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Twitter has resumed sales of its premium offering, Twitter Blue, which gives users a blue verification badge next to their name, after a week-long hiatus because some subscribers were using the paid service to impersonate known accounts. After several postponements, the social network announced in a blog entry that Twitter Blue is now available. Users who pay $8 a month…

Two years after the first countries approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine for home use, China will finally approve the mRNA vaccine domestically — but there’s a catch. On Friday, China confirmed in a press conference that it would give German nationals the BioNTech COVID vaccine, which uses mRNA technology, in exchange for German health authorities on Wednesday approving China’s Sinovac…

NASA’s Orion capsule made a lightning return from the moon on Sunday and parachuted into the Pacific Ocean off Mexico to complete a test flight that should clear the way for astronauts on the next lunar flyby. The incoming capsule struck the atmosphere at Mach 32, or 32 times the speed of sound, and withstood re-entry temperatures of 5,000 degrees…

A Tokyo company headed to the moon with its own private lander on Sunday, launching on a SpaceX rocket carrying the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toy-like robot from Japan designed to roll around in the gray dust up there. It will be almost five months before the lander and its experiments reach the moon. The company…

Twitter will restart its Twitter Blue subscription service on Monday, it said on Saturday, providing some details on how the service will work after a disastrous debut last month. Twitter Blue got off to a rocky start, having to be suspended last month after trolls used the service to impersonate celebrities and corporations, including Eli Lilly, Nintendo and Lockheed Martin.…

Elon Musk’s Twitter has been sued by a private jet company for refusing to pay for two flights taken by former chief marketing officer Leslie Berland as Musk prepared to launch his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform to complete. Private Jet Services Group LLC claims she is owed $197,725 for Berland’s Oct. 26 flight from Teterboro, N.J.…

US prosecutors laying the groundwork for a possible fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried and others involved in the collapse of cryptocurrency giant FTX are investigating, according to a person familiar with the matter. Prosecutors are closely examining whether hundreds of millions of dollars were wrongfully transferred to the Bahamas at the time of FTX’s Nov. 11 bankruptcy filing in Delaware,…

Orange production in Florida this season is expected to fall 36% from previous estimates, due in part to two hurricanes that battered the growing regions, according to figures released by the US Department of Agriculture on Friday. The latest forecast calls for about 18 million cases of oranges to be produced in the state in 2022-23, compared to agency estimates…

An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas this week is the largest for an onshore crude oil pipeline in more than nine years and by far the largest in the history of the Keystone Pipeline, according to federal data. Canada-based TC Energy on Thursday estimated the Keystone system spill at about 14,000 barrels or 588,000 gallons. It said…

Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Friday that she has registered as an independent, but she does not plan to vote with Republicans to ensure Democrats retain their narrow Senate majority. Sinema, who has modeled her political approach on the late Senator John McCain, R-Ariz.’s renegade style and has at times frustrated Democratic colleagues with her overtures to Republicans…