Articles filed under Washington Post
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How your at-home DNA test results could solve cold casesJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - The results seem almost miraculous: an arrest in the killing of a young girl in 1988 after 30 years of searching. The murder of a young couple in 1987, solved in a matte...
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Self-rolling suitcases and roll-up TVs: CES 2019's craziest and coolest gadgetsJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - LAS VEGAS - Hello future, you are weird. At least it is here at CES 2019, the tech industry's biggest annual conference. It's where companies big and small come to launc...
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Study: Social-media junkies make riskier decisionsJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - A new study on social media use out Jan. 10 found that people who spent excessive time on Facebook also made riskier decisions - performing as poorly in a famous psychol...
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Fact check: Elizabeth Warren's claim that minimum wage supported her family in the 1960sJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - "Because when I was a kid, a minimum wage job in America would support a family of three. It would pay a mortgage, keep the utilities on and put food on the table. Today...
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Amazon reportedly developing a subscription video game streaming serviceJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - Amazon is planning to use its massive cloud computing service to jump into the streaming market for video game play, according to a new report from the Information. The ...
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'Fortnite' maker Epic Games gets 'F' rating from Better Business BureauJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - The creator of the wildly popular video game "Fortnite" has been given an "F" rating from the Better Business Bureau after not addressing hundreds of complaints from con...
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Congresswoman calls on Trump to restart small business lendingJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - The chairwoman of the House Committee on Small Business is calling on President Donald Trump to restart small business lending as the government shutdown is about to bec...
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A Minnesota couple divorced. Then she gave him her kidney.Jan 10, 2019 12:00 am - After 21 years of marriage, Bill Henrichs and Mary Ziegler - once high school sweethearts - concluded that they were no longer a good match. The couple amicably divorced...
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Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The U.S.-Mexico border wall's wild originsJan 10, 2019 12:00 am - On an August afternoon in 1918, a mysterious man approached the U.S.-Mexico border in the bustling town of Nogales. For decades, the boundary between the two countries h...
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Coast Guard families told they can have garage sales to cope with government shutdownJan 10, 2019 12:00 am - Employees of the U.S. Coast Guard who are facing a long U.S. government shutdown just received a suggestion: To get by without pay, consider holding a garage sale, baby-...