Biden revokes TikTok ban, issues new guidance for evaluating foreign apps
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order that overturns Trump-era efforts to ban Chinese applications TikTok and WeChat while offering new guidelines for federal agencies to assess the national security risks of such software.
The order emphasizes additional criteria for the Commerce Department to use in assessing whether to restrict U.S. use of foreign software apps. Those criteria include whether the technology is connected to foreign military or intelligence agencies, or involved in malicious cyber activity or the collection of sensitive personal data.
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Israel’s democratic transition is set for Sunday, but nothing is certain amid the prime minister’s scorched-earth campaign to wreck his opponents’ coalition.
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is returning to North Carolina for one of his highest-profile appearances since leaving the White House. And he’s hyping his Saturday night speech at the NCGOP state convention in Greenville in a very Trump way. “A great honor to be speaking at the North Carolina GOP convention tomorrow night. I understand the place will be packed, all records broken!” Trump .
Trump Teases White House Run, Telling Zuckerberg No More Friendly Dinners ‘Next Time’ He’s President
Former President Donald Trump again hinted at a possible run for the presidency while responding to news of his two-year ban from Facebook on Friday by saying he would not invite CEO Mark Zuckerberg to dinner “next time I’m in the White House.”
After Facebook vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg announced Friday that the former president would be suspended from the platform for two years from Jan. 7, the day he was initially hit with the ban, Trump responded with a statement saying there would be no more friendly dinners with the Facebook chief.