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Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the immensely popular social media app focused on uplifting videos, in a move that could prevent the Trump administration from banning it from the US, according to reports. The Seattle tech giant founded by Bill Gates is in discussions to buy TikTok in a deal valued in the …

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday condemned the decision to delay legislative elections in Hong Kong, one day after President Trump asked if the U.S. should postpone its own November election. “We condemn the Hong Kong government’s decision to postpone for one year its legislative council elections and to disqualify opposition candidates,” McEnany said at a press …

The feds will give Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to churn out a coronavirus vaccine in the Trump administration’s latest and largest bet on an experimental inoculation. More than half the award announced Friday will help the European drugmakers develop and test their vaccine, while the rest will be used to support manufacturing …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) dismissed President Trump’s suggestion on Thursday to delay the November elections because of possible voter fraud, along with a number of additional high-ranking Republican officials. McConnell said this year’s election would go forward as planned on November 3 in a call to Kentucky’s WNKYTV. The majority leader mentioned …

President Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the 2020 election “until people can properly, securely and safely vote.” In a series of tweets, the president attacked mail-in voting, saying it “is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster” and would cause “the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, …

California officials are suing President Trump’s administration to ensure they can continue to inflate their power in Washington, D.C. by counting illegal aliens in congressional apportionment — giving the state more congressional seats and electoral college votes than it would otherwise have. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with other California officials, filed suit against …

The net worth of Kodak’s top executive has skyrocketed on the company’s transformation from an ailing camera maker to cutting-edge pharmaceutical start-up — thanks in part to some timely share purchases. James Continenza, Kodak’s executive chairman and de facto CEO, was sitting pretty as the company’s largest individual shareholder — with 650,000 shares  — when …

President Trump said Tuesday that he has never discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin the intelligence indicating that Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops despite several phone calls between the two heads of state since the intelligence was made known. “I have never discussed it with him,” Trump said in an interview with …

The acting chief of the Park Police on Tuesday defended federal law enforcement agents clearing protesters from outside the White House last month just before President Trump walked through the area for a photo op at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Chief Gregory Monahan said that while he was aware Trump was scheduled to walk through …

Twitter, Facebook and Youtube have deleted a viral video shared by President Trump that peddled disinformation about COVID-19, including that masks are unnecessary and that hydroxychloroquine is a “cure” for the coronavirus. Donald Trump Jr. called the video, which was viewed tens of millions of times on the three social media platforms, a “must watch,” …