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From Jamie Apody's disappearance at Action News to the losses of radio stalwarts Howard Eskin and Andre Gardner, Philadelphia media bid farewell to some big names in 2024.

Russian S-400 defense systems. Russian Defense Ministry / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesEurope is worried that Russia could attack countries beyond Ukraine. At the same time, Trump has suggested the US would be less involved in helping its NATO allies. Without US support, Europe lacks a key capability needed in a conflict with Russia, experts told BI.

Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai asked the Supreme Court to uphold the federal TikTok ban. Alex Wong/Getty ImagesAjit Pai urged the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law that could ban TikTok. The TikTok law requires its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest to avoid a US ban. Pai, the FCC chair during Trump's first term, led efforts against other Chinese tech firms.

In the continuing saga of billionaires and big rockets comes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with his latest space vehicle, New Glenn. The rocket, which stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, is named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first person to orbit Earth in 1962. Though much shorter than SpaceX's towering Starship, it is about the size of NASA's mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System.