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The Vikings plan to have their starting running back in the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Packers, but Green Bay won’t be in the same boat. Aaron Jones has been ruled out for the second week in a row as a result of the calf injury that he suffered late last week. Jones missed […]
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When child care programs across the country closed due to COVID, millions of children lost access to the healthy food they had been receiving through the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, exposing the weakness in our country’s systems for ensuring young, low-income children have access to healthy food. Katherine Bauer, assistant professor of […]
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Retail investors placed bids for a record $3 trillion of shares in Ant Group Co Ltd’s initial public offering (IPO), set to be the world’s biggest, as mom-and-pop savers bet on demand for its financial services in China. Ant’s dual listing is set to raise about $34.4 billion, split fairly evenly between Shanghai’s STAR Market […]
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Food delivery platform DoorDash has partnered with a restaurant for the first time to build a new brick-and-mortar store, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Burma Bites, a spin off of Oakland, California-based Burma Superstar, was designed for delivery and takeout, and will offer versions of menu items from the parent restaurant as well as new […]
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A two-year-old girl was injured when she was hit in the face by a firework thrown into the garden of her home. Police said the incident occurred at a house in Rockfield Heights in Newry, Northern Ireland, on Saturday evening. She suffered a large burn after the firework was thrown while she was on her […]
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Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has played great this year. He’ll likely play great again on Sunday. The problem for the first overall pick in the draft will continue to be the players around him, or lack thereof. Against Tennessee on Sunday, running back Joe Mixon will miss his second straight game with a foot injury. […]
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New research from UBC Okanagan indicates what’s most important for overall happiness is how a person uses social media. Derrick Wirtz, an associate professor of teaching in psychology at the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, took a close look at how people use three major social platforms—Facebook, Twitter and Instagram—and how […]
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Private equity firm KKR & Co Inc KKR.N said on Friday its after-tax distributable earnings rose 6% year-on-year in the third quarter, driven by growth in management and transaction fees from its capital markets business. After-tax distributable earnings (DE) – the cash available for paying dividends to shareholders – rose to $410.4 million, up from […]
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Epic Games fired back against Apple yet again in a new court filing, saying the iPhone maker “has no rights to the fruits of Epic’s labor,” the latest salvo in the ongoing battle between the two companies. A quick recap: Back in August, Epic introduced a new direct-payment system in its wildly popular Fortnite game […]
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Investigators are looking to see if an American woman’s 12-day disappearance was staged, in an elaborate scheme to raise money on GoFundMe. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Utah is cautioning the office had not gathered enough evidence to support their allegation she attempted to defraud the public. Holly Suzanne Courtier, a 38-year-old Los Angeles […]
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