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Getty Images Analysts have suggested it is “just matter of time” until the US ban on TikTok spreads to allied countries and beyond – as long as the Trump administration presses ahead with it. The app will be banned in America from Sunday after US lawmakers ruled it was a national security risk because of […]
The residents of the Arizona State Veteran Home Yuma are having cheerier holidays after a visit from Soldiers from U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG). Among the visitors to the residents’ Christmas gathering on December 19 were YPG Commander Col. John Nelson, Command Sgt. Maj. Mark Millare, and Chaplain Maj. Ryan Pearse. “I think it’s […]
Emblem of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation Bigoted text messages that are being sent anonymously have spread alarm among Black Americans. The Federal and state authorities are investigating a wave of bigoted text messages. These anonymous messages urged recipients in multiple states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, to report to a plantation to […]
Item 1 of 4 Monet Miller, an entertainment publicist, sits for a portrait at her residence in Atlanta. Georgia, U.S., November 8, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer [1/4]Monet Miller, an entertainment publicist, sits for a portrait at her residence in Atlanta. Georgia, U.S., November 8, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Messages urge recipients […]
The Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has said a video that claimed to show a Haitian immigrant who voted multiple times is “false”, “targeted disinformation” and likely the work of a Russian troll farm. “As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us,” said Raffensperger, who also asked that “Elon Musk […]
The Black Lives Matter protests that swept across America after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, were the largest in the country’s long history of mass movements for civil rights and racial justice. At least 15 million Americans demonstrated in 2,500 towns and cities, setting off a tidal wave […]
The latest strain of the COVID-19 virus, XEC, is circulating across the country. The new variant has been reported in at least 25 U.S. states, according to data from the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS), as WebMD reported. Some of the states with the highest cases — 10 or more each — include […]
This story was produced by Knowable Magazine. In August 2023, a beekeeper near the port of Savannah, Georgia, noticed that something odd was hunting his honeybees. Black with bright yellow legs, the flying insect would hover at the hive entrance, capture a flying honeybee and butcher it before darting off with the bee’s thorax, the […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. University campuses from New York to Los Angeles simmered with rage and recriminations on Wednesday as they dealt with the fallout from police operations to quash protests over the war in Gaza. The University of […]
Police out in full force, some using chemical irritants and Tasers to disperse the students, as more universities join the movement. Hundreds of students have been arrested across universities in the United States as protesters continue to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies enabling Israel’s nearly seven-month war on the Palestinian enclave. […]