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Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in US … Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China's ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.
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TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S. — The popular video app stopped working shortly before a federal law barring U.S. companies from hosting or distributing TikTok was set to take effect on Sunday. — “Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now,” the message read.
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Oracle Prepares to Start Shutting TikTok Servers Saturday Night — Leaders at Oracle, the main cloud computing provider for TikTok's U.S. operations, have told some staff to prepare to shut down servers that host U.S. TikTok data on Saturday night as early as around 9 p.m. Eastern …
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TikTok goes dark in the US
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Trump says he will ‘most likely’ give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban
Trump says he will ‘most likely’ give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban
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A president's final days — As Biden leaves office, his term is ending where it began: Trump. — On a recent Tuesday morning, in a dim underground parking garage in west Los Angeles, President Joe Biden sat idly in his car, seemingly paralyzed by events.
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Biden's Legacy: Rescuing America From COVID, Then Getting Replaced By A Criminal — In the end, looking, speaking and walking like an old man were too much for voters to accept in a president. — WASHINGTON — In the end, facing a choice between a convicted criminal and someone who looked …
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Democrats Now Threatening People Who Donated to Trump's Inauguration
Democrats Now Threatening People Who Donated to Trump's Inauguration
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Donald Trump, crypto billionaire … - After another massive overnight rally, as of Sunday morning Trump's crypto holdings were worth as much as $58 billion on paper, enough — with his other assets — to make him one of the world's 25 richest people.
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Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach.
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Trump launches crypto meme coin, ballooning net worth ahead of inauguration
Trump launches crypto meme coin, ballooning net worth ahead of inauguration
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Statement from President Joe Biden on Clemency Actions — America is a country built on the promise of second chances. As President, I have used my clemency power to make that promise a reality by issuing more individual pardons and commutations than any other President in U.S. history.
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Fox News Prepares to Cover a Government Filled With Fox News Alumni — President-elect Donald J. Trump has leaned heavily on familiar faces from the cable network as he fills out his second-term cast. — Nineteen ... and counting. — That's the number of former Fox News hosts …

A List of Those Who Could Be in Line for Trump's ‘Retribution’ … Supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump outside Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Fla., in December.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times — President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised at times to use the vast powers …
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A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses — Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it. — President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation …
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Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows — Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies …
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Statement from President Joe Biden on the Executive Order to Help Left-Behind Communities Make a Comeback — When I took office, too many American communities had been left behind. Decades of trickle-down economics offshored manufacturing jobs, slashed public investment …
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Gov. Gavin Newsom faces complex politics, GOP criticism over L.A. fires — The California Democrat has pressed moderate measures to aid victims and been a constant TV presence as he and the state battle online falsehoods. — LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom has been an omnipresent figure …
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Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom — The Supreme Court of Texas just heard oral argument in a case challenging a remarkably punitive and malicious attack on religious liberty by the state of Texas. That attack isn't just dangerous on its own terms, it's also a potential preview …

'We'd Have Been Better Off if Trump Won in 2020': Three Columnists Brace for the First 100 Days — Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg about Donald Trump's presidential inauguration …