President Trump said he was considering banning the TikTok, implying that it would punish China for the coronavirus. TikTok is an especially popular short-form video application among Generation Z, and has accumulated 1.5 billion downloads. His father is the Chinese developer ByteDance. US lawmakers have raised concerns about possible national …
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Stock index futures were aiming for a higher start on Tuesday when investors began to digest the second quarter results of a trio of big banks, kicking off the corporate earnings reporting season. What are the main indexes doing? Futures in the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, + 0.61% They …
Read More »The massacre that destroyed Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’
TULSA, Okla. – Incited by a salacious and largely fabricated news story about a young black man who assaulted a white girl, a group of lynchers appeared in the Tulsa city jail, where he was being held. A group of African-Americans, many of them soldiers who had returned from fighting …
Read More »Turkey to cover Christian icons of Hagia Sophia during prayers | News
The mosaics in Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia will be covered by curtains or lasers during Muslim prayers, said the spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Christian icons would be uncovered and open to all visitors at other times, and admission would be free, Omer Celik of …
Read More »Ohio man dies of COVID-19 after sharing anti-mask posts on social media, hitting virus ‘hype’
New study finds which masks offer the most protection against COVID-19 The group of researchers used a laser to detect drops and map their path. According to reports, an Ohio man died of COVID-19 after actively expressing on his social media accounts that he would not buy a mask and …
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