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| Good morning! Today we're covering TikTok's looming shutdown, President Joe Biden saying he ratified a new amendment to the Constitution, and the start of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire on Sunday. |
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TikTok Says It Will Go Dark on Sunday TikTok said it would be "forced to go dark" on Sunday if the Biden administration does not issue a "definitive" assurance to its service providers that the U.S. government will not enforce a law requiring the company to divest or stop operation in the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled earlier in the day to uphold a ban on the social media platform unless TikTok's owner ByteDance divests the social media app's U.S. assets by Sunday. The White House said on Friday that enforcing the ban will be the responsibility of the incoming Trump administration.
Responding to the high court's decision, Trump said the decision on whether to keep or ban TikTok is up to him, but did not elaborate. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post shortly before the court's decision was issued that TikTok was among the topics in his conversation on Friday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. (More) |
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Biden Says He Ratified New Constitutional Amendment President Joe Biden announced on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is the "law of the land," despite the U.S. archivist recently saying the president could not ratify the constitutional amendment. Biden pointed to how Virginia in 2020 became the 38th state to ratify the amendment.
The U.S. archivist and U.S. deputy archivist said in late 2024 that the president could not ratify the amendment because the amendment did not receive the required support from three-fourths of the states by the deadline Congress imposed, which was June 30, 1982. The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel in 2020, while Donald Trump was president, and in 2022, after Biden took office, also said that ratification cannot occur unless Congress or the courts extend or remove the ratification deadline.
However, the American Bar Association (ABA) is among the organizations that have offered a different view: that Virginia's ratification was sufficient to meet the three-quarters requirement, and the deadline is not relevant. (More) |
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Israel's Cabinet Approves Cease-Fire, Set to Begin Sunday Israel's Cabinet approved a cease-fire deal with Hamas on Friday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed an agreement had been finalized and the security cabinet gave its approval.
Israel and Hamas have been at war for 15 months, after the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group mounted a cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 taken hostage.
Many of the hostages have been released, or their bodies repatriated, but 98 are outstanding. Under the first part of the three-phase agreement, 33 of them will be released during the initial six-week cease-fire, which is due to start on Sunday. Israel will release 95 prisoners on Jan. 19 including Khalid Jarar of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, according to the country's justice ministry, which released a list of the Palestinian prisoners who will be freed that day. (More) How did you enjoy today's Morning Brief? Tell us what you think here. |
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