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How to Use Your Travel Rewards: Make the Most of Your Points or Miles

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 Discover the best tips for how to handle your travel rewards. Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com

Whether you long to jump on a plane every possible break, or you’re saving up for that dream vacation, airline points and frequent flyer miles can make your dollars travel further. Treat these credit card travel rewards like the financial asset they are. You can use miles and/or points for flights, upgrades, hotels, vacation packages, rental vehicles and more. Airline miles and credit card…

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How to Get Rid of Weeds in Flower Beds

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 Keep your flower garden weed-free with these natural and chemical means. goffkein.pro / Shutterstock.com

Weeds are not just an eyesore; they also steal water, nutrients and sunlight from your flowers. Discover how to get rid of weeds in your flower bed with methods from hand-pulling to herbicides. We’ll share several weed-removal methods, including natural and synthetic options. Learn the basics of making a homemade weed killer and the different effects of various herbicides. Let’s give the weeds…

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The New Covid Vaccine Is Out. Why You Might Not Want To Rush To Get It.

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 There’s good reason for many people to not get this jab right away. goodluz / Shutterstock.com

The FDA has approved an updated covid shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest covid outbreak sweeping the country, or hold it in reserve for the winter wave? The new vaccine should provide some protection to everyone. But many healthy people who have already been vaccinated or have immunity because they’ve been…

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15 ‘Stale’ Foods You Can Quickly Revive With an Air Fryer

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 Grocery prices are out of control. Your air fryer can help you get every penny’s worth of food, snacks and treats that have gone soft (or hard). miophoto / Shutterstock.com

A 16-ounce bag of potato chips now costs about 45% more than it did five years ago, according to U.S. government research. Ever eaten part of a bag and then forgotten it, only to find that the leftovers are soggy and sad? Air fryer to the rescue! This wildly popular appliance can bring chips and other foods back to life in just a few minutes. When the average cost of a 16-ounce bag of chips is…

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10 Dog Breeds With the Best Behavior — and 5 With the Worst

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 Discover which dogs challenge patience and which are a pet lover’s dream. LightField Studios / Shutterstock.com

We all love our dogs — whether they are well-behaved or mischievous. But if you are considering adopting a new best friend, it might help to know which is which. Recently, financial website Forbes Advisor surveyed 5,000 dog owners — 200 each for the 25 most popular dog breeds — and asked them to rank their pooches in two categories: following commands and temperament. Based on those criteria…

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8 Common Foods That May Increase Your Risk of Cancer

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 How many of these are in your refrigerator or pantry? Kues / Shutterstock.com

News about products being linked to cancer seems to pop up more than we’d expect, and it’s hard to keep track of it all. So we compiled a straight-forward list of foods that current research associates with higher risks of cancer. Research published in a journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2019 found that 5.2% of new cancer cases in 2015 were attributable to “suboptimal diets.

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