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A comprehensive look at local, multi-state and national news events provided by the ABC 6 News Team including updates on sports and weather conditions and traffic.(ABC 6 News) – Young kids spend an incredible amount of time on smartphones and tablets, watching videos and playing games. Screens are not going anywhere, but one app is trying to bring back something a little more old school. Creativity.It is called Splat, and it turns everyday photos into personalized coloring book pages.What kid does not love to color? The problem is finding coloring books that actually feel personal or interesting. Splat lets kids…

With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in Virginia, which boasts the highest concentration of data centers in the country, one advertisement seemed to air nonstop. “Virginia’s data centers are … investing billions in clean energy,” a voiceover intoned over sweeping shots of shiny solar panels. “Creating good-paying jobs” — cue men in yellow safety vests and hard hats — “and building a better energy future.”The ad was sponsored by Virginia Connects, an industry-affiliated group that spent at least $700,000 on digital marketing in the state in fiscal year 2024.…

The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers.The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,” agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues. The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI tools available to DOT rule writers to help us do our job better and faster.”Discussion of the plan continued among agency leadership last week, according to meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. Gregory Zerzan, the agency’s general…

Capital One’s $5.15 billion acquisition of Brex underscores the growing convergence between fintech platforms and traditional banking.Getty ImagesWhen Capital One agreed to pay $5.15 billion for fintech startup Brex, the cash-and-stock transaction underscored a paradigm shift in financial services: The most successful fintechs are becoming too strategically important for banks to ignore.The timing matters. Fintech funding hasn’t collapsed, but it has changed shape. According to Crunchbase data, global venture funding to fintech startups jumped 27% in 2025 even as deal volume declined, signaling a market defined by fewer, larger checks flowing to more mature platforms. That shift favors companies with…

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) prices recovered slightly at the time of writing on Monday after correcting by over 7%, 14%, and 7%, respectively. The top three cryptocurrencies are nearing key support levels, and if they hold, could consolidate or extend their recovery in the upcoming days.Bitcoin recovers after a massive correctionBitcoin price closed below the midpoint of a horizontal parallel channel at $87,787 on Sunday, following a 7.4% correction last week. At the time of writing on Monday, BTC recovers slightly, nearing this broken level.If BTC breaks and closes above $87,787 on a daily basis, it could…

Our AI glasses are reshaping how people experience the world, unlocking new paths of creativity and self-expression while empowering you to learn and connect in more intuitive ways. They’re also driving economic and societal value by giving farmers real-time agricultural data about their crops, allowing college athletic trainers to record real-time injury notes on the playing field, and helping universities assist prospective filmmakers. We want to support groups with great ideas so they can have a bigger impact in their communities. Today, we’re launching our AI Glasses Impact Grants that will bolster organizations using our AI glasses to drive positive…

The global stock market rally may be running on borrowed time after a blistering momentum in 2025, with veterans warning that the odds of a correction are rising as stretched valuations collide with mounting geopolitical and policy risks. Equities entered 2026 on a steady footing after a robust year. The MSCI All Country World Index , which measures the performance of over 2,500 large and mid-cap equities from developed and emerging markets, is up over 2% so far this year. It hit a fresh record on Jan. 15 after gaining 20.6% in 2025, data from LSEG showed. However, some investors…

Larry Bomback is the founder of Strategic Nonprofit Finance. In my work with nonprofits and mission-driven institutions over the past 22 years, I’ve seen three recurring “states,” each with a different budgeting owner and a different cadence.When organizations use the wrong budgeting posture for their state, they get misaligned leadership behavior, delayed decisions and often a financial crisis that “came out of nowhere” but actually took months to build.Here’s how to think about budgeting in each state, and how to run a process that matches reality.1. Distressed State: CFO-Led, Top-Down BudgetingA distressed organization is not merely “tight.” It’s structurally out…

If you have a recent Windows PC, everyday performance issues might seem like a thing of the past. But resource-intensive activities like gaming or video editing will always still benefit from as much power as you can give them. And if your PC is getting long in the tooth, squeezing every last drop of speed out of your system becomes even more important.You can try third-party utilities, such as Ashampoo WinOptimizer, CCleaner, or Iolo System Mechanic, to boost performance, but these apps tend to cost money and may interfere with your existing software. Windows itself also has tools that can…

Anis Uzzaman (アニス・ウッザマン ) is the General Partner and CEO at Pegasus Tech Ventures | Chairman of Startup World Cup.We are witnessing a dramatic transformation in the global technology landscape. This is the right time for businesses to rethink how they innovate and grow. Nearly every industry is being reshaped, not only by trends such as generative AI and physical AI but also by the need to modernize infrastructure in response to climate and sustainability regulations.Here are the potential trends I believe will impact the global industry in 2026. Every company should figure out a way to cope with these…

This story was originally published on CFO.com. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CFO.com newsletter. David Ring got his first taste of manufacturing when he worked for accounting firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause in the early 2000s. Though he was exposed to clients across several industries there, he says the manufacturing sector was the most intriguing to him. So much so that his first and only CFO job to date has been with Oconomowoc, Wisconsin-based manufacturer Sentry Equipment, which he joined back in 2012. The company, which got its start over a century ago as…

Gov. JB Pritzker plans to renew his calls for more regulation of Illinois’ insurance industry.Pritzker visited Bloomington-Normal on Tuesday for a groundbreaking ceremony of ISU’s fine arts complex transformation.“The idea that your homeowner’s insurance in one single year is going to go up 27% is a bit outrageous,” he said. “The reaction that I have, and I think that many members of the General Assembly have, is that that’s not fair.”Pritzker’s claim doubles down on a rare public rebuke aimed at State Farm, headquartered in Bloomington, over a rate hike the company said was caused by inflation and extreme weather…

US Democratic Senators working on crypto market structure legislation filed several amendments on Friday, including measures to address conflicts of interest with US officials profiting from the crypto industry.The ethics-focused amendments were filed ahead of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s markup for the crypto market structure legislation this Tuesday, which seeks to give greater clarity on federal rules for digital assets, define agency oversight, and bring regulatory certainty to investors and market participants.One of the most notable amendments was Senator Michael Bennet’s purported inclusion of the Digital Asset Ethics Act into the crypto market structure legislation to prevent US officials from profiting…

Whether you’re working on your next project or gaming with the highest refresh rates, the best laptops feature powerful performance and plenty of storage to hold all your files. To find the best laptops, our tech team enlisted more than a dozen testers and put 18 models through hours of testing. Our testers unanimously named the Apple MacBook Air as the best laptop overall thanks to its intuitive software, crisp display and reliable, fast processing. These are the best laptop our tech team recommends after testing 18 models. Illustration: Forbes / Photo: James Ransom for Forbes However, the Apple MacBook…

Garfield Township, Michigan – December 19, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – Stephen Twomey has published a new educational resource examining the role, structure, and evaluation considerations associated with alternative investment groups. The analysis provides an overview of how these entities function within private markets and outlines key factors commonly reviewed by institutional investors, family offices, and accredited individuals when assessing participation in alternative investment strategies. Alternative investment groups are structured entities designed to aggregate investor capital for deployment into asset classes that fall outside publicly traded equities, fixed income securities, and cash equivalents. These groups typically focus on private market opportunities…

Money Minute: Debt managementDid you miss your 2025 goal to control your debt? You’re not alone says Thomas Nietzsche with Money Management International.“Every year like clockwork, we see folks reaching out in January and February,” Nietzsche said. “Americans have black and white thinking when it comes to repaying debt: ‘I can do this on my own, or I need to declare bankruptcy.’”But you can ask about a debt management plan.“In a debt management plan, you get the interest rates down to 6 or 7 percent so that most of the payment is going towards principal rather than interest,” said Nietzsche.They…