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Annie Decker is a writer for Fashion Digital-News, where she covers sports, education, and tech. She's also a huge fan of corgis and loves spending time with her two dogs, Boo and Buster.

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

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?

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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At 87, Jane Fonda Is Getting Back Into the Fitness Game

Decades before Instagram coaches, TikTok trainers, and yoga classes on YouTube, Jane Fonda became the first celebrity-turned-fitness influencer. With her best-selling video, Jane Fonda’s Workout, she revolutionized at-home exercise. The 1982 tape marked the beginning of a shift in fitness culture, opening up the formerly male-dominated industry to women worldwide, launching an aerobics class craze,

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

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

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

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

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

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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