In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the ...

The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.

TikTok was banned in America. But your data and your kids are still very much at risk.

I witnessed TikTok in its infancy. I saw how it changed our culture – and how the algorithm changed us. Its absence will ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious ...

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