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Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, dies age 99 11/25/2025 05:10pm • Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar boom, when plastic molding and mass production transformed how American kids played. That shi Brother of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe is sentenced for backing paramilitaries 11/25/2025 03:55pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A brother of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison for his alleged role in an illegal paramilitary group linked to hundreds of killings during the peak of Colombia’s civil war. Prosecutors said that in the 1990s Santiago Urib DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she won't run for a fourth term 11/25/2025 02:28pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday she will not be running for a fourth term as mayor. Bowser has been mayor of the nation's capital since 2015. "With a grateful heart, I am announcing that I will not seek a fourth term," Bowser said in a video posted on X Tuesday afternoon. Her Movie Review: 'Zootopia 2' is a cuddlier, tamer sequel 11/25/2025 12:00pm • The original “Zootopia” was a minor miracle. Here was a Disney animated film that took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides tale, anthropomorphize it and, as a bonus, sneak in a Department of Motor Vehicles sloth gag that the DMV is still wincing from. A sequ U.S. Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia agrees to pay nearly $5.2M in overdue personal taxes 11/25/2025 11:35am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million in overdue personal taxes, the latest saga for the former billionaire who has been followed by a trail of financial challenges going back well over a decade. An attorney for Justice and his wife, American menswear designer Jeffrey Banks is finally sharing his story and starting a new chapter 11/25/2025 10:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — Designer Jeffrey Banks spent years co-authoring seven books on fashion before finally deciding it was time to share his own story. The menswear designer recounts more than 50 years in fashion, from working for Ralph Lauren to launching his own label, in his new memoir “Storytelle Bucknell Bison play the Buffalo Bulls 11/25/2025 04:42am • Buffalo Bulls (6-0) vs. Bucknell Bison (2-5) Cypress Lake, Florida; Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Buffalo and Bucknell meet at Suncoast Credit Union Arena in Cypress Lake, Florida. The Bison are 2-5 in non-conference play. Bucknell is ninth in the Patriot League scoring 65.1 points while sho News from outside disappears in North Korea 11/24/2025 10:51pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee's Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time The Latest: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James 11/24/2025 09:59pm • A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump ’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The rulings from Myanmar state television broadcasts army crackdown on scam centers 11/24/2025 08:29pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has begun broadcasting extensive video on state television of its crackdown on online scam centers, showing buildings being bulldozed and over 1,000 foreigners detained. Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations that target people all over Seahawks’ pass rush returns to form but Macdonald says it can improve further 11/24/2025 07:53pm • A week after its first sackless performance of the season, the Seattle Seahawks’ defense — for the most part — returned to form against the Tennessee Titans. Even without the injured Tyrice Knight and with fellow linebackers Uchenna Nwosu and Chazz Surratt missing parts of the game with injuri What Is the 2026 Conforming Loan Limit? 11/24/2025 07:00pm • The conforming loan limit is the maximum amount of money a homebuyer can borrow using a conventional mortgage that's eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, adjusts the baseline limit each year based on the national 4 Credit Card Management Apps for a Busy Holiday Season 11/24/2025 07:00pm • If you're like many people, you rely on apps to track everything from fitness goals to prescriptions. Why not use apps to manage your credit cards and help keep track of your finances during the busy holiday season? This guide will get you up to speed on apps designed to manage all aspects of your c Multiunit Mortgage: How to Buy a Duplex, Triplex or Fourplex 11/24/2025 07:00pm • In some markets, one property can have up to four dwellings and still be financed with traditional residential loans. Financing a multiunit property is similar to taking out a mortgage for a single-family home -- either as a primary residence or a rental. What Is a Multiunit Property? Duplexes, trip Trump Administration Says Nursing Isn't a 'Professional Degree.' That May Impact Your Student Loans. 11/24/2025 07:00pm • Does President Donald Trump's administration consider your graduate degree "professional"? If you're planning to finance it with federal loans, that definition will soon make a big difference in the amount of money you can borrow. Law, medicine and dentistry are among the degrees classified as "prof