Vice President Harris dodged questions on Sunday about whether her campaign should be actively using TikTok as the vice president and President Biden have expressed national security concerns over the Chinese-owned app. “You have expressed national security concerns over TikTok. So has the president. Why does your campaign then have a TikTok account when you’re encouraging Americans to follow it?” …

A New York City police officer has died after he was shot while conducting a vehicle stop, authorities said Monday. A pair of officers stopped a vehicle at 1919 Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens around 5:48 p.m. as part of the NYPD Community Response Team because it was parked illegally, the NYPD said. Then a shootout ensued. “We lost …

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug Administration overlooked serious safety problems when it made mifepristone easier to obtain, including …

North Korea said Monday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida offered to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “as soon as possible,” but stressed that prospects for their countries’ first summit in about 20 years would depend on Tokyo tolerating its weapons program and ignoring its past abductions of Japanese nationals. Japan acknowledged it has been trying to …

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It’s a tale of two dramatically different political campaigns. On Monday, throngs of supporters of President Nicolás Maduro rallied at a giant stage draped in the red, yellow and blue colors of Venezuela’s flag outside the electoral council headquarters where he made official his candidacy for a third term lasting until 2031. Meanwhile, his would-be rivals …

As “Baywatch” reboot news heats up the waters in Los Angeles, David Chokachi reminisced about the good, the bad and the downright uncomfortable times on set of the world’s most popular television show. Chokachi, who portrayed lifeguard Cody Madison in 65 episodes of the program, remembered one less-than-perfect day filming at the beach. His character was in an on-screen romance …

A former Senegalese prime minister on Monday conceded the presidential election to the opposition candidate based on preliminary results a day after the vote, according to a statement by his campaign. Amadou Ba said he congratulated Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye and wished him success. Faye’s expected victory reflected frustration among youth with high unemployment and concerns about governance in the …

A star South Korean soccer player who was detained and investigated in China for nearly a year over bribery allegations has been released and returned home, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. Son Jun-ho, a former member of the South Korean national team who had played professionally in China, was detained by Chinese authorities at the Shanghai airport in May on …

Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished in 1814 while defending their homeland from United States forces. Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of Horseshoe Bend. The battle was the single bloodiest day of …

A Minnesota lawmaker wants to make it legal for women to go topless in public after a resident was sentenced to jail for “indecent exposure” related to uncovered breasts. “This to me seems really wrong,” Minnesota House Rep. Samantha Sencer-Mura told The Star Tribune regarding the conviction. “Particularly now, as we as a society are thinking differently about gender and …