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At long last, the NFL playoffs are here!

Wild Card weekend is always one of the best weekends of the NFL season and this year's slate brings with it some fairly unpredictable games and teams.

In the AFC, Titans-Chiefs, Jaguars-Bills may not be the sexiest matchups on paper, but they're fairly evenly matched and should produce some intriguing games. And the NFC, as its been all year, is a grinder, with the Saints and Panthers and Rams and Falcons facing off.

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• Ivanka Trump regularly advertises her fashion brand's clothes and accessories by wearing them while conducting official government business. 
• The Wall Street Journal found that the first daughter wore her brand's products in 68% of her social media posts documenting official government business during her first seven months as an official White House employee.
• Ethics experts say that while the practice doesn't violate any laws, Ivanka is... Читать дальше...

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• Litecoin was gunning for $300 a coin on Saturday, according to data from Markets Insider.
• The surge follows a surprising announcement by Charlie Lee, the founder of the digital currency.

Litecoin, the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, was gunning for $300 a coin on Saturday after weeks of declines.

The coin was trading at $283 at the time of writing, according to data from Markets Insider. That's up more than 16% against the US dollar. Читать дальше...

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• Wawa and Sheetz are both convenience store chains with a cult following. 
• We visited both to see which was better.
• After the face-off, Wawa reigned supreme for offering food that's worth a trip in itself.

The Capulets versus the Montagues.

Harvard versus Yale.

Britney versus Christina.

Among history's fabled rivalries, perhaps none is more fiercely contested than Wawa versus Sheetz.

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• Noor Salman, the wife of the Pulse nightclub shooter who killed 49 people in 2016, told authorities that she knew about her husband's planned attack in advance.
• Last month, the FBI released a 12-page account of Salman's first interview with authorities shortly after the massacre.
• Salman's lawyers claim that account shouldn't be used in court because no attorneys were present at the time.

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• France is starting to reap the benefits of a recent law that forces supermarkets to make use of unused food, rather than tossing it away. 
• The country earned top ranking in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index. 
• Food waste is a huge, and expensive, global issue. France is way ahead of other countries, including the US. 

France is a culinary leader — both at the table and, more recently, in the trash can.

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