By A.L. Lee March 23 (UPI) — TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew got a cold reception on Capitol Hill Thursday as the tech executive received bipartisan questioning…
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By Paul Godfrey March 23 (UPI) — A ninth day of strikes in France over President Emmanuel Macron‘s changes to the country’s pension system wrought widespread disruption across…
By Paul Godfrey March 23 (UPI) — Switzerland’s central bank raised its key interest rate by 0.5 percentage points Thursday amid renewed inflationary pressures and in the…
By Darryl Coote Miami Beach was under curfew Sunday night as officials attempted to calm the Florida city following two fatal shootings that erupted over the…
By Thomas Maresca North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a weapons drill and called on the military to get “perfectly prepared” to conduct a nuclear attack, state…
By Adam Schrader Swiss National Bank has agreed to takeover its troubled rival, Credit Suisse, in a $3.2 billion emergency deal brokered by regulators in…
By Darryl Coote March 17 (UPI) — New Zealand banned TikTok from all devices with parliamentary access, including lawmakers’ phones, on Friday, making it the latest democratic…
By Thomas Maresca SEOUL, March 17 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the secretive state’s latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile would “strike fear into…
By Paul Godfrey March 17 (UPI) — China’s President Xi Jinping use a state visit to Moscow next week to push for peace in Ukraine and to get the warring parties…
By Darryl Coote March 17 (UPI) — North Dakota’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s hold on the state’s near-total abortion ban, ruling that access to the controversial…
By Darryl Coote Regulators shut down New York’s Signature Bank on Sunday, the second bank to be shuttered in a matter of days, with President Joe…
By Adam Schrader Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, has hit back after analysts asserted she had confirmed Kremlin infighting. Zakharova on Sunday shared…
By Joe Fisher March 8 (UPI) — Prosecutors in Virginia will not charge the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in January. Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard…
By Darryl Coote Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell was hospitalized Wednesday night after suffering a fall at a Washington, D.C., hotel, his spokesman said. “This evening, leader…
By Darryl Coote With the repatriation of Ghassan Al Sharbi on Wednesday, only 31 detainees remain at the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention camp. A long-time Guantanamo…
By Thomas Maresca North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has no intention of abandoning his nuclear and long-range missile plans and is aiming to achieve “strategic dominance…
By Adriana Navarro, Accuweather.com At least 10 people have died in the wake of a severe weather system bringing fierce winds, damaging tornadoes and flash flooding…
By Darryl Coote The White House on Monday informed federal agencies that they have 30 days to remove TikTok from all government devices amid mounting…