Articles filed under Washington Post
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A high school football star made his college choice. The next day he died during ACL surgery.Aug 15, 2019 1:00 am - SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Nick Dixon's knee surgery was scheduled to be over by lunchtime, but the 18-year-old couldn't wait to share the good news with his mother. A standout...
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Historians bash Cuccinelli's revised Statue of Liberty poemAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - Annie Polland had an immediate thought after she heard Ken Cuccinelli's revision of the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: Her sixth-grade students seemed t...
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Three ways Boris Johnson could become Britain's shortest-serving prime ministerAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been in office less than a month, and already Britain's chattering classes are talking about his demise. Johnson has promised t...
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Stocks losses deepen as key recession warning surfacesAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - The global economy has begun to shudder. On Wednesday, the U.S. stock market tumbled after a reliable predictor of looming recessions flashed for the first time since th...
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Fact check: Trump's and Biden's dueling claims on criminal justice reformAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - "I did criminal justice reform, which President Obama could not get approved, which the media never talks about. If President Obama got criminal justice reform done, it ...
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Banks are paying people to borrow money. That's alarming news for the global economy.Aug 14, 2019 1:00 am - For Americans accustomed to paying 4 or 5 percent mortgage rates, let alone the double-digit figures consumers endured in the early 1980s, the new loan from Denmark's Jy...
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42% of Americans say they can't afford a vacationAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - Americans, crippled by debt and seeing signs of a slowing economy, are sitting out on pricey vacations and everyday leisure activities. A new Bankrate survey found 42% o...
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Teen behind online threat to 'shoot every federal agent in sight' had 10,000 rounds of ammo, feds sayAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - In an online forum, he went by the name "ArmyOfChrist" and praised the Oklahoma City bombing, mass shootings and attacks on Planned Parenthood, the FBI says. When the de...
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'Like ... a horror movie': Camper saves family of 4 from savage wolf attackAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - It was about half past midnight when Russ Fee woke up to the sound of frantic shouts coming from a campsite next to his in Canada's Banff National Park. From within his ...
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How to survive in volatile markets: Go live your lifeAug 13, 2019 1:00 am - Several colleagues asked me during the stock market mayhem of the last two weeks, "What should I do?" Nothing, I told them. Go spend time with your children. Read a book...