This holiday season, some busy holiday gift buyers are turning to TikTok for gifts and collectibles. But beyond TikTok Shop, users are also turning to TikTok livestreams for virtual personal shopper services without having to step foot in a store. The livestreamers are full-time shoppers who spend hours in discount department stores like TJ Maxx,...
Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda on Monday announced they had entered into official talks to merge and create the world’s third-largest automaker by sales. The proposed deal was first reported by Japan’s Nikkei newspaper on Dec. 17. Both companies are grappling with intense global competition in the electric vehicle market from the likes of Tesla and China’s BYD. Nissan shares spiked...
Hours after Dallas was eliminated from making the NFL’s postseason Sunday, it still affected the playoff race across the NFC. The Cowboys beat Tampa Bay 26-24 on “Sunday Night Football” to win for a fourth time in their last five games after DaRon Bland stripped Buccaneers running back Rachaad White for a fumble with 1:40...
A 7-year-old spectator at a holiday drone show in Orlando, Florida, was seriously injured Saturday night when one of the devices went down and stuck him in the chest, his mother said. The Orlando Fire Department confirmed that one person was hospitalized following “technical difficulties” at the city-hosted, third annual Holiday Drone Show at Lake...
Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor redeemed himself in a big way Sunday, practically single-handedly keeping the team’s playoff hopes alive one week after a big blunder. In Week 15, Taylor was on the precipice of a 41-yard touchdown run against the Denver Broncos that could have given the Colts a 20-7 lead in the...
PHOENIX — President-elect Donald Trump dismissed any suggestion that he’s being usurped by his high-profile billionaire ally Elon Musk, coming off a week in which Musk helped derail an emergency spending measure to avert a government shutdown. Trump said the notion that has “ceded the presidency” to Musk is a fiction and that even if...
A manhunt is underway for a man who is believed to have set a woman sleeping in a subway car on fire, leading to her death. The suspect seen near a subway platform. New York Police Department The woman, who was not identified, was asleep on an idle F train Sunday morning at the Stillwell...
The lead-up into the holidays will be heavy on precipitation for many Americans as another storm system moves in across the Great Lakes and Northeast regions, bringing rain and snow in the days before Christmas. Those in the Northeast were already treated to snow on Saturday, the first day of winter, and are expected to get...
“I don’t want a lot for Christmas / There is just one thing I need / An answer to just one question / An estimate of Mariah Carey’s song royalties, please?” No, my makeshift lyrics aren’t as catchy as the opening lines of Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the 1994 jingle that...
LONDON — Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are wrestling with a decision to fast-track legislation aimed at preventing foreign interference in national elections after far-right leader Nigel Farage suggested that Elon Musk could donate to his once-fringe right-wing party, in the latest turn for the world’s richest man as he flexes his newfound political muscle....