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The constant pressure to treat TikTok as a national security threat appears to be working, albeit only on some people. A Pew Research Center survey indicates that 59 percent of American adults see TikTok as a danger, but that this perception varies based on whether or not someone uses the service. Only nine percent of TikTok users see the social network as a major threat, while 36 percent of non-users feel the same. In all, 42 percent of users see the service as any kind of risk where 65 percent of outsiders are worried. Читать дальше...

‘Historic step’ clears hurdle to Sweden’s application to join Nato

Actor starred as series regular Leighton on HBO’s hit comedy

Twix is one of the nation's most popular chocolate bars, and the real meaning behind the sweet treat's name has now been explained.

According to investigators, the body of 42-year-old Stanislav Rzhitsky was found with gunshot wounds near Berehovoy Street on Monday morning

"I often feel like ... I'm not doing it well enough, or I'm not reaching enough people, or I'm not doing it right, or I look stupid," Bialik explained.

Here we go again. It was only a month ago that Karl Bode wrote about Disney’s absolutely and totally cool process of removing a bunch of content from its Disney Plus streaming platform not because the content sucks and nobody liked it, but because it gets to play accounting tricks as to its assets in […]

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Texas deployed a sting of buoys into the Rio Grande this weekend as a way to deter migrant crossings. It's the latest element in Gov. Greg Abbott's anti-immigration agenda.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron is pulling out of a September political rally he had planned to attend

Questions about the president’s fitness for office aren’t in good faith – if the GOP really cared about the issue, it would have divested itself of Trump long ago

Colombian prosecutors have accused a former presidential candidate of receiving at least $2.8 million from Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction giant that has admitted paying bribes across Latin America to secure infrastructure contracts

A man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other people in a series of apparently random shootings while riding a scooter in New York City was arraigned Monday on charges including murder and attempted murder, prosecutors said.

The Boston Red Sox received two compensation picks for losing Xander Bogaerts and Nathan Eovaldi in free agency this past Major League Baseball offseason. The back-to-back picks landed after the fourth round of the 2023 MLB Draft, since Boston exceeded the competitive balance tax threshold in 2022, and the Red Sox used the selections Monday […]

The NATO chief says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to immediately send Sweden’s NATO accession protocol to his Parliament.

As the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party fails to gain any significant traction, calls from within the party to “draft Brian Kemp” are growing loud, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to a three-count indictment that includes a charge of second-degree murder.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) -- A 4-year-old boy died after falling from the fourth floor of an apartment building in Brooklyn Monday afternoon, police said. The incident happened at 3301 Farragut Rd. in East Flatbush just before 3 p.m., according to the NYPD. The child was found on the ground and was pronounced dead at a [...]

The World Health Organization has declared C. auris one of the world’s "critical priority" fungal diseases.

The most recent development was "Chief Twit" Elon Musk proposing a "literal dick measuring contest" with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The most recent development was "Chief Twit" Elon Musk proposing a "literal dick measuring contest" with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

We use plastics in almost every aspect of our lives. These materials are cheap to make and incredibly stable. The problem comes when we're done using something plastic—it can persist in the environment for years. Over time, plastic will break down into smaller fragments, called microplastics, that can pose significant environmental and health concerns.

There are thousands of Netflix titles tucked away in secret

Microsoft has improved type and parameter name hints for the F# language in its Visual Studio IDE, adding return type hints while incorporating tooltips for all hints.