TikTok faces a potential ban in the US Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images US politicians have voted to ban popular video-sharing app TikTok unless its owner, technology company ByteDance, sells it. The US House of Representatives voted by a margin of 352 to 65 to approve the app-restricting bill on 13 March. The legislation … Read more
A colonial currency note issued by New Jersey in 1763 Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images US founding father Benjamin Franklin developed paper money innovations long before historians previously thought such methods were in use – and they may have even had use as anti-counterfeiting measures. Khachatur Manukyan at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his … Read more
A US fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon on 4 February. It had been flying across the US, including over sensitive military bases. The incident has raised international tensions, leading US secretary of state Antony Blinken to postpone a planned visit to China. The balloon entered Alaskan airspace on 28 January and … Read more