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Photo by Erin. The D.C. government is hardly the only entity taking advantage of the city’s hot housing market to turn a tidy profit. More than a quarter of all homes sold in 2015 passed hands in less than three years, according to data published by District, Measured. Problems with unscrupulous house flippers (and…
Most cats bounce at least once when they die, but not this one: after CAT posted its first annual drop in retail sales in December of 2012, it has failed to see a rise in retail sales even once. In fact, since then Caterpillar has seen 34 consecutive months of declining global sales, and 11…
Photo Melissa Benoist in “Supergirl.” Credit Darren Michaels/CBS Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist), Earthling name Kara Danvers, comes from the same planet as her cousin Superman. But her personal kryptonite is her tendency to apologize for herself. Early in “Supergirl,” which begins Monday on CBS, we find Kara not leaping tall buildings but saying “Sorry! Sorry!”…
YouTube is peeling back the curtain on a paid version of the video site that doesn’t have any ads. The site, owned by Google, introduced the new $9.99 a month subscription option Wednesday. Called Red, it’ll launch in the United States on October 28 with a one-month free trial. For the first time in YouTube’s…
We got your back, Handsome Joe. Finally, after weeks and weeks and WEEKS AND FUCKING WEEKS of know-nothing speculation, we have our answer. Old Handsome Joe Biden is not running for president, and would like to spend some more time grieving his recently deceased son, can you all just go the fuck away please? At least…
Signs showing the name of an Asian candidate next to a caricature of Ho Chi Minh have rocked the mayoral race in Lewiston, Maine, and the man responsible for them says he can’t understand why. Ben Chin, who is running as a Democrat, said he received a text from a friend on Sunday night expressing concern about a sign hanging on Main Street…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content Twitter’s epic bust up with developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company’s rocky history, so now, as the social media company is working to reboot the business under new CEO Jack Dorsey, it kicked off its big developer…
After months of speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced he will not run for president. Biden announced the news from the White House Rose Garden. He said on Wednesday that, as he had said before, that he knew the grieving process over the death of his son might continue past the point that he could…
Zendaya is the cover star of this November’sModeliste magazine. instagram.com As part of her cover story, she participated in a photo shoot and interview. instagram.com This morning, Zendaya shared one of the photos from the shoot on her social channels, stating that the magazine appeareds to have photoshopped her hips and torso to make them smaller….
Amazon has posted an aggressive response to the “everyone at Amazon is miserable but also paid well but also crying all the time” story in the New York Times. That story was published 64 days ago, which, according to my proprietary productivity algorithm, works out to about 21 words per day. This will presumably be…