Tag: Stools

  • Discount retailer Bargains in a Box closes shop

    Discount retailer Bargains in a Box closes shop

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    For 20 years, Bargains in a Box has been a discount shoppers paradise — selling everything from toothpaste and electronics to bug spray and area rugs — often out of large cardboard bins but shoppers will have to find somewhere else to dig for treasures. The retailer plans to close its last store on Sunday.…

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  • Sean Hannity torpedoes Biden’s scripted appearances

    Sean Hannity torpedoes Biden’s scripted appearances

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    Fox News host Sean Hannity calls out President Biden’s scripted appearances, saying he needs “a lot of help” in public on “Hannity.”  SEAN HANNITY: Joe appeared in public multiple times today, but not without a lot of help — a lot of help! There were people telling him where to walk, what to say and…

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  • At Home With Doris Kearns Goodwin

    At Home With Doris Kearns Goodwin

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    It has taken the historian a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations. Source link

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  • Video shows Chicago police firing at Dexter Reed 96 times in 41 seconds after he shot officer, COPA says

    Video shows Chicago police firing at Dexter Reed 96 times in 41 seconds after he shot officer, COPA says

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    A man shot and killed by Chicago police during a traffic stop last month appears to have “fired first,” striking an officer before four others fired nearly 100 rounds, some after the man had fallen to the ground, oversight officials said Tuesday. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability did not say how many times Dexter…

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  • A Drone Strike in Odesa, Ukraine, Shatters a Family’s Life

    A Drone Strike in Odesa, Ukraine, Shatters a Family’s Life

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    In the photograph, Anna Haidarzhy and her 4-month-old son, Tymofii, are barely visible under the bloodstained blanket. They lie in the rubble, at the feet of rescue workers in black and fluorescent uniforms. Just two arms, one from the mother, 31, one from her son, can be seen sticking out of the blanket. “It looked…

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  • In the Kitchen with Joan Nathan, the Grande Dame of Jewish Cooking

    In the Kitchen with Joan Nathan, the Grande Dame of Jewish Cooking

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    A couple of years before my grandma Bev died, in 2016, I asked her to show me how she made her challah, one specialty in an impressive culinary repertoire. She padded over to a cabinet in her kitchen and retrieved, to my great surprise, not a handwritten recipe but a yellowed clipping from a newspaper.…

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  • Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies

    Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies

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    On a recent press tour in Britain, Rogers was reminded of how much more at ease she feels now. “I was being asked to do quippy promo stuff,” she said. “But that’s not who I am or what I do. The twenty-two-year-old version of me just wanted to be great at this thing. But I…

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  • A Showdown in the Poconos Raises Questions Over Short-Term Rentals

    A Showdown in the Poconos Raises Questions Over Short-Term Rentals

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    The Hideout, a gated community in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, had long operated under an unspoken covenant. Whether by choice or by circumstance, the second-home owners deferred to the needs of full-time residents, a core 900 or so households. But in 2020, “the front platers” — a pejorative for New Yorkers and New Jerseyans…

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  • Israel pulls some troops out of southern Gaza, six months after Oct. 7 attacks : NPR

    Israel pulls some troops out of southern Gaza, six months after Oct. 7 attacks : NPR

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    People walk past destroyed buildings along a road in Khan Younis on April 7, 2024 after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip, six months into the war sparked by the Oct. 7 attacks. Yasser Qudih/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Yasser Qudih/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty People…

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  • My “Kitchen Kid Clutter Drop Zone” Problem, SOLVED (ish)

    My “Kitchen Kid Clutter Drop Zone” Problem, SOLVED (ish)

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    When we designed the house and put the kitchen here (because it’s the best southern light) we knew that we were asking for kid clutter. My genius plan to train the kids to go around the house to the mudroom (expertly executed by locking the kitchen door and giving them candy each time they dropped…

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