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Long-running Canadian powerhouse Nettwerk Music Group has announced a management buyout from its existing investors, supported by Create Music Group. The transaction is expected to close this month.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers started moving forward Tuesday with a proposal that would give the state the power to put President Donald Trump’s name on a Palm Beach County airport, next to a road ...

As AI tools have proliferated in workplaces and pressure to use them has mounted, employees have had to contend with the scourge of workslop, or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly ...

Pueblo Community College is developing a new aviation maintenance technician program, aimed at creating job opportunities for former coal workers, veterans and high school graduates. The program — a ...

DEFEND THE HOMELAND, AND ASSIST IN ENFORCING THE RULE OF LAW. THIS WEEK, FIFTH GRADERS IN SOME GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS BEGAN A TEN WEEK DARE PROGRAM, WHICH WILL BE INSTRUCTED BY LOCAL LAW ...

Research by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote them by hand during the same time. In terms of immediate results, laptop users ...

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The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is expanding citywide a program that allows Chicago police officers to directly file charges in some low-level felony gun cases, following a review of pilots ...

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is officially ending Direct File, the free, government-run tax-filing pilot program that the Biden administration started last year. Instead, the Trump ...

Americans will have one fewer free option to file their taxes in 2026 after the Trump administration killed IRS Direct File. Without it, Direct File supporters said Americans will end up spending more ...