The Transportation Security Administration says it won’t allow employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency after the Senate’s top Democrat raised concerns about potential national security issues

A viral social media challenge is raising major safety concerns.

Two Massachusetts teenagers are facing charges after eight electrical outlets at their high school in Hanson were short-circuited as part of a social media challenge, police said Tuesday.

The “outlet challenge,” made popular on TikTok, involves partially inserting a plug into an outlet, then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.

A viral challenge circulating on the social media app TikTok has Massachusetts firefighters issuing an alert. It’s called the “outlet challenge,” and it involves partially inserting the plug of a cellphone charger into an outlet, then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.

A viral challenge circulating on the social media app TikTok has Massachusetts firefighters issuing an alert. It’s called the “outlet challenge,” and it involves partially inserting the plug of a cellphone charger into an outlet, then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.

A California man says social media might have saved his life, NBC News reports. Alex Griswold, 24, says that after he posted a lighthearted video on TikTok last month, viewers urged him to have the mole on his back checked out by a doctor. Two people who saw Griwold’s “what it’s like being married” video warned him that the mole looked...