No need to be a Grinch this holiday season - you can watch "The Grinch" instead. Based on the 1957 Dr. Seuss book by the same name, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" tells the story of a perpetually curmudgeonly, anti-social hairy green creature named the Grinch who lives atop an isolated mountain just outside of Whoville, the most festive, Christmas-loving town of all. An epic hater of Christmas , he vows to ruin it by stealing all of the Whos' festive supplies, including their Christmas dinner, decorations and gifts. After he is briefly intercepted by the adorable Cindy Lou Who and then witnesses the Whos still joining together to celebrate on Christmas morning even without their world goods, the Grinch is overwhelmed by the Christmas spirit and his "two sizes too small" heart grows three sizes as he joins the Whos for a feast. There are multiple versions of the movie, including Jim Carrey's beloved 2000 live-action take, but the 1966 made-for-TV film is where it all began. This year, the animated version will be watchable both on cable and streaming. Here's how to watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" this holiday season. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Need something to watch? 100+ Kids Christmas movies to stream with the whole family this holiday season Where to watch 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' (1966) on TV The original animated film will air on NBC this year. Those looking to watch it the old-fashioned way will have to find their local channel to turn on NBC and catch it there or online at NBC.com . When does 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' (1966) air on TV? "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" (1966) will air on NBC on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and Wednesday, Dec. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Where to stream 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' (1966) Thanks to streaming, you don't need cable to watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" The animated film is available on Peacock as part of a standard paid subscription and for rent on Prime Video . It is also available for live TV streaming on Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV . Get Peacock: https://imp.i305175.net/eKezAz Dr. Suess' 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' (1966) voice cast Get Amazon Prime Video: https://amzn.to/3sGJHzk We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn’t influence our coverage.Audi is in the midst of a massive model line transformation with all of its even-numbered cars becoming EVs and all of its odd-numbered cars staying gas-powered. This shift aims to make electric vehicles like the all-new Audi A6 and S6 E-Tron extremely important in its portfolio. While it might be called the A6, this mid-size liftback is more of a replacement for the A7 , just with the addition of electric power. Regardless of naming scheme, I found both the entry-level A6 E-Tron and higher-power S6 E-Tron to be compelling vehicles that are a welcome — and rather handsome — addition to the mid-size luxury segment, where they’ll go toe-to-toe with the BMW i5 and Mercedes-Benz EQE. The two Audis also make it very apparent that for 95 percent of driving, you do not need the faster EV. Full Disclosure : Audi flew me all the way to Tenerife, put me up in fancy hotels and fed me all so I could drive the 2025 A6 and S6. Gone are the four- and six-cylinder motors that powered the previous A6 and S6. In their place are either one or two electric motors depending on your trim level. In the U.S., the model lineup will have three power levels to choose from. First, we’ve got the base-level A6 E-Tron. It comes equipped with a single motor at the rear axle that puts out 375 horsepower and 428 pound-feet of torque and has an EPA-estimated 370 miles of range. Audi says it’s working on a long-range model with smaller wheels that can hit 390 miles, which would make it one of the longest-range EVs on the market. Next up is the A6 E-Tron Quattro . That adds a second motor at the front axle to give the A6 all-wheel drive, and it makes 456 horsepower and a 333-mile driving range. Finally, we’ve got the big-dog S6 E-Tron. It keeps the two-motor setup of the Quattro, but with much more power. Horsepower rises to 543, but range takes a dip to 324 miles. That’s still pretty solid, but it isn’t going to set any records. It should be noted that Audi hasn’t released official torque figures yet for AWD cars. Those should pop up closer to launch. Regardless of motor configuration, the A6 and S6 E-Tron come with a sizable 100kWh battery pack (of which a 94.4-kWh net is usable), and they run on an 800-volt architecture. The new A6 is built on Volkswagen Group’s Premium Platform Electric that is shared with other vehicles like the Audi Q6 E-Tron and Porsche Macan . Audi says the A6’s battery can fast-charge at a max of 270 kW, and it’s able to go from 10 percent to 80 percent in just 21 minutes. It can also gain about 135 miles of range in 10 minutes of charging. That’s not too shabby at all. Regardless of which model you go with, you’ve also got multiple levels of regenerative braking. You can turn regen braking all the way off, select one of two regen braking intensities or crank it all the way up to full one-pedal driving. I’ll be honest, though, one-pedal isn’t very intense in this car. It’ll bring the car to a stop, but it takes a while. Now that I’ve got all of those boring technical details out of the way, I should talk about how the A6 and S6 E-Trons drive. I’ll just say this: Both cars are certainly geared for luxury over sportiness, and I don’t mind that one bit. I drove the entry-level single-motor A6 and the top-dog S6 — the Quattro wasn’t available for testing and neither were the Avants that we won’t get in America, so don’t ask. Both cars offered decent dynamics, but they weren’t exactly inspiring to drive. According to Audi, the 375-hp A6 E-Tron got from 0-60 in 5.2 seconds, and it can go on to a top speed of 130 mph. Those are both pretty good numbers, but I get the feeling it would much rather cruise down the highway at Autobahn speeds than attack a corner. Like most Audis, it tends to understeer when you come into a corner a bit too hot, as I did a few times on the twisty roads of Tenerife . Regardless of drive mode (there’s Balanced, Dynamic, Comfort and Efficiency), the A6 E-Tron doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence when it comes to performance driving, and a lot of that comes from the adaptive air suspension and steering tuning. The suspension was rather soft even in Dynamic mode, and the steering was very light. Please don’t take this to mean I didn’t care for the way the A6 drove — I did it’s just not a performance vehicle. To me, that’s OK, because the world is sorely missing luxury cars that are only trying to be luxurious right now. Driving down the highway with the excellent adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems working while getting a massage from the wonderfully comfy front seats was more than enough to win me over. Unfortunately, a lot of the A6 E-Tron’s driving foibles continue to the S6. These two cars put in perspective how, 99 percent of the time, different variants of an EV all sort of feel the same. Years ago, you’d buy an S6 because it had a massive V10 engine versus the lowly six-cylinder of an A6, and that felt special all the time. Now, the only real material differences between the A6 and S6 are some slightly different styling cues and a stiffer suspension. The steering is still far too light, and even with a rear-biased AWD system, the S6 pushes when you get into a corner. However, this means the positive driving characteristics of the A6 continue in the S6 as well. It’s still wonderfully comfy on the highway, meaning it’s sure to be an Autobahn bomber with its 149-mph top speed. To be fair, the S6 isn’t completely hopeless dynamically either. It’s very flat in the corners thanks to that stiffer suspension, and you can carry immense speeds thanks to the 21-inch Michelin Pilot Sport EV tires, though it’s still not very confidence-inspiring to drive quickly thanks to the extremely light steering. Overall, it drives rather well, but the S6 E-Tron isn’t going to be the sporty sedan (or liftback) you were hoping for. Inside the A6 and S6 E-Tron, you’re greeted with the sort of build quality and tech we’ve come to expect from Audi. There are two real highlights in the cabin: the technology and the seats. I’ve put my ass down in a lot of car seats in my life, and these are right up there with the best when it comes to comfort and a sporty feel. It also helps that they’re heated, ventilated and, of course, can massage your back. On certain packages, you even get speakers in the headrest, so it’s pretty much a Mazda Miata . Aside from the comfort, they’re also well-bolstered enough that you’re kept firmly in place going around corners. I don’t know how Audi was able to pull off such wonderful seats, but they’re pretty much second to none. The other aspect where the E-Tron siblings’ interior excels is when it comes to technology. The focal points are, unsurprisingly, the screens. There’s an 11.9-inch Virtual Cockpit gauge cluster screen and a massive 14.5-inch infotainment screen that are meant to form some sort of panoramic display, and you can get an optional 10.9-inch front passenger display that may be the most useful one I’ve ever interacted with. All three work exceedingly well together and never feel overwhelming, even if there’s a ton of screen real estate taking up space in the cabin . Above all of that is a huge augmented reality head-up display that can flash turn-by-turn directions like a video game and trace the lane lines and cars in front of you when you’ve got adaptive cruise control engaged. It’s a really neat system, and I’m excited to see it pop up in more vehicles. The rest of the interior is pretty well thought out as well, including the squircle steering wheel that does a good job of not blocking the gauge cluster screen. My one real gripe is the use of capacitive touch buttons. They’re everywhere from the steering wheel and the control panel to the left of the driver and on the center console. There’s also a little bit too much piano black plastic for my liking, especially on the oddly big bezels surrounding the screens, but these are just small grips. Other than a couple of other cheap-ish feeling plastic pieces, the interior materials feel very premium, whether you’re touching metals, soft-touch plastics, fabrics or leathers. Something else the A6 and S6 E-Tron excel in interior-wise is space. There’s a lot of it. At 6-foot-1 I can sit behind myself rather comfortably, and because this car is a liftback now there’s a ton of trunk space. Audi says it has 26 cubic feet of trunk space behind the rear seats. That jumps up to 40 cubic feet with the rear seats folded For reference, the ICE-powered A6 and A7 have 13.7 and 24.9 cubic feet of truck space, behind the rear seats respectively. If that isn’t quite enough, there’s a modest frunk with 0.95 cubic feet of space. That’ll be more than enough for a charger and a couple of other things. Moving outside, the A6 and S6 are both very handsome, though other than some badges and wheel choices, it’s hard to tell the two cars apart. Audi did a really good job of hiding some of the car’s chunk with a side blade that runs along the bottom of the doors. Up front, there’s a lot of black plastic that surrounds the car’s “grille,” and it does a good job of hiding the main headlights. The light pods above those are just for running lights (and they can be configured to different styles depending on what you like). Out back, it’s classic Audi with a light bar and light-up rings, though the chunk is a bit less hidden out here. There are also eight light signatures to choose from to make your A6 or S6 your own. Up top, there’s an optional panoramic glass roof that you can switch up the transparency of, similar to what Porsche has on the Taycan . Audi’s engineers and designers put a lot of thought into how the A6 and S6 would slip through the air. The automaker says the car has a drag coefficient of just 0.21, lower than the i5’s 0.23 and EQE’s 0.22 coefficients, which is partially how the A6 and S6 get such good range out. One thing I haven’t touched on yet is pricing. Well, that’s because there isn’t anything to report yet. Audi says we should know more closer to the vehicles’ release in the spring or summer of 2025. That being said, German prices are listed online, so we should be able to get some idea of what they’ll cost. Before adding the 19 percent German VAT , the A6 E-Tron starts around $52,700 and a base S6 E-Tron comes in around $83,600. If it were my money, I’d go with the rear-drive A6 E-Tron. Sure, the power and performance of the S6 would be nice, but the financial savings and excellent range of the lower-tier car make it a hard argument to overcome. A typical issue with high-performance EVs is that they feel like lower-power cars in most driving conditions, and because of that, I don’t feel like you’d miss out too much if you just go for the cheaper car. The new A6 and S6 E-Trons are setting the stage for a more electrically-focused Audi , and if that’s the future the brand is going with, it’s shaping up to be a rather good one. These cars offer a compelling alternative for the BMW i5 and Mercedes EQE buyers of the world, and I think the Audis are better looking and offer slicker tech than either of those cars. Still, it’s not perfect. For people looking for a German sports sedan , look elsewhere, because these cars are certainly geared toward luxury over sportiness. I’m honestly happy about that.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go. The pair rocketed into orbit on June 5 , the first to ride Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule on what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight. They arrived at the International Space Station the next day, only after overcoming a cascade of thruster failures and helium leaks . NASA deemed the capsule too risky for a return flight, so it will be February before their long and trying mission comes to a close. While NASA managers bristle at calling them stuck or stranded, the two retired Navy captains shrug off the description of their plight. They insist they're fine and accepting of their fate. Wilmore views it as a detour of sorts: "We're just on a different path." NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo June 5 as they head to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the International Space Station. "I like everything about being up here," Williams told students Wednesday from an elementary school named for her in Needham, Massachusetts, her hometown. "Just living in space is super fun." Both astronauts lived up there before, so they quickly became full-fledged members of the crew, helping with science experiments and chores like fixing a broken toilet, vacuuming the air vents and watering the plants. Williams took over as station commander in September. "Mindset does go a long way," Wilmore said in response to a question from Nashville first graders in October. He's from Mount Juliet, Tennessee. "I don't look at these situations in life as being downers." Boeing flew its Starliner capsule home empty in September, and NASA moved Wilmore and Williams to a SpaceX flight not due back until late February. Two other astronauts were bumped to make room and to keep to a six-month schedule for crew rotations. Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait June 13 inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Like other station crews, Wilmore and Williams trained for spacewalks and any unexpected situations that might arise. "When the crews go up, they know they could be there for up to a year," NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free said. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio found that out the hard way when the Russian Space Agency had to rush up a replacement capsule for him and two cosmonauts in 2023, pushing their six-month mission to just past a year. Boeing said this week that input from Wilmore and Williams was "invaluable" in the ongoing inquiry of what went wrong. The company said it is preparing for Starliner's next flight but declined to comment on when it might launch again. NASA also has high praise for the pair. "Whether it was luck or whether it was selection, they were great folks to have for this mission," NASA's chief health and medical officer, Dr. JD Polk, said during an interview with The Associated Press. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, both Expedition 71 flight engineers, make pizza Sept. 9 aboard the International Space Station's galley located inside the Unity module. Items are attached to the galley using tape and Velcro to keep them from flying away in the microgravity environment. On top of everything else, Williams, 59, had to deal with "rumors," as she calls them, of serious weight loss. She insists her weight is the same as it was on launch day, which Polk confirms. During Wednesday's student chat, Williams said she didn't have much of an appetite when she first arrived in space. But now she's "super hungry" and eating three meals a day plus snacks, while logging the required two hours of daily exercise. Williams, a distance runner, uses the space station treadmill to support races in her home state. She competed in Cape Cod's 7-mile Falmouth Road Race in August. She ran the 2007 Boston Marathon up there as well. She has a New England Patriots shirt with her for game days, as well as a Red Sox spring training shirt. "Hopefully I'll be home before that happens — but you never know," she said in November. Husband Michael Williams, a retired federal marshal and former Navy aviator, is caring for their dogs back home in Houston. As for Wilmore, 61, he's missing his younger daughter's senior year in high school and his older daughter's theater productions in college. The astronauts in the video seemed to be in good spirits with one stating, “It’s gonna be delicious.” (Scripps News) "We can't deny that being unexpectedly separated, especially during the holidays when the entire family gets together, brings increased yearnings to share the time and events together," his wife, Deanna Wilmore, told the AP in a text this week. Her husband "has it worse than us" since he's confined to the space station and can only connect via video for short periods. "We are certainly looking forward to February!!" she wrote. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a crew of two astronauts, lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a crew of two astronauts, lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) NASA astronaut Nick Hague, left, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, left, gives a thumbs up as they leave the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to Launch Complex 40 for a mission to the International Space Station Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 at Cape Canaveral, Fla., (AP Photo/John Raoux) NASA astronaut Nick Hague, right, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov leave the Operations and Checkout building for a trip to the launch pad 40 Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) NASA astronaut Nick Hague, right, talks to his family members as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov looks on after leaving the Operations and Checkout building for a trip to the launch pad 40 Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two astronauts are beginning a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) In this image from video provided by NASA, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, left, and astronaut Nick Hague travel inside a SpaceX capsule en route to the International Space Station after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (NASA via AP) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a crew of two astronauts, lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a crew of two astronauts, lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of two lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) The Falcon 9's first stage booster returns to Landing Zone 1 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of two lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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Do you know what a decapoda is? How about a lesser covert? What about a gall? A group of Uxbridge youth found the answers to these questions last Friday when they took part in the Brook Never Sleeps program, put on by the township’s environmental and sustainability committee during a school PA day. Broken up into groups, the children travelled to four stations in and around the township offices where they learned about aquatic insects, how to cast when fly fishing and how life goes on around the stream all year long. While participating in a nature scavenger hunt along the banks of the Uxbridge Brook, the participants wore white sports socks over their boots and shoes. At the end of the session, the socks - covered in mud and debris - were taken off and placed in Ziploc bags. The children were asked to take the bags home, place them in a sunny window and observe what grows from the socks. Later in the day, the youngsters had close encounters with live turtles brought in from Scales Nature Park in Orillia. Christine MacKenzie, the organizer, said about 40 children signed up for the free program, which is aimed at exposing children to the natural environment. The Brook Never Sleeps was held previously in March, during the March break, but MacKenzie said that time of year often saw the ground covered in snow, so the decision was made to move it to November. Midway through the day, the youngsters assembled in the council chambers for healthy snacks and several boxes of pizza before resuming the program. To answer the questions posed earlier: at a station set up by Ontario Streams, a charity that rehabilitates streams and brooks, the children used magnifying glasses to examine a host of tiny, squirming bugs taken from the stream. One, which resembled a tiny crayfish, was called a decapoda. At a session on birds, they learned that a lesser covert is a type of feather. In the nature scavenger hunt, they learned that a gall is a type of growth found on plants, usually round like a ball and containing a grub. None

Consumers in the United States scoured the internet for online deals as they looked to take advantage of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people's regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it. Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping, expected consumers to spend $13.2 billion Monday — a record, and 6.1% more than last year. That would make it the biggest shopping day for e-commerce for the season — and the year. Online spending was expected to peak between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday night, per Adobe — reaching an estimated $15.7 million spent every minute. For several major retailers, a Cyber Monday sale is a dayslong event that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. An Amazon Prime delivery person lifts packages while making a stop Nov. 28, 2023, in Denver. Amazon kicked off its sales event right after midnight Pacific time on Saturday. Target's two days of discount offers on its website and app began overnight Sunday. Walmart rolled out its Cyber Monday offers for Walmart+ members Sunday afternoon and opened it up to all customers three hours later, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Consumer spending for Cyber Week — the five major shopping days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday — provides a strong indication of how much shoppers are willing to spend for the holidays. Many U.S. consumers continue to experience sticker shock after the period of post-pandemic inflation, which left prices for many goods and services higher than they were three years ago. But retail sales nonetheless remain strong, and the economy kept growing at a healthy pace. At the same time, credit card debt and delinquencies are rising. More shoppers than ever are also on track to use "buy now, pay later" plans this holiday season, which allows them to delay payments on holiday decor, gifts and other items. Many economists also warned that President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs next year on foreign goods coming into the United States would lead to higher prices on everything from food to clothing to automobiles. A FedEx delivery person carries a package from a truck Nov. 17, 2022, in Denver. The National Retail Federation expects holiday shoppers to spend more this year both in stores and online than last year. But the pace of spending growth will slow slightly, the trade group said, growing 2.5% to 3.5% — compared to 3.9% in 2023. A clear sense of consumer spending patterns during the holiday season won't emerge until the government releases sales data for the period, but some preliminary data from other sources shows some encouraging signs for retailers. Vivek Pandya, lead analyst at Adobe Digital Insights, noted that discounts from Thanksgiving onward "exceeded expectations" and online spending throughout Cyber Week is on track to cross a record $40 billion mark combined. U.S. shoppers spent $10.8 billion online on Black Friday, a 10.2% increase over last year, according to Adobe Analytics. That's also more than double what consumers spent in 2017, when Black Friday pulled in about $5 billion in online sales. Consumers also spent a record $6.1 billion online on Thanksgiving Day, Adobe said. Meanwhile, software company Salesforce, which also tracks online shopping, estimated that Black Friday online sales totaled $17.5 billion in the U.S. and $74.4 billion globally. Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks in-person and online spending, reported that overall Black Friday sales excluding automotive rose 3.4% from a year ago. A United Parcel Service driver sorts deliveries July 15, 2023, on New York's Upper West Side. E-commerce platform Shopify said its merchants raked in a record $5 billion in sales worldwide on Black Friday. At its peak, sales reached $4.6 million per minute — with top categories by volume including clothing, cosmetics and fitness products, according to the Canadian company. Toys, electronics, home goods, self-care and beauty categories were among the key drivers of holiday spending on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, according to Adobe. "Hot products" included Lego sets, espresso machines, fitness trackers, makeup and skin care. Other data showed physical stores saw fewer customers on Black Friday, underscoring how the huge crowds that were once synonymous with the day after Thanksgiving are now more than happy to shop from the comfort of their homes. RetailNext, which measures real-time foot traffic in stores, said its early data showed store traffic on Friday was down 3.2% in the U.S. compared to last year, with the biggest dip happening in the Midwest. Sensormatic Solutions, which also tracks store traffic, said its preliminary analysis showed retail store traffic on Black Friday was down 8.2% compared to 2023. Grant Gustafson, head of retail consulting and analytics at Sensormatic Solutions, noted that in-store traffic was getting spread across multiple days since many retailers offered generous discounts before and after Black Friday. "Some of the extended Black Friday promotions really ended up leading to a little bit of a softer day-of traffic than expected," Gustafson said. In 2024, staying small on purpose seems to be paying off big for small businesses. They're keeping operations small and targeting niche, highly specialized customers. And some business owners find this strategy results in more time, energy, and money to intentionally capitalize on unique, small cap opportunities. The data tells the story of growth in small businesses for the year. According to NEXT , the Small Business Administration (SBA) reports awarding 38,000 SBA 7(a) loans under $150,000: double the amount they awarded in 2020. Here are the related small-business trends paying off in 2024. Commercial real estate agent Ryan Beckenhauer of Market Real Estate in Boulder, Colorado, has noticed that small businesses are growing smaller, and that their office and warehouse spaces are starting to reflect that as they shop for business space. In commercial real estate, many small business owners gravitate toward industrial condos and other flexible spaces. These are small-scale industrial spaces with a 90:10 or 80:20 split of warehouse to office. "More individuals are leveraging skills acquired at larger organizations to venture out on their own," explains Beckenhauer. And he goes on to say that they don't need a large commercial space as they make that leap to start a business. His clients include engineers, consultants, builders and other tradespeople. Beckenhauer's clients like the flexibility of being out of an office and being close to their inventory and workshop space. "The clients want to see and touch the finishes," he says. Small business owners both rent or buy these spaces. But he's seeing his clients opt to own industrial condos to stabilize costs due to rent increases in Boulder. And because these spaces are smaller, it can be easier for new buyers to qualify for financing. Mariana Alvarez, owner of Controller Works , an online bookkeeping and advisory firm, has noticed that small business owners outsource financial support services because they don't want to increase headcount. "Outsourcing gives them the possibility of having access to the knowledge and the skills of a CFO without having to pay for the salary," she says. "They don't have to manage or deal with the workload, employment taxes , and all that comes with it," says Alvarez. Additionally, many small business owners in fields like construction are family-owned, and this makes it easier for business owners to hand off delicate financial work to a trusted person with financial experience. Every small business has recurring tasks that can benefit from some level of artificial intelligence automation . And Alvarez sees a lot of value in using AI for small business bookkeeping. She explains that you can automate the data entry on Quickbooks. "When you create rules, as long as you create the rules correctly, it pretty much does itself," says Alvarez. From there, you can lean on financial experts to help you analyze the data and make more informed decisions. She uses AI as a background resource when guiding her accounting clients. "I believe that we still need the human-to-human interaction that comes with more perspective for financial analysis," she explains. According to the SBA , 77% of consumers feel that human interaction is still required for a positive customer experience. People turn to small businesses every day for a human experience. According to Arvind Rongala, CEO of Edstellar , small business workers can show up for their customers but still use AI for routine tasks like customer queries. "This balance allows companies to scale their operations without losing the personal touch that makes them unique. It's important to remember that AI isn't there to replace the human element—it's there to enhance it," he says. "By really focusing on one very small weakness that Amazon has, I've been able to carve out a successful business by offering something different," says Lou Harvey owner of Tank Retailer , a retailer of commercial water and fuel tanks. "When you read our customer reviews, many of them actually mention me by name because of how much we focus on customer service and go the extra mile." One of Harvey's most successful business strategies this year has been to lean into his small, niche market and offer the kind of customer experience that large retailers like Amazon don't. "Any small weaknesses that Amazon has (however small those weaknesses may be) needs to become a strength of a smaller business focusing on a niche market," says Harvey. Harvey has his company's customer service phone number front and center on the website to help earn customer trust. "I prominently feature our phone number, and a real person always answers the phone (usually it's me)," says Harvey. Lucie Voves, CEO and founder of Church Hill Classics , an online, woman-owned diploma framing company that uses sustainable materials, has noticed an uptick in customers seeking services from a business on a mission. "This year, we've seen a growing inclination for consumers to actively seek out and support small businesses owned by women and minorities," says Voves. When consumers shop small, they choose to make their dollars count. "Customers are fueled by a desire to promote social impact through purchasing power," says Voves. Long gone are the days of online retailers "building it and they will come." In 2024 we've seen more small businesses than ever turn to social commerce to sell directly on social media platforms like Instagram Shopping , Facebook Marketplace , and TikTok . Small business owners are turning toward influencers, social media ads, and organic content to target their customers. Mike Vannelli of Envy Creative creates online ads for businesses, and he has seen his clients succeed on TikTok of late. "I've seen businesses, especially in retail, use TikTok's short-form video format to make their products go viral. Think of it as word-of-mouth marketing on steroids," says Vannelli. He uses the platform's algorithm to push a company's content to the right audiences, and it works because TikTok loves storytelling. "I know small brands that use behind-the-scenes videos, customer testimonials, and even playful challenges that tap into trends to humanize their products and build trust," explains Vannelli. To stand out on TikTok, he says, smaller brands need to embrace authenticity and emotional connection. Show your team, share your journey, and involve your community in content creation. This story was produced by NEXT and reviewed and distributed by Stacker. Get the latest local business news delivered FREE to your inbox weekly.The future of the Democratic Party: Prospective new DNC chair weighs in

The abuse began when she was still an infant. A relative molested her, took photographs and swapped the images with others online. He allowed another man to spend time with her, multiplying the abuse. Nearly every day, the woman, now 27 and living in the Northeast, is reminded of that abuse with a law enforcement notice that someone has been charged with possessing those images. One of those notifications, which she received in late 2021, said the images had been found on a man's MacBook in Vermont. Her lawyer later confirmed with law enforcement that the images had also been stored in Apple 's iCloud . The notice arrived months after Apple had unveiled a tool that allowed it to scan for illegal images of sexual abuse. But it quickly abandoned that tool after facing criticism from cybersecurity experts, who said it could pave the way to other government surveillance requests. Now, the woman, using a pseudonym, is suing Apple because she says it broke its promise to protect victims like her. Instead of using the tools that it had created to identify, remove and report images of her abuse, the lawsuit says, Apple allowed that material to proliferate, forcing victims of child sexual abuse to relive the trauma that has shaped their lives. The lawsuit was filed late Saturday in U.S. District Court in Northern California. It says Apple's failures mean it has been selling defective products that harmed a class of customers, namely child sexual abuse victims, because it briefly introduced "a widely touted improved design aimed at protecting children" but "then failed to implement those designs or take any measures to detect and limit" child sexual abuse material. 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Under law, victims of child sexual abuse are entitled to a minimum of $150,000 in damages, which means the total award, with the typical tripling of damages being sought, could exceed $1.2 billion should a jury find Apple liable. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The lawsuit is the second of its kind against Apple, but its scope and potential financial impact could force the company into a yearslong litigation process over an issue it has sought to put behind it. And it points to increasing concern that the privacy of Apple's iCloud allows illegal material to be circulated without being as easily spotted as it would be on social media services such as Facebook. For years, Apple has reported less abusive material than its peers, capturing and reporting a small fraction of what is caught by Google and Facebook. It has defended its practice by saying it is protecting user privacy, but child safety groups have criticized it for not doing more to stop the spread of that material. The case is the latest example of an emerging legal strategy against tech companies. For decades, Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act has shielded companies from legal liability for what users post on their platforms. But recent rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit have determined that those shields can be applied only to content moderation and don't provide blanket liability protection. The rulings have raised hope among plaintiffs' attorneys that tech companies could be challenged in court. In August, a 9-year-old girl sued the company in North Carolina after strangers sent her child sexual abuse videos through iCloud links and encouraged her to film and upload her own nude videos. Apple filed a motion to dismiss the North Carolina case, saying Section 230 protects it from liability for material posted on iCloud by someone else. It also argued that iCloud couldn't be subject to a product liability claim because it wasn't a product, like a defective tire. In a statement in response to the new suit, Fred Sainz, an Apple spokesperson, said: "Child sexual abuse material is abhorrent and we are committed to fighting the ways predators put children at risk. We are urgently and actively innovating to combat these crimes without compromising the security and privacy of all our users." Sainz pointed to safety tools the company has introduced to curtail the spread of newly created illegal images, including features in its Messages app that warn children of nude content and allow people to report harmful material to Apple. Riana Pfefferkorn, a lawyer and policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, said there are significant hurdles to any lawsuit over Apple's policies on child sexual abuse material. She added that a victory for the plaintiffs could backfire because it could raise questions about whether the government is forcing Apple to scan for illegal material in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The New York Times granted anonymity to the 27-year-old woman suing Apple so she could tell her story. She spoke anonymously because people have been known to seek out victims and search for their child sexual abuse material on the internet. Her abuse started not long after she was born. An adult male family member would engage in sexual acts with her and photograph them. He was arrested after logging into a chat room and offering to swap photos of the girl with other men. He was found guilty of several felonies and sent to prison. What she could remember of the abuse came to her in bits and pieces. One night as her mother watched an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" about child sexual abuse, the story seemed eerily familiar. She screamed and startled her mother, who realized that she thought that the episode was about her. "It's not just you," her mother told her. "There are thousands of other kids." As her images were found online, the authorities would notify her mother. They have commonly received a dozen or so notifications daily for more than a decade. What bothered her the most was knowing that pedophiles shared some of her photos with children to normalize abuse, a process called grooming. "It was hard to believe there were so many out there," she said. "They were not stopping." The internet turbocharged the spread of child sexual abuse material. Physical images that had once been hard to find and share became digital photos and videos that could be stored on computers and servers and shared easily. In 2009, Microsoft worked with Hany Farid, now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to create a software system to recognize photos, even altered ones, and compare them against a database of known illegal images. The system, called PhotoDNA, was adopted by a number of tech companies, including Google and Facebook. Apple declined to use PhotoDNA or do widespread scanning like its peers. The tech industry reported 36 million reports of photos and videos to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the federal clearinghouse for suspected sexual abuse material. Google and Facebook each filed more than 1 million reports, but Apple made just 267. In 2019, an investigation by the Times revealed that tech companies had failed to rein in abusive material. A bar graph the paper published detailing public companies' reporting practices led Eric Friedman, an Apple executive responsible for fraud protection, to message a senior colleague and say he thought the company may be underreporting child sexual abuse material. "We are the greatest platform for distributing child porn," said Friedman in the 2020 exchange. He said that was because Apple gave priority to privacy over trust and safety. A year later, Apple unveiled a system to scan for child sexual abuse. It said its iPhones would store a database of distinct digital signatures, which are known as hashes, that are associated with known child sexual abuse material identified by groups like the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It said it would compare those digital signatures against photos in a user's iCloud storage service. The technique, which it called NeuralHash, would flag matches and forward them to the federal clearinghouse of suspected sexual abuse material. But after cybersecurity experts warned that it would create a back door to iPhones that could give governments access, the company dropped its plan. It said it was almost impossible to scan iCloud photos without "imperiling the security and privacy of our users." Early this year, Sarah Gardner, the founder of a child advocacy group called the Heat Initiative, began searching for law firms with experience representing victims of child sexual abuse. In March, the Heat team asked Marsh Law, a 17-year-old firm that focuses on representing victims of child sexual abuse, if it could bring a suit against Apple. Heat offered to provide $75,000 to support what could be a costly litigation process. It was a strategy borrowed from other advocacy campaigns against companies. Margaret Mabie, a partner at Marsh Law, took on the case. The firm has represented thousands of victims of child sexual abuse. Mabie dug through law enforcement reports and other documents to find cases related to her clients' images and Apple's products, eventually building a list of more than 80 examples, including one of a Bay Area man whom law enforcement found with more than 2,000 illegal images and videos in iCloud. The 27-year-old woman from the Northeast, who is represented by Marsh, agreed to sue Apple because, she said, she believes that Apple gave victims of child sexual abuse false hope by introducing and abandoning its NeuralHash system. An iPhone user herself, she said the company chose privacy and profit over people. Joining the suit was a difficult decision, she said. Because her images have been downloaded by so many people, she lives in constant fear that someone might track her down and recognize her. And being publicly associated with a high-profile case could cause an uptick in trafficking of her images. But she said she had joined because she thought it was time for Apple to change. She said the company's inaction was heart-wrenching.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California on Thursday, knocking items off grocery store shelves, sending children scrambling under desks and prompting a brief for 5.3 million people along the U.S. West Coast. The quake struck at 10:44 a.m. west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County, about 130 miles (209 km) from the Oregon border, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was felt as far south as San Francisco, some 270 miles (435 km) away, where residents felt a rolling motion for several seconds. It was followed by multiple smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury. The tsunami warning was in effect for roughly an hour. It was issued shortly after the temblor struck and covered nearly 500 miles (805 km) of coastline, from the edge of California’s Monterey Bay north into Oregon. “It was a strong quake, our building shook, we’re fine but I have a mess to clean up right now,” said Julie Kreitzer, owner of Golden Gait Mercantile, a store packed with food, wares and souvenirs that is a main attraction in Ferndale. “We lost a lot of stuff. It’s probably worse than two years ago. I have to go, I have to try and salvage something for the holidays because it’s going to be a tough year,” Kreitzer said before hanging up. The region — known for its redwood forests, scenic mountains and the three-county Emerald Triangle’s — was struck by that left thousands of people without power and water. The northwest corner of California is the most seismically active part of the state since it’s where three tectonic plates meet, seismologist Lucy Jones said on the social media platform BlueSky. Shortly after the quake, phones in Northern California buzzed with the tsunami warning from the National Weather Service that said: “A series of powerful waves and strong currents may impact coasts near you. You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now. Keep away from the coast until local officials say it is safe to return.” Numerous cities urged people to evacuate to higher ground as a precaution, including Eureka. In Santa Cruz, authorities cleared the main beach, taping off entrances with police tape. Aerial footage showed cars bumper-to-bumper heading to higher ground Thursday morning on California highways 1 and 92 in the Half Moon Bay area south of San Francisco. “I thought my axles had fallen apart,” said Valerie Starkey, a Del Norte County supervisor representing Crescent City, a town of fewer than 6,000 near the Oregon border. “That’s what I was feeling ... ‘My axles are broken now.’ I did not realize it was an earthquake.” Cindy Vosburg, the executive director for the Crescent City-Del Norte County Chamber of Commerce, said she heard alarms sound just before shaking began and the city’s cultural center downtown started to creak. “The earthquake seemed to go on for quite a few seconds. It was a rolling earthquake,” Vosburg said. “Just as it would start to subside, the building would roll again.” Vosburg, a former resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley, said it was the strongest earthquake she felt since the struck Northern California. Gov. Gavin Newsom said he has signed off on a state of emergency declaration to quickly move state resources to impacted areas along the coast. State officials were concerned about damages in the northern part of the state, Newsom said. White House Spokesperson Jeremy Edwards said President Joe Biden was briefed on the earthquake and that FEMA officials are in touch with their state and local counterparts in California and Oregon. Crews in Eureka, the biggest city in the region, were assessing if there was any major damage from the quake, Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel said. Bergel, who works as a resource aid at a middle school, said lights were swaying and everyone got under desks. “The kids were so great and terrified. It seemed to go back and forth for quite a long time,” she said. Some children asked, “Can I call my mom?” The students were later sent home. In nearby Arcata, students and faculty were urged to shelter in place at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. The campus in was not in the tsunami hazard zone and after inspections, “all utilities and building systems are normal and operational,” the university said in a statement. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said residents experienced some cracks in their homes’ foundations, as well as broken glass and windows, but nothing severe. There also have been no major infrastructure problems, building collapses or roadway issues, and no major injuries or deaths have been reported, he said. Honsal said he was in his office in the 75-year-old courthouse in downtown Eureka when he felt the quake. “We’re used to it. It is known as ‘earthquake country’ up here,” he said. “It wasn’t a sharp jolt. It was a slow roller, but significant.” Michael Luna, owner of a Grocery Outlet in Eureka, said that besides a few items falling off shelves, the store on Commercial Street was unscathed by the earthquake. “We didn’t have any issues but a couple of deodorants fall off.... I think the way the earthquake rumbled this time, it was a good thing for our store because the last earthquake was a huge mess,” he said. They evacuated customers and closed their doors temporarily until officials lifted the tsunami warning, he said, rushing off the phone to attend to a growing line of customers at check-out. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known as BART, stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Zoo’s visitors were evacuated. Dave Snider, tsunami warning coordinator for the Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska, said the computer models indicated that this was the type of earthquake that was unlikely to cause a tsunami and gauges that monitor waves then confirmed it, so forecasters canceled the warning. This quake was a strike-slip type of temblor that shifts more horizontally and is less prone to cause tsunamis, unlike the more vertical types, said National Weather Service tsunami program manager Corina Allen in Washington state. The California Geological Survey says the state’s shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis since 1800, and while most were minor, some have been destructive and deadly. On March 28, 1964, a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake in Alaska smashed into Crescent City hours later. Much of the business district was leveled and a dozen people were killed. More recently, a tsunami from a 2011 earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast, much of it in Crescent City.

Clif High, who predicted the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, claimed an alien invasion would strike 39 days after Donald Trump was interviewed by Joe Rogan. In 2009, computer scientist Clif High predicted an upcoming alien invasion. At the time, he said there would be a trigger to the invasion: President-elect Donald Trump’s interview on Joe Rogan’s JRE podcast . High added that the alien invasion would begin 39 days after President Trump appeared on Rogan’s podcast. On October 25, Trump spent several hours being interviewed by Rogan. The clock started to tick once he joined the host, meaning that the 39 days would be up on December 3, 2024. We’ll see 🤞🏻😂 https://t.co/Q961kEbjPF High said the alien invasion would include a battle in the air between the military and UFOs, but added that the UFOs would even strike each other. How does Clif High predict the future? High, who correctly predicted the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, began making futuristic claims in 1990 when he combined data from a software tool called ‘Web Bots’ with a predictive system called ‘Predictive Linguistics.’ “High analyzes vast amounts of internet data, particularly focusing on the emotional content of words, to forecast potential future events,” tweeted Truthpole. 🚨 DECEMBER 3 – Man who made an AI that predicted the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia says there will be an alien invasion on December 3rd 2024 Clif High is a computer scientist known for creating a predictive system called *Predictive Linguistics*. Using a software tool called "Web... pic.twitter.com/HldvAYDmAa “High’s system works by detecting language patterns that seem to foreshadow significant global shifts, such as political events, natural disasters, or societal changes.” Netizens aren’t taking High’s predictions seriously Following the viral X post about High’s alien invasion prediction, netizens didn’t seem to take the claim seriously. “We will all come back on Wednesday and have a laugh about him,” said one. “I hope they come tomorrow. Humanity needs a shake-up to its core,” wrote another. “Can’t wait! Let’s do this!!” exclaimed a third. Related: Though the computer scientist has been right in the past, the fate of his alien invasion prediction is up in the air until Tuesday, December 3. The truth is out there, but until High’s predicted date, we’ll have to wait with bated breath to find out if aliens exist.Trump says he can't guarantee tariffs won't raise prices, won't rule out revenge prosecutionsFARGO — For the third year in a row the West Fargo Sheyenne Mustangs are headed to the North Dakota Class A volleyball state championship. The East Region No. 1-seeded Mustangs defeated the East Region No. 3 Fargo Shanley 25-11, 25-17, 15-25 and 26-24 in the Class A semifinals Friday at the Fargodome. "It's so special to me," said Sheyenne senior outside hitter Alexa Killoran. "Coming back as a senior, it just means so much more." The two-time defending state champion Mustangs will battle West Region No. 1 Bismarck Century in the title match at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23. Century defeated West Region No. 3 Bismarck Legacy in three sets in Friday's other semifinal. Century is a nine-time state champion and was going for its own three-peat in 2022 when Sheyenne defeated the Patriots in five sets for the Mustangs' first state title. Sheyenne head coach Leah Newton said that, as with the Mustangs' other state title-appearing teams, it's been rewarding to see the growth of this team's players throughout the season. "You want it so bad for them," Newton said. "The fact they were able to fight and make that happen is pretty cool." The Mustangs fended off a fourth-set push from the Deacons, who were trying to force a fifth set. Both teams never led by more than two points. Tied at 24-24, Sheyenne scored back-to-back points, with right-side hitter Cora Metcalf delivering the match-winning kill. Killoran said the team focused on remaining calm, but needed to be ready for whatever was thrown its way. "We said, 'Just pretend the score is 0-0,' " Killoran said. "We wanted to come out aggressive every single time the ball was served or touched. We wanted to have that same intensity." The Mustangs erupted offensively in the first set to lead 13-1. Libero Baylor Dinger served three straight aces en route to Killoran's set-sealing kill. Sheyenne trailed throughout the first half of the second set, but a seven-point run turned the tides and the Mustangs gained control at 19-13. Sheyenne closed out the set with a 4-0 run, capped by outside hitter Abby Smithoff's kill. Shanley countered in the third set. Already leading by five, the Deacons rattled off eight-straight points to go ahead 18-6. Outside hitter Katelyn Ommen had multiple kills and an ace in the set. Mustangs middle hitter Reilly Bryant notched a team-high seven kills. Metcalf had five kills and seven blocks, and Dinger aced five serves. Makayla Amundson ended with 19 set assists and Marley Budeau had 18 assists. "We came out with a fiery attitude," Newton said. Ommen led the the Deacons with nine kills, three blocks and 22 digs. Clara Robin and Megan Dietz both had six kills. Ella Stimpson had 26 set assists and 18 digs, and Carly Hulstein had four kills and three blocks. Shanley will face off against Bismarck Legacy in the third-place contest at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23. "We're going to go hard (Saturday) and we're going to finish strong," said Deacons head coach Taylor Preston. The Mustangs remain poised for what the championship match will bring, Newton said. "We're going to have to play tough team ball and be ready," Newton said. "(The team we play) is going to be wanting it just as bad as us." Killoran added: "We need to come out confident and aggressive. Serve the ball super aggressive and just have faith in ourselves and our teammates."Justin Baldoni's lawyer has claimed "leaked" text exchanges about Blake Lively "lack critical context"

YourUpdateTV Speaks with Mia Syn, MS, Registered Dietician Nutritionist, about the Many Ways to ...It's been one month since the U.S. presidential election. And while Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump have been busy setting up a new White House administration, Democrats have spent the past four weeks trying to diagnose why they lost and how to move forward as a party. One person who thinks he has an answer to that is Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. He's now running to become the new chairman of the national Democratic National Comittee because he says it's time to reassess what matters most to voters. RELATED STORY | DNC chair slams Bernie Sanders' criticism of Democratic Party "There's clearly a lot that we need to learn about what just happened, but one thing that jumps out is that a lot of voters who were taking it on the chin with high prices — frustrated by those prices — weren't hearing from either campaign and were voting for change," Wikler told Scripps News. "Well those voters, I think that we have a chance to reach out to them and say 'look, Democrats actually want to fight for an economy that works for working people and Trump wants to give multi-trillion tax cuts to billionaires at your expense. And that is a message we know can win because it's won downballot, it won in 2018, and it won in 2006 when George W. Bush tried to privatize social security." Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is currently hearing a potentially landmark case on gender affirming care for minors — which has been a big point for Democrats to campaign on. But a Scripps News/YouGov poll released early this year showed that more Americans support than oppose laws aimed at restricting transgender care for minors. RELATED STORY | Scripps News poll: Americans largely support restricting trans rights Wikler told Scripps News that if he were to be named chair of the DNC, it's a no-brainer that he'd support American's right to make their own private medical decisions without worrying about government intervention. "Republicans want to talk about trans issues and go on the attack against trans people because that is their way of trying to divide the public," he said. "People do disagree about this. Republicans want to focus on that disagreement and use attacks on trans people in order to distract folks from the big legislation that they are planning right now — which is a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires." "Democrats are always going to fight for people to have their basic personal freedom," Wikler continued. "And at the same time, we're going to fight against those who want to dismantle the federal government and the programs like social security and medicare and medicaid that people rely on for their their basic needs and health care." You can watch Scripps News' full interview with Ben Wikler in the video player above.

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