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Mar 01, 2021
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | More recent changes to state laws have separated the responsibilities a broker owes to a buyer or a seller, and now a listing broker represents the seller and a buyer's broker represents the buyer.
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Mar 01, 2021
AFFORDABLE HOME OF THE WEEK | The open floor plan includes European white-oak hardwood floors with 7.5-inch wide planks, stainless-steel gas appliances, white cabinets, and a closet with a stacked washer and dryer.
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Mar 01, 2021
Chip shortages have forced General Motors and Ford to slash production in three states as well as in Canada and Mexico, threatening jobs at the auto companies and their suppliers. The White House has already leaned on big chip producers and their host nations, including Taiwan, to increase output, but on Friday, governors from eight states urged President Biden to "redouble those efforts," warning of a "growing list of automakers, suppliers, and dealers negatively affected by the shortage."
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Mar 01, 2021
The president tweeted a video Sunday night calling out warehouse workers who are in the process of voting by mail to determine whether they will be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
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Feb 28, 2021
The president tweeted a video Sunday night calling out workers in Alabama, where Amazon warehouse workers are in the process of voting by mail to determine whether they will be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
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Feb 28, 2021
A surge in commodity prices has Wall Street banks gearing up for the arrival of what may be a new supercycle -- an extended period during which demand drives prices well above their long-run trend. A major impetus is the massive stimulus spending by governments as they juice up their economies following pandemic lockdowns. The evidence includes surging copper and agricultural prices and oil back at pre-Covid-19 levels. One theory is that this could be just the start of a yearslong rally in appet
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Feb 28, 2021
President Nayib Bukele is not on the ballot for El Salvador's midterm legislative elections on Sunday, but what matters most to outside observers is how much power the strikingly popular 39-year-old gains. Currently with few allies in the 84-seat legislative assembly, a strong showing for Bukele's party could pave the way for an International Monetary Fund program for the country's reeling economy. A big victory could also set the stage for constitutional changes -- a worrisome development for c
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Feb 28, 2021
HOUSE OF THE WEEK| The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 9,100-square-foot house has a multisport court with a basketball hoop and stadium seating.
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Feb 28, 2021
An incumbent superpower and a rising one are finding coexistence increasingly difficult. Jockeying for position in a changing world, the U.S. and China are facing off on all sorts of issues, most -- but not all -- involving economic rather than military might. Here's a rundown of flashpoints, some with significant real-world consequences and others that for now are mostly symbolic.
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Feb 28, 2021
The state's oil regulator is a little too defensive about methane emissions.
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Feb 28, 2021
The "social cost of carbon," or SCC, was created to show policy makers the gap between the market price of fossil fuels and the cost of the environmental damage they cause.
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Feb 28, 2021
ICE's use of the vast database offers another example of how government agencies have targeted commercial sources to access information they are not authorized to compile on their own. One researcher called it "a massive betrayal of people's trust": "When you sign up for electricity, you don't expect them to send immigration agents to your front door."
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Feb 28, 2021
I thought Pokémon should break up with Game Freak. Then they announced "Arceus."
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Feb 28, 2021
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
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Feb 28, 2021
The doses are expected to start shipping as early as Monday to sites already receiving doses of the two other authorized vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
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Feb 28, 2021
Ben Bonnema specifically asked Trader Joe's CEO to allow its employees to enforce the store's mask-wearing policy.
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Feb 28, 2021
Astra is the latest unique agent to be added to "Valorant's" roster.
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Feb 28, 2021
People are divided over "vaccine selfie" etiquette, but health experts think they are a good thing.
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Feb 28, 2021
The doses are expected to start shipping as early as Monday to sites already receiving doses of the two other authorized vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
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Feb 28, 2021
The remote-work industry suffered a significant blow during the pandemic. At least 226 co-working locations closed permanently in 2020, according to Upsuite, a co-work matching service. But the industry sees a market in workers exhausted by work-from-home life.
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Feb 28, 2021
The remote-work industry suffered a significant blow during the pandemic. At least 226 co-working locations closed permanently in 2020, according to Upsuite, a co-work matching service. But the industry sees a market in workers exhausted by work-from-home life.
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Feb 27, 2021
In an interview with The Washington Post, the new secretary of energy invites Texas to join the national grid. But her main focus is on the big national energy transition that the Biden administration hopes to promote.
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Feb 27, 2021
The nation's most deregulated energy economy was supposed to be a win for consumers, and for energy companies nimble enough to do business in a bustling, cacophonous market. But a cold snap shattered it last week.
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Feb 26, 2021
Consumers are inundating lawmakers with stories of late bills — and the late fees they've absorbed as a result.
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Feb 26, 2021
Fruits and vegetables killed by last week's Texas freeze could mean shortfalls at food banks and price hikes at grocery stores.
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Feb 26, 2021
The Justice Department says the air carrier falsified mail delivery data in contracts with the U.S. Postal Service.
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Feb 26, 2021
Robinhood, the investing app at the center of the GameStop stock trading frenzy, reported it is negotiating over penalties it said could cost it at least $26.6 million.
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Feb 26, 2021
When covid-19 became a reality in Southern Illinois in November, flooding across the plains, it illuminated a deeper, underlying problem in small-town America.
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Feb 26, 2021
Experts warn that because bankruptcies lag other signals of economic distress, a mountain of filings may be to come. New data show what industries might be most at risk.
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Feb 26, 2021
As more people get vaccinated many may end up doing some "revenge spending."
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Feb 25, 2021
The succession marks the first time within the Fortune 500 that a company has handed the reins directly from one Black chief executive to another.
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Feb 25, 2021
Legacy business still makes a lot of money.
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Feb 25, 2021
The video game retailer's resurgence comes one month after its frenzied rise shocked the financial world and was cheered on by online investors.
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Feb 25, 2021
In 1964 he created the Meyers Manx, a two-seat car that helped turn the dune buggy into an emblem of California cool.
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Feb 25, 2021
The change is the result of a pledge President Biden made to reduce the burden on those who say they have been forced to choose between staying healthy or getting a paycheck during the pandemic.
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Feb 25, 2021
From "Stardew Valley" to "Persona 5's" Tokyo to "Hades" itself, here's a guide to five can't-miss video game ‘vacation' destinations.
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Feb 25, 2021
Proof of vaccination to travel or attend school is not new, but the coronavirus has introduced a potential need to modernize outdated paper standards.
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Feb 25, 2021
The 30-year fixed-rate average has risen nearly a quarter of a percentage point the past two weeks and now stands at 2.97 percent.
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Feb 25, 2021
The video game retailer's resurgence comes one month after its frenzied rise shocked the financial world and was cheered on by online investors.
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Feb 25, 2021
Some employers are shifting from simply talking about better sleep — or giving employees tools to track it — to helping them with what to do about it.
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Feb 25, 2021
As bond yields rise and fall past certain levels, there are episodes of highly technical yet increasingly familiar flows that can accelerate moves in either direction. Analysts and traders use terms like negative convexity and convexity hedging to explain a phenomenon that's been compared to a "beast" in the market. The result can lead to market distortion that makes it tricky to interpret what bond markets are really saying. What does it all mean, and why does it matter?
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Feb 25, 2021
A growing genre was flourishing just as white-collar workers went into quarantine. Authors consider how — or if — Zoom will fit into fiction.
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Feb 25, 2021
Two programs in Michigan will be devoted to creating new units and other support services
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Feb 25, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | When Bank of America's two grant programs are used together, home buyers receive an average of $14,000 to help with their home purchase.
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Feb 25, 2021
Space enthusiasts, including NASA, see enormous benefit in the shift — a new era of space exploration that will usher in a more capable and efficient space industry. But the changing dynamic also has left NASA with an uncertain role.
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Feb 25, 2021
Viruses mutate all the time, including the novel coronavirus that's caused the global Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the changes have no apparent effect. But recent variants that have emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil are causing particular concern.
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Feb 25, 2021
Being the new kid at work is even more awkward when you're joining an all-remote office. But the pandemic can help us all embrace the awkwardness.
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Feb 25, 2021
A late streaming entrant makes its case.
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Feb 25, 2021
High-yield bonds that don't pay very much? Sounds like an oxymoron, or maybe unwise. But investors are pouring money into what are also known as junk bonds -- debt issued by companies with less-robust finances that traditionally have paid higher interest rates to compensate for the extra risk. This month, the average yield on U.S. speculative grade debt fell below 4% for the first time ever. To some, that's a sign that the Federal Reserve's ultra-loose monetary policy is working as planned. To o
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Feb 25, 2021
The ban, which also affects Facebook subsidiary Instagram, extends a series of actions in recent years to sharply limit the ability of the nation's military, called the Tatmadaw, to use the platforms in any way, including through paid advertising.
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Feb 24, 2021
The White House moves to reassert control of the U.S. Postal Service as the postmaster general brushes off lawmakers' calls to resign.
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Feb 24, 2021
President Biden on Wednesday formally ordered a 100-day government review of potential vulnerabilities in U.S. supply chains for critical items, including computer chips, medical gear, electric-vehicle batteries and specialized minerals.
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Feb 24, 2021
Experts say the passage of a temporary pay bump for some grocery workers in Los Angeles County is notable amid industry opposition.
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Feb 24, 2021
At birth, a person is usually assigned a gender - male or female - based largely on anatomy. But for some people, their innate sense of gender identity growing up differs from what was written on the birth certificate. Most describe themselves as a transgender man or transgender woman; some identify as both genders or neither. Transgender people have long been subjected to discrimination or worse, but in recent years efforts to gain equality have advanced in some countries. The United Nations ca
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Feb 24, 2021
A late streaming entrant makes its case.
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Feb 24, 2021
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faces the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Postal Service is battling financial and service crises caused by years of mail declines worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Feb 24, 2021
The Musou genre may be repetitive, but that's the point.
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Feb 24, 2021
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faces the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Postal Service is battling financial and service crises caused by years of mail declines worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Feb 24, 2021
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faces the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Postal Service is battling financial and service crises caused by years of mail declines worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Feb 24, 2021
A Colorado restaurateur and his community relied on each other through last year's tragic upheavals. What emerged was a gutsy reinvention — that's not yet finished.
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Feb 24, 2021
WHERE WE LIVE | The village was the first of 10 built as part of James Rouse's famed planned community
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Feb 24, 2021
As Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, a growing band of recipients are complaining of being flattened by side effects, especially after a second dose. Recipients describe symptoms from fever to fatigue that are more profound than the jolt some get from a seasonal flu shot. Although the post-vaccination malaise is generally innocuous and fades after a day or two, some hospitals and medical centers are staggering immunizations of health workers to avoid a brief cluster of absenteei
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Feb 24, 2021
President Biden on Wednesday will formally order a 100-day government review of potential vulnerabilities in U.S. supply chains for critical items, including computer chips, medical gear, electric-vehicle batteries and specialized minerals.
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Feb 24, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | While the developers maintained the floor plans as designed, they hired a landscape architect to create more outdoor communal areas, such as a kitchen.
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Feb 24, 2021
Rebekah Mercer, a daughter of a major Republican donor, is a founding investor of Parler, where she reportedly is pulling strings. Mercer holds the majority stake in Parler and controlled two of three board seats as of early February — a board to which she recently appointed allies.
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Feb 24, 2021
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | The buyer should ask for copies of recent inspection reports to review. The report should be easy to read, and it should describe the reason for each repair recommendation.
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Feb 24, 2021
Despite being forced to close for six-weeks early in the pandemic, retail sales at Airstream dealerships jumped 22 percent in 2020 and demand is still on the rise.
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Feb 23, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the lack of production capacity "a dangerous weak spot in our economy and in our national security."
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Feb 23, 2021
California can begin enforcing its first-in-the-nation net neutrality law after a federal judge on Tuesday ruled against broadband providers that had sought to scuttle the open-internet safeguards.
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Feb 23, 2021
Five members of the powerful ERCOT energy regulation board have resigned amid persistent blackouts across Texas' grid.
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Feb 23, 2021
A decade after Myanmar's highly praised opening to the outside world following decades of military rule, the armed forces are back in power. Three months after Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of the country's modern founder, secured a third landslide election victory, the generals are disputing the vote and have detained Suu Kyi again -- setting off major street protests that have been met with lethal force. It's another blow for the nascent democracy after accusations of genocide against the cou
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Feb 23, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the current lack of production capacity "a dangerous weak spot in our economy and in our national security."
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Feb 23, 2021
This FAQ addressed top issues from taxpayers for the 2021 tax season. People still aren't sure about the taxability of the stimulus payments or whether they can take a home-office deduction.
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Feb 23, 2021
The former Iowa Governor served in the same role for eight years in the Obama Administration, and has pledged to focus on racial justice and climate change.
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Feb 23, 2021
Nine vaccines have proved effective at protecting people from developing symptoms of Covid-19, the disease that can result from infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It's not yet known definitively how well the inoculations prevent people from getting an asymptomatic infection or passing the virus on to others. Preliminary signs suggest they do at least some of both.
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Feb 23, 2021
There's nothing magic about a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. That's a number driven more by politics than economic necessity, and President Biden's push to "go big" on stimulus relief could hurt his ability to solve big problems later on.
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Feb 23, 2021
He led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis and the nationalization of its state energy company.
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Feb 23, 2021
New strains of influenza are constantly emerging. Although the virus is associated with winter epidemics of respiratory disease in people, wild migratory birds are flu's main target -- and are responsible for much of its global distribution. An avian flu variant that's been spreading in wild birds and occasionally spilling over and killing poultry for years recently caused the first reported human infections in southern Russia. Authorities have found no sign this particular virus is being transm
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Feb 23, 2021
Thailand's 2019 election was billed as an end to five years of military rule. Yet not much changed after the disputed vote: Former army chief and coup leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha returned as prime minister with the help of a military-backed party and the military-appointed Senate. After a court last year ordered an opposition party to disband, student-led rallies for more democracy gained momentum. Their demands have extended to the monarchy -- breaking taboos in a country where criticizing the kin
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Feb 23, 2021
Facebook Inc.'s WhatsApp began alerting its 2 billion users in early January to an update of its privacy policy -- and if they wanted to keep using the popular messaging app, they had to accept it. The new terms caused an outcry among technology experts, privacy advocates, billionaire entrepreneurs and government organizations and triggered some defections to rival services. WhatsApp initially said the changes were necessary to help it integrate better with other Facebook products. Then it pushe
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Feb 23, 2021
The strategy has suffered a devastating drought for more than a decade, sending investors scrambling for answers.
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Feb 23, 2021
The rise in the shares of Elon Musk's company defies logic. That hasn't stopped Wall Street analysts trying to rationalize it.
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Feb 23, 2021
NASA on Monday released stunning, high-definition footage of its car-size rover landing on the Martian surface last week, the first time that a spacecraft's landing on Mars has been recorded in video.
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Feb 23, 2021
The plan calls for "buffer seating," sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid "bottlenecks"
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Feb 23, 2021
A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts, and are offering workers a financial cushion.
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Feb 23, 2021
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it's a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
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Feb 23, 2021
Five decades after the gold standard ended, history shows efforts to control money rarely last long.
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Feb 23, 2021
ASK THE BUILDER | For Pete's sake, don't tear any of that insulation off the walls! The previous owners were wise and made a fantastic investment by putting all that foam on the frigid poured concrete walls.
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Feb 23, 2021
Jon Simon taps business and technical savvy to build a D.C. mainstay that has cleaned a first lady's quilt and a flag from Ford's Theatre.
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Feb 23, 2021
This time, you'll only have to deal with one wire to connect the headset to your PlayStation unit.
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Feb 23, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | You can avoid trouble when selling or buying a condo by finding out how many owners are delinquent with dues.
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Feb 23, 2021
Is the job straightforward, like repairing or replacing a chimney, redoing a concrete walkway or rebuilding a small stone wall? You can spec out the job with a contractor, who should be able to draw up a simple rendering.
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Feb 23, 2021
BUYING NEW | EYA is building 48 units near a shopping center and a regional park in Cabin John.
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Feb 23, 2021
As countries contend with limited supplies of Covid-19 vaccine, governments are grappling with whether to prioritize getting a first shot into as many arms as possible, or to take a slower approach that reserves some vials to deliver a second dose at the interval prescribed for attaining maximum protection. The U.K. has adopted the approach, calculating that vaccinating twice as many people is preferable to vaccinating half as many in the same time even if a smaller group's protection would be s
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Feb 23, 2021
Facebook agreed to restore news pages after it said it had reached a favorable deal with the Australian government late Monday.
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Feb 23, 2021
The billionaire entrepreneur said he was selling his house and possessions. It was only the beginning.
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Feb 23, 2021
A normally noisy time has gone quiet and weird. There are major consumer and industry implications.
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Feb 23, 2021
For America's most highly valued company and some wealthy individuals in their 70s and older, it's like money is falling from the skies.
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Feb 23, 2021
President Trump's treasury secretary is planning to launch an investment fund that is expected to raise money from sovereign wealth funds in the Persian Gulf and other investors, two people familiar with the project said.
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Feb 23, 2021
The increases needed to meet March delivery targets will be steep, however, and Biden administration officials expect the companies could come up slightly short.
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