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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban after he takes office on Monday, as the app with 170 million American users buzzed with nervous anticipation ahead of a shutdown set for Sunday.…

A U.S. flag, the TikTok logo and a gavel are seen in this illustration taken on Jan. 8, 2025.  WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday…

President Joe Biden answers questions from the media at a briefing on the federal response to the wildfires across Los Angeles, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden capped a half-century political career on Wednesday wi…

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, testifies before a Senate Committee on Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon…

California Governor Gavin Newsom looks on as he visits the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, while powerful winds fueling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area force people to evacuate, in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 8, 2025. (Reuters) — For California Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democr…

A firefighter works as the Palisades Fire, one of several simultaneous blazes that have ripped across Los Angeles County, burns in Mandeville Canyon, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, Jan. 12, 2025. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Firefighters raced to contain the frontiers of two Los Angeles wild…

A plane makes a drop as smoke billows from the Palisades Fire at the Mandeville Canyon, in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 11, 2025. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Aircraft dropped water and fire retardant on steep hills to stem the eastward spread of the Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles on Saturday as on-…

Attorney Emil Bove looks on as President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in …

A house burns as powerful winds fueling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area force people to evacuate, at the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, Jan. 8, 2025. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Raging wildfires surrounding Los Angeles spread to the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday, after five other fire…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. (Reuters) — Social media company Meta Platforms on Tuesday scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program and reduced curbs on discussions ar…