As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress to reject a…
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5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the…
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Tesla sales dropped 1.1% in 2024, its first annual decline in a dozen years
DETROIT — Tesla posted its first annual sales drop in more than a dozen years Thursday, sinking a stock that has soared since Donald Trump’s victory on optimism Elon Musk’s…
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Crypto mogul Do Kwon pleads not guilty in first US court appearance
NEW YORK — South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Hyeong Kwon pleaded not guilty Thursday to a freshly unsealed indictment released in time for his first U.S. court appearance. Kwon entered…
Read more Pakistan and India conduct annual exchange of lists of nuclear assets under bilateral pact
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and India on Wednesday exchanged lists of their nuclear assets as part of a bilateral pact that bars them from attacking each other’s nuclear facilities. The two…
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Here’s your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow moments
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring. While…
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