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House to Vote on Bill to Ban TikTok or Force Its Sale

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

44K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for March 13. House lawmakers are expected to pass legislation today calling for ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok or see the app banned in its most important market. WSJ reporter Stu Woo says the bill is the most serious threat yet to TikTok’s existence in America, but still faces potential hurdles in the Senate and the courts. Plus, the EU prepares to vote on world-first AI regulations. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.4

The rematch is set as Biden and Trump

0:19.4

clench their party nominations.

0:21.6

Plus House lawmakers prepare to vote on legislation that could ban Tik-Toc in the U.S.

0:27.4

This new bill has a lot of political momentum and the legislators wrote it in a way that it might

0:32.3

better withstand a legal challenge that

0:34.4

stop the other attempts to ban Tik-Toc in the past. And we'll get the latest from

0:39.0

Brussels as the EU takes on AI.

0:43.0

It's Wednesday, March 13th.

0:44.9

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

0:46.9

and here is the AM edition of What's News?

0:49.9

The top headlines and business stories

0:51.8

moving your world today.

0:57.0

This year's presidential election is on track to become the first rematch since 1956. That's after President Joe Biden and former

1:05.9

President Donald Trump won enough delegates to secure their respective

1:09.8

party's presidential nominations after they both won primaries in several states last night including Georgia, Washington, and Mississippi.

1:17.8

Trump will now establish a joint fundraising committee

1:21.1

with the Republican National Committee, allowing the campaign to tap. fundraising committee,

1:23.4

allowing the campaign to tap bigger contributions

1:26.4

as the GOP looks to erase a fundraising deficit with Democrats.

1:30.8

We are exclusively reporting that House Republicans are pushing their GOP colleagues to openly talk about their position on abortion rather than sidestep the issue like many did in previous campaigns.

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