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The U.S. Supreme Court has left TikTok on track to be banned as of Sunday.

NPR's Bobby Allen reports,

The Justice has found TikTokers' free expression does not supersede what the court calls

well-supported national security concerns that derive from the short-form

video-sharing app's relationship with a foreign adversary. The court ruled that Congress acted lawfully

when it voted to shut down TikTok if the app didn't shed its China-based owner. The ruling represents

the culmination of years of concern about the hit video-sharing app and the most serious threat to the app's existence in the U.S.

It's unclear what TikTok might do come Sunday. It may hit the kill switch on its servers or not.

The incoming Trump administration has indicated that immediate enforcement of the law may not be coming.

That might be cold comfort to Apple and Google, which could face billions of

dollars in penalties if they ignore the law. Bobby Allen and PR News. Israel and Hamas are even closer to

halting the fighting Gaza and ending their 15-month-old war. Israel's full cabinet has yet to sign off

on the security cabinet's recommendation to back the ceasefire agreement.

Yesterday, outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the deal was based on the

proposal President Biden put out months ago, but he also said it was very important to involve

the incoming Trump administration's team. ProPublica investigative journalist Brett Murphy

spoke with NPR's here and now about the process that resulted in a ceasefire deal just as the Biden administration comes to a close.

We wrote about sort of the past year in Biden's foreign policy and gave an accounting of the various threats, admonishments, warnings, red lines that he drew throughout the year, only to ultimately

sort of withdraw those threats after the Israelis crossed those lines. As a result, a lot of the

people I talked to told me that Netanyahu came to see President Biden as someone who was unwilling to follow through on a threat,

and therefore there was no cost to saying no to him.

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