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TikTok resurged in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said he would issue an executive order to end the federal ban on the app.The abrupt change came hours after major app stores pulled the popular social media site and it stopped working for US users as the federal law took effect on Sunday. The company said in a post on X that “in agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service.”Mr. Trump said in a Sunday morning post on Truth Social that he “will issue an executive order on Monday to…
A man has been arrested in connection with a fire that broke out early Sunday in response to “recent talks” to ban the popular video app TikTok, authorities said. The fire broke out at a shopping center that includes a district office of a Wisconsin lawmaker who has been critical of the app.The man, 19, who has not been named, was arrested after he was found near a Fond du Lac, Wis., mall that houses the office of U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, a Republican, the city’s police department said in a statement. his announcement.No one was injured and the mall…
When the letter arrived in Westil Gonzalez’s prison cell saying he had been granted parole, he couldn’t read it. In the 33 years he had been locked up for murder, multiple sclerosis had taken much of his sight and left him reliant on a wheelchair.He had a clear sense of what he would do once he was freed. “I want to give my testimony to some young people who are out there, getting guns,” said the 57-year-old Mr. Gonzales in a recent interview. “I want to save one person from what I’ve been through.”But six months have passed, and Mr.…
We used several AI search engines, including Gemini, a large language model that can handle files of up to 750,000 words, and Semantra, an open source “semantic search engine” developed by Mr. Freedman. Instead of looking for specific terms—“sustainability,” say, or “climate change”—it looks for concepts or themes. “It’s a new paradigm of search, which doesn’t look at keywords, but tries to capture meaning,” said Mr. Freedman.The Times has specific policies on the use of artificial intelligence, and nothing that comes directly from an AI program can appear in our articles, in part because of the possibility of hallucinations —…
As a cease-fire took place Sunday in Gaza, potentially ending the longest and deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two men used the same metaphor to describe how they felt.”The weight on my chest has been lifted,” said Ziad Obeid, a Gaza civil servant who was displaced several times during the war. “We have survived.””The rock in my heart has been removed,” said Dov Weissglas, a former Israeli politician. “We want to see the hostages home, period.”But — both men also had a “but” — Mr. Obeid has not seen his destroyed home in northern Gaza for more…
Mr. Hegseth is set to move from “Fox & Friends Weekend” to overseeing the Pentagon. Sean Duffy, host of Fox Business, is the chosen Mr. Trump for transportation secretary. Tom Homan, a Fox contributor, has been described as the czar of his borders. Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who explained the Covid pandemic to Fox viewers, is running for surgeon general. (None are yet on Fox’s payroll; the network terminated the contracts of anyone tapped by Mr. Trump.)There’s Mike Huckabee, who hosted a Fox News show for seven years, as ambassador to Israel. Tulsi Gabbard, who left a Fox gig in August,…
“Sorry, TikTok is currently unavailable,” the message read.Hours before the federal law banning TikTok from the United States took effect on Sunday, the Chinese social media app was killed and US users could no longer access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them with a message saying “a law has been passed to ban TikTok.””We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution,” the message said. “Please stay tuned!”In addition, TikTok’s sister app, Lemon8, stopped working and showed US users a message saying it is “currently unavailable.” Both TikTok and…
Three years ago, when Bob and Sandy Curtis moved into a luxury continuing care retirement community in Port Washington, New York, they thought they had found the perfect senior care solution.In exchange for a hefty entry fee — about $840,000, financed by the sale of the Long Island home they’ve owned for nearly 50 years — they’d care for the rest of their lives at Harborside. They chose a contract from among several options that set fixed monthly fees at about $6,000 for both of them and would return half of the entry amount to their estate upon their death.”This…
Without TikTok, Saint Honoré, a donut and pizza shop in Las Vegas, or Vivoli Gelateria, a shop in Florence, Italy known for its fancy affogatos, might not be on the lists of travelers now queuing at square for their treats.”The majority of our customers come from TikTok,” said Alexandra Lourdes, 40, owner of Saint Honoré. “We rely solely on it for our small business marketing here in Las Vegas and we’re very nervous about losing business.”And Ryan Gough, 40, may never have stayed at the five-star Waldorf Astoria in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Campo “wasn’t on my radar at all,”…
Mediator Qatar announced on Saturday that a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas would take effect the next day, beginning final preparations for a truce that much of the world hopes will end the 15-month-old Gaza devastation.The deal should go into effect at 8:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, said Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s foreign ministry, which has spent months with the United States and Egypt trying to broker a deal.Israel’s government approved the deal early Saturday morning after hours of discussions and amid internal rifts in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition. The approval cleared a final…