Meta's new app, Threads, may be the latest in a long-string of Twitter's competitors, but it appears to have an edge in the game thanks to its ties to Instagram. Over 30 million users have joined.
Film regulators in the Philippines are reviewing Barbie after a senator said a scene depicts a map that China uses to lay claim to nearly all of the South China Sea.
Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.
Walt Nauta, an aide to Donald Trump, was indicted with the former president for his alleged role in mishandling classified documents. He entered a not guilty plea in Miami federal court on Thursday.
Mai Nguyen's debut novel centers on the family of Tuyet and Xuan Tran, Vietnamese refugees who settle in Toronto. It simmers with questions about work, class and generational divides.
More than 100 countries ban such weapons because unexploded bomblets can be picked up by civilians, causing injury or death. An announcement is expected Friday.
Burkina Faso has tumbled into conflict and chaos, but humanitarian aid has not kept up as the world focuses on Ukraine. The Norwegian Refugee Council calls it the most neglected displacement crisis.