November 19, 20240 Comments

Senator says Trump cannot ignore law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by next year By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair of a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee said on Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based TikTok to divest the short video app used by 170 million Americans by early next year. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who is holding a hearing on Chinese hacking incidents, noted that Congress passed a law in April requiring divestiture of the app by Jan. 19,

Read More
November 18, 20240 Comments

Australia senator censured for ‘not my King’ heckle

Australian lawmakers have voted to censure an Aboriginal senator who heckled King Charles during his visit to Canberra last month, to express their “profound disapproval” of her protest. Lidia Thorpe shouted “you are not my King” and “this is not your land” shortly after the King addressed the Great Hall of Parliament, in an effort to highlight the impacts of British colonisation. The Senate’s censure, which passed 46-12, described Thorpe’s

Read More