#TikTok now has its own Billboard chart

#TikTok now has its own Billboard chart

Sexyy Red’s “SkeeYee” leads the TikTok Billboard Top 50 in the chart’s first-ever week. TikTok logo. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images   TikTok has changed an entire generation’s relationship with music, and now the video streaming platform has a Billboard chart of its own. The TikTok Billboard Top 50 was announced yesterday (September 14) by…

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#California school districts ban LGBTQ Pride flags

#California school districts ban LGBTQ Pride flags

Two California school districts banned the display of LGBTQ pride flags on Tuesday as organizations and municipalities move to limit flags on display, often citing the controversy around them. Districts in the Southern California city of Temecula and the Bay Area small town of Sunol banned the flags this week. Temecula passed a resolution banning…

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#Alaska lawmaker Peltola releases statement after husband’s death

#Alaska lawmaker Peltola releases statement after husband’s death

Rep. Mary Peltola’s (D-Alaska) office released a statement Thursday following news of her husband’s death in a tragic plane crash the previous day.  “We are truly grateful for the kindness that Mary and her family have received since Buzzy’s passing yesterday,” Peltola’s chief of staff, Anton McParland, wrote in the statement Thursday.  McParland highlighted the…

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#Texas impeachment: Ex-Paxton aide addresses his alleged affair 

#Texas impeachment: Ex-Paxton aide addresses his alleged affair 

The former chief of staff in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office testified on Monday about the top law enforcement officer’s alleged affair as his historic impeachment trial continues into its second week. Katherine “Missy” Minter Cary recalled giving Paxton “ethics advice” about the risks of an extramarital affair and warned that the office morale…

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#The next 9/11 may not be what you think

#The next 9/11 may not be what you think

Twenty-two years ago today, not only the United States but much of the world was stunned and appalled by the al Qaeda attacks that brought down New York’s Twin Towers, destroyed part of the Pentagon and killed more Americans than were lost at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941; another day of infamy.  Large-scale terrorist attacks had been anticipated and…

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