New York — TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, reached a $400 million settlement with the US Justice Department over children’s privacy litigation on Friday, one of the largest amounts yet for a case of this kind. The Justice Department first sued TikTok in 2024, claiming the app failed to stop children from joining the app…
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to seek a judicial probe into the killing of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali, Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar said on Sunday. Ali’s body was found in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar last month, a day after he went missing on July 28. While his family is convinced that he was kidnapped,…
Prosecutors in Ecuador have charged a former interior minister and six others on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of a presidential candidate in 2023. José Serrano and the head of cartel Los Lobos, Wilmer “Pipo” Chavarria, were implicated in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio at a campaign event in the capital, Quito, days…
North Dakota confirmed its first human case of West Nile virus this year on August 7, and the patient, a Cass County resident, was hospitalized. The announcement came from the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services after weeks of rising mosquito detections across the state. Positive mosquito pools have now been found in…
The following is a somewhat expanded version of testimony I presented on June 23 before the New York City Commission on Government Efficiency. My name is Josh Mason. I am an associate professor and chair of the economics department at John Jay College, CUNY, and a senior fellow at the Groundwork Collaborative. It’s a pleasure…
The police in Quetta claim to have solved the murder case of trader Mohammad Hashim Noorzai, saying the killing of the businessman was due to a business dispute involving Rs.160 million rather than personal enmity. Speaking at a press conference in police lines, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Quetta, Imran Shaukat, has revealed that police had…
Peter Kettle | 11:55pm BST 08 July 2026 A worrying thing, for me, is that Joe Root – very fine batsman though he undoubtedly is at Test level – continues to evade what I regard as his true calling, or responsibility, in the England side. Sure, he’s been one of England’s all-time greats; but that…
