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TikTok's parent company is required to share data with the Chinese government The Chinese parent company of TikTok had access to American users' data for months even while U.S. employees did not have access themselves, according to leaked audio. The audio, obtained by BuzzFeed News, covers more than 80 internal meetings at TikTok between the months of September 2021 and January 2022. It showed that U.S. employees were not permitted to access user data and instead relied on Chinese employees to do so, according to BuzzFeed. TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is required under Chinese law to share its data with...

China imported a record volume of Russian crude in May, with arrivals surging by 55 percent to nearly 2 million barrels per day (bpd). This has made Russia the top oil supplier to the world's leading crude importer—putting it ahead of Saudi Arabia for the first time in a year and a half. A record volume of cheap Russian oil, which sells at steep discounts to crude from other countries, made its way to Chinese refiners last month, according to figures from China's General Administration of Customs cited by Reuters. China imported 1.98 million bpd of Russian crude oil in...

China has concerns that such cars could enter a military base, or really any other high-security location, and capture footage. The footage captured by Tesla's in-car camera systems can be stored locally and then shared. Moreover, Tesla's vehicles send data back to the cloud, which could be cause for concern. We haven't heard much about the issue since Tesla's major concerns in China have seemed to subside. However, according to a recent report by Electrek, Tesla's vehicles are now banned from entering Beidaihe, a resort town near Shanghai. In fact, the town has banned all Tesla's EVs for the next...

"Each mine usually consists of thirty-five to forty humongous 797 Caterpillar haul trucks along with hundreds of other large equipment," he writes. "Each 797 uses around half a million gallons of diesel a year. So, with an inventory of just thirty-five the haul trucks alone are using 17.5 million gallons of fuel a year for just one lithium site." A typical EV battery, Stein notes, weighs 1,000 pounds, contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic. Inside are over...

As a result of the mishap, some passengers had to fly without their bags, while others dealt with check-in delays as long as two hours. According to the BBC, a Heathrow spokeswoman apologized for the chaos. “Earlier today there was a technical issue with the Terminal 2 baggage system which has now been resolved,” she said. Due to the coronavirus pandemic [sic], the aviation industry is suffering from staff shortages after letting thousands of employees go.

The video was shot at a rally in London. The day before, Great Britain decided that the United States would extradite WikiLeaks founder

Germany is "very confident" that an agreement on Finland and Sweden joining the Nato alliance can be reached, a source inside the German government has told news agency Reuters (siirryt toiseen palveluun). However, the source considered it unlikely that a consensus could be found before a Nato summit in the Spanish capital Madrid next week, as Turkey continues to block accession talks. "As nice as it would be to announce concrete steps .. it would not be a catastrophe if it needed a few more weeks," the source said, adding that the German government has not identified any "insurmountable problems"...

The White House’s newest economic catchphrase to blunt the force of a potential recession in 2023 is to tell the American people that it is not “inevitable.” On Sunday, members of President Joe Biden’s team told the establishment media four separate times that inflation is not inevitable, despite polling and data that suggest a probability of recession.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — In less than two weeks, New Yorkers will cast their vote for who they want to be their party’s representative in the gubernatorial primary. Gov. Kathy Hochul, the incumbent frontrunner, faces a number of Democratic challengers. In the Republican Party, Andrew Guiliani, Harry Wilson, Rob Astorino and Congressman Lee Zeldin will square off against each other in the primary on June 28. Early voting runs until June 26. Zeldin was the favored candidate of choice among Republican voters ahead of the forum. He had 34% of the vote in a recent PIX11/Emerson College Polling/The Hill poll....

President Joe Biden took Monday off for the recently created Juneteenth federal holiday, remaining at his beach house in Delaware for the fourth day away from the White House. The president had nothing on his public schedule on Monday to recognize the federal holiday that he signed into law in 2021.

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to a Wall Street Journal report that Democrats were expecting President Joe Biden to run again in 2024 but were not sure if he should. Host John Berman asked Clyburn to expound on his remarks in the report that he supported Biden first and then Vice President Kamala Harris if not.

“If Planet Nine is real, it would be on such an odd orbit and so far out in the outer Solar System, that it would really challenge our ideas of planet formation and dynamics,” Ann-Marie Madigan, assistant professor of astrophysics... Madigan isn’t searching for just one planet — she’s looking for an entire belt of celestial objects. Like Planet Nine, this proposed Zderic-Madigan, or ZM, belt would be really out there, far beyond the Kuiper belt, with some of its closest bodies being more than twice as far from the Sun as Pluto at perihelion. Unlike the Kuiper belt, this...

Sharp chest pains. Myocarditis and pericarditis. Heart attacks. Strokes and subsequent blindness.These are just some of the many COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events reported by commercial airline pilots and by a growing number of advocacy groups representing aviation industry workers.According to these individuals and groups, the number of pilots speaking out about their vaccine injuries is dwarfed by the number of pilots who are still flying despite experiencing concerning symptoms — but not speaking out because of what they describe as a culture of intimidation within the aviation industry.These individuals fear they will lose their jobs and livelihoods in retaliation if...

Alasdair Burns, a stargazing guide on Stewart Island/Rakiura, received a text from a friend: go outside and look at the sky. “As soon as we actually went outside, it was very obvious what it was he was referring to,” Burns said. He saw a huge, blue spiral of light amid the darkness. “It looked like an enormous spiral galaxy, just hanging there in the sky, and slowly just drifting across,” Burns said. A spiral of blue lights as seen from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand, on Sunday. Theories on social media about its origins ranged from aliens to foreign rockets to...

Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was confronted by conservative activists for his controversial stances regarding “red flag laws” and using American tax dollars to fund Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, as well as his connections to the World Economic Forum (WEF). Among those who confronted the Congressman was Alex Stein, a prominent YouTuber and conservative activist. Stein is also a delegate for the Texas State legislature. When confronting Crenshaw, Stein called him “Eyepatch McCain” and “Globalist RINO”, a dig at Crenshaw’s neoconservative foreign policy stances and moderate stances on cultural issues affecting Americans. Stein even likened him to late Senator and...

Be thankful Merrick Garland is not on the Supreme Court. He is an absolute disaster as Attorney General. Oh sure, he's great at tarring moms and dads as domestic terrorists because they want to know what sort of trash is being stuffed into their kids' heads. He sucks at everything else. HIs DOJ won't prosecute someone who tried to set fire to a police car during the Floyd riots but he's happy to toss a disabled vet who was present for the Jan 6 protests but never entered the Capitol into solitary for 49 days. He's "watching" the Jan 6...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (TND) — In what must have been a terrible surprise, a north Florida man reportedly says a monstrous alligator exploded out of the water and devoured his beloved pet while they were playing fetch. Josh Wells tells the Tallahassee Democrat he was with his 40-pound black Labrador Retriever mix, named "Toby," on a nature trail in early June when the attack happened. Toby was reportedly standing in shallow water near the trail when he was grabbed, head first, by the gator. Wells says he and Toby were playing fetch with a tennis ball at the time. Boom, the...

t is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat. See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead." (For golf to be more interesting, it's bad.) What's more amazing is that no clue has penetrated the fog of Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, or far-left activists about why. Our political class is so out of touch that it could not see this collective yawn coming. And no, this is not about interviewing that one magic witness. It is the fundamental concept of their entire effort...

Democrat John Fetterman managed to take nearly 60% of his party’s votes in the May primary. Fetterman has a few ways he can secure the seat, which could decide party control in Congress. Play down his stroke. Fetterman suffered a stroke days before the primary and has been off the campaign trail recovering from pacemaker surgery. News of Fetterman’s condition caused by atrial fibrillation didn’t appear to hurt as he took nearly 60% of the votes in the primary. Fetterman doesn’t look like a politician, often wearing shorts and shirts revealing his arm tattoos as he towers over most people...

Nine people were shot, one of them fatally, when gunfire erupted in Harlem overnight. Seven men and two women, ranging in age from 21 to 42, were struck in the area of Fifth Avenue and East 139th Street just after 12:35 a.m. Monday. The victims were enjoying a late night gathering when gunfire rang out. One area resident told Eyewitness News there were so many gunshots she could not believe her ears. "I was sitting in my living room and all I heard was sporadic shots ringing," she said. "It was like, 'Prong, prong, prong!'. And then it stopped and...