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Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! We’re smack-dab in the middle of spring, and that means there’s still plenty more time to make sure your spring cleaning is done. That means making your home sparkling clean from top to bottom. Vacuum the carpets, sweep the hallways, clean up after your pets, and maybe even bring in some new furniture for a complete refresh. And you can accomplish all this with some reliable gear that can make your home look absolutely beautiful. That includes vacuums, air purifiers,…

Aaron Scott had options. Stay close to home, play at the same school as his sister Liz at Oklahoma. Or get out of his comfort zone, come to New York City and join Rick Pitino at St. John’s. It wasn’t an easy call for the talented transfer forward from North Texas. The more he thought about the upside of leaving, the more it made sense. Was he really going to turn down the opportunity to play in the Big East for a Hall of Famer? And so, Wednesday morning he verbally committed to the Johnnies, the second transfer in as…

WASHINGTON — President Biden hailed Wednesday as “a good day for world peace” after signing into law a $95 billion foreign aid package that mostly finances Ukraine’s defense against Russia — while not directly mentioning that the bill also will either ban TikTok or force a Chinese company to divest from the popular social media platform. The legislation contains roughly $61 billion in aid for Kyiv, along with $26 billion for the Israel-Hamas conflict, mostly comprising support for the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, along with $1 billion in humanitarian aid for Palestinians. Another $8 billion aims to counter…

The Biden campaign will stay on TikTok, even after President Biden signed a bill into law that would force its China-based parent company to sell the video sharing social media platform or face a ban in the United States, Fox News has learned. Biden campaign officials told Fox News on Wednesday that the Biden-Harris campaign “will stay on TikTok.” President Biden, on Wednesday morning, signed a Senate-passed bill to force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, which is based in China, to sell the app or be banned in the United States, as lawmakers accuse the platform of being a risk to U.S. national…

Thousands of United Methodists are gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, for their big denominational meeting, known as General Conference.It’s a much-anticipated gathering. Typically it is held every four years, but church leaders delayed the 2020 gathering until now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This year, the 11-day gathering runs from April 23 to May 3. Among those assembling are hundreds of voting delegates — the United Methodists from across the globe who were elected to represent their regional church body — though as many as one-quarter of international delegates are not confirmed as able to attend. The delegates, half clergy and…

Taylor Swift fans have been flocking to The Black Dog in London as the pub owner strongly alluded to Joe Alwyn being a “regular” there. Swifties had been convinced that “The Black Dog” track on The Tortured Poets Department album, which was released on Friday, April 19, is about Swift’s ex Joe Alwyn and it appears that they could be right on the money. Swift, 34, released the song about an ex frequenting the London pub and the venue’s owner Lily Bottomley told Sky News on Monday: “I don’t want to give too much away, We do have a certain…

Caitlin Clark had offers from multiple apparel companies for a shoe deal before striking a historic eight-year, $28 million pact with Nike, the largest shoe deal ever for a women’s basketball player. Some of those companies didn’t think Clark was worth anything close to that. When Clark’s camp informed interested parties during the NBA All-Star weekend in Indianapolis in February that securing Clark would require a minimum of $3 million a year, Puma immediately dropped out, according to the Wall Street Journal. Adidas made Clark an offer worth just $1.5 million a year — $6 million over four years, per…

WASHINGTON — President Biden used his clemency powers Wednesday to order the early release of five people imprisoned for dealing crack cocaine in recognition of Second Chance Month — while making no headway on fulfilling a campaign promise to release “everyone” in prison for marijuana offenses. “America is a Nation founded on the promise of second chances. During Second Chance Month, we reaffirm our commitment to rehabilitation and reentry for people returning to their communities post incarceration,” the 81-year-old president said in a statement. “We also recommit to building a criminal justice system that lives up to those ideals and…

House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling Wednesday for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, calling her “very weak” and “inept.”Johnson said during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt that he is holding a press conference at Columbia University later today “with some of my colleagues from the House Republicans from New York to call on the president of the university to resign.””This President Shafik has shown to be a very weak, inept leader. They cannot even guarantee the safety of Jewish students? They are expected to run for their lives and stay home…

The Biden administration plans to hold up to twelve auctions of offshore wind development rights by 2028, with four auctions scheduled for this year.This schedule aims to provide predictability for states planning large-scale investment projects, according to the Interior Department.New York state recently halted three major planned offshore wind farms.President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled plans on Wednesday to hold up to a dozen auctions of offshore wind development rights through 2028, including four before the end of this year.The schedule will help companies, states and others plan for projects that require massive amounts of investment and infrastructure, the Interior Department…