A invoice that might result in the favored video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable within the United States is shortly gaining traction within the House as lawmakers voice issues concerning the potential for the platform to surveil and manipulate Americans.
The measure gained the assist of House Speaker Mike Johnson and will quickly come up for a full vote within the House. The invoice superior out of committee Thursday in a unanimous bipartisan vote — 50-0.
The White House has supplied technical assist within the drafting of the invoice, although White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated the TikTok laws “still needs some work” to get to a spot the place President Joe Biden would endorse it.
The invoice takes a two-pronged strategy. First, it requires ByteDance Ltd., which relies in Beijing, to divest TikTok and different purposes it controls inside 180 days of enactment of the invoice or these purposes shall be prohibited within the United States. Second, it creates a slender course of to let the chief department prohibit entry to an app owned by a international adversary if it poses a risk to nationwide safety.
Jobless claims maintain regular
U.S. purposes for jobless advantages have been unchanged final week, settling at a wholesome stage because the labor market continues to indicate power within the face of elevated rates of interest.
Unemployment claims for the week ending March 2 have been 217,000, matching the earlier week’s revised stage, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The four-week common of claims, a much less risky measure, fell by 750 from the earlier week to 212,250.
Weekly unemployment claims have remained at traditionally low ranges for the reason that pandemic purge of hundreds of thousands of jobs within the spring of 2020.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”