@washingtonpost: Is this season even realistic?? TikTok is barreling toward a ban in the United States as soon as next weekend, with the Supreme Court signaling Friday no likely reprieve for the Chinese-owned video app. That raises the odds that President-elect Donald Trump is the popular platform’s best hope for survival — and leaves TikTok hawks bracing for his next move. “The one thing about President-elect Trump: You just don’t know what he’s going to do,” said Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia), one of the most prominent backers of the ban-or-sale law Congress passed last year. “But the law is the law.” At stake is the fate of a social media platform used by 170 million U.S. users and hailed by supporters as a bastion of free expression. Government officials from both parties, meanwhile, have pilloried TikTok as a potential vehicle for Chinese spying and influence-peddling. Meanwhile, firefighters are working to contain three active blazes in the Los Angeles area ahead of a predicted return of winds that stoked devastating wildfires that have burned an area bigger than San Francisco and killed at least 24 people. A red flag warning is in place for parts of the city and county, with wind gusts of up to 70 mph forecast between 4 a.m. Tuesday and noon Wednesday — strong enough to potentially cause “explosive fire growth,” according to National Weather Service officials. The Weather Service on Monday widened the area facing a “particularly dangerous situation” red flag warning. Caption from articles by Cristiano Lima-Strong, Daniel Wu, Reis Thebault, Joanna Slater, Maegan Vazquez, Mariana Alfaro and Ben Brasch.

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Monday 13 January 2025 21:20:19 GMT