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Toys R Us to Close All US Stores

Around 30,000 jobs are likely to go.

Toys R Us is to close all 700 of its stores in the US. The company's being wound down after failing to secure a buyer. Around 30,000 jobs are likely to go and staff in other countries also face an uncertain future.
The founder of a US start-up that promised to revolutionise blood testing has agreed to settle charges that she raised over $700m fraudulently.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, a top US financial regulator, said Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos deceived investors about the firm's technology. We hear from investigative journalist John Carreyrou who first broke the story.
We talk to George Monbiot about a study which suggests there is there a link between rising temperatures in the Arctic and extreme weather patterns in the US and Europe. And The Silicon Valley and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee tells us about why he is focusing on dangers of excessive use of technology

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