Alexandra Olson

@Alexolson99

AP business writer. Covering retail, workplace trends and the intersection of culture and business. Venezuelan-American. habloespañol

New York, NY
Joined January 2010
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    BREAKING: Billionaire activist Tom Steyer is ending his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary.

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    Masked gunman aims pistol at crowd of opposition activists led by at rally in Barquisimeto on Saturday.

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  3. Feb 28

    Were you planning to attend in-person part of Facebook's F8 conference in May? AP would like to speak to you about the cancellation. DM me or e-mail aolson@ap.org

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    Feb 28

    Coronavirus fear touches off a global run on face masks (from ) worked on this story with colleagues Dee-Ann Durbin and Joseph Pisani.

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    Feb 27

    worth the read ... White HS drop-outs are *more* likely to own a home than Black college grads. Stunning sign of racial inequality.

    Black college grads’ homeownership rate is 20 percentage points below white college grads’ & 4 percentage points below whites who don’t graduate from high school. Yes, Black grads are younger overall, but there are 4 other reasons for the big gap:
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    Feb 27

    What happens when venture capital money runs out?

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    Feb 27

    NEW AP-NORC poll: Americans have widespread concerns about the security and integrity of elections, with few saying they have high confidence that votes in the 2020 presidential election will be counted accurately

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    Feb 27

    Best Buy says it’s factoring the impact of the new virus in 1Q quarter guidance and full-year outlook. It expects majority of impact to be in first half of year. It’s analyzing situation vendor by vendor. Factories have varying levels of capacity at this point. #coronavirus

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  9. Feb 26

    Barack Obama says ad uses his words out of context to attack Joe Biden - The Washington Post

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    Feb 26

    BREAKING: Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina has endorsed Joe Biden for president. The backing of Clyburn, the highest-ranking black member of Congress, could provide boost for the former vice president in the state's Democratic primary on Saturday.

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  11. Feb 25

    Warning to all fellow 5-foot-tall people: "But shoppers shouldn’t help out a stranger reaching for the top shelf: Amazon warns that grabbing an item for someone else means you’ll be charged for it." From

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  12. Feb 25

    Turner tells the administrators he has made 6,000 arrests, including a 7-year-old. When school employees tell the officer that Kaia is 6, not 8 like he thought, he replies, “Now she has broken the record.”

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    Feb 25

    BREAKING: 39 states announce they are investigating the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs to see whether the company targeted kids or made misleading claims about nicotine content in its devices.

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    Feb 25

    .’s “What Can Be Saved?” documentary on Venezuela’s last glacier to be shown at Environmental Film Festival March 14, via :

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    Feb 24

    There are signs of a generational split among black voters in South Carolina, site of this weekend's Democratic presidential primary. While many older African Americans favor Joe Biden, younger voters seem inclined to back Bernie Sanders.

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  16. Feb 24

    But nearly the same amount, 72%, incorrectly believe the Constitution now guarantees men and women equal rights under the law.

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    Feb 24

    We're nowhere close to the end of the 2020 election ... but the CBO forecasts show just how important the 2024 election could be.

    Also from director Swagel at : the U.S. is set up for another fiscal cliff in the middle of this decade. If the tax preferences are extended, deficit projections get much worse.
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  19. Feb 23

    Those omissions likely contributed to the loss of slave housing and other structures linked to the economy of enslavement because no one deemed them important, preservationist Ashley Rogers said. “The damage has been done." From .

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    Feb 23

    75 years today, AP photographer Joe Rosenthal captured what may be the most famous photograph of World War II: an image of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

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