Chris Chaberski

Employee theft and shoplifting will cost retailers nearly $9 billion this holiday season, and unfortunately it's the upstanding consumer who pays for that loss in the end.

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Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Jeff Bridges
Age: 63
Occupation: Actor and Musician
Known For: Winning an Oscar for his work in 'Crazy Heart,' and starring in other films like 'Starman,' 'The Fabulous Baker Boys,' 'True Grit' and 'The Big Lebowski'

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1875: Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees the country (more info)

1918: President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office (more info)

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1818: Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state (more info)

1964: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California-Berkeley following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building to demonstrate against the regents' decision to forbid protests on U.C. property (more info)

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Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Ozzy Osbourne
Age: 64
Occupation: Singer
Known For: Selling over 100 million albums worldwide both as a solo artist and a member of Black Sabbath, songs like 'Paranoid,' 'Iron Man' and 'Crazy Train,' an indecipherable and much-mocked mumble, and starring with his family in the reality show 'The Osbournes'

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On Wednesday, the Powerball lottery reached a record $587.5 million. So far two winning tickets have been announced, one in Arizona and one in Missouri. But there's at least one more guaranteed winner: the Internal Revenue Serv

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1824: Congress acts to decide a presidential election for the first time in history, giving the presidency to John Quincy Adams (more info)

1913: The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing the time needed to build a car from 12 hours to just under three (more info)

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Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Woody Allen
Age: 77
Occupation: Actor, Screenwriter and Director
Known For: Films like 'Annie Hall,' 'Hannah and Her Sisters' and 'Midnight in Paris,' winning three Oscars, and a long relationship with actress Mia Farrow that fell apart when Allen began a relationship with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, to whom he's now been married for 14 years

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Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1981: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear-weapons reductions in Europe (more info)

1982: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' the best-selling album of all time, is released (more info)

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Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:

Kaley Cuoco
Age: 27
Occupation: Actress
Known For: Playing blonde beauty Penny on 'The Big Bang Theory,' and roles on other shows such as '8 Simple Rules' and in films like 'Lucky 13'

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