Day: January 15, 2025

The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.

Will there be ways to bypass the ban – or could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.

Spend the holiday weekend doing a day of service, attending a walk and breakfast or going to the annual parade.

by Joel Jacobs and Megan O’Matz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A decade ago, strange billboards started showing up, including in New York’s Times Square. They weren’t advertising a product. They were vilifying Connecticut’s then-governor, Dannel Malloy. And they could be…

South Korean investigators managed to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday while avoiding a violent clash in the middle of Seoul. But the nation’s troubles are far from over.

South Korea’s impeached president has been arrested, accused of leading an insurrection after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law. Thousands of police officers were involved in the operation to detain Yoon Suk-yeol.

That antagonistic confirmation hearing completely broke with norms.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said most figures within the coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu would back the agreement being discussed.