With just minutes left as president, Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his entire immediate family—and gave clemency to prominent Native American activist Leonard Peltier.
President Joe Biden shared a tidbit of one of his conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the war on Palestine, though the revelation didn’t leave either country in a particularly good light.
The White House has looked into options to keep TikTok accessible to its 170 million American users if a ban that is set to go into effect Sunday continues as planned.
Late on Saturday, the app stopped working for its millions of US users, disappearing from Apple and Google app stores. The ByteDance owned app was slated for a complete shutdown in the USA, following federal ban.
Some U.S. lawmakers are advocating for an extension on the deadline for TikTok's Beijing parent company to sell U.S. assets before a ban takes effect.
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 on Monday, a U.S.
There are only a couple of days left until the deadline set by the “anti-TikTok bill” signed by Joe Biden last year is met. If ByteDance does not sell its US stake before January 19, it will not be able to continue operating in the country.
The app says it will shut down Sunday unless the sitting president can assure tech companies that he won’t enforce the law.
A ban on the popular app is set to start Sunday, although the Supreme Court could rule anytime on whether to uphold it.
Congress last year in a law signed by President Joe Biden required that TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance divest the company by Jan. 19 or risk getting banned in the U.S.
Also in today’s newsletter, Trump warns Putin to reach Ukraine ‘deal’ soon, and Pakistan to seek extradition of billionaire tycoon from UAE