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A federal appeals court has left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States

TikTok and ByteDance on Monday filed the emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia pending a review by the US Supreme Court. They warned that without court action the law will «shut down TikTok — one of the nation's most popular speech platforms — for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users.» The Justice Department said the court should not delay the law's effective date arguing «continued Chinese control of the TikTok application poses a continuing threat to national security.»

A lawyer and investor who managed money for one of the richest families in Texas, helped create one of the giants of the private-equity business and pushed to bring professional hockey to Seattle has died

The proposed $24.6 billion merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons floundered on Tuesday after judges overseeing two separate cases both halted the deal

TikTok’s future in the U.S. appeared uncertain on Friday after a federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge the company brought against a law that requires it to cut ties with its China-based parent company or be banned by mid-January

A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in a few short months, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appe...

ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. Here is what will likely happen next for TikTok. TikTok and its parent ByteDance sued in federal court to block a US law passed in April that would force ByteDance to divest of TikTok. It argued that the law would harm free speech.

The District of Columbia is alleging in a lawsuit that Amazon secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly Black neighborhoods in the city

Amazon, saying the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly Black Washington neighborhoods but is still charging residents millions of dollars for a service that provides speedy deliveries. The complaint, filed Wednesday in District of Columbia Superior Court, revolves around Amazon's Prime membership service, which charges consumers $139 per year or $14.99 per month for fast deliveries — including one-day, two-day and same-day shipments — as well as other benefits. In mid-2022, the lawsuit says, the Seattle-based online retailer imposed what it called a delivery «exclusion» on two zip codes in the district — 20019 and 20020 — and began relying exclusively on third-party delivery services such as UPS and the US Postal Service, rather than its own delivery systems.

A senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration who oversaw its contentious efforts to address climate change by curbing drilling and mining on federal lands has been named the next president of a prominent environmental group

Attorneys for Fox Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold current and former company officials personally liable for the financial fallout from Fox News reports regarding alleged vote rigging in the 2020 election

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade

The man who voiced America Online’s famous “You’ve got mail” greeting has died at age 74

Ivanka Trump is still interested in her White House-related connections even though she won't be going back to Washington, D.C., when her father, Donald Trump, is sworn in in January 2025. To indirectly assist her father, the 43-year-old socialite is probably going to return to the spotlight, as quoted in a report by SheKnows.

U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris urged Americans to not despair and “keep fighting” for the promise of a brighter future as she conceded her loss to president-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. election on Wednesday.

JD Vance, along with Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, who both played significant roles in the campaign. Trump proclaimed, “Now I can say Vice President-elect of the United States, JD Vance, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance.”

As of 10:00 am, December gold futures were trading at Rs 78,434 per 10 grams on the MCX, down by Rs 73, or 0.09%, from the previous session's closing price. Meanwhile, December silver futures were priced at Rs 93,490 per kg, down Rs 1,158, or 1.22%, at the same time.

US election 2024 results are likely to be announced in a few hours but exit polls have predicted a tight battle between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Many Democratic Party and Republican Party supporters have apprehensions that the contest between Trump and Harris may be tied, as per a report on Reuters.

Since voter ID laws differ from state to state, voters should find out if their state requires any particular type of identification to cast their ballot. Remember these points inside the polling place:

Certain states demand identification with a photo to verify the voter, such as a driver's license, state-issued ID card, tribal ID, military ID, or other documents. Other states, as stated by NCSL, accept identification that does not include a photo, such as a name and address on a bank statement or another document. Voters who are waiting to cast their ballots in person on election day may or may not be required to present identification. It all depends on their residence.