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U.S. strategic reserves are getting so low the drawdown threatens to damage the 60 underground salt caverns storing American oil

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Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his startup at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe

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