Articles filed under Washington Post
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His boss wants him to keep meeting with clients, but without payAug 23, 2020 6:00 am - Q: Early in March, my husband was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic. The owner of the company told laid-off employees he would pay them their equivalent hourl...
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Things you didn't know (or maybe forgot) about how women got the voteAug 23, 2020 5:00 am - The origin of "suffrage" is not suffering, although plenty of people suffered in the pursuit of suffrage. It derives from the Latin suffragium, meaning a vote or a right...
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Book review: 90 writers make a stand against the isolating tyranny of the coronavirusAug 22, 2020 7:26 am - "Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19" edited by Jennifer Haupt (Central Avenue) Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers t...
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What a U.S. TikTok ban could mean for users and employeesAug 22, 2020 6:25 am - A 45-day clock is ticking down to a TikTok ban across the United States, a move that is certain to frustrate millions of users and sow confusion for employees and busine...
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These are the top coronavirus vaccines to watchAug 22, 2020 6:22 am - The worldwide effort to create a vaccine for the novel coronavirus kicked off in January, soon after scientists in China posted online the genome of a virus causing a my...
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DraftKings, FanDuel fees deemed taxable in landmark IRS memoAug 22, 2020 6:19 am - Daily fantasy sports companies like FanDuel and DraftKings must pay federal excise tax on their entry fees, the IRS has decided, in an internal memo that could cause a m...
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Book review: Benvolio and Juliet are lovers and survivors in David Nicholls 'Sweet Sorrow'Aug 21, 2020 6:00 am - "Sweet Sorrow" By David Nicholls (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) What if, instead of loving Romeo and dying dramatically, Juliet fell for Benvolio and their ...
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Fact-checking the fourth night of 2020 Democratic National ConventionAug 21, 2020 1:00 am - On the final night of the 2020 DNC, many speeches continued to offer generalities, not hard numbers that fact checkers could chew on. Here are four items that caught our...
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This reliable jam recipe will let you savor the best berries and stone fruit year-roundAug 19, 2020 6:00 am - These glorious months of raspberries and peaches, blackberries, plums and nectarines inevitably lead me to making jam. I can't leave a farmers market without pounds of r...
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Seafood guacamole makes a luxurious, no-cook weeknight supperAug 19, 2020 6:00 am - Sometimes a weeknight dinner can be a luxurious. There's no rule against that, right? I was inspired to make this Seafood Guacamole — with shrimp and crab — after spendi...