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TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/media/tiktok-deal-agreements-us-investors.html

OK, der Zweite-Wahl-Kanzler #Merz bekräftigt seine #Stadtbild-Aussage sogar noch :-o https://taz.de/Stadtbild-Aeusserung-…

Stadtbild-Äußerung des Kanzlers: Friedrich Merz wackelt an der Brandmauer
Kanzler Merz und seine CDU wollen sich von der AfD abgrenzen. Doch so lange sie Strategie und Rhetorik nicht ändern, kann man das nicht so recht glauben.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states
that would require election officials to
🆘 remove any
🔸alleged 🔸
ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
The agreement
— called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU
— would❌ hand the federal government a major role in election administration,
a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution.…

»Seltene Erden: „Jetzt, wo die Hütte brennt, ist es allerhöchste Zeit, zu agieren“
Daniel Goldmann von der TU Clausthal erklärt, welche alternativen #Quellen für #SelteneErden und andere kritische #Metall

„Jetzt, wo die Hütte brennt, ist es allerhöchste Zeit, zu agieren“: Experte über Seltene Erden
Daniel Goldmann von der TU Clausthal erklärt, welche alternativen Quellen für Seltene Erden und andere kritische Metalle angezapft werden könnten. Und er plädiert für eine staatliche Risikoabsicherung, wie sie andere Nationen gerade mit viel Geld aufbauen. Bei der Versorgung mit Seltenen Erden und anderen kritischen Rohstoffen verlassen sich deutsche Unternehmen seit vielen Jahren auf Lieferungen […]

UK delivers 350 ASRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of record £4.5 billion aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/uk-delivers-asraam-airtoair-missiles.html

Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/864263/sony-tcl-tv-busines…

Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL
Sony has announced plans to spin off its TV hardware business, shifting it to a new joint venture with TCL.

Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Today’s deadline for response
Within a day of the call,
University of Virginia and Dartmouth College rejected the compact,
joining ranks with MIT,
Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Southern California.
The University of Texas at Austin was invited to sign on and the chair of the University o…

White House hits road block in effort to get top colleges to sign deal
Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Monday’s deadline for responses

Congressional negotiators are expected to release a
bipartisan health care package
as soon as today
that revives major parts of a deal that was torpedoed in late 2024 by Elon Musk and then President-elect Trump.
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities like
— an overhaul of the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers — the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurers
— and new controls on how hospitals bill for outpatien…

Scoop: Bipartisan health package likely moving forward
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities but no extension of Obamacare subsidies.

The US FTC plans to appeal to revive its case accusing Meta of bolstering an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp; Meta won the case in 2025 (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/ftc-will-appeal-r…

A look at how China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies, and more (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/how-chin…