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The holiday season may be warm, merry and bright, but it’s also a time when it’s all too easy to spend more than you plan to and rack up debt you can’t manage.

Beginning next year, Jeff Davis Parish educators will be tested on a newly adopted scale created by state and national education professionals.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she is confident that a tariff war with the United States can be averted. But her statement Thursday — the day after a phone call with U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump — did not make clear who had offered what. On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States. Sheinbaum wrote on the same day that “migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border.” Trump had earlier threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico unless the country stops the flow of migrants and drugs.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — At least five Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut have been targeted by bomb threats on their homes. Reps. Jim Himes, Joe Courtney, John Larson and Jahana Hayes all reported that they received the threats Thursday. No evidence of a bomb was found by police on their properties. This comes a day after a number of Presidentelect Donald Trump ’s most prominent Cabinet picks and appointees were targeted by bomb threats and “swatting attacks.'

With the Christmas season in full swing, the Zigler Art Museum is getting into the holiday spirit by hosting an art event for area children.