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Getting a premium economy or business class seat for the price of economy sounds like a fantasy, but that’s what the Dollar Flight Club Premium+ Plan helps you do: This subscription service does the heavy lifting of hunting down the best flight deals and sending them to your inbox. Usually, a year of DFC Premium+ costs $99.99, but right now, new users can get it for just $29.99 on StackSocial. That’s a solid discount—unless, of course, you already have an account (in which case, no dice). Also, you have to redeem your code within 30 days of buying, and after your discounted year, the membership renews at full price automatically. If you’re okay with that (or plan to cancel before renewal), you could lock in some serious travel savings with this deal.

With a Premium Plus+ membership, you get access to discounted fares across Economy, Premium Economy, and Business Class, meaning there’s a chance you could score a lie-flat seat to Europe for the price of an economy ticket. You’ll also get alerts for domestic and international mistake fares (those rare but amazing airline pricing errors), plus exclusive deals not available online, since DFC works directly with airlines. On top of that, members also get discounts on travel perks like Priority Pass and TSA PreCheck. Before you get too excited, though, keep in mind that Dollar Flight Club currently only covers members in North & South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

If you travel frequently or have a bucket list trip in mind, this subscription might be an easy way to catch mistake fares, last-minute deals, and discounts on flights—sometimes up to 90% off. Just set your home airports, pick your ideal destinations, and let Dollar Flight Club scour the internet for the best fares. And unlike generic flight deal newsletters, this service tailors alerts to your preferences (departure airports and destinations), so you won’t waste time on irrelevant deals.

McALLEN, Texas, March 19, 2025 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a $280 million grant agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to provide critical economic relief to eligible Rio Grande Valley farmers and producers suffering from Mexico’s ongoing failure to meet its water delivery obligations under the 1944 Water Treaty. Secretary Rollins announced this grant agreement today in McAllen, Texas alongside U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and U.S. Representative Monica De La Cruz (TX-15).

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2025 – After the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiated a Title IX compliance review regarding federal funding, the University of Maine System (UMaine) has clearly communicated its compliance with Title IX’s requirement to protect equal opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports, as articulated in President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order. Any false claim by the UMaine can, and will, result in onerous and even potentially criminal financial liability.

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2025 – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins celebrated National Agriculture Day, reinforcing the importance of American farmers, ranchers, and producers as outlined in President Donald J. Trump’s official proclamation marking the occasion.

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Hopefully, you’re done paying off your credit card bill from October Prime Day, but regardless, Amazon is ready for another round—a Spring sale is around the corner. Here is everything you need to know about Amazon’s Big Spring Sale if you’re looking for some deals.

What is Amazon’s Big Spring Sale?

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is the spring version of Prime Day, although it lasts longer and features less impressive deals. It’s a seven-day sale with deals focusing on seasonal items from winter- and spring-like apparel, travel, sports, furniture, gardening, lawn, grilling, storage, and bedding supplies. And, of course, tech. This is only the second time Amazon has run this spring sale, with the first one running in 2024 from Wednesday, March 20 through Monday, March 25.

When is Amazon’s Big Spring Sale?

Amazon announced that their Big Spring Sale will run for a ful week from March 25 through March 31, 2025.

Do you need to be a Prime Member to shop for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale?

You do not need to be a Prime Member to shop Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, however, Prime Members will get more and better deals, according to Amazon. Prime membership starts at $14.99 per month. You can calculate whether a yearly Prime membership is worth it for you, but remember you can always cancel your Prime membership once the sale is over. Keep in mind that Amazon offers free 30-day trials, so you can shop the whole week of the event and cancel before making a subscription payment. You can read about how to sign up for a Prime account here.

What can you expect for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale?

Because the Big Spring Sale happens in the spring, you’re going to see end-of-season deals from Amazon outlet stores on winter items, but also on upcoming spring products. The deals seem to tap at 40% off. Here is an idea of what you can expect:

• Up to 40% off select outdoor furniture and gardening supplies

• Up to 35% off select lawn and grilling equipment

• Up to 35% off select home storage and bedding

• Up to 40% off select apparel and beauty

• Up to 40% off select sports and travel essentials

There will be “daily themes” for each day of the sale, and whatever the theme is for that day is where you can expect to find the best deals. We’ll also be publishing the best deals we find, so make sure to keep tabs on our deals page throughout the week.

Early Amazon’s Big Spring Sale deals are already live

As is usually the case, Amazon kicks off their sales with some early deals that lead up to the main event. Keep in mind these aren’t technically Big Spring Sale deals, though. You’ll know they are by the “Prime Spring Deal” badge on the product page once the sale officially starts.

Some tips for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

If this will be your first time shopping an Amazon sale, there are some basic things you need to know; you can share your Prime membership with family members even if they don’t live with you; you can set price alerts for products you want and your Alexa devices can notify you when they go on sale; and there are tools you can use to see if the deal you’re looking at is good or not. But if you only take one bit of advice for shopping on Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, let it be this one: Don’t buy anything you weren’t going to buy anyway. A good way to make sure you do this is by making a list of the products you do want ahead of time, and focus on those.

Ads are an unavoidable part of modern life. They support both free and discounted services, for better or for worse, and unless you pay for premium services like YouTube Premium or expensive Netflix tiers, it’s likely you’ll run into these commercials one way or another.

But just because ads are deeply entwined in our digital devices, that doesn’t mean they get a free pass in all situations. As reported by Ars Technica, it appears Roku is pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable here, experimenting with placing ads when you first boot up your streaming device.

Moana 2 ads are rolling on Rokus at launch

One Reddit user noticed the change when they turned on their Roku and was forced to watch a commercial for a movie before they could simply access the Roku home screen. This wasn’t an ad placed before another movie or show: Roku simply wouldn’t let the user access the device they paid for without sitting through an ad first.

The user posted about their experience on the r/Roku subreddit, where frustrated Roku owners confirmed the same was happening on their devices, as well. Multiple users received a Moana ad after turning on their Roku devices, and some threatened to ditch their Rokus over the situation. One went so far as to say, “my Roku devices will be in the trash” if the company keeps this up. The sentiment was the same in another thread, where users threatened to chuck their Rokus or switch brands for their streaming purposes. Someone even wrote: “I was indifferent to Moana. But now I will go out of my way to hate on that movie.” (Disney might want to reconsidering its marketing strategy.)

According to Ars Technica, the ads are supposed to have a close button, though some users don’t seem to see it when it pops up on their end. The outlet reached out to Roku, who confirmed the ads are intentional, but aren’t yet official: Roku OS won’t have permanent ads at start for the moment. It seems this is simply an experiment. If so, they’re certainly receiving some valuable feedback from customers.

I understand why Roku users are angry. It’s one thing to show static ads on the home screen—even that feels wrong on a device you paid for. But to stop you from being able to actually use your streaming device until you watch a commercial? The future isn’t looking so bright.

Your Roku is designed for ads

While this experiment is pretty anti-consumer, it isn’t all that surprising coming from Roku. The company, like many others, collects your data as you use its devices, and uses that data to, you guessed it, serve you ads.

Roku is very focused on ads as a business model, exploring ways to not only place as many ads on the home screen as possible, but potentially show you ads when you’ve paused content on a non-Roku device that is connected to your Roku TV. Yikes.

You expect ads in exchange for free content, but we’ve longed moved past this business model. Now, ads and data scraping subsidize devices and services. Your Roku Express only costs $30 (or less, depending on the deal), not because that’s what the hardware is inherently worth, but because Roku is banking on you earning the company more money with your data and ad exposure. You pay less for the product, because you are the product. Now, sit tight, and watch an ad for Moana 2 before choosing to watch something else filled with ads.

Can you stop ads from appearing when starting up your Roku?

There’s no official solution to this situation yet, and not all users will even see these ads when booting up their Roku devices. If you do, there might be something you can do about it, but it’s complicated.

Roku has had static on-screen ads long before this current situation. While far less obtrusive than start ads, some users want to block all ads on their Roku devices. Since Roku, unlike a computer, doesn’t have a native ad-blocker to install, many turn to Pi-hole, a service that can block ads on many sites across devices.

The issue is, setting up Pi-hole can be a bit technical. The company has a thorough walkthrough on its site to get set up, so if you’re interested, go ahead and give it a scan. When properly configured, Pi-hole says it can block most ads across your devices, so you might notice a lack of ads across everything you use to access the internet—not just your Roku.

If you wanted to play some tunes on your iPhone this afternoon, but found nothing would play, it’s not just you: As of Tuesday afternoon ET, Apple Music is down.

Apple’s System Status website currently confirms Apple Music’s downtime. As of this piece, the site shows the following status for Apple Music:

Apple Music – Outage

Today, 2:26 PM – ongoing

Some users are affected

Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service.

All other Apple services, including the App Store, FaceTime, iMessage, and all iCloud services, are currently online.

I first saw the news thanks to 9to5Mac’s Chance Miller. Both Miller and I are personally not experiencing any issues with Apple Music. In fact, as I write this piece, I’m streaming the same Lo-Fi Breeze playlist I’ve been playing all afternoon. I’ve tested it on both my iPhone and my Mac, making sure to stream music and not to play downloaded tracks, and I’ve encountered zero issues.

The service has definitely worked for me since 2:26 p.m., so it’s not clear how widespread this Apple Music outage actually is. But if you are having trouble getting Apple Music to work this afternoon, know you aren’t alone, and that it likely isn’t something on your end. Apple will likely have a fix out as soon as possible for whatever is causing the outage; so, in the meantime, sit tight, and play some music on YouTube.