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NFL Prospect Rashan Gary Starts Agency Ahead Of The Draft
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 8:40am | 678NFL draft prospect Rashan Gary aims to make a long-lasting impact on the sport before ever turning pro. What Happened Gary, a University of Michigan defensive tackle, said he's starting his own sports agency, Rashan Gary Sports, ahead of the 2019 NFL Draft. Gary, who is expected...
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Secret Service Intercepts Suspicious Packages Targeted For Obama, Clinton; CNN's New York HQ Evacuated
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 11:09am | 416There has been a rise of recent suspicious package deliveries, including the delivery in March to government mail facilities as well as other deliveries to particular government officials this year. What Happened The U.S. Secret Service announced Wednesday the discovery of packages containing...
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Poll: Americans Still Feel More Threatened By ISIS Than North Korea
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 3:06pm | 1148Late Thursday evening in Barcelona, Spain, a van hurtled through a crowd, reportedly killing 13 people* and injuring dozens others. According to the Associated Press, Catalan police said shortly after the event: "We confirm the terrorist attack. The protocol for terrorist attacks has been...
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Buzzkill: Schumer Wants Feds To Nose Around Snortable Chocolate Trade
Monday, July 10, 2017 - 10:02am | 290Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer wants federal authorities to investigate a hot new trend in nose candy: “Snortable chocolate” powder laced with caffeine that reportedly gives the user a sweet buzz. The New York Democrat is targeting such products as “Coco Loko,” which...
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Panera 2.0 Cuts Wait Times In Half As Digital-Ordering Gains Traction
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 8:49am | 978The results are paying off as restaurants continue to add digital-ordering capabilities to their menu. Digital ordering has helped cut wait times significantly, made ordering much more convenient and led to an increase in sales. Specifically, Panera Bread Co (NASDAQ: PNRA)'s Panera 2.0 led to the...
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Post Office Reform Act Likely Dead This Year After House Republican Investigating Trump Steps Down
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 9:15am | 737The Postal Reform Act of 2017, a bipartisan attempt to overhaul the perennially ailing U.S. Postal Service, appears headed for the dead letter office amid the chaos in Congress. Even though the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the sweeping legislation on March 16,...
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War-Torn Afghanistan Sits Stubbornly Atop Vast Reserves Of Battery-Grade Lithium
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 10:49am | 582The world’s potential reliance on lithium — the silvery white metal used to make batteries powering electric vehicles, laptops and cell phones — has turned investor attention to unstable Afghanistan, which is sitting on vast deposits. “We have more than enough lithium in the...
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Why It May Be Getting Easier To Cheat On Your Taxes
Monday, March 20, 2017 - 8:39am | 503With President Donald Trump's administration having released its federal budget proposal last week, the rest of the country is similarly occupied arranging their own finances as tax season is now well underway. The Internal Revenue Service may not be prepared for what either the president or...
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4 Biggest Election Media Blunders Of All Time
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 3:25pm | 708Election Day is one of the biggest revolving events for the media. Once every four years, the political rhetoric intensifies to its peek on a fateful Tuesday in November. Unfortunately, from time to time, the media itself becomes part of the story. Here’s a look at four of the biggest...
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Journalist Marty Crutsinger Looks Back On 32 Years Of Intense Pressure On Fed Chairs
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 2:05pm | 449There’s no question that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is under a huge amount of pressure to determine the right time to raise interest rates following the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression. Raising interest rates too quickly could derail the economy’s fragile...
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7 Years After Hudson River Plane Crash, 29 Of The 35 Safety Recommendations Remain Unimplemented
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 11:15am | 418It's been seven years since US Airways Group Inc (NYSE: LLC) Flight 1549 made its iconic water landing in the Hudson River, but despite the onslaught of safety recommendations after the incident, most remain unimplemented. Unfortunately, because of the complicated, albeit inevitable, relationships...
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More Powerful Batteries + Thinner Cell Devices = Fire Hazards
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 4:41pm | 388What happens when a cell phone manufacturer tries to jam pack a more powerful battery into a thinner phone? If the manufacturer is SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC KRW5000 (OTC: SSNLF), then the answer is deal with a large scale recall and suffer a major blow to your reputation. Samsung was forced to recall 2.5...
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Michigan Votes Unanimously To Remove Drivers From Autonomous Test Vehicles
Friday, September 9, 2016 - 9:36am | 232Wednesday, the Michigan State Senate voted unanimously to implement legislation that would not require drivers to be present in driverless vehicles being tested on public roads. In the past, researchers have acted as emergency drivers should such vehicles experience failure during test runs....
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Germophobes Beware, The FDA Calls Into Question The Effectiveness Of Hand Sanitizer
Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 11:17am | 279Hand sanitizers kills 99.9 percent of germs and is effective in promoting health and wellness, right? Perhaps if this claim were true the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wouldn't find it necessary to initiate a probe and ask for new studies on its effectiveness. The Associated Press reported on...
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Exxon Workers Injured, 1 Killed In Separate Accidents Monday
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 2:26pm | 314An oil worker of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) was killed and two others were injured at an explosion at a well owned by an Exxon subsidiary in North Dakota, Reuters said, citing an Associated Press report on Monday. "Johnny Stassinos, 52, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, died Saturday as a result...