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We reached a final deal on TikTok, Bessent said on Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. Alluding to Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Bessent continued: We reached [a deal] in Madrid, and I believe that as of today, all the details are ironed out, and that will be for the two leaders to consummate that transaction during a meeting scheduled for Thursday in Korea.

According to a TikTok mash-up that has been used in more than 463,000 videos, you don't just scream "What's going on?" Linda Perry thinks the viral remix of 4 Non Blondes' 1993 track "What's Up?" with Nicki Minaj and 2 Chainz's 2012 hit "Beez in the Trap" is "ridiculous in all the best ways," she said in a statement to Rolling Stone. It's the reason she joined TikTok this month.

After he graduated in 2018, though, he faced a problem that's become commonplace for job seekers today: No one in the design industry seemed to be hiring. So he started working as a barista at a local bookstore with a coffee shop. While organizing the shop's books into categories by color palette and typography, he became fascinated with book cover design.

TikTok has announced the shortlists for its Nordic TikTok Ad Awards for 2025, highlighting a range of top ad agencies and creators that have put together some of the best performing, attention-grabbing campaigns in the app.

If you've spent time on TikTok, odds are you've seen your fair share of fan edits - intricately crafted montages of film, TV or other clips that are set to popular music. Some are like highlight reels, others are like memes and still others are fantasy-based interpretations of popular media that stray far from the tone or text of the source material.

Isabel M. (@isaraveandrips) watched her mother sit at her taco shop, waiting for customers all day long. She was obviously sad, and all she wished for Christmas was for some customers to relish her mother's food. To grow her family business, Isabel posted a TikTok video of her mother sitting at the empty taco shop in December. Much to her surprise, the post blew up overnight, and their shop was packed with customers the following day.

It's why the "hidden talent" trend is the perfect mix of funny and relatable. All the busy, tired, 9-to-5 workers of the world are taking to the app to record themselves singing their own rendition of "Stay With Me" by Sam Smith. The goal? To see if they have a hidden singing talent that would allow them to quit their job and live a life of luxury.

Fans are continuing to change the tune of how they consume music. It was recently reported that MTV was going to stop broadcasting five channels, including MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live in the United Kingdom, and that the channels would go dark the end of this year. (Its flagship channel, MTV HD, will continue to air reality series.)

A lot of the videos produced for Streetsblog California focused on what the governor has, and hasn't, signed into law. They include a push for the governor to sign red-light camera reforms, a look at the bills we're still waiting for the governor to sign or veto, and announcements of the signing of a pair of controversial bills. Also, if you haven't voted on Prop. 50 just yet, Streetsblog breaks down how to do that and encourages a "yes" vote.

Given his proximity to guns and love of guns, I was genuinely worried.

With recipes that go viral, creator personalities that people fall in love with, and food hacks that will transform your experience in the kitchen, the app not only elicits smiles and joy, but can be extremely informational as well. In the world of baking, TikTokers use their creativity to create many types of videos. Whether they are showing off a unique way to bake your favorite treats, showcasing their

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

In April, QVC Group started streaming 24/7 on the social-media platform, broadcasting its products to millions of users. Today, it has a total of five different TikTok channels, including QVC Beauty, QVC Fashion and, as of this month, QVC Home. In addition to running its own TikTok livestreams and offering goods via TikTok Shop, QVC Group works with 400,000 creators, who show off everything from cleaning products to pajamas. In the second quarter of 2025, the company traced more than 100,000 new customers back to TikTok Shop alone.

First, a confession: I have not read Jennifer L Armentrout's latest novel, The Primal of Blood and Bone. Nor have I sniffed it, or licked it. Which might be an odd thing to do, but for the fact that a special edition of the romantasy book has been released with garlic-infused ink. Armentrout is a hugely-successful hybrid author, both self- and traditionally published, and has made the New York Times bestseller list on numerous occasions.

The "Great Lock-In" trend on TikTok has gained momentum as a strategy to help individuals achieve their goals, such as homeownership, by focusing intensely on saving and planning during the last few months of the year. This trend aims to motivate and support individuals in their financial journey toward homeownership. Let's delve into the key takeaways from this trend:

Forget everything you thought you knew about making money as a DJ. The old playbook - club gigs, wedding bookings, and selling CDs at shows - is about as relevant as a flip phone at a Tesla convention. Jean-Claude Bastos, who's successfully navigated this economic earthquake, puts it bluntly: "If you're still thinking like a traditional DJ, you're already extinct." His journey through both old-school and new-school monetization reveals a landscape where creativity and business savvy matter more than ever.

Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a proposed deal to keep TikTok operating in the US. The $14bn deal, if finalised, would see the transfer of TikTok's US operation from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to a consortium which includes the American billionaires Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, and Rupert Murdoch, as well as two investment firms with known ties to the Trump administration.

When we launched Regulator two months ago, the premise was that I'd write about the collision between Big Tech and Big Government. The key word was collision. Tech and politics no longer existed as separate planets that would occasionally cross paths - they were now crashing into each other in very messy and dramatic ways. The plan was to write a column about one subject a week that talked about a recent tech / politics collision.

"My daughter is out of town, so I'm taking my son-in-law to do 'old lady white people s---,' Harris said in one of her viral videos in which the dynamic duo visit a farm petting zoo and do goat yoga. It has over 7 million views. So Harris and Cruz decided to keep the adventures rolling. "I had no idea it was going to go viral, but that's exactly what happened," Harris tells TODAY.com. "It blew me away, how people really just wanted some wholesome content."