In a dramatic twist of political defections and contentious concessions, the longest ever federal shutdown came to a close late last Wednesday as Congress finally managed to agree on a deal to reopen ...

In a popular thread on the social media site Reddit, Redditors debated a quintessentially American question: What fast-food chains need to go? It might seem hard to answer at first, but then you ...

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