Joy From Giving Lasts Much Longer Than Joy From Getting, Study Shows
Tupac’s Sex Scene Drawings, Love Letters From Jail Hitting Auction Block
Treasury secretary Mnuchin calls top US bankers amid turmoil in markets and White House
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Stock Market Rout Has Trump Fixated on Fed Chair Powell
Facebook shelved a feature intended to promote civil political discourse
50 cool last-minute stocking stuffers you can get on Amazon for under $20
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Sprint will pay $330 Million to New York in tax fraud settlement
Trump, Angry Over Mattis’s Rebuke, Removes Him 2 Months Early
‘Very Possible’ Shutdown Goes Into 2019, Says Incoming Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney
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White House Budget Chief Says Shutdown May Extend Into January
Trump says he doesn’t know top US official leading the fight against ISIS, calls him a ‘grandstander’ for resigning over Syria troop withdrawal
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Emperor of Japan Marks 85th Birthday, His Last Before Abdicating the Throne
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Tsunami Strikes Indonesia Without Warning, Killing Over 220
One Kickstarter campaign allegedly had $100,000 stolen, but still shipped its keyboards
Tekashi69 Freaks Out on Tape After Music Video Shooting
Facebook suspends accounts that used disinformation tactics in Alabama’s special election
Automated Cyber Attacks Are the Next Big Threat. Ever Hear of ‘Review Bombing’?
President Trump Says Turkey Can Take Care of ‘Whatever Remains’ of the Islamic State in Syria
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Splitting With Trump Over Syria, American Leading ISIS Fight Steps Down
International money transfers hit $613 billion this year — here’s what young, tech savvy users value most about them
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Cheers! Average American Drops More Than $1,500 On Holiday Expenses
Government Shutdown to Continue for Days as Senate Adjourns Until Thursday
Do You Know the Sales Tax Rules for the States in Your Supply Chain? If Not, It Could Be Costly.
Senate Adjourns Without a Deal to End Partial Government Shutdown
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Holi-dazed: 1 in 3 Adults Already Suffering From ‘Holiday Burnout’
Shoppers trust Amazon, and it has completely changed the way last-minute holiday shopping is done (AMZN)
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Edibles Are Gobbling Up the Cannabis Market
Syria Deploys Reinforcements in Response to President Trump’s Plan to Pull U.S. Troops
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Study: You’re Going To Forget About Most Holiday Gifts You Get This Year
Reliable Allies Refuse to Defend a President Content With Chaos
32 Amazon Prime last-minute gifts that will arrive by Christmas
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No, the Federal Shutdown Will Not Cancel the Government Tracking Santa Claus
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A Referee Forced This High School Wrestler to Cut His Dreadlocks or Forfeit
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Here’s How a Government Shutdown Could Affect Your Holiday Travel Plans
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Barstool Sports Countersues Michael Rapaport for $400k, Defends Herpes Remarks
Man Climbs National Christmas Tree, Comes Down and Gets Sent to Hospital
A Republican lawmaker invoked Paul Manafort’s adult children in a bizarre defense of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
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Cardi B Gets Naked and Breastfeeds Kulture in New ‘Money’ Music Video
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Cancerous Growths Removed From Lung
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Want The Safest Commute? Take The Bus, Study Suggests
Trump Threatens a Shutdown That Will ‘Last for a Very Long Time’
‘Innovation’ is Hot, Hot, Hot! Expect More of It in the Small Business Sector in 2019.
‘The Building Is in Shock.’ The Pentagon Braces for Life After Mattis
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With One Tweet, Trump May Have Given Assad a Path to Victory in Syria
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Chinese hackers charged with stealing data from NASA, IBM, and others
News Analysis: After Mattis’s Resignation, a President Unbound
The Pentagon Is Planning to Withdraw Up to 7,000 Troops From Afghanistan, Officials Say
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The Justice Department just charged 2 Chinese hackers with stealing data from US companies
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Hemp Hemp Hooray! U.S. Legalizes Hemp
Jim Mattis Resigns, Rebuking Trump’s Worldview
Is Twitter the ‘Harvey Weinstein of Social Media?’ Here’s Why Its Stock Price Plummeted on Thursday.
Stop Obsessing Over Your Prototype and Just Let Customers See It
Survey: 1 In 4 Adults Checks Phone Less Than A Minute After Waking Up
Vladimir Putin Calls U.S. Withdrawal From Syria ‘the Right Decision’
I taught history at Georgetown for 60 years. Americans today are afraid of China, but most Americans know nothing about the average Chinese citizen.
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Uber’s self-driving cars return to public roads for the first time since fatal crash
Suicide Among Veterans Is Rising. But Millions for Outreach Went Unspent by V.A.
North Korea Says It Won’t Denuclearize Unless the U.S. Removes Its Own Nuclear Threat First
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Elon Musk said The Boring Company wants to prove it can send 4,000 vehicles traveling at 155 mph through its tunnels every hour
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The U.S. Will Withdraw From Syria. No One’s Sure What Comes Next
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U.S. Exit Seen as a Betrayal of the Kurds, and a Boon for ISIS
Workers at the Denver International Airport are caring for a girl’s pet fish after Southwest Airlines declined to let her fly with it (LUV)
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Barack Obama Paid a Surprise Visit to a D.C. Children’s Hospital as a ‘Stand-In Santa’
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Magic Leap One just got prescription inserts for people who are nearsighted
A Filipino Boy Was ‘Speechless’ After Discovering George H.W. Bush Was His Pen Pal for Years
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Paris Hilton Says She’s Keeping the $2 MILLION Engagement Ring
Unhappy Holidays! Scammers May Be Cleaning Out Your Online Customers’ Wallets.
Washington, D.C. Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Data Mining Scandal
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Exercising At Night Won’t Make It Harder To Sleep, Study Finds
Believe It Or Not, Remembering Names Easier Than Remembering Faces
Elon Musk Just Unveiled an Underground Tunnel That He Says Will Beat ‘Soul-Destroying Traffic’
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