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“What time is it?” Cheryl Miller asks her husband, John. He wants to answer, but his wife has already asked him that question three times in the last few minutes. Frustrated, John yells at her to stop asking. He instantly regrets it. “I’m going into the bedroom for a minute,” John tells his wife of 54 years.

Dear Eric: My daughter and her boyfriend have been dating for eight years and got an apartment together about four years ago. They seem committed and happy and in love, but they split their living expenses like they are two roommates 50/50. My daughter makes about half of what her boyfriend does.

Here are the top stories for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Get the weather forecast for today here. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Get our free Morning Update email. Sign up here. ‘A lot of growth’: New stores, restaurants and 512 homes will be built in Plantation Should Broward close or change low-enrolled schools? School Board to discuss 2024 holidays in South Florida: Celebrate the season with Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa events | UPDATED Florida bill proposes allowing open carry, repealing ‘red-flag’ law passed after Parkland massacre Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival starts Thursday: See which events are still available Fired prosecutor gets $90K in discrimination settlement Dolphins Deep Dive: Perkins, Hyde discuss playoff chances and answer viewers’ questions Tuesday at noon Suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO began to shake when police closed in, officers say For our health, stop Kennedy, before it’s too late | Editorial Miss Manners: I want to give eco-friendly gifts.

Q: Ira, Jaime Jaquez Jr. has regressed from his rookie season. His game and moves are very limited and he can’t make a 3-pointer.  Nikola Jovic has fallen out of the rotation.  When Pelle Larson comes back, is Jaquez next? – Joel. A: The plot regarding the perimeter rotation certainly has thickened considering the recent play of Dru Smith.

Nikki Giovanni, the charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor who wrote, irresistibly and sensuously, about race, politics, gender, sex and love, died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Her death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of lung cancer, said Virginia C. Fowler, her wife. Giovanni was a prolific star of the Black Arts Movement, the wave of Black nationalism that erupted during the civil rights era and included novelist John Oliver Killens, playwright and poet LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, and poets Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange and Sonia Sanchez, among others.

By THOMAS BEAUMONT, JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A week after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Elon Musk said his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries.” The following week, the billionaire responded to a report that he might fund challengers to GOP House members who don’t support Trump’s nominees.