Keeping Up With America | | Trump isn't president yet, but that hasn't stopped him from starting to act like he is: Foreign leaders have lined up to speak with him. He has rattled Mexico and Canada with threats of steep tariffs and warned there would be "hell to pay" for militants in Gaza unless they release the hostages by the time he's sworn in.
Appeals court upholds TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale: A federal appeals court upheld a law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. in the coming months if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell its stake in the app, dealing another setback to the widely popular video-sharing service in its battle with the federal government. | Pennsylvania grandmother who fell down sinkhole looking for cat found dead after 4-day search: The days-long search for a Pennsylvania grandmother, who fell through a sinkhole while searching for her cat, ended in tragedy when rescuers found the woman's body, authorities said Friday. | UnitedHealthcare is increasing security after Brian Thompson's killing, executive says: The CEO of UnitedHealth Group, Andrew Witty, told employees he would increase security, including "perimeter protection," at the company's sites following the killing of one of their colleagues, CEO of the company's health insurance branch Brian Thompson. | How public health officials rapidly traced the source of the McDonald's E. coli outbreak: In one of the early reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in what would later lead to a recall of McDonald's Quarter Pounders in several states, a 61-year-old man from Wisconsin said he got sick after eating the hamburger with onions that he said he didn't order. |
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