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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa President Junaid Akbar has said that the party is determined to hold the province’s largest political gathering on September 27 in Peshawar. Speaking to the media after a key meeting with PTI lawmakers and office-bearers from the Peshawar region, Akbar admitted that the party had not been able to mobilize crowds as effectively in recent months as desired. However, he maintained that PTI’s popularity graph was steadily rising and that a transparent general election would pave the way for the party’s return to power. “Yes, we may not always succeed in bringing people out of their homes,…

Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S. in a transaction that Vice President JD Vance said values the business at $14 billion.The deal satisfies the requirements of a national security law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations or face an effective ban in the country, according to the executive order. Under the terms, which China must still approve, a new joint-venture company will oversee TikTok’s U.S. business, with ByteDance retaining less than a 20% stake.Enterprise tech giant Oracle,…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a press conference with other Senate Democrats encouraging the passage of Affordable Care Act tax credits, in Washington, DC on September 16, 2025. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty ImagesHealth-care providers could lose more than $32 billion in revenue if the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits expire this year, as they are on track to do, according to an analysis released Thursday.The lapse in Obamacare subsidies could also lead to an additional $7.7 billion in unpaid medical bills from uninsured patients, the analysis by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and…

Jack Antonoff speaks on stage at “Up Close & Personal” In My Studio With…Jack Antonoff at The Village Recording Studio on Aug. 11, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Unique Nicole | Getty ImagesAcclaimed music producer Jack Antonoff is rejecting claims by Live Nation Entertainment CEO Michael Rapino that concert tickets are still “underpriced.”The CEO’s comments came at the CNBC Sport and Boardroom Game Plan conference last week, when he said, “In sports, I joke it’s like a badge of honor to spend [$70,000] for Knicks courtside. … When you read about the ticket prices going up, it’s still an average concert…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, waves to the crowds gathering to see him off at Urumqi Tianshan International Airport in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Sept. 25, 2025. Xi left Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for Beijing on Thursday after attending events in celebration of the autonomous region’s 70th founding anniversary. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)URUMQI, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping left Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for Beijing on Thursday after attending events in celebration of the autonomous region’s 70th founding…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived at the White House for an official meeting with US President Donald Trump, accompanied by Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir. “We have a great leader coming – the Prime Minister of Pakistan, along with the Field Marshal of Pakistan. Field Marshal is a very great guy, and so is the Prime Minister. Both are coming, and they may be in this room right now,” said Trump. we have a great leader coming, we have the Prime Minister of Pakistan coming and the Field Marshal…

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025.Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved Anthropic’s offer to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, in what will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was brought last year by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson. It alleged that Anthropic illegally downloaded books from pirated databases like Library Genesis and Pirate Library…

Members of the FBI investigate from the rooftop at 1120 Empire Central Place work near the scene where a shooter opened fire on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, September 24, 2025 in Dallas, Texas. Stewart F. House | Getty ImagesThe gunman who killed one detainee and wounded two others at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas was trying to target ICE personnel and appeared to be planning his attack for months, authorities said Thursday.The shooter, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn of Texas, “specifically intended to kill ICE agents” in Wednesday’s ambush, said Joe Rothrock, the…

A Costco store in Richmond, California, US, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCostco on Thursday posted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that topped analyst estimates as the warehouse club posted double-digit gains in both membership income and its e-commerce business.The warehouse club does not share an annual outlook with Wall Street. It will hold an earnings call at 5 p.m. ET.Here’s how Costco did in its fiscal fourth quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $5.87 vs $5.80 expectedRevenue: $86.16 billion vs. $86.06 billion expectedCostco’s…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ruled that the transfers of judges to the Islamabad High Court are valid and in line with the Constitution, dismissing petitions that challenged a February 2025 notification ordering the transfers. In a detailed 55-page judgment, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, who authored the decision, explained that transferring a judge from one High Court to another does not equate to a new appointment. The judge’s role and status remain unchanged, despite the change in location. “A transfer is simply a reallocation of an existing resource,” the ruling stated. The court further clarified that the process for transferring…