President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Wednesday that would ban TikTok if its not sold within a year. The social media app is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The measure is folded into a law that says the United States will provide aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. TikTok representatives have already … Read more
The anti-diabetic medication “Ozempic” (semaglutide) made by Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Senate has launched an investigation into the high price of Novo Nordisk‘s popular weight loss and diabetes drugs Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States, versus other countries where the drugs are sold. The … Read more
(NEXSTAR) — It can be hard to tell if you rank as middle class, especially when it feels like your paycheck doesn’t go as far as it once did (one government analysis suggests you need at least $10,000 more just to live like you did three years ago). A new report from personal finance site … Read more
London’s Heathrow Airport is expecting this summer will be its busiest to date after surpassing passenger records in the first quarter of 2024. About 82.4 million passengers are projected to travel through the airport this year despite a looming workers strike, according to a news release Wednesday. “The summer getaway is expected to be the … Read more
Taiwan’s quake-hit eastern county of Hualien has been rattled by more than 200 aftershocks, but only minor damage has been reported and no casualties. Largely rural and sparsely populated Hualien was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on April 3 that killed at least 17 people, and there have been more than 1000 aftershocks since. … Read more
WASHINGTON – Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the … Read more
TikTok is due to respond to the Montana appeal by April 29. (Representational) The U.S. Senate set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok’s free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution when it approved a bill on Tuesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless its Chinese owner sells … Read more
Johnson to call on Columbia University president to resign Mike Johnson said he will call on the president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, to resign when he joins Jewish students at the university later today. The House speaker, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt this morning, accused Shafik of being “a very weak, inept leader”, … Read more
A painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was considered lost for 100 years has sold for €30m (£26m) at an auction in Vienna. Entitled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, the unfinished picture was painted in the spring of 1917, when Klimt was one of the most celebrated portraitists in Europe, and a year before his … Read more
Article content A man was caught with a gun when he was pulled over for impaired driving near Pearson airport, another recent example of how vehicle stops are no longer routine for cops. Ontario Provincial Police say an officer from their Toronto detachment observed “an erratic vehicle” on Hwy. 409. Article content “(The) officer stopped … Read more
