FILE - A shopper leaves the Big Lots store on Dec. 4, 2012 in Berlin, Vt.
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The discount chain Big Lots, which filed for bankruptcy protection in September, has reached a deal that will keep hundreds of its stores...
Flavored varieties of disposable electronic cigarette devices are on display in a shop in Brussels on Dec. 12, 2024, ahead of Belgium's ban on the sale of disposable vapes as of Jan. 1, 2025.
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BRUSSELS — Belgium...
Magnus Carlsen of Norway competes against Daniil Dubov of Russia during the 82nd Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Jan. 16, 2020.
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Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship...
Mike Cupo, a systems operator for Public Service Electric and Gas Company, uses a special red phone to talk via radio to PSE&G staffers in the field, during a simulated Y2K drill at company headquarters in Newark, N.J., on...
When Syria's dictatorship fell in early December, a celebration broke out nearly 6,000 miles away in Toledo, Ohio. At the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket, families danced and sang to Syrian music. Women ululated, and men wrapped themselves...
