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The chaos surrounding TikTok in recent months has sent creators on the platform into an emotional spiral.

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  • Arts & Life

TikTok creators go from sadness and fear to...'whatever!' over app's future

It's been an emotional rollercoaster for TikTok creators over the past few months, with the app's future uncertain. But there are ways to decompress.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) arrives for a House Republican Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on April 8, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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  • Politics

House GOP leaders prep vote on budget despite rift within the party

Republicans in Congress are closer to passing key elements of President Trump's legislative agenda — like extending tax cuts that expire at the end of the year — but only if the House and Senate can get on the same page.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Barbara Sprunt
Three students will return to Sackets Harbor Central School after their community in northern New York called for authorities to release the family, arrested by federal agents in late March.<br>

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  • National

'We love them': Small N.Y. town embraces a family freed from immigration detention

"I get goose bumps," said school principal Jamie Cook, thinking about the community rallying to support the family. The three students and their mother were arrested by immigration agents.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Women students stand outside Kabul University in Afghanistan. As of December 2022, the Taliban has banned women from higher education. But for some, a USAID grant provided online options as well as a chance to study abroad. That scholarship program has now been terminated.

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  • Global Health

USAID enabled 208 Afghan women to defy the Taliban ban on college -- until now

A USAID grant enabled them to either study online or enroll in college in another country. Now the grant has been terminated.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Ruchi Kumar
In April, many communities hold events to raise awareness of sexual violence, such as this event in Reading, Pa., in 2021, put on by Safe Berks. Sexual violence prevention efforts often get funding and support from the federal government.

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  • Health

HHS guts sexual violence prevention division, leaving local efforts adrift

The CDC teams that supported local sexual assault prevention groups were 'wiped out' in RFK Jr.'s overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Bayard Winthrop of American Giant store in Soho, photographed on November 15, 2018.

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  • Business

American Giant CEO says China tariffs are 'overdue' but warns of industry confusion

American Giant sources and makes most of its products in the U.S. Its CEO says tariffs on China were overdue, but he worries the wide range will cause confusion about the global textile supply chain.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Leila Fadel
Protesters attend a demonstration in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil in New York City on March 10.

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  • National

'Citizenship won't save you': Free speech advocates say student arrests should worry all

The Trump administration has targeted students — both those with visas and those with permanent legal status — who protested the war in Gaza. Free speech advocates warn that these are test cases.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Taylor Haney,
  • and 2 more
Romulus and Remus, the pups with dire wolf traits that were bred by Colossal Biosciences, are pictured at three months old.

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  • Science

A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf

Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Rob Stein
from L to R: Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Sebastian Eugene Hansen star in <em>A Minecraft Movie</em>

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  • Arts & Life

'A Minecraft Movie' is both a box office hit and post-ironic meme

Studios have struggled to get younger generations into the theaters for years. Could more immersive experiences be their golden ticket?

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Sonny Perdue testifies during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on the rural economy, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Jacquelyn Martin AP

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  • Politics

Former Trump official says DOGE cuts are impacting Georgia’s universities

Sonny Perdue, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, confirmed that cuts to federal spending are impacting Georgia’s public colleges and universities.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
A shopper is walking past a shelf filled with soy sauce and gochujang at Lotte Plaza Market in Centreville, Va., on Friday. Many of the store's products are imported from Asian countries that have been hit with tariffs, which will likely cause prices to rise for consumers.

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  • Business

'Every day, every single customer': Tariffs hit close to home inside Asian grocers

Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Badar Khan Suri, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil were arrested by immigration officials and, in a matter of hours, were sent to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas — more than a thousand miles from home.

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  • National

Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas?

Lawyers say the government is trying to gain a legal advantage as it tries to expel noncitizens over their pro-Palestinian activism.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Adrian Florido
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives before President Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs Wednesday in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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  • Health

Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters

Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Traders work on the floor Monday at the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

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  • Technology

How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multitrillion-dollar market swings

What began as a misquoted Fox News interview led to a flood of false and misleading posts on X. Before it was corrected, stock markets rallied then plummeted again.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn

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  • Books

5 buzzy books out this week that look inward

A number of books out this week — a tale of tribal politics, a close-focus mystery, measured criticism and a unique relationship — are tied up in answering the question: How do we define ourselves?

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
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