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Police and firefighters in New York came to the rescue of a puppy that became trapped in her family’s bathtub when her paw got stuck in the drain. The Sleepy Hollow Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers responded to a local home where a 1-year-old Chihuahua named Daisy had gotten her paw […]
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The evidence is hiding in plain sight. The question is whether Lions coach Dan Campbell will actually pull the trigger. On Sunday, Campbell called out Jared Goff by name, publicly. On Monday, Campbell said he’s “going to shake things up here a little bit.” On Tuesday, it’s possible that the shakeup will encompass the quarterback […]
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Scientists have long suggested that getting enough sleep at night is vital to staying healthy. Few studies, however, highlight the necessity of sufficient sleep during the first months of life. New research from investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborators suggests that newborns who sleep longer and wake up less throughout […]
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Unilever (ULVR.L) warned inflation was likely to accelerate next year and its prices would have to rise further as consumer goods companies battle to offset surging energy and other costs. The maker of Dove soap and Knorr soup beat third-quarter sales growth forecasts on Thursday and kept its full-year profit margin guidance, defying some analysts’ […]
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Tether will pay $41 million to settle allegations by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that it made untrue or misleading statements when it claimed its stablecoins were fully backed by fiat currencies. The CFTC said in a statement Friday that between June 2016 and February 2019, Tether misrepresented to customers and the cryptocurrencies […]
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Staff from a British animal hospital were summoned to a local business to capture a highly venomous snake that stowed away in a shipping container from India. The South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Orsett, England, said in a Facebook post that a call came in from a local business about a snake found in a […]
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The Seahawks put Chris Carson on injured reserve last week and Alex Collins got banged up in Sunday night’s loss to the Steelers, so there’s a need for some help in the backfield in Seattle. Head coach Pete Carroll is looking to Rashaad Penny to provide some of it. Penny is able to come off […]
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Scientists have long understood that the region of the brain called the hippocampus is important for memory, learning and navigation. Now, scientists in a UCLA lab led by neurophysicist Mayank Mehta are gaining a deeper understanding of how the hippocampus works on a circuit level—that is, functions involving networks of millions of neurons. That knowledge […]
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ABB (ABBN.S) expects the supply chain crunch to continue into next year, the Swiss engineering group said on Thursday, as a shortage of semiconductors made it cut its 2021 sales outlook, sending its shares down 6%. The maker of industrial robots and drives is the latest company to warn about shortages reducing its ability to […]
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Apple has fired Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, amid a broad crackdown on leaks and worker organizing. Parrish, a program manager on Apple Maps, was terminated for deleting files off of her work devices during an internal investigation — an action Apple categorized as “non-compliance,” according to people familiar with the situation. […]
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