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The court held Friday the risk to national security posed by TikTok’s ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the U.S. A sale does not appear imminent.

The court held Friday the risk to national security posed by TikTok’s ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the U.S. A sale does not appear imminent.

Panama’s leaders and even some of Donald Trump’s allies are still scratching their heads over his threats to reclaim control over the Panama Canal, but he has apparently been seething over the issue since hosting a Miss Universe pageant in

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.

President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office, a U.S. official says.

The court’s decision Friday means new users won’t be able to download the app and updates won’t be available, but it won’t disappear from users’ phones.

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that concerns about TikTok are warranted, and it rejected the app’s argument that there were First Amendment violations. The high court ruled that “The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is constitutional

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, threatening app’s existence in the U.S.  NPR Supreme Court says TikTok can be banned in the US, leaving its future in limbo  CNN Biden won’t enforce TikTok ban, official says, leaving fate of app to Trump  The Associated

Donald Trump announced that he spoke to Chinese president Xi Jinping just days before returning to the White House. The president-elect posted on his Truth Social website that he spoke by phone with Xi for the first time since 2021,

The nation’s first Black defense secretary faced three major military crises, a global pandemic and a personal brush with cancer that became a flashpoint for how it was mishandled.