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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Saturday, December 28, 2024. This is the excerpt.

Today, Trump has urged the Supreme Court to pause a TikTok ban.

Plus, the man accused of killing a woman after setting her on fire aboard a New York subway has been charged. And the bald eagle has been recognized as our national bird.

President-elect Donald Trump wants the Supreme Court to pause a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. next month, arguing he can find a way to save the platform without compromising national

security or Americans' free speech rights. In defense of the law, the outgoing Biden administration

warns that unless TikTok is

divested from bite dance, its Chinese-based parent company, China can gather data on Americans or

manipulate the content on TikTok to shape U.S. opinion. Opponents of the law, which passed

Congress this year with wide bipartisan support, say federal judges so far have given too much deference to the U.S.

government's national security concerns and not enough considerations to freedom of expression.

TikTok will be banned in the country on January 19th unless it's sold.

TikTok has already asked the Supreme Court to pause enforcement of that requirement while the company

continues to make their case for why the law is unconstitutional.

But the High Court this month said they won't decide whether to keep the deadline until after the justices debate the merits of the law during oral arguments scheduled for January 10th.

Trump's filing yesterday was part of a slew of written briefs filed before those arguments.

A debate is brewing, pitting some of President-elect Donald Trump's biggest supporters against each other in recent days, at issue whether his incoming administration should allow more highly skilled immigrant labor to come to the

country at what some see as the expense of American workers. On one side are Elon Musk, the world's

richest man, and Vivek Ramoswamy, who's worth an estimated billion dollars. The two and some

venture capitalists say in recent social media posts, mostly on Musk's ex-platform, that America needs more

highly skilled workers to come to the U.S. under what's known as the H-1B program. They argue an

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