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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.

Warning: Major spoilers for the Silo Season 2 finale ahead. Silo, based on the books by Hugh Howey and created for television by Graham Yost, has become one of the crown jewels of Apple TV+, recently earning a two-season renewal

After 15 months of agony, the potential Gaza ceasefire comes as a colossal relief not just for Palestinians and Israelis, but for the wider Middle East. True, the deal is narrow in size and scope. It covers a physical space

Man who crashed truck near White House sentenced to eight years in prison  BBC.com

Sir Keir Starmer has called his visit to Auschwitz “utterly harrowing” and said he was determined to fight the “poison of antisemitism”.