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By HALELUYA HADERO, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down a law that could ban the platform by Jan. 19 while the government emphasized its position that the statute is needed to eliminate a national security risk. “President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute. Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case,” said Trump’s amicus brief, which supported neither party in the case and was written by D. John Sauer, Trump’s choice for solicitor general. Related Articles The argument submitted to the court is the latest example of Trump inserting himself in national issues before he takes office. The Republican president-elect has already begun negotiating with other countries over his plans to impose tariffs, and he intervened earlier this month in a plan to fund the federal government, calling for a bipartisan plan to be rejected and sending Republicans back to the negotiating table. He has been holding meetings with foreign leaders and business officials at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida while he assembles his administration, including a meeting last week with TikTok CEO Shou Chew. Trump has reversed his position on the popular app, having tried to ban it during his first term in office over national security concerns. He joined the TikTok during his 2024 presidential campaign and his team used it to connect with younger voters, especially male voters, by pushing content that was often macho and aimed at going viral. He said earlier this year that he still believed there were national security risks with TikTok, but that he opposed banning it. The filings Friday come ahead of oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 10 on whether the law, which requires TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company or face a ban, unlawfully restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment. The law was was signed by President Joe Biden in April after it passed Congress with broad bipartisan support. TikTok and ByteDance filed a legal challenge afterwards. Earlier this month, a panel of three federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the statute , leading TikTok to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The brief from Trump said he opposes banning TikTok at this junction and “seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office.” In their brief to the Supreme Court on Friday, attorneys for TikTok and its parent company ByteDance argued the federal appeals court erred in its ruling and based its decision on “alleged ‘risks’ that China could exercise control” over TikTok’s U.S. platform by pressuring its foreign affiliates. The Biden administration has argued in court that TikTok poses a national security risk due to its connections to China. Officials say Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok’s U.S. patrons or use the platform to spread or suppress information. But the government “concedes that it has no evidence China has ever attempted to do so,” TikTok’s legal filing said, adding that the U.S. fears are predicated on future risks. In its filing Friday, the Biden administration said because TikTok “is integrated with ByteDance and relies on its propriety engine developed and maintained in China,” its corporate structure carries with it risk.
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ON the youth club’s memorial wall, the names of 46 past members are immortalised on wooden plaques. They bear witness to the tragic loss of young people aged 12 to 35 — but this is no war commemoration or tribute to those killed in a terrible disaster. It is the true cost of living in Britain’s worst benefits blackspot. Among the names on the Shalom Youth Club memorial in Grimsby ’s East Marsh estate are victims of 16 drug overdoses, six murders and five suicides — a tally of misery brought on by a toxic mix of unemployment, drink, drugs and gambling problems. More than half the estate’s residents live on handouts, and life expectancy is 12 years below average. The area is awash with “county lines” gangs — criminals who force victims to transport drugs across police and local authority boundaries, and who often “cuckoo”, or take over, the home of a vulnerable person to use as a base for their operation. read more on uk news Police had to rescue an East Marsh family with three primary school-aged children from the clutches of dealers who moved into their home. Canon John Ellis, who has run a local youth project for 52 years, said: “I’ve never seen it so bad. “People are being preyed on by drug dealers and gangs and spend what little money they have on drink and gambling. “For the first time ever, we’re getting kids coming through the door who, when asked what school they attend, say, ‘I don’t go’. Most read in The Sun “The levels of poverty are Victorian. "We’ve all seen the statistics about the number of jobs available, but when a community sinks this low in its esteem, people go into a whole way of life. "Employment is a big step because, let’s face it, it’s quite enjoyable to sit and just chill. “This community needs to understand there’s no cavalry coming and they’ve got to try to help themselves.” Grimsby, in north-east Lincs, has become synonymous with poverty and crime over the years and East Marsh, the centre of a once proud fishing community, is in the bottom three per cent for deprivation in Britain. At The Rock food bank, a boozed-up regular downs his bottle of Carlsberg then picks up a bag of food, while outside, a drug user slumps on a wall, unable to stand. Also in the queue for food is former heroin user Paul McPhee, who gets £328 a fortnight in Employment and Support Allowance , a benefit for the sick and disabled. He has no rent or bills to pay because he lives in a supported housing complex. In East Marsh, 33 per cent of people get sickness payouts , while 11 per cent are on Jobseeker’s Allowance and nine per cent get other benefits. Paul, 54, told The Sun: “I used to work as a housing association support officer but I lost my job because they accused me of stealing from a client — even though no charges were ever brought and I would never do that. “That was 2014, and I’ve not been able to get work since. Death threats "I’m clean now but I used to take drugs because I had really bad mental health issues. “If I’d got the help I needed then, I might not be here now.” The Rock founder Pam Hodge said the charity, which feeds around 600 people a week, is stuck in a “merry-go-round” of feeding people, most of whom have grown up in the care system and are in and out of prison. At the nearby Salvation Army centre, the homeless Baccellini family — Amy and Dino, and their kids Kyle, 14, Kylie, 13, Lexie, 11, Carlo, ten, and seven-year-old Gino — sit waiting for their washing to dry. This community needs to understand there’s no cavalry coming and they’ve got to try to help themselves They are living in three bedrooms in a guest house in nearby Cleethorpes after being run out of Grims- by’s notorious Nunsthorpe estate, where drugs and crime are rife. The family have been shunted from pillar to post, living in temporary accommodation for three years — and none of the kids has been to school in that time. They previously fled Leicester in 2021 after death threats from their wider family and lived in a series of temporary caravan accommodation in Skegness before being told they might have a better chance of a permanent home in Grimsby. Amy said: “The local authority gave us a temporary house on the Nuns-thorpe estate and things were OK for a while. "But they said the kids would have to go to four different schools, all outside the area, and we didn’t have a car to get them there. “We’ve had to home-school. "We kept ourselves to ourselves on the estate and then a stupid rumour got around that we were in witness protection and people started calling us snitches, egging our house. “Then Kylie was badly attacked by a woman who lived nearby and the council moved us out for our protection. "We’ve spent the last two months living in a temporary B&B. “The council says it will pay £600 towards a private landlord but they all want guarantors, and we don’t have anyone. It’s hopeless.” In Skegness the family were placed in SEVEN different caravans, two bed and breakfasts and a holiday cottage between July 2022 and March 2023. East Lindsey Council was probed by the Ombudsman over its treatment of the family. It found the family had suffered delays in communication and ordered the authority to pay £500 for failing to protect property which was wrecked after they were forced to store it underneath a caravan. The council told The Sun: " The ombudsman publishes the findings of cases they investigate. "East Lindsey District council takes all feedback from the Ombudsman seriously and uses it to further improve council services as appropriate." Although Grimsby is surrounded by upmarket villages, the town itself is blighted by shuttered, graffiti-covered shops, in neighbourhoods strewn with rubbish and populated by street drinkers and aimless youngsters. It is the epitome of broken Britain, where 9.25million, or more than a fifth of the working-age population, have no job or are not actively seeking one . Last month the Government unveiled its Get Britain Working programme , aimed at getting two million jobless young people into work. But it will face an uphill battle in places such as East Marsh, where benefits have become almost a cultural norm. Rev Kay Jones, who runs a social lunch and playgroup at St John and St Stephen church in East Marsh, said: “When this was a fishing area, how much you earned depended on the size of your catch. 'Too risky' "But when benefits were introduced, many people saw this as a constant source of income, some stability.” Most of those who work in the town depend on the dominant frozen seafood industry. Jobs at Young’s, which supplies around 40 per cent of the fish eaten in Britain, are currently being advertised for £12.21 an hour — above the National Living Wage of £11.44 — but one agency is offering below, at £11.41. It’s really draining to have to think about money constantly but I am not well enough to work Rev Jones said many people feel it is “too risky” to come off benefits and start a job in case they don’t get enough work hours to qualify for Working Tax Credit . In the church hall, Emily Gould, 31, is grateful just to have some company because her partner James, a 29-year-old electrician, works away during the week in Leeds, 62 miles away. She said: “I don’t think it’s that people don’t want to work necessarily, but that they sometimes get more in benefits.” Serena Donnelly, who is at the drop-in with her four-year-old son Alex, says she is unable to work because she has fibromyalgia , a condition that causes pain, fatigue and brain fog. Serena, 31, who also has an 11-year-old daughter, gets £1,900 a month in benefits and is left with about £250 for food and clothing after paying her £570 rent, £130 gas and electricity, £44 council tax, water and Sky TV bills. She said: “It’s really draining to have to think about money constantly but I am not well enough to work. “I’m struggling to get the kids stuff for Christmas , and buying from sites like Temu and getting toys from the NSPCC to help.” Close to tears, she added: “Sometimes things are so bad I just want to run away.” Grimsby is now betting its future on renewable energy, with some of Europe’s biggest wind farms generating power just off the coast. Danish giant Orsted has a base in the town and small supply boats run from the docks, carrying engineers and equipment to the huge turbines out at sea. But the work is highly specialised, and Canon Ellis said jobs are hardly ever advertised in the local Jobcentre. He said East Marsh suffers from a lack of good educational opportunities after two schools shut, and added: “It forced kids to go to suburban schools where the teachers don’t understand them and they feel they don’t fit in.” He continued: “Fishing was grim, grinding graft but it didn’t require the level of skill needed for these offshore wind jobs. “A few ex-fishermen have got jobs driving the safety boats but there are few people in the community who can work in the sector. “Many parents are on drink or drugs and we’ve got kids growing up here with no support other than the youth centre, and the only adults they see are police or social workers. “They are rampaging about the place and when county line gangs give them a little attention, they respond and get dragged into it. “Housing is poor and full of damp, and private landlords don’t care about their houses, leaving them to go to rack and ruin. “They prey on people, along with the drug dealers and county lines. “We’ve a regular who comes in, who is very vulnerable, and dealers keep moving into his place. “We have someone who goes and throws them out but they are back in the next week. “Gambling is a huge issue because people are just looking for something to give them a little bit of relief, or they hope they might win the lottery. “If you imagine a street with vultures sitting on every roof, that’s East Marsh. READ MORE SUN STORIES “It’s going to take much more than a politician vowing to get Britain back to work for things to change. “People here have heard it all before.”FILE - Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, speaks during a press briefing at the White House,March 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Patrick Semansky/The Associated Press A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at least eight telecommunications companies, as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon. But deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger told reporters Friday that a ninth victim had been identified after the administration released guidance to companies about how to hunt for Chinese culprits in their networks. The update from Neuberger is the latest development in a massive hacking operation that has alarmed national security officials, exposed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector and laid bare China’s hacking sophistication. The hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of what officials have said is a a limited number of individuals. Though the FBI has not publicly identified any of the victims, officials believe senior U.S. government officials and prominent political figures are among those whose whose communications were accessed. Neuberger said Friday that officials did not yet have a precise sense how many Americans overall were affected by Salt Typhoon, in part because the Chinese were careful about their techniques, but that a “large number” were in the Washington-Virginia area. Officials believe the goal of the hackers was to identify who owned the phones and, if they were “government targets of interest,” spy on their texts and phone calls, she said. The FBI said most of the people targeted by the hackers are “primarily involved in government or political activity.” Neuberger said the episode highlighted the need for required cybersecurity practices in the telecommunications industry, something the Federal Communications Commission is to take up at a meeting next month. In addition, she said, the government was planning additional actions in coming weeks in response to the hacking campaign, though she did not say what they were. “We know that voluntary cyber security practices are inadequate to protect against China, Russia and Iran hacking of our critical infrastructure,” she said. The Chinese government has denied responsibility for the hacking.
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Victoria's Secret & Co. Reports Third Quarter 2024 ResultsBy KENYA HUNTER, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington . As a Black woman, she just couldn’t see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent’s race , held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating residents’ pets , he didn’t just win a second term. He became the first Republican in two decades to clinch the popular vote, although by a small margin. “It’s like the people have spoken and this is what America looks like,” said Smith, the Los Angeles-based founder of the advocacy social media agency, Get Social. “And there’s not too much more fighting that you’re going to be able to do without losing your own sanity.” After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris , many politically engaged Black women said they were so dismayed by the outcome that they were reassessing — but not completely abandoning — their enthusiasm for electoral politics and movement organizing. Black women often carry much of the work of getting out the vote in their communities. They had vigorously supported the historic candidacy of Harris, who would have been the first woman of Black and South Asian descent to win the presidency. Harris’ loss spurred a wave of Black women across social media resolving to prioritize themselves, before giving so much to a country that over and over has shown its indifference to their concerns. AP VoteCast , a survey of more than 120,000 voters, found that 6 in 10 Black women said the future of democracy in the United States was the single most important factor for their vote this year, a higher share than for other demographic groups. But now, with Trump set to return to office in two months, some Black women are renewing calls to emphasize rest, focus on mental health and become more selective about what fight they lend their organizing power to. “America is going to have to save herself,” said LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the national voting rights group Black Voters Matter. She compared Black women’s presence in social justice movements as “core strategists and core organizers” to the North Star, known as the most consistent and dependable star in the galaxy because of its seemingly fixed position in the sky. People can rely on Black women to lead change, Brown said, but the next four years will look different. “That’s not a herculean task that’s for us. We don’t want that title. ... I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me,” she said. AP VoteCast paints a clear picture of Black women’s concerns. Black female voters were most likely to say that democracy was the single most important factor for their vote, compared to other motivators such as high prices or abortion. More than 7 in 10 Black female voters said they were “very concerned” that electing Trump would lead the nation toward authoritarianism, while only about 2 in 10 said this about Harris. About 9 in 10 Black female voters supported Harris in 2024, according to AP VoteCast, similar to the share that backed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. Trump received support from more than half of white voters, who made up the vast majority of his coalition in both years. Like voters overall, Black women were most likely to say the economy and jobs were the most important issues facing the country, with about one-third saying that. But they were more likely than many other groups to say that abortion and racism were the top issues, and much less likely than other groups to say immigration was the top issue. Despite those concerns, which were well-voiced by Black women throughout the campaign, increased support from young men of color and white women helped expand Trump’s lead and secured his victory. Politically engaged Black women said they don’t plan to continue positioning themselves in the vertebrae of the “backbone” of America’s democracy. The growing movement prompting Black women to withdraw is a shift from history, where they are often present and at the forefront of political and social change. One of the earliest examples is the women’s suffrage movement that led to ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution , which gave women the right to vote. Black women, however, were prevented from voting for decades afterward because of Jim Crow-era literacy tests, poll taxes and laws that blocked the grandchildren of slaves from voting. Most Black women couldn’t vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black women were among the organizers and counted among the marchers brutalized on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, during the historic march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery that preceded federal legislation. Decades later, Black women were prominent organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police and vigilantes. In his 2024 campaign, Trump called for leveraging federal money to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government programs and discussions of race, gender or sexual orientation in schools. His rhetoric on immigration, including false claims that Black Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs, drove support for his plan to deport millions of people . 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The things that (Democrats) do either affect the rich or the poor.” Some of Trump’s plans affect people in Olivia Gordon’s immediate community, which is why she struggled to get behind the “Black women rest” wave. Gordon, a New York-based lawyer who supported the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s presidential nominee, Claudia de la Cruz, worries about who may be left behind if the 92% of Black women voters who backed Harris simply stopped advocating. “We’re talking millions of Black women here. If millions of Black women take a step back, it absolutely leaves holes, but for other Black women,” she said. “I think we sometimes are in the bubble of if it’s not in your immediate circle, maybe it doesn’t apply to you. And I truly implore people to understand that it does.” Nicole Lewis, an Alabama-based therapist who specializes in treating Black women’s stress, said she’s aware that Black women withdrawing from social impact movements could have a fallout. But she also hopes that it forces a reckoning for the nation to understand the consequences of not standing in solidarity with Black women. “It could impact things negatively because there isn’t that voice from the most empathetic group,” she said. “I also think it’s going to give other groups an opportunity to step up. ... My hope is that they do show up for themselves and everyone else.” Brown said a reckoning might be exactly what the country needs, but it’s a reckoning for everyone else. Black women, she said, did their job when they supported Harris in droves in hopes they could thwart the massive changes expected under Trump. “This ain’t our reckoning,” she said. “I don’t feel no guilt.” AP polling editor Amelia Thomson DeVeaux and Associated Press writer Linley Sanders in Washington contributed to this report. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. 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