Articles filed under Washington Post
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FCC: Hawaii worker who sent 'missile attack text' thought attack was imminentJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Hawaii employee who sent out a false alarm earlier this month warning of an incoming missile attack said he misheard a message played during a drill and...
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10 signs to protect young gymnasts from toxic coaching tacticsJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - I've spent the past two weeks wondering whether I should pull my daughter from gymnastics. I suspect thousands of other parents feel the same way, as the army of former ...
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Child advocates urge Facebook to end Messenger Kids appJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - More than 100 child advocates, civil society groups, medical experts and other individuals are urging Facebook to discontinue its Messenger app for kids, alleging that t...
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Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea, dies at 91Jan 29, 2018 12:00 am - Ingvar Kamprad, a Swedish entrepreneur who grew a childhood business selling matches and lingonberries into Ikea, a build-it-yourself furniture empire that introduced sl...
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Rent or buy a home? Here's what to considerJan 28, 2018 12:07 am - With months left on the lease for her two-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina, Amanda Nadel, 34, started weighing her options. She could kee...
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Why is it so difficult to figure out how much college will cost?Jan 28, 2018 12:00 am - Over the next several months, along with college admissions offers, high school seniors will get financial aid letters from schools that illustrate how they might pay fo...
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The 50 best jobs in America, according to GlassdoorJan 28, 2018 12:00 am - America's corporations have been hiring armies of data scientists and data engineers as they collect exponentially larger amounts of data about their customers, their bu...
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Analysis: Delaying retirement can have remarkable benefitsJan 28, 2018 12:00 am - You're 49 years old, you make $113,000 a year and you're starting to get worried about financing your retirement. You could take the drastic step of upping your retireme...
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Union membership remained steady in 2017, but will that trend hold?Jan 28, 2018 12:00 am - Union membership held steady in 2017 at 10.7 percent of the workforce, according to figures released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. An additional 1.2 percen...
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Understanding doctors can be challengingJan 27, 2018 6:30 am - Few simple questions are as difficult to answer as the perennial "What did the doctor say?" The words are so natural as to be virtually automatic. They spring from our l...