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There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is set to receive a total of $10 billion in the deal that allowed TikTok to remain in the US. The new investors who acquired stakes in the US entity of TikTok already paid a $2.5 billion fee to the administration when the


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Lisa Devine with one of the hand-poured candles she makes and sells.
  • Lisa Devine battled on and off drug addiction for a total of six years.
  • The courts forced her to get sober, but, after one relapse, the real change came from herself.
  • She now runs a candle-making studio that is supported by the community.

This interview is based on a conversation with Lisa Devine, 37, a candle


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Rebel Wilson does a karate pose on the red carpet for Bride Hard.

As we near the 98th Academy Awards, which will air on March 15, prep for the star-studded event is underway. Host Conan O'Brien has rolled out the red carpet, statuettes gleam with fresh polish, and influencers are prepping their interview questions amid viral nominee backlash.

Also on the docket: The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as The Razzies, which dishonorably award the worst



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Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend A.D. Sui's The Iron Garden Sutra, a meditative horror sci-fi/fantasy and murder mystery.


I don't typically gravitate toward locked room mysteries, but the description of this book ticked all the right boxes to win me over: "a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of the dead encounter something beyond



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Anti-Elon Musk guerrilla art vending machine installed at sxsw 2026

An anonymous group installed an anti-Elon Musk vending machine that dispenses the Epstein Files at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas, on Saturday morning.

Mashable witnessed a group of four men installing the piece of guerrilla protest art at the corner of Red River Street and 4th Street in downtown Austin. After a brief installation, passersby started collecting DVDs titled "Elon's Epstein Files." The


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Meta could be preparing for one of the largest layoffs in its history, according to a Reuters report. The tech giant is planning to cut about 20 percent of its workforce, according to the outlet's sources. According to the report, neither a date nor the exact number of layoffs has been finalized yet.

However, Reuters reported that Meta's top executives have told "other senior leaders" to start


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Meta is pulling its end-to-end encryption option on Instagram DMs.

The company announced the change in an update to its support page and via alerts to users in the app, writing:

End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026.

If you have chats that are impacted by this change, you will see instructions on how you can download any media or messages you may



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Travelers across the US faced longer than usual security lines this week.
  • Airport security checkpoints in the US are under pressure due to the partial government shutdown.
  • Many now-unpaid TSA agents are skipping work, causing long lines and wait times.
  • Here's the latest on TSA delays, and how to check wait times before you travel.

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Digg has shut down, for now, just a few months after its open beta launched. Justin Mezzell, the company’s CEO, has explained on the home page that it noticed hours after the beta launched that it was already being targeted by SEO spammers. “The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts,” he wrote. Apparently, the Digg team wasn’t ready for



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Spirit Airlines plane at Fort Lauderdale.
  • Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection twice in less than a year.
  • The budget airline now says it will reduce its fleet to fewer than 80. It once operated over 200.
  • Spirit says it will focus on its strongest routes: Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Detroit, and New York.

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