Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Fans are accusing TikTok creators of exploiting them for cash Video-sharing app TikTok says it is “sorry” that some children and other young people have felt pressured into sending money to their favourite influencers on the app. TikTok lets fans send their favourite videomakers “digital gifts”, […]
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The annual Fourth of July spectacle will be seen by millions in New York and across the country. Pyrotechnicians work in relative secrecy, firing shells over a dry lake bed, taking notes and making tweaks to ensure that each year’s show delivers something new. But fireworks, the candles on America’s birthday cake, require preparation, especially
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A’ja Wilson was surprised that she was one of the top two vote getters in early returns for WNBA All-Star fan balloting The reigning WNBA rookie of the year trailed Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics by less than 5,000 votes in the returns which were released Tuesday. Delle Donne was one of the
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President Trump said he was “looking very seriously” at American cities that he asserted were overrun with mentally ill and “sick” homeless people who ruin life for others who live and work there. The president suggested that it was a situation that began just two years ago — even though cities have struggled with homelessness
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Netflix added a long list of movies including “Caddyshack” and “Taxi Driver” at the start of July. But the real highlight this week arrives on Independence Day, when the streaming company’s biggest success story returns for a third season. In “Stranger Things 3,” the kids have grown up quite a bit since the first season
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Though One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson has repeatedly denied reports he and former bandmate Harry Styles are in a romantic relationship, that didn’t stop HBO’s “Euphoria” from depicting the two pop singers as lovers in an episode that aired Sunday. Styles and Tomlinson were featured in the storyline for the “Made You Look” episode about Kat
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In 2016, when the Zika virus first made headlines, people canceled vacations to Latin America and the Caribbean as the mosquito-borne virus spread through the region and into Texas and Florida. While the illness caused by Zika is mild, it can cause severe birth defects when pregnant women are exposed to it. But almost as
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Tesla delivered a record number of vehicles in the most recent quarter, the company said Tuesday. The electric-car maker said it delivered 95,200 autos, bettering the mark it had set in last year’s final quarter. Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said in an email to employees last week that the company would deliver 90,000 to
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Lawyers for former Auburn University assistant basketball coach Chuck Person said Tuesday the 13-year NBA veteran was broke and financially desperate when he joined a bribery conspiracy that cheated young athletes by steering them toward bribe-paying advisers and managers. They asked a judge in papers filed in Manhattan federal court to spare him from prison
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After a strong performance in her first Democratic presidential debate, Senator Kamala Harris of California saw a significant increase in support in three polls released this week, as she and the rest of the Democratic primary field cut into the lead that former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has enjoyed since entering the 2020
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