US AND CANADA

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TikTok’s Chinese company, Byte Dance, said on Thursday that the social media platform has no intention of being sold. This is the first official response to the fraught issue since US President Joe Biden signed a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban of the popular app in the United States. The Beijing-bbased company said in a statement in Touatio, a news aggregation app that it owns and is popular in mainland China, that the foreign media reports that Byte Dance is exploring the sale of TikTok are untrue. 

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Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Democratic constituencies.

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More than four years after her initial visit to meet then-President Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian returned to the White House. On Thursday, April 25, the 43-year-old star of "The Kardashians" engaged in a roundtable discussion alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, White House Public Engagement Director Steve Benjamin, and several recently pardoned former inmates. The purpose was to delve into the topic of criminal justice reform.

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Ian Cain, Quincy City Council President, has officially announced his candidacy for the United States Senate, challenging incumbent Senator Elizabeth Warren. Cain's campaign is notable for its embrace of the burgeoning cryptocurrency sector, positioning him as a crypto-friendly Republican in a race that could redefine the state's political alignment.

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The US's top diplomat said he had made clear to his counterparts they were "helping fuel the biggest threat" to European security since the Cold War.

Mr Blinken praised Beijing for making efforts in stopping supplies of the drug fentanyl reaching the US.