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At the moment’s high tales
TikTok and the Division of Justice are headed to the Supreme Courtroom, the place justices may resolve whether or not a legislation banning the app subsequent month except it’s bought is constitutional. The excessive courtroom accepted TikTok’s emergency request to listen to arguments concerning the legislation and the justices moved shortly and intentionally. Oral arguments have been set for Jan. 10, which is 9 days earlier than the app’s sell-or-be-banned deadline.
The TikTok Inc. constructing is seen in Culver Metropolis, Calif., on March 17, 2023.
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The TikTok Inc. constructing is seen in Culver Metropolis, Calif., on March 17, 2023.
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- 🎧 That is TikTok’s final authorized shot to not need to shut down within the U.S., except it splits off from its Chinese language dad or mum firm, ByteDance, NPR’s Bobby Allyn tells Up First. The case is concerning the stability between freedom of speech and the possible threat of a foreign adversary. TikTok has mentioned the Chinese language authorities does not acquire knowledge on People nor does it push propaganda, however U.S. officers mentioned the danger stays too excessive. The Supreme Courtroom has by no means taken on the case over the U.S. authorities making an attempt to close down a large social media platform, which makes this uncharted territory, Allyn says.
Republican lawmakers are working to keep away from a authorities shutdown with lower than every week till Christmas after President-elect Donald Trump and allies spoke out in opposition to a bipartisan spending invoice. Authorities funding runs out on the finish of the day on Friday. Congressional leaders launched a roughly 1,500-page bipartisan spending invoice, which might fund the federal government till March 14 and covers priorities like farm subsidies, catastrophe help and a pay increase for lawmakers. Yesterday, GOP leaders and Trump advisers pushed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to back out of the deal. Home Democrats mentioned they’re unwilling to again away.
Syrians and refugees on both aspect of the nation’s battle can go house now that dictator Bashar al-Assad has been ousted. The nation is now accessible to journalists, permitting for a fuller have a look at it whereas in transition.
- 🎧 NPR’s Jane Arraf, who’s in Syria, says Damascus has drastically modified because the fall of the Assad regime. Arraf traveled via Syria’s southern desert to the Rukban camp — a spot she’s tried to journey to for years. Folks fleeing from ISIS thought they might cross via to Jordan there, however had been trapped. For 9 years, 7,000 people were cut off. For the primary time, refugees in their very own nation have the chance to go house and reunite with their households.
At the moment’s hear
Mariah Carey launched “All I Need For Christmas Is You” in 1994, but it surely took 25 years for the music to succeed in the highest of Billboard‘s Scorching 100 pop chart. Since 2019, it has topped the chart every December for a complete of 16 weeks at No. 1 — to date.
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It is the time of 12 months when acquainted Christmas songs take excessive spots on the Billboard pop chart. The annual invasion options the present high 5 songs from the Fifties and ’60s. When the No. 1 music, Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You,” was launched in 1994 it did not take the highest spot. That occurred 25 years later. The highest 5 songs this week are predictable 12 months after 12 months, however a number of newer songs are making a play to affix in on the annual vacation playlist. Be taught what modified since these songs had been launched and listen to some of the holiday music vying for high spots.
Life recommendation
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As days get darker and colder, folks could expertise seasonal affective dysfunction, or SAD. Because the seasons change, it’s possible you’ll really feel sluggish, depressed or tired of doing the stuff you used to get pleasure from. You might also oversleep or overeat. Round 1 in 20 folks within the U.S. has SAD. Many extra folks have the winter blues, a milder model of SAD, the place you are feeling like a sadder, sleepier or slower model of your self. Here’s how to spot it and what you are able to do.
- ❄️ It may be onerous to acknowledge a sample of change as a result of signs can creep up on you, says Dr. Norman Rosenthal, a scientific professor of psychiatry at Georgetown College Faculty of Drugs.
- ❄️ Not getting sufficient gentle is on the coronary heart of the dysfunction. A SAD lamp, which offers extra intense gentle than indoor lighting, is commonly really helpful.
- ❄️ Find time for motion. Chances are you’ll really feel much less energetic when the seasons change, and that may flip right into a vicious cycle. Train is an environmental cue that helps sign your inner clock.
Here is extra on why you may feel this way and methods to really feel higher.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Teamsters Common President Sean M. O’Brien, middle, rallies with Amazon employees outdoors the Staten Island Amazon facility JFK8 on Wednesday, June 19, 2024 in New York.
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- Hundreds of Amazon employees have licensed a strike to start this morning, throughout a key purchasing interval, as they search better pay, safer conditions and longer breaks.
- This week, the Home of Representatives handed a invoice to formally designate the bald eagle, an emblem of the USA for hundreds of years, as the country’s national bird.
- Have you ever ever been caught red-handed regifting in the course of the holidays? If the reply is sure, NPR wants to hear your stories. The extra embarrassing they’re, the higher.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
