Trump Says TikTok Sale Deal to Come Before Saturday Deadline
March 30 By Andrea Shalal President Donald Trump said a deal with TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the short video app used by 170 million Americans would be struck before a deadline on Saturday. Trump set the April 5 deadline in January for TikTok…
Top Vaccine Official Peter Marks Forced Out at FDA, WSJ Reports
March 29 By Chris Thomas The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Peter Marks, has been pushed out, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Marks, who played a key role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in developing COVID-19 vaccines, was…
Johnson & Johnson Unit Ordered to Pay $1.64 Billion in HIV Drug Marketing Case
March 28 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge ordered a Johnson & Johnson unit on Friday to pay the U.S. government $1.64 billion after a jury found it liable in a whistleblower lawsuit for illegally promoting the HIV drugs Prezista and Intelence. U.S. District Judge…
Kennedy to Slash 10,000 Jobs in Major Overhaul of US Health Agencies
March 27 By Ahmed Aboulenein U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to reshape federal public health agencies on Thursday, including cutting 10,000 employees and centralizing some functions of the FDA, CDC and others under his purview. The job…
Arctic is a territory for international cooperation
March 26 By Julia O`Malley In recent years, the Arctic region has attracted more and more attention. The melting of ice due to climate change has opened up sea routes, and the possibility of exploring potential energy and mineral resources in this region. Arctic is…
US Adds Dozens of Chinese Entities to Export Restrictions List, Including Inspur Units
March 25 By Karen Freifeld The United States added six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, China’s leading cloud computing and big data service provider, and dozens of other Chinese entities to its export restriction list on Tuesday. The Inspur units were listed for contributing to the…
Alphabet’s Waymo Aims for 2026 Self-Driving Ride-Hailing Launch in Washington, D.C
March 24 By David Shepardson Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo said on Tuesday it aims to launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the U.S. capital city next year. Waymo began moving vehicles to Washington, D.C., in January and will bring more to the city in…
US Supreme Court Will Not Hear Novel Youth-Led Climate Change Case
March 23 By Nate Raymond The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by 21 young people to revive a novel lawsuit claiming the U.S. government’s energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate change. The justices denied a request by the…
US FAA Pilot Safety Messaging System Resumes Operations After Outage
March 22 By David Shepardson A U.S. Federal Aviation Administration system that provides safety messages to pilots experienced an outage for several hours on Saturday before resuming operations, the agency and airlines said. The outage of the “Notice to Airmen” system for more than three…
Factbox-What to Know About Airlines Due to Fly Into Heathrow Airport on Friday
March 21 By Raechel Thankam Job Britain’s Heathrow Airport said on Friday that it had begun reopening after a massive fire at a nearby electrical substation knocked out power, forcing a shutdown at Europe’s busiest airport and disrupting the flight schedules of airlines globally. At…
US Agency Calls for Urgent Safety Assessments of Iconic Bridges
March 20 By David Shepardson The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday called for urgent safety assessments of 68 bridges including iconic crossings like the Golden Gate Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, George Washington Bridge and the Chicago Skyway Bridge. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy…
U.S. to Probe Columbia Protests for Terrorism Violations, Official Says
March 14 By Maria Tsvetkova The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it was looking into what it said were possible violations of terrorism laws during protests over the Gaza war at Columbia University, putting fresh pressure on the epicenter of last year’s nationwide anti-Israel…