Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban, Giving Social Media Platform Six Weeks To Sever Ties With CCP-Controlled Parent Company

A federal appeals court denied TikTok’s request to overturn an April law requiring the social media platform to sever ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban in the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday TikTok must divest from CCP-controlled ByteDance by Jan. 19

LA Times Owner To Add AI-Powered ‘Bias Meter’ to News Articles to Give Readers ‘Both Sides’ of Story 

Los Angeles Times billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong is planning to add an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” to his outlet’s news articles to help give readers “both sides” of a story, CNN reported. “Somebody could understand as they read it that the source of the article has some level of bias,” he said on CNN’s top

DNC Chair Frontrunner Ben Wikler Oversaw Wis. Dems as They Downplayed Oct. 7, Labeled Themselves ‘Party of DEI’

Under Wikler’s stewardship, the Wisconsin Democratic platform called to ‘reimagine policing and criminal justice’ Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Ben Wikler (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman Ben Wikler, an emerging favorite to lead the DNC, presided over the state party earlier this year when it voted for a resolution that called for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza—and excluded references

Potty Protest: Transgender Activists Arrested for Illegal Bathroom Sit-In at Capitol

Over a dozen transgender activists were arrested Thursday for illegally protesting in a women’s bathroom near the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) on Capitol Hill, Axios reported. The protest comes in response to Johnson’s Nov. 20 announcement prohibiting biological males from using women’s “restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms” at the Capitol.

Top Dem Donors, Upset Over Biden’s Hunter Pardon, Threaten To Withhold Presidential Library Funding

Top Democratic donors, furious with President Joe Biden for pardoning his son, Hunter, are threatening to withhold funding for his future presidential library. “If they had their s—t together, they would have been doing the work on this over the summer—right after he announced he was stepping aside,” one top Democrat told Axios, referring to

Republican Leaders Demand Biden-Harris Admin Freeze Lame Duck Green Loans Following Free Beacon Report

House GOP leaders are calling on the Biden-Harris administration to immediately freeze its behemoth green energy loan disbursements, which officials have accelerated in recent weeks ahead of President Donald Trump’s upcoming term, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.), Morgan Griffith (R., Va.), and Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.), all of