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2017-08-19 05:45:00
There's something disconcerting about darkness in the middle of the day. You get a taste of that feeling when a storm suddenly rolls in overhead, but a total solar eclipse, like the one a 70-mile-wide swath cutting across the US will see on August 21, is a far more sh...
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2017-03-30 14:46:13
After months of teasing, Amazon will reportedly “greatly expand” its online offer in Australia over the next year. The move has been predicted to “decimate retailing as we know it”, but the sky will not fall in. Our shopping centres won’t close and retail wi...
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2017-03-07 04:37:00
If you're looking at a calendar, you know that spring is just weeks away. But if you're looking at the behaviour of plants across a huge swath of the US -- including Maryland, Virginia, and much of New York -- spring is already here.
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2019-07-14 15:15:00
High-yield accounts at online banks can offer 200 times more interest than accounts at brick and mortar banks. A money market account is a low-risk account with FDIC insurance, just like a regular savings account. It is not the same thing as a money market investm...
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2019-05-30 16:19:08
PewDiePie and T-Series, two of the most-subscribed-to YouTube channels, have been engaged in a months-long battle to secure the title of most popular YouTuber.
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2020-05-23 20:29:32
While in lockdown with their family, two French children reportedly came across two bars of gold according to the BBC and French news network BFM TV.
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2017-03-07 04:25:00
Catalonian architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta just won the 2017 Pritzker Prize , often considered the Nobel Prize of architecture.
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2019-05-13 16:34:37
Rideshare vehicles have more germs than taxis or rental cars, according to a study from the insurance-shopping website NetQuote. NetQuote swabbed surfaces in three rideshare vehicles, three taxis, and three rental cars.
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2020-05-23 21:00:01
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, appeared to hold back tears when urging his citizens to show "empathy" and wear a face covering when in public.
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2017-03-07 04:23:13
Another drug executive just pinned the blame for soaring drug prices on the middlemen who help insurance plans and companies negotiate what they will pay for a medicine.
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2020-05-23 22:19:56
Former Vice President Joe Biden won Hawaii's Democratic presidential primary. Hawaii's Democratic Party held the primary almost entirely by mail over the course of several weeks due to concerns over the novel coronavirus.
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2017-03-07 04:35:00
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday barring people from six majority-Muslim nations and refugees from entering the US temporarily, after courts struck down his first ban.
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2017-09-14 06:51:18
Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump continued to re-litigate the 2016 election. In a series of tweets, the two sparred over Clinton's newly-released campaign memoir "What Happened."
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2017-09-14 06:47:59
In Berkshire Hathaway's 2014 letter, Warren Buffett wrote that the legendary conglomerate's "future CEOs should come from internal candidates whom the Berkshire board has grown to know well."
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2017-03-13 14:56:25
When was the last time you withdrew cash at an ATM? Today? Over the weekend? Last week or even longer? If you, like me, are struggling to remember when exactly when, take comfort in knowing that you're not alone.
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2020-05-24 03:19:54
President Donald Trump and his former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, traded barbs over Twitter throughout the weekend. On Saturday evening, Trump urged Sessions to "drop out of the race" for Alabama's senate seat, saying his decision to recuse himself from the R...
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2017-02-10 16:55:22
Hello! Here’s what you need to know on Friday. 1. The US federal appeals court ruled against Donald Trump, and is refusing to reinstate travel ban affecting people from seven Muslim-majority countries. The President responded in the way he knows best.
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2020-05-24 00:31:00
The New York Times prepared a powerful front page for its May 24 print edition, marking the somber milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States.
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2023-10-27 16:54:28
How to tell if you’ve outgrown your current provider.
When it comes to email marketing, the time-tested age-old saying rings true:
Your emails are only as good as the service provider sending them.*OK, this isn’t really a time-tested age-old saying, but it should be.
Listen, it’s no surpris...
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2017-08-26 17:02:12
The inhabitants of Silicon Valley are not exactly known for haute-couture. It's a land where jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies reign supreme, and where sneakers are the footwear of choice.
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