TikTok logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on the U.S. flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019.Dado Ruvic | ReutersTikTok threatened legal action against an executive order issued by President Donald Trump Thursday that would ban the Chinese social media app from doing business with U.S. firms.The app has been at the…
U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with leadership from the National Association of Police Organizations in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, July 31, 2020.Anna Moneymaker | The New York Times | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon…
TOPLINE Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has floated a potential ban of TikTok, a Chinese-owned video-sharing social media app with a huge base of young American users, but polling suggests that such a move could have dire political implications for President Trump’s reelection bid. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 18: President Donald J. Trump uses his…
The Logo of social media app TikTok (also known as Douyin) is displayed on a smartphone on December 14, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty ImagesTikTok has been pulled from Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store in Hong Kong, days after a sweeping new national security law was introduced in…
SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images There was an irony to the news on June 7 that TikTok was exiting Hong Kong. Its name joined those of Facebook, Google and Twitter, and then Microsoft and Zoom, as major U.S. platforms announced a rethink of their operations in the territory as its new national security law came…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…