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Social Security’s scheduled cost of living increase ‘won’t make a dent’ for some retireesOct 09, 2024 12:02 pm - The Social Security Administration makes the official COLA announcement Thursday, and analysts predicted in advance it would be 2.5% for 2025.
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‘Piece by Piece,’ a very odd Lego doc about Pharrell Williams, snaps together somehowOct 09, 2024 12:01 pm - A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
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A triumph: Alfonso Cuarón and Cate Blanchett’s series ‘Disclaimer’ is making wavesOct 09, 2024 11:37 am - Director Alfonso Cuarón’s psychological thriller “Disclaimer” pulls the rug out from the audience before they’ve had the chance to get settled. There’s no building of empathy for Cate Blanchett’s Catherine Ravenscroft in the seven-part Apple TV+ series debuting Friday, Oct. 11.
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How did Trump become Trump? ‘The Apprentice’ has a theoryOct 09, 2024 11:31 am - Decades before he hosted “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump was … an apprentice. His mentor: Roy Cohn. It’s this relationship, posits director Ali Abbasi, that essentially made a young real estate heir into the man who would become the 45th U.S. president.
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How Waffle House helps Southerners — and FEMA — judge a storm's severityOct 09, 2024 8:54 am - Golden hashbrowns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of maple syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods. But when hurricanes tear through Southeastern towns, the hot meals and bold yellow signs of the local Waffle House provide another kind of comfort.
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American Water cyberattack renews focus on protecting critical infrastructureOct 09, 2024 8:50 am - A cyberattack continues to affect the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States, renewing a focus on the importance of protecting critical infrastructure sites.
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Netflix series explores women’s dreams in the body-slamming world of Japanese pro wrestlingOct 09, 2024 7:59 am - Netflix’s “The Queen of Villains” is a typical coming-of-age tale about a young woman’s road to empowerment and self-discovery — except it all takes place in the body-slamming, arm-twisting world of Japanese professional wrestling.
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins, building blocks of lifeOct 09, 2024 7:08 am - The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for their breakthrough work predicting and even designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.
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Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed thereOct 09, 2024 7:00 am - Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices — China.
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Israeli offensive in hard-hit northern Gaza kills dozens and threatens hospitalsOct 09, 2024 6:52 am - A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza has killed and wounded dozens of people and threatens to shut down three hospitals over a year into the war with Hamas, Palestinian officials and residents said Wednesday.