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Protecting Americans cannot be accomplished by banning a single app. When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in court.

The same goes for ExxonMobil. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Here are 10 of the most (and least) expensive countries for subscribing to Netflix without ads—and what you can expect to find in their libraries. A vacation done right typically involves very few waking hours spent inside a hotel room. What’s the point of getting out of the country, after all, if you’re barely getting out of bed?

A potential conflict looms with avocado growers—who are often sponsored by or pay protection money to drug cartels. As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City.

Enlarge / Jürgen Trittin, member of the German Bundestag and former environment minister, stands next to an activist during an action of the environmental organization Greenpeace in front of the Brandenburg Gate in April 2023. The action is to celebrate the shutdown of the last three German nuclear power plants.

Enlarge / More players have been emerging from this vault lately than have in years. (credit: Samuel Axon) War never changes, but Fallout 76 sure has. The online game that launched to a negative reception with no NPCs but plenty of bugs has mutated in new directions since its 2018 debut.