The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation’s highest court upholding a law that’s set to officially cut the cord and halt new downloads off the app starting Sunday
A jury in Panama City, Florida, on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 story about people paid to rescue endangered Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions for Americans over the last decade and more without a legitimate purpose, including for dangerous amounts of opioids
With President-elect Trump adding uncertainty around whether a TikTok ban will go into effect, the focus is now turning to companies like Google and Apple
In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, on January 21, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon
U.S. stock indexes rallied to close out their best week in two months
A fire at the world’s largest battery storage plant in Northern California is smoldering after sending plumes of toxic smoke into the atmosphere
A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service
A fire at a one of the world’s largest battery plants in California contained tens of thousands of lithium batteries that store power from renewable energy sources
Starbucks said Friday it plans an unspecified number of layoffs as it restructures its corporate staff
TikTok's CEO is thanking President-elect Donald Trump for "his commitment" to keeping the app available after the Supreme Court upheld the federal law banning it beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company
The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the financial system could help combat climate change
A federal court in New York has sentenced Mozambique’s former finance minister to another two-and-a-half years behind bars for his role in the “tuna bond” corruption scandal that triggered a financial crisis in the African nation
Lithuania's president says his country has made the decision to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of overall national economic output starting in 2026
The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump
A lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission alleges that food and beverage maker PepsiCo engaged in illegal price discrimination by giving unfair price advantages to one big-box retailer
The Sealy Mattress company is being sued for wrongful death after a man was found dead inside a locked trailer at a company facility in Georgia
Brazilian authorities say police have killed six suspects during an operation to dismantle a gang accused of planning large-scale bank robberies
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel says he intends to step down from his position on President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day
Canada’s foreign minister is warning Americans they will be paying a “Trump tariff tax” if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with a threat of imposing a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods
German Lufthansa Group has finalized its acquisition of Italian airline ITA Airways, closing a long period of uncertainty for Italy’s former flagship carrier
SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean
It’s called the Voice of America
Apple is suspending an error-prone feature that used artificial intelligence to deliver bogus news alerts to some iPhone owners
The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its U.S. operations
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