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Mom: Paramedics said 6-year-old had common flu symptoms; now she's deadJan 24, 2018 12:00 am - Six-year-old Emily Muth first fell ill with the flu on Jan. 16. Three days later, she had difficulty breathing, so her mother, Rhonda Muth, called for an ambulance. Muth...
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Tammy Duckworth, who will be Senate's first new mom, has record of blazing trailsJan 24, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Sen. Tammy Duckworth's life has been marked with momentous firsts, the most dramatic of which arrived about 120 combat hours into a tour as a battle captain...
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Netflix raised its prices; we kept binge-watching anywayJan 23, 2018 12:00 am - Our growing appetite for binge-watching cannot be stopped - even by price hikes from Netflix. The streaming media giant reported far more new subscribers than analysts e...
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Snapchat to let users share stories outside its mobile appJan 23, 2018 12:00 am - Snap Inc. is opening up its application's walled garden in a bid to spur growth. Some of the content on Snapchat will be shareable via a link, so it can be viewed by peo...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says he wouldn't let a child use social mediaJan 22, 2018 12:00 am - Anyone remember Ping — Apple's “music-oriented social network,” the hot new thing back in 2010? No, we're not surprised if you don't. It flopped — hard — and shut down a...
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The heat of hot yoga can be very good, but also risky for some peopleJan 21, 2018 6:30 am - Brian Tracy first heard about Bikram yoga in 2005, when a graduate student approached the exercise scientist with an idea for studying the classes, which last for 90 min...
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How stocks are leaving wages in the dustJan 21, 2018 12:11 am - Wages were mostly flat again in 2017, even as the stock market rose to record heights. This is kind of what we expect nowadays: The divide between Main Street and Wall S...
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Analysis: Are small businesses overrated?Jan 21, 2018 12:10 am - America loves its small businesses. According to a Gallup poll, 70 percent of us say we have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in our Main Street merchants a...
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Can I tell my employee to wear a bra?Jan 21, 2018 12:00 am - Q: I own a small retail establishment with just three employees, all women. The youngest one has shown up to work several times wearing what I would call inappropriate a...
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Five things you should know about this year's very bad fluJan 20, 2018 6:30 am - The nation is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad flu season. Flu is widespread in 46 states, according to reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...