|  | | | | | | | | | Highlights | | | | | | At $3.35, a miniature deodorant stick is more than three days’ wages at Adelanto Detention Facility. It is an impossible luxury for the hundreds of immigrants seeking asylum who are detained there. High commissary prices have long been a complaint of prison reformers. But for immigrant detainees, many of whom borrowed money or drained savings to reach the United States, the prices are particularly prohibitive. For many immigrant detainees, scrubbing toilets or mopping floors is the only way they say they can earn enough to stay clean and fed.
| | | | President Trump has canceled his delegation’s trip to the World Economic Forum. Trump, who attended last year’s Davos event, had planned to go again this year but pulled out last week as he grapples with Democrats in Congress over funding for a wall on the border with Mexico that has led to a partial shutdown of the government. Only three leaders of the Group of Seven most industrialized countries will be attending. | | | | President Trump is reviving efforts to win approval for a significant infrastructure plan lasting up to 13 years, two people briefed on the matter said. In a meeting of top advisers at the White House on Tuesday, the sources, who declined to be identified, said participants discussed aspects of a potential infrastructure plan, including funding for a next-generation wireless network, known as 5G, and potentially using the plan to modernize the U.S. air traffic control system.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Business | | Carlos Ghosn improperly received $9 million in compensation from a joint venture between Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors, the Japanese automakers said on Friday, raising the possibility of their ousted chairman facing a fresh charge of embezzlement.
4 min read | | | | Tesla Inc said on Friday it was cutting several thousands of jobs, as the electric car maker looks to trim costs and be consistently profitable while it ramps up the production of its crucial Model 3 sedan. Tesla shares fell 4.1 percent to $333 in premarket trading.
2 Min Read | | | | After tax cuts, rising incomes and buoyant stock markets set off a consumer boom in 2018, signs are emerging that the main engine of U.S. economic growth could sputter, and a record-long government shutdown further muddies the waters.
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