American President Joe Biden’s government is reportedly considering reducing the amount of nicotine found in cigarettes in the country.

Hester Ford, the oldest living American died surrounded by her family on Saturday, 17 April 2021. She is survived by dozens of children.

The United States has opened its borders to South Africans with specific skills, jobs, and visas from its ongoing travel ban.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

A Texas woman, who holds a Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails, finally cuts her nails after growing it for 30 years.

SpaceX is planning to launch its 24th batch of Starlink satellites on Wednesday 7 April 2021.

The Secret Life of Bears: A black bear was spotted taking a soak in a jacuzzi somewhere in the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee.

The world’s first commercial computer sold for a ‘mere’ $1.5 million.

Pharrell Williams pays tribute to late cousin Donovan Lynch after he was shot by a police officer in the third of a series of shootings in Virginia Beach on Friday night.

There is a more nuanced conversation to be had about how Elon Musk specifically – and South Africa’s white population in general – benefitted from apartheid.

US President Joe Biden became an instant meme when he fell three times while ascending the stairs of Air Force One.

A man was twice favoured by fortune after he won the lottery. He lost the million dollar lotto ticket but managed to find it again.

A gunman opened fire at a grocery story in Colorado, United States.

Tom Cruise has listed his Telluride, Colorado ranch which he purchased in 1994 on Sotheby’s Realty for a cool R587 million.

YouTube is rolling out a short video platform to compete with TikTok. ‘Shorts’ is now available in the US and may soon touch down in Mzansi.

Former US president Donald Trump said that he may run again for president in 2024 if rumours of Meghan Markle’s possible presidential bid, is true.

According to the vaccination calculator, it will take a little more than 18 years to vaccinate 67% of South Africa’s population at the current rate.

A single-take video shot with a drone flying through a bowling alley has been dubbed “impressive” by celebrities and big-name film-makers alike.

RIP, Cliff Simon.

(Partner Content) Thinking of immigrating to the US? These are the costs to bear in mind…

Talk about peculiar: Angela Anderson is making a killing by selling vagina-scented face masks in New Jersey, USA.

The new logo bore more than a slight resemblance to the moustache worn by Charlie Chaplin, Oliver Hardy and most problematically, Adolf Hitler.

Six Dr Seuss books will no longer be published due to racist imagery which “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong”.

Meet 29-year-old Hayley Arceneaux.

Kim and Kanye allegedly won’t be contesting their prenuptial agreement.

For once, it’s not us – and relief seems to be outweighing compassion: Here’s what SA citizens are saying about the load shedding schedules in Texas.

Donald Trump termed the impeachment as a phase of the ‘greatest witch hunt’ in US history.

In the 2 January call, Trump can be heard cajoling and pressurising Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ‘find the votes’ to ensure victory over Joe Biden.

The Trump administration withdrew as a member of the 47-member state council in June 2018, claiming the forum has a “chronic anti-Israel bias.”

Washington has given its support to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the top position at the WTO, ending a month long deadlock. The move represents yet another split with the previous administration.

Ice Cube has been pitching his reparations agenda to both Democrats and Republicans.

What’s the best way to get closure from a past relationship? Naming a cockroach after your former lover, of course!

Jeff Bezos said “this isn’t about retiring”.

The GameStop saga is far from over.

The two cases do not appear to be connected to each other, and neither person is known to have traveled recently.

Lindy-Ann Hopley said she had a ‘vision’ in which she ‘witnessed’ Lady Gaga serenading Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Fears over the new variant of COVID-19 have essentially forced US President Joe Biden to introduce a ‘travel ban’ for visitors from South Africa.

America’s first ‘Second Gentlemen’, Douglas Emhoff, acknowledges the generations of women who stood before him in this historic role.

RIP, King.

SpaceX is prepped for the launch of the Transporter-1 mission and ready to break a new record. Watch the live stream here.

The latest cover of Jacobin borrows imagery from traditional Christian iconography.

Joe Biden vowed to work with other democracies to “rewrite the rules of international trade”.

Joe Biden has officially been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, here’s what he had to say on Wednesday.

Donald Trump and his wife Melania are gearing up for a new life in Florida and have made way for incoming President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill

In just a few hours, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States but what comes next for good ole Mr Trump?

On his final day as US President, Donald Trump dished out pardons to 73 people, with a further 70 receiving commutations.

On Wednesday, the Joe Biden era begins in earnest for the USA. Here’s what time you can expect the inauguration to start, and we’ve got the live stream too.

Hondurans are fleeing violence and a struggling economy impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the two hurricanes that hit the nation in November.

The outgoing president also hopes to outshine Biden’s inauguration ceremony by concurrently hosting a televised political rally in Florida.

US rapper Post Malone has helped to donate 10,000 pairs of his sold-out Duet Max Clog II Crocs to frontline workers at 70 US hospitals.

Olivia Rodrigo’s single ‘Driver’s License’ broke records on Spotify with over 11,5 million streams in one day.

Biden’s team said the line up showcases diverse America.

Donald Trump has now made history as the first American president to be impeached twice.

The unmasking, arrests and subsequent ridicule of the rioters comes as US President Donald Trump was impeached for ‘inciting’ the mob to attack the US Capitol.

Hyundai Motors and Apple are rumored to be planning to sign a partnership agreement for self-driving electric vehicles by March and begin production around 2024.

Despite signing Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s ‘Giving Pledge,’ Musk has done relatively little publicly in the way of charity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the Capitol Hill riots to Nazi Germany, saying Donald Trump will be remembered as ‘the worst president ever.’

The former special advisor to two UN Secretary-Generals says the US has a long history of mob violence stoked by white politicians in the service of rich white Americans. The difference this time, is that the rioters turned on their own.

Noah, who has hosted ‘The Daily Show’ since 2015, bought the 11,000-square-foot home from LA architect Mark Rios, which is about the same size as the property he recently offloaded in an exclusive Bel Air enclave.

The company claimed there were “plans for future armed protests… including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021” and that Trump’s tweets could be seen as support for these acts.

After a shameful day for America, it seems chickens are coming home to roost for Donald Trump – who may now be outsted by the ’25th amendment’.

Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff’s historic Georgia wins deals a great blow to outgoing president Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans, as they have now lost control of the Senate

Utter, utter madness. Trump supporters have disgraced themselves in Washington DC, after rioting and breaking into the Capitol Building.

For now, control of the Senate is hanging in the balance – with Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue’s results yet to be determined

A high percentage of vaccine refusal among not just health care workers, but the general population, could be ‘problematic,’ Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch noted.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to visit Wuhan to investigate the source of the coronavirus outbreak – some 12 months after the disease started, and continues to dominate headlines across the globe.

The ruling served as a face-saving exercise for all the governments involved and it’s likely that nobody will be held accountable, said the UN UN Special Rapporteur on torture, adding the “message of intimidation is upheld and maintained,” even as Assange is protected for the time being from vanishing into a US supermax prison for the rest of his life.

Officer Matt Lima’s kind gesture drew high praise on social media, with people saying his show of compassion exemplifies law enforcement at its best, and personifies what it means to serve the community.

While the bill does not specifically
state COVID, commentators say it would be obvious that this bill was a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The total recoveries are 897 704, representing a healing rate of 82,4%, according to the Health Department.

The 20 million case mark comes as the US inches toward 350,000 COVID-19-related fatalities, with warnings that the worst is yet to come.

The explosion remains a mystery, but Nashville Mayor John Cooper said the blast was caused by a “deliberate bomb.”

The 1100-hectare estate features a main house with six bedrooms along with three guest houses, a four-acre lake with a waterfall, tennis courts, several barns, animal shelter facilities and a Ferris wheel.

There were no known credible threats in the Nashville area that would have signaled an impending attack on or before Christmas, a federal law enforcement source told CNN.

Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez have been dating since January 2020.

Musk is the most prominent in a range of electric-vehicle entrepreneurs who have seen their fortunes jump this year.

Danish designer Henrik Fisker tried once before to capture the public’s imagination for high-end electric cars, only to see the company collapse. Now he has a new company, new partner, new backers and a new business model. But does he have what it takes to catch Tesla?

The units’ American CIA advisers went by pseudonyms or call signs rather than names. They not only trained Afghan unit members but also chose their targets.

A professional auction company is taking bids to see who will be the person who blows up the old Trump Plaza casino hotel in Atlantic City.

Residents in the area were warned of sonic booms…

The woman driver allegedly tried to flee after mowing through the protesters.

It appears it’s Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills or nothing for SA Consul General in LA.

Morocco has occupied much of the resource-rich territory since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

Mario Lopez will portray a sexy Colonel Sanders after KFC restaurants and the American cable channel, Lifetime, formed a new partnership.

Reporting live for Denver 7, “Ryan Marshall” stood outside with snow falling around him when he had his (now-viral) meltdown.

A former state department official said Flournoy’s resume is conclusive evidence she will serve to justify massive Pentagon budgets and vainglorious wars.

The outgoing US administration of President Donald Trump is paving the way for additional methods of executing prisoners who have been sentenced to death in the United States.

Former national security advisor Michael Flynn resigned from his post just weeks after being hired by President Donald Trump. Flynn had admitted to lying to the FBI

A new viral video shows a man wrestling a puppy from an alligator’s jaws without dropping his cigar.

Amnesty International USA said advocates of boycotts should be allowed to express their views freely without harassment, threats of prosecution or criminalization.

Joe Biden’s dogs Major and Champ recently took social media by storm after they had their very own accounts created.

The “Resilience” Crew Dragon capsule became the first NASA-certified spacecraft to transport astronauts to space since the Space Shuttle programme launched four decades ago.

Former United States (US) President Barack Obama has told his successor, Donald Trump, his time is up and needs to put the country first and admit defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election

If completed, the sale would be the first American transfer of lethal drones and stealth aircraft to any Arab country.

At the time of publishing, Musk’s COVID-19 tweet was retweeted 70 000 times, quoted more than 21 000 times and received close to 270 000 likes.

Britney Spears said through her attorney that she is afraid of her father and will refuse to resume her career while he is in control of her life.

United States (US) President Donald Trump is refusing to back down on his claims of electoral fraud and yet to concede – paving the way for a potentially difficult transition

The roundtable comes as the United States (US) has elected Joe Biden as its next president

Trump’s supporters have stuck by their embattled, and probably beaten president.

Donald Trump claims that he “won the election, got the 71 000 000 legal votes,” and added that “bad things happened which our observers were not allowed to see”.