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Peter Yarrow. Sherry Rayn Barnett/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Here are the famous people who died in 2025. Soap star Leslie Charleson and legendary musician Peter Yarrow have passed away. So did Aubrey Plaza's husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, and MLB Hall of Famer Bob Uecker. Below, we look back at those we lost in 2025. Jeff Baena, 47 Jeff Baena. Rich Polk/Getty Baena was known for writing and directing comedic independent movies like "Life After Beth," "The Little Hours," and "Horse Girl." Many of them starred his wife Aubrey Plaza. He also wrote the 2004 movie "I Heart Huckabees" with director David O. Russell. Baena died by suicide on January 3. If you or someone you know is experiencing depression or has had thoughts of harming themself or taking their own life, get help. In the US, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline . Help is also available through the Crisis Text Line — just text "HOME...

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Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Could Elon Musk buy TikTok? Several reports say that's what Chinese government officials are contemplating. It sure seems like a stretch! And there are lots of downsides. But we're in a weird time, where weird deals could become reality. MuskTok? I mean, on the one hand — why not? We're already in a world where Mark Zuckerberg is using Donald Trump's election as a reason to change the way Meta maintains its restrooms . (Seriously.) So why not have Elon Musk swoop in with a deal to buy TikTok from ByteDance, the Chinese company that currently owns it, to get around a law that's meant to ban the service on January 19? That's what Chinese government officials are pondering, per Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal . The Financial Times , meanwhile, reports that China is merely hoping that Musk will somehow "broker" a solution. All of the reports convey the sense that all of this is … f...

The author's husband (not pictured) still works as a teacher for health insurance. Solskin/Getty Images My husband has been teaching for 20 years. His salary is $19,000 above the poverty level for our family of seven. While money is tight, it's worth him keeping his job for our health insurance. For most of his career as a public school teacher , my husband's paycheck has hovered just above the poverty level for our family. This past summer, my children even qualified for the free lunch program through the schools. Today, with my husband's 20 years of teaching experience and a Masters degree, his pay is about $19,000 above the poverty level for a family of our size in our state. He has reached the top of the teaching pay scale at our school, which means his income will not increase after this year, but with five children, two of them teens and two on the brink, we are entering one of the most expensive phases of our lives. Although we have talked about my ...

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin made nearly $200,000 from paid speeches and op-eds in recent years. Some of those op-eds were on climate-related topics. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick to lead the EPA, made $186,000 from paid op-eds and speeches. Some of those op-eds criticized climate policies and ESG. The former NY congressman also made $45,475 from gambling at casinos. Former Rep. Lee Zeldin , President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, has made millions of dollars in recent years from consulting, speaking fees, and paid op-eds, according to a financial disclosure made public on Saturday. That includes tens of thousands of dollars to write about environmental and climate change-related topics. In one instance, Zeldin was paid $25,000 for an op-ed in which he likened environmental, social, and governance investing, or ESG, to the practices of disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried . A...

  Scott Olson/Getty Images Donald Trump's suggestion for increased NATO defense spending has divided European countries. Trump called for NATO members to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP. Many European NATO members have struggled to meet the current 2% defense spending goal. Donald Trump's suggestion that NATO members should allocate 5% of their GDP on defense has prompted mixed reactions in Europe. The president-elect floated the figure — which is more than double the current target — at a press conference on Tuesday. "I think NATO should have 5%," he said. "They can all afford it, but they should be at 5%, not 2%." Currently, no alliance member spends 5% of GDP on defense. NATO estimates showed Poland was set to lead the alliance in defense spending as a percentage of GDP in 2024, with Warsaw investing more than 4% of its economic output on defense. Estonia and the US followed, spending 3.43% and 3.38% respectively. Trump's remarks s...