Zachary Lombardi, an elementary school arts teacher at PS 29 in Castleton Corners, was chosen as a New York City winner in the prestigious Big Apple Awards program for the 2024-2025 school year. Lombardi was named the Community School District 31 Award Recipient. District 31 encompasses the entirety of Staten Island public schools.
MBABANE – The mysterious disappearance of Sakhile ‘Oros’ Msibi, believed to have murdered by high-profile people in Eswatini, has taken a remarkable twist.
TikTok went offline in the United States Saturday night, less than two hours before a ban was slated to go into effect. The extraordinary blackout prevents access to one of the world’s most popular social media apps – one that had been used by 170 million Americans.
TikTok’s ban marooned over 170 million monthly users who made the wildly addictive short-form video app a central part of their daily lives.
President-elect Donald Trump says he “most likely” will give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.
Jonathan Capehart, the Washington, D.C. media macher, recently visited New York City favorites Minetta Tavern and Pastis, as well as L.A. hotspot Osteria Mozza. But he didn’t have to leave the nation’s capital.
NBC News reports that TikTok has boosted advertisements for Lemon8, an application also owned by ByteDance, in recent days. Rival social-media apps and websites such as Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat are expected to increase their user base in the wake of a possible ban.
Tech titans including the leaders of Meta, Amazon, Google, Tesla, TikTok, Apple, Alphabet, and OpenAI are set to attend the formal start of Trump's second term.
As all eyes and ears will be on Trump's inauguration, comparisons will be made to his speech that took took place eight years ago in 2017.
An Ohio artist has forged a larger-than-life 15-foot-tall, $1 million bronze statue of President Trump that will tour the country before eventually ending up at a future Trump presidential library. Sculptor Alan Cottrill’s “Don Colossus” immortalizes the iconic moment Trump defiantly pumped his fist into the air after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler,
The S&P 500's 2.9% climb this week left it up 2% in January through Friday, according to FactSet data. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF RSP staged a larger 3.9% rally this week, for a year-to-date gain of 2.7%.
China’s biggest EV maker, BYD, built more electric cars than Tesla in 2024, signaling a global shift toward cheaper electric cars.