Biden Says Intentional Power Outages Caused Water Shortages During Los Angeles Wildfires

It comes as fire officials attempt to make progress on containing several fires around the city. Amid concerns about water supply to put out wildfires that have burned thousands of buildings across Los Angeles, President Joe Biden said that intentional power outages caused shortages. Biden said Thursday that he spoke with California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban as deadline nears

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked her first questions of Francisco after nearly an hour of arguments, questioning whether the issue is really about TikTok’s association with ByteDance. “If TiKTok were to, post-divestiture or pre-divestiture, come up with its own algorithm, then when the divestiture happens, it could still operate,” she told Francisco of the law.