Burger King is partnering with online brokerage Robinhood in a promotion to award cryptocurrency to a handful of customers. People who sign up for the fast-bood chain’s Royal Perks loyalty program and who spend at least $5 using its app can win Bitcoin, Dogecoin or Ethereum, Burger King announced Monday. To claim …
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A TikTok star with nearly a million online followers pleaded not guilty on Monday to shooting and killing his newly estranged wife and a man she was with last week at a San Diego high-rise. Prosecutors said Ali Abulaban had surreptitiously installed a listening device on his 5-year-old daughter’s iPad, …
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Facebook researchers in 2019 created three dummy accounts to study the platform’s technology for recommending content in the News Feed. The first was for a user in India, its biggest market. Then it created two more test accounts to represent a conservative American user and a liberal one. All three …
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The U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS have released recommended ship-by dates for gifts to be delivered in time for the December 25 holiday, which lands on a Saturday this year. With supply chain snags slowing deliveries to both retail stores and home doorsteps — and the USPS itself slowing mail …
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Watch the CBSN Originals documentary “The Student Debt Dilemma” in the video player above. Washington — The Department of Education announced Wednesday it would be relaxing requirements for a student loan debt relief program for public-sector workers, a move the Biden administration estimates will benefit more than 550,000 teachers, members of the …
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Smith & Wesson is moving its headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee, citing the southern state’s “unwavering support of the Second Amendment” as well as its lower cost of living. The decision to depart New England was “an extremely difficult and emotional” one, Mark Smith, the gun-maker’s president and CEO, said …
Read More »The wealthiest 400 families in the United States are paying an average income tax rate of just 8.2%, according to a new analysis from the Biden administration. President Joe Biden and Democrats are pushing to raise taxes on the richest Americans as they look for ways to pay for their …
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday criticized some in the judiciary for veering into the role of legislators and politicians, saying it’s not for judges to make policy or to base decisions on their personal feelings or religious beliefs. In an address at the University of Notre Dame, the …
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As cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19 continue to surge across the U.S., some NFL teams are requiring fans to be vaccinated before entering their stadiums. The new regulations mean that thousands of football fans will now need more than an admission ticket to see their favorite gridiron stars. …
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Cynthia Sheng, the president of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, that aired on Sunday, September 5, 2021, on “Face the Nation.” WEIJIA JIANG: We go now to the president of Jefferson Parish in the greater New Orleans area, Cynthia Lee Sheng. Good …
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