Articles filed under Washington Post
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Dow plunges 617 points as investors fear effects of escalating trade warMay 13, 2019 1:00 am - The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 600 points Monday as investors sought shelter from an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China. The selling was...
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African swine fever has crept from China to Europe. Will it hit the US?May 12, 2019 6:10 am - African swine fever is decimating the world's largest hog herd in China, and that holds risk and opportunity for U.S. pork producers. Affected animals have now been repo...
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Burger King's latest plan: Whoppers delivered while you're sitting in trafficMay 12, 2019 6:00 am - You're stuck in a sea of standstill traffic when it begins: hunger pangs, the kind that unleash a steady stream of fast food fantasizing. With your grumbling stomach gro...
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Shhhhh, big dairy is in bed with almond milkMay 12, 2019 6:00 am - Dairy farmers are indignant about beverages calling themselves milks when they are actually made of oats or almonds or sunflower seeds. Even worse, these impostors have ...
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Administration wants to change how often debt collectors can call, text or emailMay 12, 2019 6:00 am - Christopher Fultz peered at his phone during a break at his job as a paramedic and saw an unusual text displaying his name in all caps. Click on the link, said the messa...
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In Australia, 46 million bank notes are circulating with typosMay 12, 2019 6:00 am - Bank notes can have some similarities with books we put into our shelves to show off, but have never really closely examined - let alone read. Millions of copies, tucked...
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Don't call them back: FCC warns of late-night phone scamsMay 12, 2019 6:00 am - In the middle of the night, the calls come in waves, going silent after a ring or two. It's no one you know, just someone who really wants you to call back. That's the s...
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Analysis: Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole timeMay 11, 2019 6:24 am - Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, "Are you crazy?" Yet that's essentially what Amazon has been doi...
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How the Apple store lost its lusterMay 11, 2019 6:23 am - Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration. There was the time he visited the Easton To...
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Inside Facebook, the second-class workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battleMay 11, 2019 6:20 am - AUSTIN, Texas - The thousands of people who do the bulk of Facebook's work keeping the site free of suicides, massacres, and other graphic posts are not Facebook employe...