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AUSTELL, Ga. — Police are releasing surveillance video they say shows a mail carrier using cards she stole out of the mail that she was supposed to be delivering. Adrienne Braziel, 31, was arrested ...

Fifth Third struck a deal with Brex to make the fintech firm the provider of its commercial cards and expense management tools for business clients. The program will run on Brex's embedded payments ...

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Three suspended New Jersey cops have racked up over $2.6 million in salary — including annual pay raises — as they appeal their suspension for using the “n-word” and other racial slurs on the job in ...

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Behind each “impossible” trick lies a predictable scientific principle: limitation of peripheral vision, delayed perception, or expectation bias. This tutorial teaches how to exploit those limits to ...