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TikTok Pays $400 Million in Record COPPA Settlement Over Children's Privacy Violations

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The millions of American parents who trusted TikTok to keep their young children off the platform received no compensation this week. The $400 million that ByteDance agreed to p... Read More


Italy Is Buying 5,031 Cheap Rockets to Shoot Down Drones

ROME, Aug. 22 -- The arithmetic of air defence has been running the wrong way for years. A one-way attack drone costs a few tens of thousands of dollars. The missile fired to stop it costs a million. ... Read More


Washington Is Paying the UN $725m. It Owes More Than $4bn.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- The United States is preparing to pay the United Nations $725 million, which is a large sum, a welcome one for an organisation that spent this year rationing cash, and less ... Read More


Cuba Calls Washington 'Executioners' as US Sanctions Its Construction Ministry

HAVANA, Aug. 22 -- Miguel Diaz-Canel reached for the word executioners on Friday, and the first name on Washington's new list is a former Cuban intelligence officer who spent thirteen years in an Amer... Read More


Saima Wazed Demands WHO Inquiry Into the Leave That Removed Her, Warns of Legal Action

NEW DELHI, Aug. 22 -- Saima Wazed has warned the World Health Organization through her lawyers that she may go to court unless it opens an independent investigation into the decision that removed her ... Read More


Iran War Drains US Military Assets From Asia, Leaving Allies Wary of China

TOKYO, Aug. 22 -- When parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system were shipped out of South Korea last month for use against Iran, the move did not make the front pages in Seoul or Tokyo.... Read More


NYT Strands Hints and Answer Today - August 22, 2026 (#902)

NYT Strands today, Aug. 22 -- the spangram for puzzle #902 is MOUNTAINRANGE, and the theme is "Peak Americana". Six theme words sit under it, and every one of them is an American mountain range. If y... Read More


Russia Puts RFK Jr.'s Son Conor Kennedy on International Wanted List Over Ukraine War Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- When Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs added Conor Kennedy's name to its international wanted list last week, it did more than open a criminal file on a 32-year-old American... Read More


North Korea Fires 10 Ballistic Missiles a Day After US and South Korea Cut Back Military Exercises

On Wednesday evening, Aug. 21 -- The concession lasted less than twenty-four hours. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister and the voice his government uses to communicate its most consequential si... Read More


Russia Says the Iran War Has One Author, It Is Also Shipping Tehran Explosives

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 21 -- Vassily Nebenzia's account of the Iran war has one author and one victim, and what makes it effective is that the opening move is a matter of record. The United States did s... Read More