• TikTok Threatens Litigation After Trump Issues Executive Order Banning the App in 45 Days

    TikTok Threatens Litigation After Trump Issues Executive Order Banning the App in 45 Days

    TikTok is threatening to sue the Trump administration over an executive order issued Thursday evening banning Americans from transacting with ByteDance, the Chinese technology firm that owns the short-form video app, beginning Sept. 20. “We are shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process,” the company said in a statement. …
  • TikTok threatens legal action against Trump’s executive order to ban app

    TikTok threatens legal action against Trump’s executive order to ban app

    TikTok has threatened legal action following President Trump’s late-night executive order banning transactions beginning in 45 days between American firms and the Chinese parent company of the popular social media app. In an unsigned blog posted on its website, TikTok said that it was “shocked” by the president’s order, which it said was “issued without …
  • Trump Threatens Executive Action on Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Benefits if Congress Fails to Pass COVID Relief Bill

    Trump Threatens Executive Action on Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Benefits if Congress Fails to Pass COVID Relief Bill

    President Trump indicated he would sign executive orders on Friday or Saturday that would extend unemployment benefits and institute a payroll tax holiday, amid continuing deadlock in Congress over coronavirus economic relief. Trump also told reporters on Thursday that he was looking into extending a federal moratorium on evictions as well as unspecified student debt …
  • Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive for COVID ahead of Trump Visit

    Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive for COVID ahead of Trump Visit

    Ohio governor Mike DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump. DeWine received a coronavirus test in line with the standard protocol to meet the president; He planned to greet Trump on the tarmac at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland. Trump is scheduled to tour the Whirlpool plant …
  • Ohio Governor tests positive for coronavirus on day he was set to meet Donald Trump

    Ohio Governor tests positive for coronavirus on day he was set to meet Donald Trump

    On Thursday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that he tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). According to a release sent by his office, DeWine tested positive after undergoing a coronavirus test as a part of the procedure for President Donald J. Trump’s visit to Northeast Ohio on Thursday. DeWine was set to greet Trump on …
  • Growing number of nations consider TikTok ban over China ties

    Growing number of nations consider TikTok ban over China ties

    President’s Trump looming TikTok ban may only be the beginning of the popular video app’s headaches, as a growing number of nations are becoming suspicious of its ties to China. US ally Australia is reportedly looking at TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company ByteDance to see whether it poses a security threat to the country’s 25 million …
  • JUST IN: Trump says COVID-19 vaccine may be ready

    JUST IN: Trump says COVID-19 vaccine may be ready "right around" Election Day

    President Trump on Thursday said he thinks it’s possible there will be a COVID-19 vaccine ready around Election Day in November. “I think in some cases, yes, possible before, but right around that time,” Trump said on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show when asked if he thought a vaccine would be ready by Nov. 3. “We have …
  • Michelle Obama says she is

    Michelle Obama says she is "dealing with some form of low-grade depression" due to the Trump Administration

    Wednesday, on her new podcast former first lady Michelle Obama, said she is “dealing with some form of low-grade depression,” because of the quarantine, racial strife, and “seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out.” Obama said, “I’m waking up in the middle of the night, cause I’m worrying about something, …
  • Def. Sec. Esper Says ‘Most Believe’ Beirut Explosion ‘Was An Accident,’ Contradicting Trump

    Def. Sec. Esper Says ‘Most Believe’ Beirut Explosion ‘Was An Accident,’ Contradicting Trump

    “Most believe” the explosion in Beirut on Tuesday “was an accident, as reported,” Defense secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday after President Donald Trump called the incident an attack one day earlier. The U.S. is “still getting information on what happened” and reaching out to the Lebanese government, Esper said in a discussion at the annual …
  • Facebook, Twitter Punish Trump over Video Claiming Children are ‘Almost Immune’ from COVID-19

    Facebook, Twitter Punish Trump over Video Claiming Children are ‘Almost Immune’ from COVID-19

    Facebook and Twitter took action against President Trump’s official and campaign accounts respectively on Wednesday, saying the accounts broke misinformation rules in posting a video clip in which the president says children are “almost immune” from COVID-19. Facebook removed the post of the video clip from a Fox News interview in which the president argues …