TikTok’s US ban to proceed after court denies delay request. TikTok faces US shutdown next month (January 2025). But TikTok is taking the fight to Supreme Court. TikTok is facing a potential shutdown in the United States next month after … Read more →
Summary Candidates Profile: Kamala Harris, US vice-president Age: 60 Party: Democratic Party Campaign promises: Harris’s catchphrase is “We are not going back”, referring to the policies of former president Donald Trump. She supports abortion rights, has launched an economic plan to … Read more →
Tens of thousands of dockworkers have gone on strike indefinitely at ports across much of the US, threatening significant trade and economic disruption ahead of the presidential election and the busy holiday shopping season. Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association … Read more →
Ms Harris has proved to be a loyal ally to the president and fiercely defended his debate performance. After the event, she admitted the president had a “slow start” but argued he went on to provide more substantive answers than … Read more →
Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US southwest, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the US heatwave … Read more →
A Ghanaian couple, Valarie Owusu and Emmanuel Addae, both 28, have been handed a sentence of 25 years to life imprisonment for the murder of their five-year-old The sentencing, which took place on May 1, 2024, saw the couple convicted … Read more →
US Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, has announced a strategic move to refill the United States’ depleted oil reserves by the close of 2024. According to a report by AFP, Granholm’s announcement comes after a period of historic lows in the … Read more →
The US has unveiled rules aimed at keeping Chinese components out of electric cars sold in the country. The restrictions are tied to government incentives for electric cars made in America. The hotly-debated limits are intended to help build up … Read more →
Three Ghanaian cousins, Ahmed Taju Mutalib, Abdul Haruna, and Murtala Haruna, have been arrested in the United States of America (USA) with 109 illegal firearms and rifles allegedly smuggled from the Midwest through the “notorious Iron Pipeline” in New York … Read more →
The US has sent roughly 1.1 million bullets seized from Iran last year to Ukraine, its military has said. The US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees operations in the Middle East, says the rounds were confiscated from a ship bound … Read more →