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Supreme Court Turns Down Case On Going Topless In Public
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal over whether women should be permitted to go topless in public. The case involves three New Hampshire women who were arrested and fined for going ...
Jan 13, 2020
Windows 7 Support Ends On Tuesday
Still have a computer running Windows 7? Microsoft is about to leave you hanging. On Tuesday, Microsoft will officially stop supporting Windows 7, which means no more updates, tech support, or securit...
Jan 13, 2020
Economy Added 145,000 Jobs In December
The US capped off a decade of solid employment growth, adding 145,000 jobs in the final month of 2019, according to figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists expected the n...
Jan 10, 2020
College Professor Fired After Joke About Iran Bombing U.S.
A college professor in Massachusetts has lost his job after joking on Facebook about Iran bombing the U.S. After President Trump hinted at the possibility of bombing Iranian cultural sites, professor ...
Jan 10, 2020
17-Year-Old NASA Intern Discovers New Planet
A high school student working as a NASA intern discovered a new planet – on just his third day on the job. 17-year-old Wolf Cukier was pouring over data from NASA’s TESS mission when he no...
Jan 10, 2020
You Might Want To Update Firefox
If you are using the Firefox browser, you should probably update it as soon as possible. Homeland Security has urged users to install the update because of a huge vulnerability. A cyber-attacker could...
Jan 10, 2020
Marianne Williamson Ends 2020 Campaign
Self-help author Marianne Williamson is ending her 2020 presidential campaign. On Friday, Williamson said she stayed in the race “to share our message” but that she doesn’t want to &...
Jan 10, 2020
Should Video Games Be Part Of The Olympics?
Should competitive video gaming, or ‘e-sports’, be added to the Olympics? The head of the IOC seems open to the idea. IOC president Thomas Bach says the Olympics “has to connect with...
Jan 10, 2020
Florida Man Caught Smuggling Lizards
You’d think Florida already had enough reptiles running around, but a local man has been convicted of smuggling in lizards from the Philippines. 44-year-old Akbar Akram pleaded guilty this week ...
Jan 09, 2020
Taco Bell to pay $100,000 salaries to some store managers
You may want to consider getting a job at Taco Bell. The fast-food chain will phase in a pilot program paying select managers $100,000 a year. General managers at some of their company-owned stores ca...
Jan 09, 2020
