With the Supreme Court’s move Friday to uphold a ban on video sharing app TikTok, the social media app could be shut down as soon as Sunday. There’s still some uncertainty about TikTok’s future after the court denied parent company ByteDance’s argument that a ban on the app infringes on users’ free speech. That’s because…
An enormous Blue Origin rocket meant to challenge SpaceX in regularly deploying satellites and other cargo into orbit underwent its inaugural flight test Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The New Glenn rocket, developed by the space technology company owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, had been rolled out days ago to the launch…
Hundreds of Citibank customers reported receiving fraud alerts and difficulties accessing their accounts on Wednesday. According to Down Detector, a service that tracks outages, hundreds of Citibank users began flagging issues around 9 a.m. ET. Citibank was “aware of the issue and are working to fix it,” the bank wrote on X in response to…
With less than one month until TikTok could be banned in the United States, a billionaire is tossing his hat into the ring as a potential buyer. Frank McCourt, founder of Project Liberty and executive chairman of McCourt Global, announced last week that he is building a group of associates to purchase TikTok in order…
A California man was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being found guilty of running a “birth tourism” business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. in order to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship. 59-year-old Michael Wei Yueh Liu was found guilty in September of conspiracy and money…
They’re not birds or planes; they’re drones. But Americans are wondering who is flying them and why there are so many of them. Mysterious drone sightings have recently been sighted across eastern states, prompting lawmakers’ call, for answers. Both the governor of New York and former governor of Maryland took to social media demanding transparency…
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in “the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history,” the White House announced Thursday. The amnesty will be extended to roughly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and 39 others who were convicted of…
President-elect Donald Trump will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, a source familiar with his plans told USA TODAY. Thursday will mark the first time that Trump will ring the stock exchange bell, a symbolic ritual that is often designated to celebrities and visiting dignitaries. But the president-elect isn’t…
Now that’s a lot of zeroes. Elon Musk − whose wealth and influence have skyrocketed since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory – is the first person to reach $400 billion in net worth. The Tesla CEO was already the world’s richest person. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index said Musk’s fortune has increased 77% since the November election…
Krispy Kreme doughnut deliveries have been disrupted by a cyberattack, the company says. Krispy Kreme stores are open for in-person orders, but the company is “experiencing certain operational disruptions, including with online ordering in parts of the United States,” it says in a report filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the report,…