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Apple said it pulled Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads apps from its app store in China on Friday on government orders, potentially escalating the technology war between the United States and China.The iPhone maker said China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration, has ordered the removal of WhatsApp and Threads from its app store due to national security concerns. Apple said it complied with the rules because “we are obligated to follow the laws of the countries in which we operate, even when we disagree.”A Meta spokesperson referred requests for comment to Apple. The Wall Street Journal previously reported Apple's removal of the apps.A person briefed on the situation said the Chinese government found content on WhatsApp and Threads about China's president, Xi Jin...

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as President Mike Johnson put his work on the line to advance the long-stalled relief package, rallying support from the Republicans and traditional Democrats.In four consecutive votes, an overwhelming bipartisan coalition of lawmakers approved new rounds of funding for the three U.S. allies, as well as another bill intended to sweeten the deal for conservatives that could lead to a nationwide TikTok ban .The scene in the House reflected both the broad support in Congress for continuing to help the Ukrainian military repel Russia and the extraordinary political risk Johnson took to challenge the anti-interventionist wing of his party that had sought to thwart the 'operation. ...

Martin J. Wygod, a Wall Street wizard who went from post-racing hobby horses to owning and breeding championship thoroughbreds when he made millions investing in online companies that sold pharmaceuticals by mail and pruned medical records, died on the 12th April in San Diego. He was 84 years old.His daughter, Emily Bushnell, said he died in hospital from complications of a lung disease.Raised near two horse tracks in suburban New York and mentored by a software pioneer, investor and gambler, Wygod is said to have been the youngest managing partner of a New York Stock Exchange brokerage firm in years '60. He became a millionaire before he was 30 and in 1993 sold Medco Containment Services to Merck for $6 billion, having transformed it into the nation's largest prescription drug c...

The House was moving toward passing a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Saturday, as President Mike Johnson put his job on the line to advance long-stalled legislation, despite the extremists in his own party.Lawmakers were expected to vote separately Saturday afternoon on aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as another bill that includes a measure that could result in a nationwide ban on TikTok and new sanctions on Iran. The fourth bill was intended to sweeten the deal for the conservatives.Johnson structured the measures, which will be merged into one after each party approves, to capture different coalitions of support without allowing opposition to any one element to sink the entire deal. Each of the aid bills for the three nations is expected to...

In a time when the headlines are dominated by wars and a divisive presidential campaign, the magazine-world rivalry between The Atlantic and The New Yorker doesn’t amount to much.So you might have missed it when, on April 2, The Atlantic beat The New Yorker in three big categories at the 2024 National Magazine Awards.But to Rusty Foster, who chronicles the media industry and internet culture in his daily newsletter, Today in Tabs, The Atlantic’s victory was big news.Shortly after the awards ceremony, which took place at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, Mr. Foster tapped out a fanciful report for his audience of media obsessives. Under the headline “Shutout at the TK Corral,” he wrote that David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, “solemnly folded up and ate each of his prepared speeches as he w...

World leaders, who had urged Israel and Iran to ease tensions, once again implored both countries to avoid any further action that could spark a wider war in the Middle East as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. , both allies of Iran.“A significant escalation is in no one's interests,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose military took part in defending Israel from Iran's missile and drone attack last weekend, told reporters on Friday. “What we want to see is for calm to prevail throughout the region.”Last Saturday, there was an airstrike on a base used by an Iranian-backed armed group, Harakat al Nujaba, in Iraq's Babylon province, according to an arm of Iraq's security forces, the Popular Mobilization Forces. A hospital said at least three peop...

Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen ha un problema: troppe persone vogliono quello che sta vendendo.Il signor Jorgensen è l'amministratore delegato di Novo Nordisk, il produttore farmaceutico danese. Anche se l'azienda non è proprio un nome familiare, il jingle televisivo del suo farmaco più venduto: "Oh-oh-ohhh, Ozempic!" - potrebbe risuonare nelle tue orecchie. In tutti gli Stati Uniti, i farmaci per il diabete e la perdita di peso di Novo Nordisk, Ozempic e Wegovy, sono saliti allo status di celebrità e hanno contribuito a rendere l'azienda l'azienda pubblica più preziosa d'Europa. Non ne può fare abbastanza dei farmaci.Il problema del signor Jorgensen è che a molti alti dirigenti non dispiacerebbe, ma il successo lo ha colto di sorpresa. L'anno scorso, quando la soci...

Twenty-three top Chinese swimmers tested positive for the same powerful banned substance seven months before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 but were allowed to escape public scrutiny and continue to compete after top Chinese officials secretly cleared them of doping and the global authority charged with policing drugs in sports chose not to intervene.Several of the athletes who tested positive — including nearly half of the swimming team that China sent to the Tokyo Games — went on to win medals, including three golds. Many still compete for China and several, including the two-time gold medalist Zhang Yufei, are expected to contend for medals again at this year’s Summer Games in Paris.China acknowledged the positive tests in a report by its antidoping regulator, saying the swimmers had i...

Another start-up founder will go to prison for overstating his company's performance in the eyes of investors.Manish Lachwani, who last year pleaded guilty to three counts of defrauding investors in his software start-up, HeadSpin, was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in prison. He will also pay a fine of $1 million.Prosecutors said Mr. Lachwani, 48, deceived investors by inflating HeadSpin's revenue by nearly fourfold, making false claims about his customers and creating false invoices to cover it all up. His misrepresentations allowed him to raise $117 million in funding from major investment firms, valuing his start-up at $1.1 billion.When HeadSpin board members discovered the behavior in 2020, they pushed Mr. Lachwani to resign and cut the company's valuation by two-...

For more than a decade, Israel has attempted, time and time again, bombing and missile campaigns that would knock out Iran's nuclear production capacity, much of it based around the city of Isfahan and the nuclear enrichment complex of Natanz, 75 miles north.That's not what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet chose to do before dawn Friday, and in interviews, analysts and nuclear experts said the decision was significant.So was the silence that followed. Israel has said almost nothing about the limited attack, which appears to have caused little damage in Iran. U.S. officials noted that the Iranian decision to downplay the Isfahan explosions — and suggestions by Iranian officials that Israel may not have been responsible — was a clear effort by the Islamic Revolut...