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Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. and Cory Booker, D-N.J., are among the Democratic presidential candidates on stage in Detroit tonight as the party wraps up its second round of 2020 primary debates.

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Top Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn to take a year’s sabbatical

Jeff Blackburn, one of Amazon.com Inc.’s top executives, is taking a yearlong leave from the company.

Blackburn, a senior vice president with the company, heads up Amazon’s AMZN, -1.67%  entertainment, business development and advertising businesses. Those operations include Amazon Studios, Prime Video and music, as well as mergers and acquisitions and advertising.

Blackburn is one of Chief Executive Jeff Bezos’s closest advisers and has been at the company for more than 20 years. He is a member of Amazon’s S-Team, the inner circle of the most senior executives at the company.

According to an email he sent to some Amazon employees Wednesday and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Blackburn intends to take a sabbatical for all of 2020 with plans to return to the company in 2021.

An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.

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Osama bin Laden’s son, a rising terrorist figure, believed dead

WASHINGTON — Hamza bin Laden, the son of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and a rising figure in his late father’s violent Islamist group, is believed to have died, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The date, location and other circumstances surrounding the death weren’t immediately clear, but communication among militants suggests bin Laden had been killed, the officials said. President Donald Trump and top administration officials didn’t immediately confirm the reports of the death. “I don’t want to comment on it,” Trump told reporters earlier in the day at the White House when asked about the reports.

U.S. officials have become increasingly concerned in recent years about bin Laden’s repeated threats and calls for attacks on Americans at home and abroad as well as against U.S. allies. Earlier this year, the State Department offered a reward of up to $1 million for information about bin Laden, and Saudi Arabia revoked his citizenship. Those moves followed the State Department’s imposition of sanctions against bin Laden in 2017, saying at the time that he was actively engaged in terrorism.

One U.S. official said that there had not been any public statements attributed to Hamza bin Laden since 2018. His death appears to have taken place some time ago — details are uncertain — but only confirmed by U.S. intelligence agencies in recent weeks.

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TiVo shares rise after optimistic outlook

Shares of TiVo Corp. TIVO, -1.30% have risen 10% in Wednesday’s after-hours market, after the company reported its second-quarter results and said it was raising 2019 guidance.

At 6:33 p.m. ET, the company’s shares had gained 10.16% to trade at $8.34. Shares finished Wednesday’s regular trading session with a loss of 1.30%, closing at $7.58.

After the bell Wednesday, TiVo reported a second-quarter loss per share of 8 cents on revenue of $176.2 million. Analysts had been expecting a loss of 17 cents a share.

The company also said it; "Revised and increased fiscal 2019 expectations for revenues and all profitability measures."

For fiscal year 2019, TiVo said it expected revenue in a range between $650 million to $655 million, above previous guidance of a range between $644 million and $660 million.

–Write to Stephen Nakrosis at [email protected]

South Korea’s July inflation dips to 3-month low

South Korea’s consumer inflation edged down to a three-month low in July, pulling the main index further below the central bank’s 2% target.

The benchmark consumer-price index gained 0.6% in July from a year earlier after the prior month’s 0.7% rise, said the statistical office Thursday. The latest reading–the slowest since April–missed the median market forecast of a 0.9% increase.

The weaker-than-expected inflation was largely led by lower prices of agricultural products and fishery goods, according to the office.

Compared with the prior month, the index fell 0.3% in July, also missing the market expectations for no change. The latest reading followed the previous month’s 0.2% decrease.

Core CPI, which strips out volatile energy and food prices rose 1.0% in July from a year ago, faster than the prior month’s 0.9% gain. It edged down 0.2% from a month ago, compared with the 0.1% fall in June.

The Bank of Korea last week lowered its inflation forecast to 0.7% for this year.

Inflation averaged 1.5% last year, slower than the 1.9% pace in 2017.

Write to Kwanwoo Jun at [email protected]

‘The Daily Show With Trevor Noah’ Finds The Fun In Democrats’ Debate Round 2

The Daily Show and host Trevor Noah are at it again on Twitter, skewering the sometimes pompous politicians who are facing off in tonight’s Democratic presidential candidate debates.

The irreverence was flowing via Twitter, as the social media team took on the high and mighty and found some comedy gold in their earnest pronouncements and dour personas.

Noah and team will go live following tonight’s debate to recap the event and undoubtedly to squeeze in a few more jokes.

In the meantime, we’ll update as they post. Here’s the tweetstorm so far: