Live Updates: Biden Revokes and Replaces Trumpâs Order Seeking TikTok Ban
The Trump administration fought to ban TikTok and force its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. President Biden left Washington for the first foreign trip of his term.
Hereâs what you need to know:
President Biden is set to revoke a Trump-era executive order that sought to ban TikTok from U.S. app stores.Credit.Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
President Biden on Wednesday revoked a Trump-era executive order that sought to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and replaced it with one that calls for a broader review of a number of foreign-controlled applications that could pose a security risk to Americans and their data.
Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president, was under a gag order related to a legal fight stemming from a leak investigation, the network said. A judge recently lifted the order.Credit.John Lamparski/WireImage
CNN disclosed on Wednesday that the Justice Department had fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of one of its reporters and that as part of the fight the government imposed a gag order on the network’s lawyers and its president, Jeff Zucker.
The news network’s disclosure came less than a week after a lawyer for The New York Times revealed that he and a handful of lawyers and executives for the newspaper had been gagged as part of a similar fight stemming from a leak investigation.
March Madness
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March 17, 2021
Will you be watching the N.C.A.A. Division I men’s basketball tournament that begins this week? Do you think the N.C.A.A. can pull it off without a public health crisis? Do you think the tournament should happen at all this year?
Here is a little context about what is at stake:
The decision to pull 68 teams from across the country into a tournament in Indiana will have enormous repercussions for college sports. A successful men’s tournament, as well as a smooth women’s tournament in Texas, would lift the morale and finances of an industry that the pandemic has left in a precarious position. The N.C.A.A. lost nearly $56 million in its most recent fiscal year, primarily because the 2020 men’s tournament was not held.
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