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What do people regret the most when they retire?
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improvements in savings habits and financial engagement, many retirees
regret some of the decisions they made earlier in life when preparing
for retirement,” Suzanne Ricklin, vice president of retirement
solutions at Nationwide Financial, told Yahoo Finance. “More than 8
in 10 workers over 45 regret not taking retirement saving more
seriously when they were younger.”

For many women, the shortfall stems from a late start. Research from
Corebridge Financial found that more than 6 in 10 retired women wish
they had started saving for retirement earlier – only about a
quarter of them began saving and investing between the ages of 18 and
29. Worse yet, about 4 in 10 retired women say they did not begin
prioritizing their financial and retirement planning until 41 or
later, and 20% said they still have not started.

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Inside the Houthis moneymaking machine - The Economist (No paywall)
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After a ceasefire in Gaza, they may continue their Red Sea racket

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Trump told advisers he wants to visit China as president - WSJ (No
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WASHINGTONDonald Trump has told advisers he wants to travel to China
after he takes office, according to people familiar with the
discussions, seeking to deepen a relationship with Xi Jinping strained
by the president-elects threat to impose steeper tariffs on Chinese
imports.















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Big Techs new frenemy era is here - WSJ (No paywall)
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As Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg try to curry favor with the incoming
president, they appear to be warming to Donald Trumps First Buddy"
Elon Musk after years of frosty relations. Its all part of a dance
where the two are trying to escape the incoming presidents longtime
ire and direct it elsewhere within the tech world.

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Trumps tariff threats push Europe to gear up for trade fight - WSJ (No
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BRUSSELSPresident-elect Donald Trumps tariff warnings are forcing
Europe to confront an unwanted trade-off: Keep its own tariffs low and
shoulder the economic costs, or throw up new barriers in a bid to
protect vulnerable industries.














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The year that hedge funds got their mojo back - WSJ (No paywall)
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In a year when everything seemed to go up, the industry generated some
of its strongest, and most consistent, returns in a decade. The big
question for investors: Was 2024 a turning point, or will the recent
trend of so-soand sometimes dismalreturns quickly reassert itself?

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Trump launches meme coin ahead of White House return - WSJ (No
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Named $TRUMP, the project is a so-called meme coin, a type of crypto
whose value is based largely on the popularity of internet memes. The
token, which is available on the Solana blockchain, quickly soared in
value and held a market value of more than $6 billion as of Saturday
evening, according to CoinMarketCap.














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Blueskys Bot Problem Is a Byproduct of Its Success. Users Are Not
Amused. - Inc (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=131390&nl=daily]
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The social platform Bluesky has earned plaudits from former users of X
by offering an experience that evokes social medias early days.
Despite an emphasis on chronological feeds and user empowerment,
Bluesky is navigating terrain familiar to all social networks past and
presentincluding a recent bot invasion that includes a growing number
of dupe or impersonation accounts. The wave appears to be hampering
the experiences of some people on the site.

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Trump-backed memecoin value tops $12bn as crypto industry hopes rise -
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Incoming president launched token on Friday night after a Washington
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Republicans come out against Donald Trump's TikTok "extension" plan
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TikTok's fate has emerged as a significant geopolitical and cultural
issue after Congress passed a law last year signed by President Joe
Biden requiring TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, to
divest the platform by January 19. Lawmakers supporting the app's sale
or ban have cited national security concerns, pointing to ByteDance's
ties to the Chinese government and the app's data collection
practices.

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How a major Supreme Court case is changing how police do their jobs
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need to understand what actually matters and what to do about it. At
Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been
more vital. But we cant do it on our own.














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How Labeling Laid-Off Tech Workers as 'Low Performers' Destroys
Careers
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The label "low performer" is assigned to you, a tag that sticks,
staining your professional reputation and making it harder to recover.
This isn't an isolated case; it's the harsh reality many tech workers
face in today's turbulent job market.

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Future Customers Won't Search -- They'll Send an AI Agent. Are We
Ready?
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Over the past two decades, the internet has been shaped by Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) -- a set of practices that made it easier
for users to find websites through search engines. For businesses, SEO
was the golden rule: the better your site ranked, the more visible it
became.














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Cutting off oil is Canada's nuclear option. What would it mean if it
happens?
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In Canada's arsenal of possible responses to a Trump tariff, the
nuclear option is the threat to withhold, reduce or place export
tariffs on Canadian energy.

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The new gold rush why the precious metal has lost none of its allure
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There's a secrecy to the specifics of our planned rendezvous, when I
meet a sharp-suited Egon von Greyerz in Zurich airport's arrivals
hall. Hands shaken, he guides us out of a side entrance towards a car
park in a quiet corner of the sprawling complex.














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The mad dash to protect environmental data from Donald Trump
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With Donald Trump stepping back into office, advocates are warning
that access to important environmental and public health datasets
could be at risk. Information about climate change vanished from
federal websites under Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called climate
change "a hoax.

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Have Fresh Graduate Tech Jobs Become A Casualty Of AI?
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As many have noticed, there has been a slew of layoff announcements
recently. While layoffs in general appear to be increasing, this
article focuses on technical jobs. Technical layoffs create a
conundrum for computer science graduates.













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Researchers seek to expand citizen scientist testing of UK river
quality
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Citizen science testing of river water quality will expand this year
in an attempt to make the data part of official monitoring of
waterways, the head of an independent environmental research group has
said.

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These Billionaires, Companies And InvestorsElon Musk, Kevin OLeary And
MoreCould Buy TikTok As Ban Starts - Forbes (No paywall)
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The AI search engine startup Perplexity AI has reportedly submitted a
bid to merge with TikTok, as other companies and billionaires have
rumored to be, or have expressed in, buying ByteDances popular social
media app to navigate around a U.S. ban. (UPDATE: TikTok was banned
Sundayfollow live updates here.)

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TikTok goes dark for US users, while Trump signals he will save it -
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The app started to halt service Saturday night, as a law was about to
take effect requiring it to shed its Chinese ownership or close in the
U.S. It marked the first time the U.S. government has compelled the
closure of such a widely used app, and disrupted millions of American
businesses and social-media entrepreneurs who use TikTok to connect
with customers and fans.

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Lina Khans legacy could prove to be fragile as Trump pick takes helm
of FTC
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Lina Khan was installed as the US's top antitrust watchdog with a
mandate to turn the page on an era of light-touch enforcement.
According to her critics, Khan was a "bully" with "unchecked power".
But, by her reckoning, this new era brought "off the charts" success.

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Accused 911 Mastermind Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life
Sentence
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Then, two days later, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III moved to
withdraw from the deals. He retroactively stripped his appointee,
Susan K. Escallier, a retired Army lawyer, of the authority to reach
the deal and said he wanted the men to face trial.

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Why America is in an alcohol recession
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Beer, wine, and spirit sales have trended upward for years. But the
industry now faces new threats. This year, millions of Americans are
participating in Dry January -- the tradition of abstaining from booze
for an entire month. And the alcohol industry is waking up to a nasty
hangover.

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TikTok Engineered Its Shutdown to Get Saved. But Trump's Solution May
Fall Short
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But it was impressive politics on all sides. By shutting down the app
for a bit of Saturday night and Sunday morning, TikTok made vivid to
its loyal users what the world would be like without the app. (That
shouldn’t be hard to imagine: It first came into American’s phones
in 2016, just two months before Mr. Trump was elected for the first
time.) And it created, for just a few hours, a standoff that Mr. Trump
could then leap in and resolve, at least temporarily, on his way to
the rally of his supporters in Washington on Sunday afternoon.

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American Airlines Accused of Discrimination by Interracial Couple
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Dispatch newsletter to get expert tips on traveling smarter and
inspiration for your next vacation. Dreaming up a future getaway or
just armchair traveling? Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2025.

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Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry
sheep to work
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BUCKHOLTS, Texas (AP) -- On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of
rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture,
casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single
task: chewing grass.

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TikTok restoring U.S. service after Trump provided aassurancea
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Trump has previously stated on Truth Social that he would like the
U.S. to hold 50% ownership of TikTok in a joint venture to "keep it in
good hands and allow it to stay up." However, ByteDance has not
changed its stance on having no plans to sell the company.

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Charting the Biden economy: Despite all the growth and jobs, a deeply
unpopular president
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"Economists looking at this 20 years from now are going to view this
as quite an amazing performance," Zandi said. "The story here is still
not over. But my sense is history will judge this period as one to
follow in future crises."

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TikTok Says Service Will Return as Users React to Shutdown
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But by Saturday night in the United States, it was clear those hopes
were, at least briefly, in vain. Alix Earle, a popular TikTok creator,
headed straight over to Instagram to livestream with her followers and
process the news. Ms. Earle joked she had tried to learn Mandarin to
use RedNote, a Chinese video app that has become popular in recent
days. She had already been banned from that app, she said.

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TikTok says it's restoring service in the US
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The company shared a statement on X Sunday afternoon about 12 hours
after going dark.

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Marvel Snap, CapCut, Lemon8 and other ByteDance apps have also shut
down in the US alongside TikTok
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“Apple is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it
operates,” Apple said in a statement on the support page.
“Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary
Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its
subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will
no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store for
users in the United States starting January 19, 2025.”

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The world braces for Trump, hoping for the best, unprepared for the
worst
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Turnbull advises that as the executive orders pour out of the White
House next week – many of them hostile to the US’s allies – the
test will be first to stand up to the bullying, but then to convince
him there is common ground, for there is only one question –
commercial and political – that Trump ever asks: “What’s in it
for me?’

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Trump says he will delay TikTok ban, suggests a joint venture with US
ownership | TechCrunch
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Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor. Previously, he worked as
a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at VentureBeat, a local
government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of
content at a VC firm. He lives in New York City.

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Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal
data through old Google logins | TechCrunch
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“When the founder has to deal with shutting the company down,
they’re probably not in a great head space to be able to think about
all the things they need to be thinking about,” Ayrey says.

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Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages
On.
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“Wars can’t be settled by bombast,” Senator Richard Blumenthal,
Democrat of Connecticut, said in an interview. “And the missing link
in his thinking is the failure to understand that Ukrainians will
reach the settlement only if they are at the negotiating table from a
position of strength. He’s in effect undermined their position, and
that’s one reason why he hasn’t reached a solution before his
inauguration.”

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For Trump's Second Inauguration, the Vibes in D.C. Are Very Different
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This is the moment Mr. Trump’s supporters have been waiting four
long years to see. The ones who converged on the capital this weekend
packed bars and got pulled around town in pedicabs blaring the Village
People. They did night sightseeing in Georgetown, marveling at the
size of the federalist estates. They were excited.

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Trump Aims for Show of Strength as He Returns to Power
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“We had a 40-seat Republican margin in the House in 2017 and yet
there was trouble ticking off the list of accomplishments,” said
Kellyanne Conway, his 2016 campaign manager who served as a senior
White House counselor in his first term. “This time there is a
slimmer majority, yet larger mandate. President Trump knows he can
move with alacrity and immediacy.”

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TikTok Ban Behind Fire Set at a Mall With Congressman's Office, Police
Say
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TikTok said on social media on Sunday that it was “in the process of
restoring service” after a pledge from Mr. Trump that no one would
face financial penalties for hosting TikTok while the service tries to
find a way to comply with the law.

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Trump's Cryptocurrency Surges to Become One of the World's Most
Valuable
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At least on paper, the Trump tokens in the market as of Sunday late
afternoon had a total trading value of nearly $13 billion, and a total
of $29 billion worth of trades had taken place in just two days. That
calculation is based on the nearly $64 value of each of the 200
million tokens issued, according to CoinGecko, an industry data
tracker.

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Biden Pardons Five More People, Including Civil Rights Leader Marcus
Garvey
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During a visit to Royal Missionary Baptist Church, a storied Black
church near Charleston, S.C., Mr. Biden said that his decisions
reflected how he had come to view the power of “redemption.”

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The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger
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My friend bought a house on one of these hillsides, in Hollywood, in
2022. Last week, she evacuated. She is well aware of how climate
change is supersizing fires. She didn’t think it would be so fierce,
so fast. “This is happening a lot sooner than I ever thought,” she
texted. “tho I know you had an inkling.”

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When Is Trump's Inauguration Here's How to Watch.
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Mr. Trump, in announcing the change in plans on Friday, also
effectively canceled the traditional parade, noting that guests would
be invited to view the inaugural proceedings at the nearby Capital One
Arena. He said he would join them there after the ceremony.

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Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Adviser, Reflects on
China Policy
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“We thought we actually needed an export control regime that gets
put into place and then built upon. … They were pointing in the
right direction, but there was no real systematic undertaking on that
front.”

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Donald Trump will want a good deal with UK, says minister
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He said: "[Priti Patel's] desire to rush into a free trade deal
between the UK and US - one that could sell British farmers and food
standards down the river - reminds us of where her and her party's
true alliances lie: with the Mar-a-Lago clan, not with constituents
here in Britain."

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TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban
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The possibility of an executive order, followed by TikTok’s stunning
about-face, mark a new phase in the fight over the future of the app,
which has reshaped the social media landscape, defined popular culture
and created a living for millions of influencers and small businesses
that rely on the platform.

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What We Know About the TikTok Ban
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“In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process
of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the
necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they
will face no penalties providing TikTok,” the company said in a
statement.

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Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban
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TikTok’s competitors have not waited to make hay from the situation.
Mr. Mosseri described Edits as designed specifically for creators to
edit video on their phones and to save ideas for other videos that
they might want to post later.

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Brown Brothers Harrimanas slavery links exposed by Liverpool campaign
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A spokesperson for BBH said: "Slavery is a shameful and abhorrent
chapter in history. We have provided information on our website
regarding our predecessor firm's involvement in the cotton trade,
which relied on enslaved labor, to be open and transparent and to
explain the context we believe to be true of that time.

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Jean Jennings, Who Wrote With Verve About Cars, Dies at 70
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Mrs. Jennings had no formal training in journalism. Cars, though, she
knew: Before joining Car and Driver in 1981, she had driven a cab,
repaired engines and crash-tested prototype Chryslers at the
company’s proving grounds outside Detroit.

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TikTok Butters Up Trump as It Navigates a Ban in the U.S.
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Mr. Trump may not be able to save the app in the long-term as he has
declared. He vowed early Sunday to issue an executive order to give
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, more time to make a sale that
would satisfy the law, but it’s not clear if he can extend the
timeline now that the law has taken effect — or if he has a sale in
mind that would meet the terms of the law. Mr. Trump appears to be
committed. Even before his post promising an executive order, he
posted to the social media platform Truth Social in all-caps: “SAVE
TIKTOK!”

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First 3 Israeli Hostages Are Freed Under Gaza Cease-Fire
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In one clip, one of the returned hostages, Romi Gonen, is surrounded
in an embrace by members of her family as they tearfully comfort one
another. Yarden Gonen, her sister, who had traveled around the world
in the past year to lobby for Romi’s release, jumps up and down in
the video as the family hugs. In another clip, another released
hostage, Doron Steinbrecher, tearfully embraces loved ones.

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