News Wrap: TikTok plans to go dark in the U.S. on Sunday when ban takes effect
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In other news, the popular social media app TikTok says it will go dark for its 170 million U.S. users tomorrow, but it may only be for a day. |
| 0:10.8 | President Trump said he will most likely give the app a 90-day reprieve from a law banning it once he takes office on Monday. |
| 0:18.3 | That came in a phone interview with NBC News. |
| 0:22.7 | Despite that, TikTok says it wants further assurances from the Biden administration, since it will be in charge tomorrow |
| 0:27.8 | when the ban is to take effect. Work is underway to move President-elect Trump's inauguration |
| 0:33.3 | into the capital rotunda because of sub-freezing temperatures. It's the first time the ceremony will be held indoors since 1985. |
| 0:41.2 | As Cruz prepared the Capitol, Mr. Trump left his Mar-a-Lago resort headed for Washington. |
| 0:46.3 | He's to watch a fireworks show at Trump National Golf Club in Stirling, Virginia this evening. |
| 0:51.3 | He'll spend tonight and tomorrow night at Blair House across from the White House. |
| 0:55.5 | Meanwhile, thousands brave cold and wet conditions in downtown D.C. to express their anger and |
| 1:00.9 | disappointment about the incoming administration. Russian drones and missiles attacked the |
| 1:06.1 | Ukrainian capital Kiev overnight as the future of U.S. aid to the country under the new |
| 1:10.8 | administration remains uncertain. At least three people were killed in capital Kiev overnight as the future of U.S. aid to the country under the new administration |
| 1:11.4 | remains uncertain. At least three people were killed and three more injured. A metro station |
| 1:17.3 | and a water pipeline were among the targets hit. Other regions of the country were also targeted |
| 1:22.3 | with missiles and drones, some of which the Ukrainian army said it shot down. The deadly fires in Los Angeles are far from over, despite improving conditions. |
| 1:32.4 | The larger of the two remaining blazes, the Palisades fire, is only 43 percent contained. |
| 1:38.8 | This says new reporting shows evacuation orders didn't reach Palisades residents |
| 1:43.3 | until 40 minutes after homes were already on fire. |
| 1:47.8 | That's according to an associated press analysis of emergency communications. |
| 1:52.2 | An artist in this city known for creativity and entertainment say they've lost their livelihoods too. |
| 1:57.7 | Our primary goal is getting people like triage money for just whatever the most |
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