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• Charles Hanson

  

  Buying a baby on Nairobi's black market

  BBC News - By Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter and Tom Watson

  Babies are being stolen to order in Kenya to feed a thriving black market. In a year-long investigation, BBC Africa Eye infiltrated the trafficking rings selling children for as little as £300. Somewhere, Rebecca's son is 10. He could be in Nairobi, where she lives, or he could be somewhere else. He …

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/rents-rise-on-suburban-homes-amid-race-for-space-11605004202?mod=cxrecs_join#cxrecs_s

  Charles Hanson

  Nov 11, 2020
• Charles Hanson

  

  How VW’s Diesel Settlement Is Changing Fleets, From Schools to Seaports

  The New York Times - Jim Motavalli

  The school bus rolled through Beverly, a Boston suburb, early last month. The city’s fleet of buses and minivans makes similar trips every weekday, but here two things were different. First, the ride was eerily quiet because there was no noisy diesel under the hood, and second, the socially …

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-spending-personal-income-coronavirus-september-2020-11604012444

  Charles Hanson

  Nov 5, 2020

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-says-virus-poses-considerable-risks-maintains-low-rate-pledges-11604602800

  Charles Hanson

  Nov 5, 2020

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/weekly-jobless-claims-coronavirus-11-05-2020-11604529388?mod=hp_lead_pos2

  Charles Hanson

  Nov 5, 2020