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August 2017

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August 31st
- The week's good news: August 31, 2017
- 5 tips for finally tackling your credit card debt
- How to put your savings on autopilot
August 30th
- AFL-CIO president claims the Trump White House is divided into 'racists' and 'Wall Streeters'
- How to rebound from a massive, unexpected tax bill
- Houston family turns home into shelter, welcoming 16 people and 7 pets
August 29th
- White House adviser Gary Cohn: 'Only morons pay the estate tax'
- Couple reaches goal of visiting all 645 Cracker Barrels in the United States
- Seattle dad aims to pay off every school lunch debt in the state of Washington
- Black NPR host explains why he jumped in to save a far-right protester from an anti-fascist beating
August 28th
- 5 perfect dorm room accessories
- 6 questions to ask yourself before you go freelance
August 27th
- Kamila Shamsie's 6 favorite books inspired by literary classics
August 26th
- Trump comes under bipartisan criticism for Arpaio pardon
- Mattis tells troops to 'just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other'
- This glider can stay in the air indefinitely by acting like a bird
- 6 luxurious lake homes
August 25th
- This week I learned our brains can predict the future, and more
- The Week contest: No stress
- Man finds ring on Cape Cod beach, tracks down owner who lost it 47 years ago
- Philadelphia 5-year-old is a hero to the city's stray cats
August 24th
- The week's good news: August 24, 2017
- Life-saving act lands paramedic student a coveted internship
- Multivitamins are useless. Here's why.
- DNA kit leads man to his biological father, 43 years after adoption
- Smartphones help Little Leaguers cross a language barrier
August 23rd
- Time traveling with Iron & Wine
- 9 tips for making escrow less stressful
August 22nd
- The New York Times' Bret Stephens compares Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Pol Pot
- Paul Ryan praises Trump's Afghanistan war speech, spars with a nun over poverty at CNN town hall
- Instead of wedding gifts, Utah teacher requests items for homeless students
August 21st
- 10-year-old helps his mother deliver baby at home
August 20th
- Bannon says don't expect the GOP to be 'sweetness and light' or 'one big happy family'
August 18th
- The week's good news: August 17, 2017
- How to stop yourself from buying things you don't need
- This week I learned late-night snacking might make you more prone to sunburns, and more
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, who grew up around 'broken' and defeated Nazis, has some blunt advice for the alt-right (and Trump)
August 17th
- Tennessee senator claims Trump 'has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation'
- Woman finds long-lost engagement ring on a carrot growing in her garden
- Stephen Bannon admits to enjoying Charlottesville chaos: 'I can't get enough of it'
- America's eclipse craze, explained
- Lioness rescued from Syrian zoo gives birth in wildlife reserve
- Stephen Bannon says there's 'no military solution' to North Korea
August 16th
- What living abroad taught me about money management
August 15th
- The Game of Thrones characters need to hang out more
- 94-year-old installs pool in his backyard for the neighborhood kids
August 14th
- How I'm digging myself out of $80,000 in debt
- Game of Thrones is performing some serious plot acrobatics
- 98-year-old and 94-year-old marry after meeting at the gym
August 13th
- A future of cheap oil
- Ruth Ware's 6 favorite books about boarding schools
- Orphan Black's beautiful, cathartic finale
August 12th
- Republicans and Democrats denounce violence, racism, domestic terror in Charlottesville
- This 'biological fax machine' could teleport life to other planets
- 5 perfect accessories for viewing the solar eclipse
- The 3 best e-readers on the market
August 11th
- My teen son has autism. Here's what Netflix's new dramedy Atypical gets wrong.
- This week I learned it might be possible to learn while you sleep, and more
- The Week contest: Fit Putin
- Pilot donates her kidney to flight attendant in need
- Sebastian Gorka says 'the fake news industrial complex' misunderstood his criticism of Tillerson on North Korea
August 10th
- The week's good news: August 10, 2017
- 7 unapologetically blunt lines from Taylor Swift's testimony
- Piglet rescued by loving locals after falling off livestock truck
- How the internet ruined the Neighborhood Watch
- The new monopolies
- New Jersey cat that escaped during drive through Florida reunited with family
August 9th
- I took a pot gummy cooking class. Here's what I learned.
- How careful spending in my teens taught me to be a better saver as an adult
- Fox News VP slams Pope Francis for offering refuge to the poor, scolding the rich
- Florida 8-year-old becomes youngest girl to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro
August 8th
- Why you should take your teen traveling
- After years of saving lives, Texas postal worker donates his 100th gallon of blood
- Runner helps competitor with heat stroke cross the finish line
August 7th
- 'The Spoils of War' was one of the best Game of Thrones episodes ever
- Google is in turmoil over a viral manifesto suggesting women are biologically less tech-y
- The emotional struggle of being a parent while saying goodbye to your own
- 5 perfect gifts for your most adventurous friends
- On Fox News, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein says Mueller can investigate any Trump-related crime, with permission
August 6th
- Naomi Klein's 6 favorite books
- Foxconn's big jobs promises
- A car crash topples a Confederate statue — and forces a Southern town to confront its past
August 5th
- These tricked out glasses help blind people 'borrow' eyesight
- The hunt for higher interest
August 4th
- This week I learned the only way to use your phone at night without messing with your sleep, and more
- The Week contest: Mooch movie
August 3rd
- The week's good news: August 3, 2017
- Museum changes dinosaur display after 10-year-old spots error
- The genetic breakthrough that could change humanity, explained
- I homeschooled my kids. It was one of the best parenting decisions I've ever made.
- A smart parent's guide to saving for a child's college education
- Stephen Colbert's Cartoon Trump reads actual quotes from Trump's leaked Wall Street Journal interview
- Fox News employees unload over Seth Rich debacle: 'No one ever gets fired from Fox for publishing a story that isn't true'
August 2nd
- Sen. Al Franken tells Stephen Colbert about the moment McCain sunk TrumpCare, which senators are funny
- The ridiculous hoops we make college applicants jump through
- 20 students serve as their teacher's flower girls and ring bearers
August 1st
- My daughter's teachers stood up to my helicopter parenting. I'm so glad they did.
- 92-year-old sets records during her first-ever swim meet
- UPS driver adopts dog she befriended along route

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