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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or face an effective ban of the popular social video app in the U.S. ByteDance has so far refused to sell TikTok, meaning many U.S. users could lose access to the app this weekend. The app…
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Eric Gay | AP SpaceX launched the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost communication with the upper stage of the rocket that continues on into space. The company’s webcast showed data stopped transmitting from Starship about…
US President Joe Biden, left, and Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, speak on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal, bringing at least a temporary halt to the war…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket streaks into orbit after launching from the Kennedy Space Center on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 16, 2025. Gregg Newton | Afp | Getty Images Blue Origin launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, in a crucial milestone for Jeff Bezos’…
President Joe Biden is joined by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as he announces new actions to protect borrowers after the Supreme Court struck down his student loan forgiveness plan, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2023. Chip Somodevilla | Getty This year, for the first time in…
A view of the Palisades fire from a plane, January 7, 2025, in this picture obtained from social media. Mark Viniello | Mark Viniello Via Reuters One week after the Palisades Fire rushed down a mountainside, swallowing whole communities and killing at least eight people, its cause remains unknown. The answers, when they emerge, will most…
Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty Images The SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday, alleging the billionaire committed securities fraud in 2022 by failing to disclose he had amassed an active stake in Twitter, a secrecy that allowed him to buy shares at “artificially low prices.” Musk, who is also CEO of…
A view from the United States Department of the Treasury building in Washington DC, United States on December 30, 2024. The US Treasury Department was cyberattacked by a Chinese state-sponsored actor in early December. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images The federal budget sank further into red ink during December, leaving the first fiscal…
A measure of wholesale prices increased less than expected in December, providing indication that pipeline inflation pressures eased to close the year though likely not enough to provoke another Federal Reserve interest rate cut anytime soon. The producer price index rose just 0.2% on the month, less than the 0.4% increase in November and below…
Joe Thompson’s desperate post-wildfire scramble to find a new place for his family to live led him Saturday to a five-bedroom home in Santa Monica, California, that had been put on the market the day before for $28,000 a month — more than double the rent posted a year ago. The agent was asking for…