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Watch: How TikTok ‘went dark’ in the US TikTok is resuming services to its 170 million users in US after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to give the app a reprieve when he takes office on Monday. On Saturday evening, the Chinese-owned app stopped working for American users, after a law banning it on national …

Ambassador Andreas Michaelis said in his confidential diplomatic report that the Trump agenda would rob the legislative branch, law enforcement and media of their independence. ADVERTISEMENT The German ambassador to Washington wrote in a report back to Berlin that he expects Donald Trump’s second presidency to largely undermine the system of democratic checks and balances in the United States, the …

Ukraine has revealed that it launched a pair of attacks on oil depots in western Russia, the latest in Kyiv’s air assaults against strategic targets on Russian soil. According to Kyiv’s General Staff, its forces had struck storage facilities overnight in the Kaluga and Tula regions. It said in statements on each attack that damages were still being assessed, adding …

United States incoming president, Donald Trump, on Saturday evening, January 18, arrived in the Washington area for a celebration of his return to power ahead of an inauguration ceremony.  Trump flew aboard an Air Force plane sent by outgoing President, Joe Biden, to the Republican’s base in Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump prepared his transition after winning the November 5 …

Before the president-elect had arrived in the capital, groups of mostly female protesters began taking to the street to march for women’s rights which they believe are under threat from the incoming administration. ADVERTISEMENT US President-elect Donald Trump has arrived in Washington DC to celebrate with family, supporters and political allies ahead of his second inauguration on Monday. Trump’s celebration …

US President-elect, Donald Trump on Friday night, January 17, announced his inauguration will be held inside the Capitol rotunda due to the extreme cold temperatures forecast for Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 20. The area has had consistent freezing conditions throughout the month of January and there is still snow on the ground from the storm on Jan. 6, which …

US President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will soon make a decision regarding the operations of the TikTok platform after the Supreme Court upheld a law requiring TikTok to be banned unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it to an American firm, according to his post on Truth Social .   On Friday, January 17, the US Supreme Court …

The quarter-final between Ding and Trump was a match of high quality in terms of scoring, with seven of the nine frames containing a break of 70 or above. Ding, the 2011 Masters champion, began in style with well-made contributions of 70 and 74 to take a 2-0 lead. Left-hander Trump responded with a 75 to reduce the deficit but, …

Scott Bessent will appear before politicians on Capitol Hill to answer questions over his stance on taxes, tariffs, trade and other issues during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. ADVERTISEMENT US Treasury nominee Scott Bessent plans to say that the US must secure vulnerable supply chains, levy sanctions to address national security concerns “and critically, we must ensure …

Trump was clinical in his win over Hawkins, who scored only 59 points in the first five frames – the 45-year-old’s cause not helped by knocking in a red when attempting to disturb the pack while potting the blue in the opening frame. It was a foul that Hawkins repeated in frame four, by which time Trump was in full …