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Audrey Totter, film noir femme fatale, dies at 95

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Audrey Totter, an actress who specialized in playing temptresses, dangerous dames and women harboring dark schemes in a series of movies from Hollywood’s film noir period of the 1940s and ’50s, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 95. She had congestive heart failure after a stroke, her daughter, Mea Lane, said. Miss Totter first set the screen afire with a small but sizzling part in the 1946 noir classic “The Postman Always Rings Twice. Read More...

Google shuts failed social network Google+

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By Chris FoxTechnology reporter GoogleGoogle+, the search giant's failed social network, will finally be laid to rest on Tuesday morning. Launched in 2011 and competing with Facebook and Twitter, it was Google's fourth attempt at a social network. But the platform failed to win people over, even after Google pushed it upon the thriving YouTube community. By the end of 2011, analysts were already writing obituaries. But Google decided to close the site only after discovering a data breach, in 2018. Read More...

Is there a best time of year to buy stocks?

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By Miriam Quick and Bryan LufkinFeatures correspondent Getty ImagesA Christmas tree outside the New York Stock Exchange last mont (Credit: Getty Images)As you look upon a new year with fresh eyes, should you do the same with your approach to the stock market? "Sell in May and go away" is an age-old investment adage, referring to the traditional belief that stocks show weaker performance in the summer, from May to October, and stronger performance in the winter, from November to April. Read More...