When a company hits Wall Street by initial public offering (IPO), it is usually seen as a sign of strength. But sometimes, firms go the opposite direction by taking the company private again. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk plans to take Twitter private as part of his $44 billion acquisition of the company. Musk…

Nine environmental activists in Germany have glued themselves to the floor at a Porsche pavilion in a hunger strike, protesting what they call a climate emergency. The target this time is Volkswagen. The activists are calling on Germany to introduce cheaper public transport tickets and to set speed limits on the country’s highways to reduce carbon…

The family of an American citizen confirmed to The Associated Press the details from a Washington Post report that the citizen has been arrested, tortured and sentenced to 16 years in prison in Saudi Arabia over tweets he sent while in the United States. According to the son of Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a 72-year-old retired project…

Radioactive material from nuclear bombs made during World War II is contaminating an elementary school Monday. It’s not happening in Nagasaki or Hiroshima, but in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. In August, samples were taken at Jana Elementary School. The school sits in the floodplain of Coldwater Creek, which was contaminated by nuclear waste in the…

A week after Ye, more commonly known as the former Kanye West, was kicked off of Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts, the rapper is offering to buy conservative social media network Parler. The network tweeted the news Monday morning, saying the deal “ensures Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all…

Big Hit Music, the management company for superstar K-pop band BTS, announced the band will serve their military duties as mandated by law in South Korea. The band’s oldest member, Jin, will revoke his request to delay his conscription at the end of the month and undertake the required conscription steps. Jin turns 30 in…

Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted after the music superstar unleashed a series of antisemitic posts. That controversy came on the heels of West’s appearance at Paris Fashion Week, where he wore a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt. As some in conservative media jumped to the hip-hop mogul’s defense, others wondered what sparked the…

British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, just weeks after the release of a controversial economic plan. A hastily-arranged news conference was set for later Friday after Kwarteng rushed back to London overnight from IMF meetings in Washington. His firing makes him the country’s shortest serving chancellor since 1970 after being…

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots has subpoenaed former President Donald Trump; European and world leaders sounded off on Russia’s threat of World War III; and Elon Musk is under investigation over his acquisition of Twitter. Those stories highlight the Daily Rundown for Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump…

China and Iran have been caught trying to squash protests over China’s zero-COVID-19 policy and the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police respectively. In China’s case, the protest came in the form of banners criticizing the government hung from a busy intersection in Beijing. China’s internet censors moved quickly…