TikTok, a digital platform beloved for its short and snappy videos, is experimenting with letting users upload clips as long as 60 minutes.

Back when it first launched in the U.S. in 2017, TikTok featured clips lasting only 15 seconds. But the company, which is owned by ByteDance, has eased its time restrictions in the years since, with all ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his revised state budget last week with details of how he planned to close a $27.6 billion deficit. Now, outraged educational leaders across California are calling the cuts to school funding “unconstitutional” and has the potential for litigation.

Some of those cuts involve Proposition 98, a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Dali cargo ship is set to be refloated Monday morning, the Key Bridge Response Unified Command announced Saturday afternoon.

After sitting stuck in the Patapsco River following its March 26 crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the vessel is scheduled to leave its position at high tide Monday morning around 5:...Read more

One of the tragic flaws of 9/11 is now fixed.

President Joe Biden has signed into law the “FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024,” requiring secondary cockpit barriers on all commercial airplanes.

As The Boston Herald reported, the new rule was adopted by the U.S. House 387–26 this week, placing the matter before the president. Now it is the ...Read more

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was served a patriotic-themed birthday cake during his 80th birthday party in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday night — then served with a notice of indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.

Giuliani was indicted last month alongside 18 other allies of ...Read more

NEW YORK — The homeless man accused of punching “Reservoir Dogs” actor Steve Buscemi was hit with assault charges following his arrest, cops said Saturday.

Suspect Clifton Williams’ arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was expected to happen Saturday, officials said.

Williams, 50, was taken into custody on second degree assault ...Read more

CHICAGO — It’s official, Chicagoland. Periodical cicadas have arrived.

The large insects, which last emerged in the area 17 years ago, have been spotted in droves in pockets of the city and suburbs. On certain streets on the Far Southwest Side Saturday, cicadas dotted the sidewalks and blanketed the trees.

“It’s pretty exciting. It’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — In late June, around the time the U.S. Supreme Court wraps up its current term, Justice Sonia Sotomayor will turn 70.

Is that old enough to retire?

For most Americans, that’s a simple question: More than 80% of Americans age 70 or older have left the labor force. Among those still working, a large share say they would retire ...Read more

Benny Gantz, an Israeli opposition leader in the country’s three-man war cabinet, said Saturday that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t offer a new plan to bring back hostages and end Hamas rule in Gaza by June 8, he’ll leave the government.

While such a move wouldn’t collapse the ruling coalition — it has 64 seats out of a...Read more

CHICAGO — Gladys Heredia, a 58-year-old diabetic grandmother from Peru, said city officials told her Wednesday that after June 10, she could no longer stay at a migrant shelter in the Streeterville area because it is shutting down. She said she’s worried about how her family will be able to survive.

Heredia, her daughter, and her daughter�...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Seizures of pills containing fentanyl have skyrocketed in the U.S., underscoring the country's struggle to curb deaths from a highly potent, synthetic opioid that has been detected in an array of drugs, including counterfeit versions of non-opioids such as Xanax.

Data showing more than a 2,300% increase in pills with fentanyl ...Read more

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was served a patriotic-themed birthday cake during his 80th birthday party in Palm Springs, California, Friday night — then served with a notice of indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.

Giuliani was indicted last month alongside 18 other allies of ...Read more

Despite shocking surveillance video, which seemingly shows Sean “Diddy” Combs violently assaulting his ex-girlfriend at a hotel in 2016, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office revealed it’s “unable” to bring charges against the hip-hop music mogul.

The office of DA George Gascón confirmed in a statement that it was “aware of ...Read more

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s condition remains serious but the most recent surgery helped to bring it closer to a “positive prognosis,” a minister said on Saturday.

Three days after he suffered multiple gunshot wounds in an assassination attempt, Fico, 59, is conscious and stable in an intensive-care ...Read more

Vladimir Putin is wrapping up a trip to China, where his warm ties with President Xi Jinping have led to booming trade and increasing defense coordination. More than two years since his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine began, it’s a far cry from efforts by the U.S. and its Group of Seven allies to isolate the Russian leader.

They imposed ...Read more

The winds that roared out of a supercell thunderstorm Thursday night leaving a deadly trail across Houston are on the rise in a warming climate, though researchers are still teasing out the exact relationship between a rapidly heating planet and relatively small-scale weather patterns.

Power remains out for almost 700,000 customers in the ...Read more

Light pollution has steadily intensified and expanded from urban areas, and with the advent of LED lighting, it is growing in North America by up to 10% per year, as measured by the visibility of stars in the night sky. In our recent study, we found that the glow from cities and urban outskirts can powerfully attract migratory birds, drawing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles police internal investigators dig deeper into one of the bigger scandals in recent department history, they have uncovered links between two troubled anti-gang units in the San Fernando Valley, multiple law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times.

When the controversy first spilled into public view in ...Read more