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Spotify Wrapped is finally here. How can you see your 2024 recap?Dec 04, 2024 9:22 am - Spotify has released its annual Wrapped, personalized recaps of users’ listening habits and year in audio. What made your list this year?
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Australia is banning social media for people under 16. Could this work elsewhere — or even there?Dec 04, 2024 8:51 am - It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16.
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Winnetka native Katie Gavin on creative freedom, debut solo record and tour to ChicagoDec 04, 2024 8:34 am - On her debut solo record “What a Relief,” released in late October, Winnetka native Katie Gavin channels a bluesy, nostalgic tone to explore intimacy, grief and intergenerational trauma. She’s playing Chicago’s Thalia Hall Wednesday, Dec. 18.
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‘Amtrak Joe’ Biden uses his visit to Angola to promote a major US-backed rail project in AfricaDec 04, 2024 8:18 am - Even in the waning days of his presidency and thousands of miles from home, U.S. President Joe Biden is finding ways to celebrate trains.
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Sources: Trump considers DeSantis for the Pentagon with Hegseth under pressure over allegationsDec 04, 2024 8:15 am - Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's Pentagon pick, was fighting to hold on to his Cabinet nomination amid growing questions Wednesday about his personal conduct as the president-elect's team considers alternatives, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Spotify Wrapped 2024 is here, and Taylor Swift is once again the platform’s most-streamed artistDec 04, 2024 7:28 am - ’Tis the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped. And it should come as no surprise that for a second year in a row, Taylor Swift has been named its most-played artist.
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Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson, whose rocky relationship fueled the rapper’s lyrics, dies at age 69Dec 04, 2024 6:42 am - Debbie Nelson, the single mother of rapper Eminem whose rocky relationship with her son was known widely through his hit song lyrics, has died. She was 69.
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USWNT beats Netherlands 2-1 in goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher's final matchDec 03, 2024 10:28 pm - THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Alyssa Naeher ended her national team career with one last win. The stalwart goalkeeper made two critical saves in her final match for the Unite...
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USWNT beats Netherlands 2-1 in goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher's final matchDec 03, 2024 10:25 pm - THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Alyssa Naeher ended her national team career with one last win. The stalwart goalkeeper made two critical saves in her final match for the Unite...
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Hamas and Fatah are near an agreement on who will oversee postwar GazaDec 03, 2024 9:35 pm - CAIRO — Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Stri...