The US celebrates Labor Day because of a bloody clash over 100 years ago that...
• Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, after the Pullman strike.• The bloody strike led to 30 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.• The strike prompted Congress and US President Grover...
View Article'Legal but tacky': Trump keeps using his Twitter account to promote pundits...
During his time in the White House, President Barack Obama engaged in a ritual highly scrutinized by the publishing community and book-lovers: The release of his summer vacation reading list, usually a...
View ArticleThe most gruesome 'Game of Thrones' battles, ranked
Warning: Spoilers if you are not up to date with the most recent "Game of Thrones" episodes."Game of Thrones" is practically synonymous with violence.The HBO series is known for its no-holds-barred...
View ArticleSlack is making its way out of the office — and into the kitchen and onto the...
As Slack and other cloud-based office productivity tools become more commonplace, they're making their way well beyond the land of cubicles and into more hands-on places of business like farms and...
View ArticleAmazon is the new Walmart — and Whole Foods just inherited all of the...
Amazon is already changing Whole Foods — and it's a departure from the grocery chain's hippie roots. Amazon is increasingly being painted as the "new Walmart," a villain that is hurting American small...
View ArticleVolkswagen is bringing back the microbus in 2022 — here's what we know
The Volkswagen microbus is making a comeback and we couldn't be more excited.Volkswagen said the bus will enter production and hit dealerships in 2022. It won't resemble the classic hippiemobiles of...
View ArticleHarvey ignites a second fire and explosion at Houston chemical plant
HOUSTON (AP) — Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up Friday after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant, the second fire there in two...
View Article19 hidden gems you need to add to your phone right now
Many of us have one or two apps that qualify as "hidden gems."They're the apps that aren't exactly at the top of the App Store, but we love and use them often. Maybe we heard about them from friends or...
View ArticleMany people make the same mistake when they compare their wealth to everyone...
There's a bad habit that's all too familiar to the social media generation: comparing our lives to the ones we see on our Instagram and Facebook feeds.It's easy to do when you're scrolling through...
View ArticleHere are all the crazy new college football uniforms teams are wearing this...
Unlike the NFL, where teams can only change their uniforms once every five years, it has become common — almost trendy — for college football teams to routinely shake up their on-field look.This season...
View ArticleThe secret history of not wearing white after Labor Day
The INSIDER Summary:The old fashion rule to not wear white after Labor Day is going out of style. It may have originated because people wanted to stay cool or because it was a sign of wealth. But now...
View ArticleTarget has a surprising new men's clothing brand — I tried it out to see if...
Target's private labels have been called a "bright spot" in the retailer's business.Private brands in general are hot right now, as customers are realizing that they can often get quality products for...
View ArticleYoung athletes' brains show changes due to repeated head contact, according...
Scientists don't know exactly when head injuries from contact sports cross the line into dangerous territory.But a new study published in the journal Frontiers of Neurology shows that brain changes...
View ArticleWhy Mariah Carey fans are pulling for Taylor Swift to unseat 'Despacito'
The INSIDER Summary:Mariah Carey fans are supporting Taylor Swift's new song "Look What You Made Me Do."If it gets to #1, it will unseat "Despacito" before it can replace Carey's "One Sweet Day" as the...
View ArticleWe tried the English muffins Oprah has flown in from Napa Valley
The INSIDER Summary:Oprah has said her biggest luxury is flying in English muffins from a bakery in Napa Valley. We tried them for ourselves and they were worth the hype. Now people are coming into the...
View ArticleThe 24 best movies of the summer, according to critics
This year's summer box office boasted a number of inventive, critically acclaimed films.To find out which movies critics gravitated toward the most, we turned to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to...
View ArticleHow Cher really feels about Kim Kardashian posing as her on a magazine cover
The INSIDER Summary:Kim Kardashian channeled Cher in a recent shoot for Harper's Bazaar.Plenty of people weighed in, but Cher herself hadn't yet. She officially gave Kim her stamp of approval, saying...
View ArticleAirline workers share 26 things they'd love to tell passengers but can't
Whether it's to keep their jobs or to maintain the peace, there are some things that airline workers just can't tell travelers.But sharing some of these things, while perhaps controversial, could be to...
View Article11 of the most bizarre words played at the national Scrabble championship
In Scrabble, words are valuable resources — the more you have, the greater your chances of success.And while most of the 200,000 words in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary are relatively useless...
View Article7 underdog picks to win the Heisman this college football season
Every year the Heisman Trophy is awarded to the most outstanding player in college football, and every year people are quick to deem one player the favorite to win the award before a snap of football...
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