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The Biden administration is reportedly threatening the TikTok app with a U.S ban if its Chinese owners don’t sell off its stakes. This latest development in the government’s years-long focus on the leading social media platform was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday evening, with the publication citing sources close to the situation as stating […]
Rolling Stone has a new feature on Pras, who faces up to 22 years in prison on a slew of charges, including his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme and association with a foreign country attempting to influence the U.S. government. Pras allegedly donated a total of $1.1 million to Barack Obama’s 2016 campaign, which appeared as several […]
It’s raining worms in Northeast China—at least, that’s what some Twitter users think. The theory was sparked by a viral video filmed in Liaoning, a Chinese province that borders North Korea. The footage was taken on a busy street, where a row of parked cars appeared to be covered with small cylindrical. Pedestrians could be seen in […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday that there is “no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity” on the heels of the three unidentified high-altitude objects being shot down. Two of the objects were shot down by fighter jets in the U.S. states of Alaska and Michigan while the third was in Canadian airspace. “I just […]
In an effort to boost tourism, Hong Kong’s government will give away half a million free airline tickets this year to attract travelers back to the city. The Hong Kong Tourism Board launched the new global promotional campaign on Thursday, announcing plans to offer 500,000 free air tickets to tourists and local residents. The airfare, which […]
A 19-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against her adoptive parents after she spent most of her childhood locked inside a “basement dungeon room.” As reported by the Miami Herald, Olivia Atkocaitis, now 19, filed a lawsuit Monday in the New Hampshire town of New Boston, alleging her adoptive parents, Denise and Thomas Atkocaitis, prevented her from […]
A Chinese aircraft spotted in Montana has sparked national security concerns. CNN reports a high-altitude surveillance balloon was spotted this week hovering over Billings, Montana. U.S. officials say the balloon was launched from mainland China, and made its way over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and through Canada before entering the continental U.S. The Pentagon confirmed it has spent the last […]
Alarming news for the lactose intolerant: China has reportedly cloned three “super cows.” According to CNN, the animals were bred by at a public research university in Xianyang, where scientists successfully “made 120 cloned embryos from the ear cells of the highly productive cows” and placed them in surrogates. State media reports the cows, which were born right before the […]
In a heroic moment captured on camera, a child in China was seen dangling out of a building before being rescued by their daring neighbor, who shimmied across the 7-story building to retrieve them. The footage, which was shared by TMZ, shows a young child in South China’s city of Foshan with their head caught between a metal post. […]
On Friday, LeBron James’ media company Uninterrupted and Netflix announced The Redeem Team, a documentary focused on the 2008 USA Olympic men’s basketball victory in Beijing. The documentary marks the first collaboration between the International Olympic Committee and Netflix, and will feature never-before-seen footage of the Kobe Bryant-led team. The lineup that led the United States to […]
