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Popular video game Fortnite is now available on Apple’s app store in the US after being taken off the platform nearly five years ago. The title was removed in August 2020 for violating Apple’s policies by launching its own in-app payment system. This would have bypassed a 30% commission that the technology giant charges on […]
“TikTok is here — we are here,” Khartoon Weiss, the company’s vice president of global business solutions, told a packed warehouse of advertisers on Tuesday in Manhattan. “We are absolutely confident in our platform and confident in the future of this platform,” she declared. That statement was the closest TikTok advertising executives got to addressing […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. Congress had mandated that the platform be […]
Donald Trump is preparing to consider a final proposal to decide the future of TikTok before a deadline for the app to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a US ban. The US vice-president, JD Vance, the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, […]
Across the U.S., a longtime push to ban synthetic dyes in food is gaining renewed momentum, with critics of the dyes insisting it’s not a matter of if, but when. States like West Virginia have cited the Make America Healthy Again movement, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as a […]
Watch an American TV show. If a Black character is smoking, chances are they’re pulling menthol cigarettes from a green box. “On the show ‘The Wire,’ they should have given Newports a costarring role because Newports was in every episode,” says Carol McGruder, Co-Chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC). Media portrayals […]
Mike Wendling and Kayla Epstein BBC News Watch: Andrew Tate and brother, Tristan, arrive in US Andrew and Tristan Tate, the controversial British-American social media influencers accused of rape, human trafficking and money laundering, have been freed from travel restrictions in Romania after several high-level White House officials took an interest in their case. It’s […]
Nationwide — The U.S. Department of Education has issued a new directive that will eliminate race-based considerations in admissions, hiring, and financial aid, a move that will effectively outlaw scholarships specifically designed to support Black students. According to Diverse, this sweeping order, which applies to all schools receiving federal funding, mandates that institutions remove race-conscious […]
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A wave of Big Tech companies reported quarterly earnings in recent weeks — including six of the so-called Magnificent 7 firms — shortly after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rattled the stock market as investors saw its new, cheap artificial intelligence models as an ominous sign for US tech stocks. DeepSeek’s innovations so shook the US […]