Articles filed under Washington Post
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A 'mass invasion' of polar bears is terrorizing an island town. Climate change is to blame.Feb 11, 2019 12:00 am - Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their h...
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Amazon has a big advertising business. Walmart wants one tooFeb 11, 2019 12:00 am - Walmart is big in almost every way-4,755 stores, 1.5 million employees and $380 billion in revenue in the U.S. alone. But one part of the world's largest retailer remain...
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Gender can no longer be used to calculate auto insurance rates in some statesFeb 11, 2019 12:00 am - California has become the seventh state to ban auto insurers from using gender as one of the factors that they can use to calculate the rates customers pay. But as regul...
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People like the estate tax a whole lot more when they learn how wealth is distributedFeb 10, 2019 5:09 am - Proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy are having a moment: Polling shows Democrats and Republicans coming together in support of steep taxes on the wealth and incom...
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TEACH grant converted to a loan? You may be eligible for a reversal.Feb 10, 2019 5:00 am - Teachers whose federal grants were erroneously converted to loans will have a chance to plead their case following a recent announcement by the Education Department that...
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Wealth concentration near 'levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,' study findsFeb 10, 2019 5:00 am - The 400 richest Americans - the top 0.00025 percent of the population - have tripled their share of the nation's wealth since the early 1980s, according to a new working...
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Move over Marie Kondo: There's a better, high-tech method to tidying upFeb 10, 2019 5:00 am - I'd like to tell you about the life-changing magic of not getting rid of things — and keeping them in the cloud. Marie Kondo has inspired many of us to unstuff closets a...
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Have Apple stores have lost their luster?Feb 09, 2019 5:21 am - Apple is not just a giant of technology, it has also grown into one of the biggest American retailers, with more than 500 stores across five continents. But the shine of...
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The flops are piling up for video game titansFeb 09, 2019 5:19 am - In recent years, the video game industry looked like it had found the antidote to the boom-bust cycles that had long plagued the business. Publishers focused on a few we...
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Robots have a new way to humiliate humans: JengaFeb 09, 2019 5:11 am - For several decades, various types of artificial intelligence have been facing off with people in highly competitive games and then quickly destroying their human compet...