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The CEO of TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance said he believes the US is trying to kill the wildly popular app as President Trump presses for a sale and a cut of the proceeds. In a leaked email to Chinese employees on Monday, CEO Zhang Yiming — who has been criticized in China after news …
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Multiple Obama Defense Department officials who publicly criticized news that the department’s in-house training characterizes protestors and journalists as “adversaries” oversaw the same program during their own time in government. The story, published in Politico, at first claimed that Defense Secretary Mark Esper was instituting “new” training across the military in an effort to improve …
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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday preventing federal agencies from laying off U.S. citizens and green card holders and replacing them with temporary foreign workers. The order will increase oversight of federal agencies’ use of employees on H1-B visas, which allow foreign citizens to work at American companies without providing a path to …
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A new federal court filing Monday from the Manhattan district attorney suggests the prosecutor’s office may be investigating President Trump and his company for bank and insurance fraud. The filing, from District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., argues that Trump’s accountants must comply with a subpoena to turn over eight years of corporate and personal tax returns, citing …
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Absent a deal with Microsoft or another U.S. company TikTok will have to close its U.S. operations by Sept. 15, President Trump said Monday. “I don’t mind whether it’s Microsoft or someone else, a big company, a secure company, a very American company buys it,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “It’ll close down …
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President Trump on Monday claimed he has the authority to issue an executive order addressing the widespread use of mail-in ballots, which he has argued serves as a breeding ground for voter fraud and puts the integrity of the presidential election at risk. “I have the right to do it,” Trump said during a news …
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President Trump argued that the number of COVID deaths per capita is irrelevant and pointed to the number of deaths in proportion to cases as a sign that the U.S. is doing well in its battle against the virus during an interview with “Axios on HBO” Monday. “I’m talking about death as a proportion of …
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Chinese state media branded the US a “rogue country” late Monday because of Washington’s approach to the popular, but controversial app TikTok, saying that a forced sale would amount to “an open robbery.” Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state mouthpiece Global Times, tweeted a screen grab of a news headline detailing President Trump’s stance regarding …
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Looks like Kimberly Guilfoyle has beaten the coronavirus and is ready to mingle. Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend is hosting events in the Hamptons over the weekend, including a $580,600-per-couple fund-raiser on Saturday that will be attended by President Trump. Singles can get in the event, organized by the Trump Victory Fund, for $250,000. There will …
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President Trump on Monday said that popular social media platform TikTok will be “out of business” in the US if it doesn’t reach a deal to sell its American operations by mid-September. The president comments to the media confirmed a previous blog post from Microsoft — which is currently in discussions with Beijing-based TikTok parent …
The CEO of TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance said he believes the US is trying to kill the wildly popular app as President Trump presses for a sale and a cut of the proceeds. In a leaked email to Chinese employees on Monday, CEO Zhang Yiming — who has been criticized in China after news …
