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Which States Have the Highest and Lowest Minimum Wage?

With the unemployment rate being what it is, a lot of people these days are being forced to work for minimum wage. But exactly how much you get could depend largely on what state you’re in.


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Could Eating Eggs Help You Lose Weight?

Trying to shed some unwanted pounds? Skip the cereal and have eggs for breakfast instead — new research shows you may wind up eating less later on.


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Summer Gas Prices May Not Be As Outrageously High As You’ve Been Led to Believe

Many analysts predicted doom and gloom for gas prices this summer, with some saying they could reach as high as $6 per gallon.

But it seems those concerns were for naught — fuel costs have been on the decline and are now expected to stay well below last year’s prices.


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Mom Draws Heat for Using Facebook to Punish Disrespectful Daughter [VIDEO]

More and more parents are using Facebook to spy on their kids, but one Ohio mother has taken it to the next level by using the social media site to shame her disrespectful daughter, and it’s drawing some heated criticism.


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Could Your Social Media Profiles Cost You a Job?

A new CareerBuilder survey of 2,300 hiring managers and human resource professionals shores up the warnings many experts give job-seekers about social media — namely, what you post could wind up costing you a position.


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TIME Magazine Releases List of 100 Most Influential People

A few weeks ago, TIME Magazine revealed the names it was considering for its annual list of the ’100 Most Influential People in the World.’ Reader votes determined one person, while the rest were selected by the magazine’s editors.

And now the final list — which includes athletes, actors, entrepreneurs and politicians — is out. So who made the cut?


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Retired Illinois Couple Claims Share of Mega Millions Jackpot [VIDEO]

Merle and Patricia Butler, a retired couple in their 60s from the small town of Red Bud, IL, stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their share of the record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions jackpot.


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‘Dancing with the Stars’ Season 14 Week 5 Elimination — Who Went Home? [SPOILER, VIDEOS]

On Monday night, Latin and the ballroom came together in one big explosion of fringe and ruffles and male shirtlessness. But who didn’t share their respective bon-bons quite hard enough?


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Kindergartner Arrested After Throwing Temper Tantrum in School — Is It Justified? [VIDEO]

Most children who throw temper tantrums wind up in time-out. But one six-year-old in Georgia had such a violent fit that cops felt the need to handcuff her and take her to the police station.


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Morgan Freeman: I’m Not Marrying My Step-Granddaughter [VIDEO]

Back in 2009, the National Enquirer published a story saying that actor Morgan Freeman and his then 27-year-old step-granddaughter, E’Dena Hines, had been having an affair for upwards of a decade.

Now the actor and Hines are both speaking out with an unequivocal denial about reports they’re going to tie the knot.


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‘Dancing with the Stars’ Season 14 Week 4 Elimination — Who Went Home? [SPOILER, VIDEOS]

Rock Week continued on Tuesday’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ elimination, when Kiss did yet another live performance and one contestant hung up their dancing shoes for good.

Whose bare feet pitter-pattered out of the ballroom?


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Weekend Box Office — ‘The Hunger Games’ Continues to Eat Up the Competition

‘The Hunger Games’ once again treated the competition like dots in a Pac-Man game, swallowing them all without a trace. It earned $61.1 million and took the top spot at the weekend box office for the second week in a row.


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