US AND CANADA

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On January 19, 2025, TikTok stopped working in the U.S., keeping about 170 million users in the dark as a federal ban took hold. The app opened onto a notification stating, “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”

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With the United States ready to ban TikTok, millions of American users are racing to alternatives. The sudden spike in popularity of Chinese social media app RedNote-software, better known as Xiaohongshu in China-became quite prominent. According to data from analytics firm Similarweb, the number of daily active users for RedNote in the U.S. surged from less than 700,000 to about 3.4 million in one day.

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Nautica Malone, 27 years, was captured exposing himself at Bikini Beans Coffee in Tempe, Arizona. The enterprise has now issued a statement after Malone reportedly committed suicide after an employee posted a video of him exposing himself. According to TMZ, Malone pulled up to the drive thru and was approached by an employee who noticed that he was not wearing pants. The employee went to get the manager who caught Malone reportedly masturbating and captured him. This led to the video going viral and Malone shot himself in the head according to Maricopa County Medical Examiner.

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A dozen Los Angeles professional sports teams pledged $8 million toward wildfire relief on Monday and outlined plans for three events to distribute supplies to those affected by blazes still ravaging the United States' second-largest city.