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Brittany Galvan is a writer for Jim Plack News. She covers sports, education, and tech news. She's also a big football fan and loves to spend time with her family.

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Albania to close TikTok for a year blaming it for promoting violence among children

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TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s prime minister said Saturday the government will shut down the video service TikTok for one year, blaming it for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children. Albanian authorities held 1,300 meetings with teachers and parents following the stabbing death of a teenager in mid-November by another teen after a quarrel that […]

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What changes should small businesses be aware of for 2025?

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For small businesses, the biggest change in the new year will be the arrival of a presumably more business-friendly administration in Washington. But there are other shifts owners should keep on their radar. Among them: changes to state-level overtime and minimum wage rules, the delayed federal FinCEN registration, taxes on payments from third-party providers like

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John Mulaney's Growing Watch Collection Gets Another Supremely Elegant Addition

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In a sea of shabbily dressed, self-deprecating funnymen, John Mulaney stands out as a very well-dressed self-deprecating funnyman. Sharp clothing has always been a feature of the comedian’s standup. A handsome, late-20s Mulaney would stalk back and forth across the stage in a well-tailored suit and tie, making obscure references to Steely Dan’s Gaucho and

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What to know about the winter solstice, 2024's shortest day

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The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec. 21, in the Northern Hemisphere. The celestial event signifies the first day of winter, astronomically.  What is the winter solstice? The winter solstice is the day each year that has the shortest period of daylight between sunrise and sunset, and therefore

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The Latest: Schumer says Senate on course to pass bill before funding lapses at midnight

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With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. The vote came a day after the House rejected Trump’s new

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Senate eyes vote before midnight on government funding after House approves bill to prevent shutdown

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WASHINGTON — Approaching a midnight government shutdown deadline, the Senate set up votes toward final passage late Friday of a new plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would “meet

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Crowds in Mayotte vent frustration with cyclone response as Macron tours devastation

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MIRERENI, Mayotte — Crowds in Mayotte vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing, as he toured destruction wrought by the strongest cyclone to hit the French territory in nearly a century. Particularly tense scenes on Thursday underscored the discontent that many residents of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean feel toward

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Government funding difficulties create gloom for federal workers before Christmas

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Johnny Zuagar says he’s tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents. “I’ve got to keep a poker face,” Zuagar, a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau, said when thinking about his boys, ages 14, 12

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NTSB trying to determine why tractor-trailer stopped on train tracks before deadly West Texas crash

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PECOS, Texas — Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a wind turbine base said Friday they were trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks, leading to the crash that derailed the train and propelled the enormous wind turbine base into

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Kieran Culkin Finally Explained That Giant Stack of Bracelets He Always Wears

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Domingo—following sound journalistic protocol here—follows up by inquiring about the other bracelets, “only because [they’re] so significant.” Culkin runs down the beaded bracelets on his right wrist, identifying where each one came from: most from his children, others given to him by fans at events, one he got in Mexico with his wife. He adds

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