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Soon, You Might Be Able To Check Out At the Grocery Store... With Your Smartphone

08.16.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Several major retailers are working on a new mobile payment service that will allow customers to check out using their smartphones.  Walmart, Target and several other retailers announced yesterday they're creating a smartphone app called ...

If 2 Children Need Childcare, It's Higher Then Rent In All 50 States

08.16.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Child care costs exceed rent in most states. According to a report from Child Care Aware of America, the annual cost of infant care ranged from 46-hundred dollars a family in Mississippi, to 15-thousand-dollars a year in Massachusetts. They also ...

March for Life Founder Passed Away

08.15.12 | Jeremy Miller

Nellie Gray has passed away. She was the founder of March for Life, an annual pro-life demonstration that for nearly four decades has drawn tens of thousands of people to Washington every January. She has spoken to millions of people on the right ...

Billy Graham Leaves Hospital

08.15.12 | Jeremy Miller

Billy Graham has been discharged from a North Carolina hospital, after a two-day stay. Doctors said in a news release they caught his bronchitis early. Despite his illness, the 93 year old remains in remarkable health. His son, Franklin Graham, ...

Public School Foods To Change This Fall

08.13.12 | Sarah Harnisch

When kids head back to school in a few weeks, their lunches are going to be quite different. New federal standards for meals take effect, raising the bar for the first time in more then 15 years.  One of the first changes your child will ...

Billy Graham Hospitalized With Infection

08.13.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Evangelist Billy Graham is alert and in good spirits in a North Carolina hospital. The 93-year-old preacher was admitted this weekend for treatment of a pulmonary infection, believed to be bronchitis. No date has been set for his discharge. Graham ...

Hawaii Upholds Traditional Marriage

08.10.12 | Sarah Harnisch

A federal court has voted to uphold Hawaii's definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. The court rejected a lawsuit that sought to change the state's law defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The lawsuit also ...

Susan G. Komen Has Major Leadership Shakeup

08.09.12 | Sarah Harnisch

The president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation's largest breast cancer foundation, is resigning. The departures come in the wake of the continuing fallout from Komen's decision earlier this year to briefly end funding for planned ...

G.E. Recalls Dishwashers That Could Start A Fire

08.09.12 | Sarah Harnisch

1.3 Million General Electric dishwashers have been recalled because of heating element failures that could result in a fire or smoke damage to your house. There have been 15 reports of fires or smoke damage already. The dishwashers cost 350 to 850 ...

It's National Marriage Equality Day Today

08.07.12 |

Gay rights activists are asking people to shop at Starbucks and Macys today. They are calling it National Marriage Equality Day. It's in opposition to the support of traditional marriage at Chick Fil A restaurants across the country last week. That ...

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