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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Now that the Supreme Court has refused to

intervene in a government mandate that the video sharing app TikTok either sell itself or go dark

in the U.S. Sunday, users are scrambling.

Carl Tobias is a law professor at the University of Richmond.

He doesn't expect President-elect Donald Trump to go against the Supreme Court ruling and says instead Congress may be the best hope.

The best thing that Trump could do is to work with Congress and say we're trying to have an effective

solution. We don't want to cut off 170 million U.S. users. And we want to be sure we're

protecting national security and work toward that end. Even if TikTok were to vanish from

app stores, users can take steps to

prepare. They'll still have access to the platform if it's downloaded to their phones,

where new users will not be able to download it, and existing users can't update the app.

The head of the Republican National Committee will stay in that role after the party won back

control of the White House and Senate last year.

As NPR Stephen Fowler reports, Michael Watley was re-elected as the party chair today at the

R&C winter meeting in Washington. Michael Watley was picked by then-candidant Donald Trump to lead

the RNC last March as the National Party apparatus and Trump's campaign largely became one and the same.

The coordinated organizing efforts saw success in 2024, turning out new voters and making

inroads with almost every demographic group compared to 2020.

The leadership announcement underscores the continued alignment of the Republican Party

infrastructure with Trump's vision.

Democrats will be searching for new leadership at their

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