| Here are today's top stories... | | American strikes against Syria’s regime underscorehow quickly U.S.-Russia ties have deteriorated. They were already under serious strain, thanks to sanctions and election interference, and now they might be irreparable. The Russian cyberattacks that British and American authorities are warning companies of can't help. | | Larry Fink is no longer the underdog. His BlackRock is the world’s largest money manager, sitting on $6.3 trillion in assets, and his personal fortune has finally surpassed $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But BlackRock, as the biggest holder of Russian ruble debt, is also nervous about sanctions. | | Pay your interns, corporate America, writes Kara Alaimo for Bloomberg View: "Organizations who don’t pay their interns don’t recruit from a pool of the best possible talent, but rather from the most privileged people seeking to break into their industries." | | States want to force online retailers to collect billions in sales taxes. Should the Supreme Court overturn a 26-year-old ruling that exempts many sellers from collecting them, states could reap up to $23 billion more in tax revenue. | | Trump targeted China and Russia in a Twitter tirade, accusing them of devaluing their currencies. It's a break from his own Treasury chief's view that no major U.S. trading partners do so. The president's claim, for which he didn't provide evidence, fuels a brewing trade dispute with China and drew swift criticism from Russia. | |
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