CNN — After TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified for more than five hours on Thursday before a Congressional committee, one thing was clear: US lawmakers remain convinced that TikTok is an urgent threat to national security. The hearing, Chew’s first appearance before Congress, kicked off with a lawmaker calling for TikTok to be banned and … Read more
Beijing CNN — TikTok is fighting to survive in the US Pressure is mounting in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the popular platform was developed using indigenous Chinese technology and is inaccessible in China. In fact, it never existed there. Instead, there is a different version … Read more
CNN — Nikki Lawson received the shock of her life at age 35. A couple of years ago, she noticed that her stomach often felt irritable, and she would get sudden urges to use the restroom, sometimes with blood in her stool. She even went to the hospital one day when her symptoms were severe, … Read more
CNN — With the start of the Islamic month of Ramadan, Habiba said she was “terrified” by the thought of fasting this year. During her teenage years, the eating disorder morphed into bulimia and binge eating, and she says the habit of not eating or drinking from sunup to sundown exacerbated her need to further … Read more
CNN — The new Cold War is not being played out on the high walls that divide the continents, but in the pockets of millions of Americans. congressional hearing Thursday’s focus on the popular TikTok video app became the latest in a string of clarifying moments that exposed not only Washington’s bipartisan animosity toward Beijing’s … Read more
Hongkong CNN — China says it will ‘resolutely oppose’ Any forced sale of TikTokthe first direct response to the Biden administration’s demands that the app’s Chinese owner sell a stake in his company or face a ban in its most important market. TikTok CEO Shou Chew made the above comments Testify before U.S. lawmakers It … Read more
New York CNN — Manhattan grand jury investigation former president donald trump The week isn’t over and questions abound about how close grand jury is to sue — or if it ever does. While the radio silence comes from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Amid widespread media and political speculation over the past few days … Read more
washington CNN — Four Florida families are suing the state’s new Rules banning gender-affirming care For transgender youth, they argue that these prohibitions violate the U.S. Constitution and should be repealed. Two new rules from the Florida Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine prohibit the state’s medical professionals from providing gender-affirming care … Read more
CNN — The U.S. and Canada have reached an agreement to amend a decades-old asylum agreement that would restrict certain immigrants from seeking protection in Canada, two Canadian officials told CNN, marking the way Canada accepts asylum seekers. Significant changes have occurred. While discussions have been going on for years, a sharp increase in the … Read more
washington CNN — Four cisgender women from Connecticut are urging a federal appeals court to grant them another chance to challenge them Trans-inclusion to the Nation sports policy That comes after agreeing earlier this year to reconsider whether the former high school athlete had a legal right to sue. Three-judge panel of the U.S. Court … Read more