Topline TikTok returned to Apple and Google’s app stores late Thursday, nearly a month after a ban briefly went into effect and barred it from being downloaded by U.S. users—as the Trump administration attempts to sort out a deal that would put it under U.S. ownership and avert an indefinite nationwide ban. TikTok returned to…
(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court refused to consider supervisory appeal of prominent nationalist and former militia commander Igor Girkin against his four-year jail term, TASS agency reported early on Monday. Girkin accused President Vladimir Putin and the army of failures in the war in Ukraine and was convicted a year ago of inciting extremism, a…
On Friday afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to halt a simply enormous amount of domestic federal spending. Chief Judge John McConnell Jr., who issued the order, is the second federal judge to do so. McConnell’s order is significant not only because it puts a second court order…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court held on Thursday, citing recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings expanding gun rights. The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked…
Video-sharing app TikTok wasn’t the only platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance that went offline in the U.S. on Sunday. Several other apps, including the photo-sharing app Lemon8, are no longer available for U.S. users following a recent Supreme Court ruling. Newsweek has contacted ByteDance for comment via email. Why It Matters The banning of…
Topline President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will “most likely” issue a temporary delay a nationwide ban on TikTok, extending a deadline for the app to be sold. A TikTok logo is displayed on an iPhone. Getty Images Timeline January 18, 2025Trump signaled he would “most likely” issue a 90-day extension on the TikTok ban,…
SAN ANTONIO – TikTok is set to be banned in the United States on Jan. 19. The U.S. Supreme Court is upholding a congressional nationwide ban on the app that would impact more than 170 million users, including some from San Antonio. It is a countdown that some users on the app have very strong…
What happens on your smartphone once a US law banning the social media app TikTok takes effect on Jan. 19? It will depend on the actions of TikTok parent ByteDance, President-elect Donald Trump, and some of the largest tech giants in the US. ByteDance could voluntarily shut down use of the app for US users….
Incoming President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social he discussed “balancing” TikTok with China’s President Xi Jinping in a phone call on Friday. Trump’s post came just minutes before the Supreme Court on Friday rejected TikTok’s appeal to overturn a ban on the social media platform set to begin Jan. 19, just…
President Xi Jinping has touted people exchanges as the foundation of healthy US ties. A flood of TikTok “refugees” to Chinese app Xiaohongshu may test his limit for such unscripted interactions. After the US Supreme Court signaled it was likely to uphold a law banning the popular TikTok social media app, a reported 700,000 new…