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Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX will be main investors in TikTok’s U.S. business, sources told CNBC’s David Faber on Thursday. Those three entities will control roughly 45% of TikTok USA, Faber reported. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, will own 19.9%, with the remaining 35% in the hands of ByteDance investors and new holders.President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday backing the proposed deal that will keep the social media app running in the U.S. ByteDance has faced an ultimatum under a federal law requiring it to either divest the platform’s American business or be shut down in the…

Sep 25, 2025, 01:42 PM ETBayern Munich striker Harry Kane can eclipse both Cristiano Ronaldo and Erling Haaland on Friday night by becoming the fastest player in Europe’s top five leagues to score 100 goals for a club this century.The England captain needs two more against Werder Bremen on Friday night to reach the landmark in one game less than it took Ronaldo and Haaland, who both hit the mark for Real Madrid and Manchester City respectively in 105 matches.- Stream Bundesliga – Live & Upcoming on ESPN- Rae: Is Musiala’s injury a blessing for Bayern? It’s made Kane even…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A woman has sued Universal Orlando Resort, claiming she was injured on a roller coaster at its newest theme park. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, comes a week after a man died from blunt impact injuries after going on the same ride.Sandi Streets filed the negligence lawsuit in state court in Orlando, days after the death of 32-year-old Kevin Rodriguez Zavala in a separate incident.Streets said she was invited to Universal’s Epic Universe theme park just a few weeks before it officially opened to the public in May and went on the dual-launch coaster, which reaches speeds…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Medicaid patients face a threat of reduced access to services — before separate changes approved within President Donald Trump’s spending-reduction law are implemented — as an impasse over state Medicaid funding extends further. Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, whose administration oversees Medicaid for 3.1 million people in the ninth-largest state, confirmed Thursday that starting next week the state program will lower reimbursement rates for doctors, hospitals and other medical providers. Stein said it wasn’t too late for the Republican-controlled legislature to solve the problem, adding that the rate cuts can be reversed. If no solution…

Champpixs | Istock | Getty ImagesBrian Lovern started his career pointing at storm systems on a green screen as a local TV weatherman in western Kentucky. More than two decades later, he was staring at natural-gas price charts, turning forecasts into profits, producing annual returns upwards of 100%.Lovern, 49, had made the unusual jump from broadcast meteorology to Wall Street, working on weather desks at hedge funds and investment banks. But trading wasn’t part of the job.”On the trade floors, in most cases, that’s not going to happen,” he said in an interview. “They kind of frown upon weather guys…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina banker who prosecutors said helped Alex Murdaugh move millions of dollars around to avoid detection of his thefts in exchange for a share of the money will spend at least five years in prison.Russell Laffitte pleaded guilty Thursday to eight counts in state court. Laffitte’s plea was part of a complex deal with federal prosecutors that should wrap up his criminal case by the end of October and keep him in federal prison until around May 2027.Laffitte is one of several people investigators said were ensnared by Murdaugh as he stole millions from…

CHICAGO (AP) — A boarded-up building in a small Chicago suburb has become the front line of a federal immigration crackdown, with growing accusations that the facility meant to process arrestees is a de facto detention center plagued by inhumane conditions.The Trump administration has targeted the Chicago area for its latest immigration enforcement surge touting hundreds of arrests in the past three weeks. Relatives, lawyers and activists are concerned by immigrants’ accounts of what happens once they are inside the brick building in Broadview. Once routine protests outside the building have grown in recent weeks, with federal agents using chemical…

The United States government says it will block any attempt to ban Israel from the World Cup next summer.A United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry said last week that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which led to calls for sporting sanctions against the country.Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the report was “fake” and “relied entirely on falsehoods”.A US State Department spokesman told Sky News: “We will absolutely work to fully stop any effort to attempt to ban Israel’s national soccer team from the World Cup.”The majority of games at the 2026 World Cup will be in…

GMC SUVs parked outside a GMC Buick dealership in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on March 22, 2025. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDETROIT — Uncertainty surrounding U.S. regulations on tariffs, electric vehicles and other auto-related issues have given new car sales a surprising boost heading into the fourth quarter, according to a new industry analysis.Cox Automotive on Thursday raised its 2025 new vehicle U.S. sales forecast to 16.1 million from a previous range of 15.6 million to 15.7 million due to stronger-than-expected demand so far this year. That would be up from roughly 16 million vehicles sold domestically in 2024.Cox’s…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas slammed Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip and said his government was ready to implement a plan unveiled this week by US President Donald Trump for the besieged enclave, as he spoke by video to the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday. Abbas and his Palestinian delegation had been denied visas by the Trump administration and so was forced to address the annual UN summit remotely. Abbas refrained from criticising the US, and instead said the Palestinian Authority was ready to govern Gaza and work with Trump on his new peace plan.  “I speak to…