In the day's other headlines, Tik-Tok sued to overturn a new law that could ban the video sharing platform inside the U.S.

The statute says that Tik-Tok has to end American operations unless its Chinese parent company, Bight Dance sells it within nine months.

The lawsuit says that mandate is, quote, simply not possible, not commercially, not technologically, not legally, and then it violates the not plot to assassinate President Vladimir Zelinsky and others.

Investigators arrested two colonels in the Guard unit that protects high-ranking Ukrainian figures.

Investigators say they plan to kidnap and kill Zolinsky before Russian President Vladimir Putin's

inauguration. That inauguration took place today as Putin was sworn in for his fifth

term after almost 25 years in office.

At an elaborate Kremlin ceremony,

Putin vowed to defend the Russian Constitution.

He said he was open to working with the West

despite bitter divisions over Russia's war in Ukraine.

We have been and will be open to strengthening good relations with all countries who see Russia as a reliable and honest

partner.

And this really is the global majority.

We do not reject dialogue with Western states.

The choice is theirs.

Putin now begins a six-year term that will keep him in office through 2030

when he will be eligible to run again.

It turns out a US Army soldier arrested in Russia last week was not authorized to be there.

The Army says that Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was on leave and was supposed to be returning

to Texas.

Instead, he flew from South Korea through China to Vladivostok. But Pentagon officials

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