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The 7

Thursday, March 23, 2023

The 7

The Washington Post

Daily News, News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Thursday briefing: A legal blow for Trump; TikTok CEO in Congress; Los Angeles tornado; coffee benefits; and more


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0:00.0

Tic-Toc CEO is testifying before Congress this morning and March Madness is

0:08.2

back today with the Sweet 16. I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the 7th from the Washington Post. It's Thursday March 23rd.

0:16.0

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

0:20.0

First up, Donald Trump received another legal blow yesterday.

0:27.0

An appeals court ruled that the former president's lawyer has to turn over evidence related

0:31.8

to the classified documents found at Maralago. the In a separate case, the grand jury in New York investigating where the Trump falsified business records and broke campaign finance laws did not meet yesterday, and it's not clear why.

1:05.7

Number two, the government plans to overhaul the U.S. organ transplant system. It's had serious problems for years. Nearly 104,000 people are on the wait list. Twenty-two people die each day and

1:11.4

poor and minority patients are usually the ones most

1:14.3

affected. Government officials plan to break up the monopoly that has managed a

1:18.9

transplant system for the past 37 years. They also plan to improve the technology used to coordinate transplants

1:25.8

and bring more oversight and transparency. Tic-Toc CEO is testifying before Congress this morning.

1:42.5

That's story number three.

1:44.4

Shou Zichu will try to address concerns

1:47.6

that the video app poses a national security threat.

1:50.9

It's owned by a Chinese company called Bike Dance. He posted a

1:54.5

Tik-Tok this week talking about the app and what the US could lose if

1:58.4

Tik-Tok is banned. I'm here in Washington DC today and I have some news and updates to share with everyone here.

2:04.9

Now this comes at a pivotal moment for us. Some politicians have started talking about banning

2:10.9

Tik-Tok. Now this could take Tik-Tok away from all 150 million of you.

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The Biden administration is pushing for Tik-Tok to be sold to an American company

2:19.7

and lawmakers on both sides have stepped up efforts to ban the app entirely.

2:30.2

Number four, hormonal contraceptives may slightly increase the risk of breast cancer.

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