Day: January 19, 2025

TikTok has said it will be forced to “go dark” in the US on Sunday unless the government intervenes before a ban takes effect. In a statement late on Friday, it said the White House and the Department of Justice had “failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to the service providers that are […]

Getty Images The first Women’s March brought the largest single-day protest in US history As protesters gather in Washington DC on Saturday for this year’s Women’s March, Vanessa Wruble, one of its founders, will be 2,500 miles away, at her farm in the Californian desert. “I didn’t even know it was still a thing,” she […]

Watch TikTokers weigh in on potential US TikTok ban For online sensation Erika Thompson, TikTok is the most powerful social media platform to educate her 11 million followers about her life’s passion: bees. The loss of the platform in the US – made more likely after the Supreme Court upheld a ban that is set […]

Donald Trump’s second inauguration will be held indoors Monday due to temperatures predicted to hit a low of -11C (12F) and a high of -5C (23F). The most recent US presidential inauguration to be held inside due to cold weather marked the start of Ronald Reagan’s second term in 1985. As with Reagan’s second inauguration, […]

Watch: Moment horses are rescued from approaching LA fire The trailers arrived all at once, carrying hundreds of horses fleeing the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles. Some horses came solo, others in trailers packed with fellow animals. Many had their owners, but others arrived alone, brought in by their rescuers or animal control. […]

More than a thousand California prisoners have helped to battle the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles.source