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18 retail startups you didn’t know were also sold on Amazon

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When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more. On Amazon, you can ...

First-term Rep. Dean Phillips faces Republican Kendall Qualls in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District

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U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Dean Phillips encourages campaign volunteers at a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party office in Plymouth, Minnesota, U.S., October 27, ...

How to delete and unsync your iCloud contacts individually or all at once, from any device

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There are several ways to delete your contacts from iCloud if you no longer want them synced across your devices. ...

Ron Paul hospitalized after suffering apparent medical incident during live stream

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Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul awaits the start of his son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announcement of the start of ...

After apologizing for its record on diversity, Harvard Business School is hiring a chief diversity officer, expanding scholarships, and planning to recruit more Black faculty

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In this July 16, 2019, file photo people walk past an entrance to Widener Library, behind, on the campus of ...

The US military is quietly killing terrorist leaders in Syria with its secret missile packed with swords

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An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted drone aircraft performs aerial maneuvers over Creech Air Force Base U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Cory ...

100 online courses from Coursera are $0 now through December 31 — here’s a list of all the classes open for free enrollment

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When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more. Coursera Coursera is offering ...

COVID-19 has forced Raleigh’s annual bluegrass festival online, but the banjos play on

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The weeklong bluegrass music gathering has been a huge fall tradition for Raleigh since 2013. Though virtual this year, it’s ...

COVID-19 has forced Raleigh’s annual bluegrass festival online, but the banjos play on

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The weeklong bluegrass music gathering has been a huge fall tradition for Raleigh since 2013. Though virtual this year, it’s ...

The votes cast in November will affect what Congress looks like for a decade

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A joint session of Congress meets to count the Electoral College vote from the 2008 presidential election the House Chamber ...

How to turn on handwashing detection on your Apple Watch to track your handwashing activity

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Your Apple Watch can now remind you when to wash your hands, and set a timer when you do. Lisa ...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump doesn’t expect to have a ‘transfer of power’ because he’s going to win the election

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Steven Ferdman/Getty Images Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Thursday that President Donald ...

19 major companies that have announced employees can work remotely long-term

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai. REUTERS/Brandon Wade/File Photo Many major companies remain remote as the coronavirus pandemic wears on — and ...

It looks like Elon Musk isn’t happy about Microsoft exclusively licensing OpenAI’s text-generating software

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Elon Musk is a cofounder of OpenAI. Susan Walsh/Associated Press Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI — ...

‘Headwinds outnumber tailwinds’ for the global economy in 2021 and a vaccine is the answer, JPMorgan says

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JPMorgan EMEA CEO Viswas Raghavan JPMorgan There are more risks to growth in 2021 than there are positive catalysts, as ...

Exiled Saudi Arabian dissidents have launched a political party they hope will dethrone MBS and open the door to democracy

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From left to right: Activist Yahya Assiri, Professor Madawi al-Rasheed, comedian Omar Abdulaziz, and scholar Abdullah al-Aoudh (R) who are ...

Big Law is going through a huge transformation: here’s the latest news on pay, hiring, and career prospects

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The latest news on Big Law hiring, pay, layoffs, and legal tech. Ohio State University Moritz School of Law The ...

Costco is thriving during the coronavirus pandemic: It just posted a $14 billion jump in annual sales

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Ting Shen/Xinhua via Getty Costco’s revenues were $167 billion in the year to August — up almost 10% on the ...

Secretive data-miner Palantir could fetch a $22 billion price-tag at its market debut next week, WSJ says

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Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Palantir, the secretive technology firm, could fetch a $22 billion price-tag at its planned market debut on September ...

10 things in tech you need to know today

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying social-distance style before a House Judiciary subcommittee in July 2020 Photo by Graeme JENNINGS / ...

Coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx reportedly says she is ‘distressed’ at direction of White House COVID-19 task force

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White House Coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White ...

If Trump bypassed the FDA on a COVID-19 vaccine it could ‘upend’ the traditional approval structure and erode the public’s trust in the executive agency, expert says

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A photo illustration show a syringe. Argentina was selected to test a vaccine against COVID-19, it is estimated that the ...

Louisville police arrest the state lawmaker who authored ‘Breonna’s Law,’ during a second night protests over the lack of charges related to Breonna Taylor’s death

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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – SEPTEMBER 24: Demonstrators march through the streets on September 24, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. A Kentucky grand ...

Fox News won a court case by ‘persuasively’ arguing that no ‘reasonable viewer’ takes Tucker Carlson seriously

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Tucker Carlson. Fox News A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News this week after lawyers for the network ...

A voting advocacy group recorded over 40,000 new voter registrations in the 2 days after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Associated Press Voter registration spiked following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ...

The USPS claimed it can’t restore some mail sorting machines because it ‘dismantled’ them

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US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has come under fire from states who have claimed he ordered changes at the USPS ...

Facebook issues warning about Russian ‘hack-and-leak’ operations ahead of the 2020 election

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A Facebook logo is seen on a computer screen in this photo illustration on October 31, 2017. Material posted on ...

Press freedom advocates are slamming Trump for glorifying violence against reporters

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President Trump holds a Make America Great Again campaign rally in Winston-Salem, NC United States on September 8, 2020 Peter Zay/Anadolu ...

Trump claimed he’s going to send $200 cards to millions of seniors in the mail weeks before the election — but it’s not clear he can actually do it

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President Donald Trump Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Trump said on Thursday that seniors would receive $200 for prescription drugs in the ...

College reopenings could be to blame for 3,000 new coronavirus cases per day in the US

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Empty cups and cans litter a lawn after a college graduation party near Indiana University on May 9, 2020. Jeremy ...