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A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year

If you are an Amazon Prime Video user, get ready to see ads on movies and TV shows starting next month

Premarket trading on Wall Street was mixed on what’s expected to be another quiet day between the Christmas and New Year holidays

Asian shares are mixed in muted trading on the last trading day of the year

Obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are capturing the attention of celebrities and showing promising results in helping people shed pounds

U.S. stock futures are little changed Friday as the market puts the wraps on a year of surprisingly robust gains

Federal regulators have lessened the severity of their warning about cracks discovered in a backup emergency fuel line at a South Carolina nuclear plant northwest of the state capital

A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons

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₹9 trillion in the April to November period, about half of the estimated full-year target, as tax revenue grew in twin digits, and spending and subsidy outgo were broadly in line with estimates. With this, fiscal deficit, the gap between government spending and revenue that is met through borrowing, for the full fiscal looks set to remain in line with the ₹17.9 trillion estimated at the beginning of the year. The government has so far stuck to its borrowing calendar although it has secured Parliament’s approval for extra spending of a net ₹58,378 crore in the current fiscal involving cash outgo.

₹318 crore in the domestic market, according to trade monitoring website sacnilk.com. In the Hindi-speaking belt alone, Salaar earned ₹110.48 crore, and on the eighth day -- till 9 pm, the collection was ₹10 crore. As for worldwide, the film’s team claimed that Salaar has crossed the ₹550 crore mark, becoming the seventh film of the year to cross the mark after Pathaan, Jawan, Leo, Gadar 2, Jailer, and Animal. ALSO READ: Salaar vs Dunki: Survey reveals clear winner among fans; Prabhas or Shah Rukh Khan? Check pre-release winner On the contrary, Bollywood king Shah Rukh Khan's Dunki's 7-day box office collections at the domestic market stood at ₹160.22 crore.

Taylor Swift might make a special appearance on NFL star Travis Kelce's podcast, «New Heights.» Travis, who co-hosts the podcast with his brother Jason, recently hinted at a family edition of their show, fueling speculation that the pop sensation could join the holiday spectacular. Let's delve into the details surrounding this potential collaboration and the anticipation building among fans.

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By Lewis Krauskopf

Grey's Anatomy enthusiasts, but the much-anticipated return for Season 20 is finally within sight. Here's the latest update on when the beloved medical drama will grace our screens once again.

government's fiscal deficit in the first eight months of this fiscal year hit 50.7% of the annual target, compared with 58.9% a year before, as a tight leash on spending in recent months on top of improved tax collections kept the deficit under control, according to official data released on Friday. In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit until November dropped below the level a year earlier, for the first time this fiscal year. Between April and November, the deficit touched ₹9.07 lakh crore, compared with ₹9.78 lakh crore a year before. The fiscal gap in November narrowed more than a half to ₹1.03 lakh crore from ₹2.20 lakh crore a year earlier, thanks to lower tax devolution to states, a contraction in revenue spending and only a marginal increase in capital expenditure. The lower deficit further lends credence to the official assertion that the FY24 deficit target of 5.9% of GDP will be met, amid fears the nominal economic growth may trail the budgeted goal (10.8% after the base revision).

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday became the national president of the JD(U) before the crucial Lok Sabha polls. The decision was taken at the national executive meeting of the JDU in Delhi. During the meeting, JDU president Lalan Singh, citing his engagements over upcoming Lok Sabha elections, offered to step down as party president and proposed the name of Nitish Kumar.

Gaza Strip, with nearly 200 people reported killed in the past 24 hours of air strikes and artillery barrages on the shattered enclave. Israeli warplanes attacking the south of Gaza flattened homes and buried families as they slept, residents said.

seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra are already showing the fault lines between one key ally and one prospective ally of the Congress humiliating the grand old party leadership in the state. While Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi's Prakash Ambedkar described the state Congress leaders as «donkeys», the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) faction of Shiv Sena had on Friday said that the state Congress leadership did not matter. «Those who are speaking (in the state Congress) do not have any powers.

Mary Tyler Moore, born on December 29, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, aspired to be an entertainer from a young age. She expressed her early determination in a 1997 interview with the Archive of American Television, stating, «I knew at a very early age what I wanted to do.» Moore, who passed away on January 25, 2017, due to complications of type 1 diabetes, humorously described her passion as «just showing off,» a trait she exhibited since around the age of 3.