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Judy Daugherty is a writer who has been writing for the Prairie Island News for over ten years. Her work focuses on politics, health, business, parenting, and finance. She also writes about her hobbies which include gardening, reading, and traveling.

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Volunteers in a California "fix it clinic" help neighbors salvage broken electronics

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Volunteers in a California “fix it clinic” help neighbors salvage broken electronics – CBS News Californians throw about 40 million tons of trash into landfills each year. That includes a lot of electronics and appliances that no longer work. But a community of volunteers in Northern California is showing that you don’t have to pitch […]

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Here's a look inside Donald Trump's $355 million civil fraud verdict as an appeals fight looms

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NEW YORK — On the witness stand last year, Donald Trump proclaimed: “I have a lot of cash.” After Friday’s eye-popping penalty in his New York civil fraud trial, he’s going to need it — and maybe more. A judge ordered the former president to fork over $355 million of his fortune, plus interest, finding

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Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at 'Sneaker Con,' a day after $355 million ruling against him

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PHILADELPHIA — As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show On Earth!” Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention

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Presidents Day: From George Washington's modest birthdays to big sales and 3-day weekends

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NORFOLK, Va. — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the nation will once again commemorate the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after he was born. The meaning

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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here's how to use new generative AI search sites

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LONDON — It’s not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades — after all, we commonly call searches “googling” — its longtime dominance has

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Chinese foreign minister says trying to cut his country out of trade would be a historic mistake

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. The 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC) is taking place from Feb. 16 to Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Source link

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Nigeria’s currency has fallen to a record low as inflation surges. How did things get so bad?

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ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerians are facing one of the West African nation’s worst economic crises in years triggered by surging inflation, the result of monetary policies that have pushed the currency to an all-time low against the dollar. The situation has provoked anger and protests across the country. The latest government statistics released Thursday showed

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State governments looking to protect health-related data as it's used in abortion battle

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Some state governments and federal regulators were already moving to keep individuals’ reproductive health information private when a U.S. senator’s report last week offered a new jolt, describing how cellphone location data was used to send millions of anti-abortion ads to people who visited Planned Parenthood offices. Federal law bars medical providers from sharing health

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Trump avoids 'corporate death penalty,' but his business will still get slammed

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump won’t face the corporate death penalty after all. A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial figures to get cheaper loans and other benefits. Still, Trump got slammed hard, facing big cash penalties,

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