day periods leading up to President Donald Trump's major tariff announcements Feb. 13 and April 2, according to a Paste BN analysis of 20 officials’ publicly available transaction forms.
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Earlier this month, President Trump announced that Coca-Cola had agreed to switch to sugar in its sodas. Critics alleged it was a diversion: Trump wanted to change the subject away from the Epstein files. And the company's reticent response suggested the whole thing was news to them.
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