By Joe Tidy & Sophia Smith Galer BBC News Image copyright GETTY IMAGES President Donald Trump has warned that he will ban TikTok unless an American firm buys its US operations. So how did an app attract millions of users but come to be seen as a national security risk in just two years? Alone […]
Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut on Tuesday. The blast killed at least 100 people and injured more than 4,000 others. The whole city was shaken by the explosion and a mushroom cloud could […]
Neil Young is suing Donald Trump’s re-election campaign for repeatedly using his music without his permission. The rock star says the US president breached copyright laws by playing his songs at political rallies and events. The Canadian has objected to the use of Rockin’ in the Free World and Devil’s Sidewalk for what he called […]
Media caption ‘The Lord spared us for another day’ At least five people have been killed as Tropical Storm Isaias swept through US states on the Atlantic Coast. Two died when a tornado struck a mobile home park in North Carolina and at least three more were killed in New York, Delaware and Maryland. Isaias […]
Videos on social media show a massive explosion near the port in Lebanon’s capital city. By Ja’han Jones Akbar Shahid Ahmed, HuffPost US Multiple outlets are reporting a large explosion in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Twitter videos posted Tuesday appeared to show a massive blast near Beirut’s port, one of the busiest in the […]
Trump wants you to believe he’s like the “Old Lion” Theodore Roosevelt. But he’s just lyin’. By Chris D’Angelo, HuffPost US As a global pandemic continued to rage across much of the country, President Donald Trump held an event at the White House Tuesday to celebrate himself as a conservationist in the mold of late President […]
With the premiere of her new show “The ReidOut,” the anchor is making history as the only Black woman currently leading a prime-time cable news show. By Philip Lewis, HuffPost US Asanti-racism protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death continue across the nation, America has had a reckoning over race. It’s fitting — if not […]
David Shepardson FILE PHOTO: TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Republican senators back a plan by China’s ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had […]
Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back on Sunday at demonstrations calling for his resignation, accusing protesters of trampling democracy and the Israeli media of encouraging them. Netanyahu, who was sworn in for a fifth term in May after an election, has often complained of press bias against him, and some […]
LIMA (Reuters) – The death toll in Latin America from the novel coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday night, a Reuters tally showed, underlining the region’s status as one of the global epicenters of the pandemic that is testing governments to the limit. Apart from the United States, Brazil and Mexico have racked up more fatalities […]
