Instagram announced the release of its new video editing software Edits on Sunday. TikTok and CapCut, a video editing software, were legally banned in the U.S. on Sunday. The first version of Instagram’s Edits will be available for download and use in February or March. As TikTok scrambled to restore service in the U.S. on…
As of 11:15 a.m. ET on Sunday, the TikTok website was accessible on desktop internet browsers, USA TODAY staff and two sources confirmed. Click here to learn more. TikTok may be dark in America, but users are still able to download their data. On Saturday night, TikTok users scrolling through the app were met with…
With the flip of a switch, TikTok went dark in America. Instead of the high-velocity carousel of viral morsels, around 10:30 p.m. ET − 90 minutes before the shutdown deadline −TikTok users in the U.S. received a pop-up saying: “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.” “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S….
TikTok is letting users know that the social media app will be temporarily unavailable due to the upcoming U.S. ban taking effect on Sunday. Users logging on were met with a pop-up message reading “Important update from TikTok,” advising that the soon-to-be-implemented U.S. law would “force us to make our services temporarily unavailable. We’re working…
With the Supreme Court’s move Friday to uphold a ban on video sharing app TikTok, the social media app could be shut down as soon as Sunday. There’s still some uncertainty about TikTok’s future after the court denied parent company ByteDance’s argument that a ban on the app infringes on users’ free speech. That’s because…
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the looming TikTok ban may have corporate consequences far beyond the app’s parent company, impacting American tech giants and the broader U.S. stock market. With Donald Trump returning to the White House the day after the ban is set to take effect, it remains to be seen if and…
A group of Republican attorneys general have lost their bid for a temporary injunction that would have blocked the federal government from imposing new staffing level requirements on nursing homes. Last year, the Biden administration approved new staffing requirements for nursing homes that collect taxpayer money through Medicaid and Medicare. The rules, which are to…
Wall Street opened in the green ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday. President-elect Trump’s inauguration is Monday, and his first days are expected to be filled with a flurry of executive orders on day one. “Reports suggest 100 or more,” wrote Morgan Stanley analysts in a report. Any signals of…
WASHINGTON − An outgoing Biden administration official warned against a looming Cold War-style nuclear arms race in a farewell speech. Jill Hruby, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the U.S. cannot build more nuclear weapons than Russia and China (and its “gigantic economy”) in the decades to come, despite an ongoing $1.7 trillion…
TikTok may be banned in the U.S. on Sunday ― not because of the app’s addictive nature, but for user privacy concerns. In 2024, President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. This gave the platform 165 days to separate from ByteDance, its parent company operated by China. The app…