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TikTok is in a kind of limbo.  The Biden administration has threatened to ban the popular video app in the United States because of security concerns with its Chinese owners. But there’s no deadline for the White House to make a decision, and Congress might want to have a say …

Video footage posted on social media shows a California teacher repeatedly saying the n-word in class as she tries to get a student to repeat the racial slur after her. The video was posted on Facebook and was filmed at Sequoia Middle School in Fontana. In it, an unidentified female …

BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia — As the small red car came to a halt, the window slid down and a hand emerged, tossing some yellow crackers on the ground. Seconds later, a group of southern pig-tailed macaques, a monkey species native to the island of Borneo, swarmed the area and devoured the …

Police descended on the University of Oklahoma on Friday night after a report of an active shooter and later found no sign of a shooting and no injuries, officials said. “At this point, we’ll probably say it was a bogus call,” University of Oklahoma Police Chief Nate Tarver told reporters. …

In an unprecedented move, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime approval of key abortion pill mifepristone, but gave the government a week to appeal his decision that could throw access to medication abortions into question nationwide.  The FDA approved mifepristone more than …

A Florida sheriff went on a rant against gun control Friday while announcing the arrests of two juveniles in connection with a string of shootings that killed three teenagers. Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said during a news conference two minors have been arrested on first-degree murder charges. A third …

With powerful weight loss drugs like Wegovy soaring in popularity, you’d be forgiven for thinking they offer a quick fix to lose a few pounds. But is that what these drugs are offering? Wegovy, or semaglutide, is approved for weight loss in adults with obesity, as well as some people …

A gunman in California shot and wounded a highway patrol officer and then took two bystanders hostage before he fatally shot one and wounded the other, police in Roseville said. The violence unfolded minutes after a California Highway Patrol officer reported having been shot on a police radio at around …

Rapper Coolio died from the effects of fentanyl and other drugs, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office and his manager. Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at a friend’s house in Los Angeles on Sept. 28. He was 59. Manager Jarez Posey confirmed …

A California dermatologist who allegedly repeatedly poisoned her husband by pouring drain cleaner into his tea last year, causing him stomach ulcers, has been indicted by a grand jury, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Yue Yu, of Irvine, was indicted on three felony counts of poisoning and …