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Nintendo has announced a June 5 launch date for its latest gaming console, the Switch 2, which will introduce interactive chat and screenshare functions to connect gamers.

At its 60minute Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed a more vibrant display on the Switch 2, a larger screen and several games that will launch with the console.

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Published on April 3, 2025

Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventhhour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Under the law, TikToks Chineseowned parent company ByteDance is required to sell the platform to an approved buyer or take it offline in the United States. Trump has suggested he could further extend the pause on the ban, but he has also said he expects a deal to be forged by Saturday.

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Published on April 3, 2025

The sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump were met initially with measured reactions from key trading partners, highlighting the lack of appetite for a fullfledged trade war.

Trump presented the import taxes, which he calls reciprocal tariffs and range from 10% to 49%, in the simplest terms: the U.S. would do to its trading partners what he said they had been doing to the U.S. for decades.

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Published on April 3, 2025

DOGEs days appear to be numbered.

Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that at some point, hes going to be going back to running his companies. As far as the Department of Government Efficiency, Trump said it will end.

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Published on April 3, 2025

It was a stormy evening yesterday, but the rain and thunderstorms are gone, for now…

We had likely tornado damage stretching from Brownsburg to Eagle Creek to Carmel, with additional damage in Madison and Delaware counties. Plus, we have a lot of straight line wind damage across the state. As of 2 a.m., there were over 165,000 power outages across Indiana.

Surveys will begin today from the National Weather Service.

We have a few hours of dry, quiet weather for cleanup before more rain chances move in. We have a flood watch in effect across all of central Indiana until 8 a.m. Sunday.

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Published on April 3, 2025

A woman had to be rescued after the storms caused damage to the Sur La Table warehouse in Brownsburg.

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Published on April 3, 2025