

The United States reports Louisiana’s first bird flu-related death.
A 65-year-old patient who was admitted to the hospital on December 18 died, marking the first bird flu death in US history. The news was released on Monday by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH). The patient was the first person in the United States to be admitted to the hospital due to the H5N1…

US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok
TikTok, a platform that is used by almost half of all Americans, suffered a serious setback on Sunday when the US Supreme Court declined to save it from a law that would have forced the well-known short-video app to be either banned in the US on national security grounds or sold by its Chinese parent…

Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his wife were jailed in a fake corruption case.
Pakistan’s Islamabad – Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was given a 14-year prison term on Friday, while Bushra Bibi, his wife, received a seven-year sentence for corruption and abuse of power regarding Khan’s Al-Qadir University Project Trust. Additionally, Bibi was punished half of Khan’s penalties of one million Pakistani rupees ($3,500). In…

Israel murders 21 children in Gaza after declaring a ceasefire.
Since the announcement of a ceasefire agreement that is scheduled to begin on Sunday, Israel’s ceaseless airstrikes have intensified, killing 87 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 21 Palestinian children and 25 women. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, declared that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration approved the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, he…

Trump says leaders will make the globe “more peaceful” in a conversation with Chinese President Xi.
Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, claims to have had a “good” phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, indicating that Beijing and Washington will cooperate to address a number of issues in the future. Three days before Trump, who has promised to slap high tariffs of up to 60 percent on Chinese…

Israel has killed more than 110 people in Gaza since a ceasefire agreement was announced.
According to the enclave’s civil defense, Israeli attacks on Gaza since the announcement of a ceasefire agreement that is scheduled to begin on Sunday have killed at least 113 Palestinians, including 28 children and 31 women. According to sources, Israel’s cabinet is scheduled to meet today to endorse the ceasefire agreement for Gaza. If the…

US firms boost imports ahead of Trump tariffs
After some businesses heaped up shipments of clothing, toys, furniture, and electronics in anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to apply new tariffs that would reignite a trade war between the world’s economic heavyweights, US imports from China ended the year strongly. On January 20, Trump, who has vowed to impose tariffs ranging from 10…

The Biden administration suggests additional regulations to strengthen control over AI chip flows.
In an effort to strike a balance between the economic interests of producers and other nations and national security concerns regarding the technology, the departing administration of US President Joe Biden is putting forth a new framework for the export of sophisticated computer chips used to create artificial intelligence. However, executives in the chip sector…

EnerSys gets $199 million for a lithium-ion facility in South Carolina.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded EnerSys (NYSE:ENS), a leading supplier of industrial energy storage solutions with a $3.93 billion market valuation and $3.51 billion in yearly revenue, $199 million to help build a new lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Greenville, South Carolina. The company’s liquid assets surpass its short-term liabilities, indicating that it…

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on test flight
Due to ice buildup on a propellant line, Monday’s initial launch attempt was scrubbed around. Jeff Bezos’s space business, Blue Origin, has taken its first step into Earth’s orbit with the launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida. In its second lift-off attempt this week, New Glenn, which is thirty stories tall, 98 meters…
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