Jill Wagner
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first heard Jan 2025
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And from entertainment to policy, Trump has promised to sign a record setting number of executive orders on day one. We don't know exactly how many or what they'll be, but we do know he said he's going to delay the TikTok ban by 90 days. He'll pardon some of the January 6th rioters and he'll begin what his team is calling the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.
And on Tuesday, his team's expected to initiate a large scale deportation operation targeting illegal immigrants in Chicago.
Okay, now to the story we were just talking about, the TikTok ban. We all know where we were Saturday night when TikTok went away, Moshe.
Maybe I'm the only person who doesn't know where I was on Saturday night when TikTok went dark. I mean, I know where I was. I was home, but I'm not on TikTok. And I wasn't really on my phone.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I, you know, I'm part of that group of elder millennials, I think, that never got into TikTok. And for a few fleeting hours, I felt very lucky and happy about that.
But it's back. OK, so TikTok went dark on its one hundred and seventy million U.S. users at 1030 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday night. Oh, that's why I didn't know because I was sleeping. By Sunday afternoon, the company announced that it would begin restoring service after soon to be President Donald Trump promised to activate a 90 day provision to temporarily lift the ban.
In a statement, the company said, quote, In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they'll face no penalties. So let's rewind a bit.
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the law passed by Congress that said the Chinese-owned TikTok owner ByteDance would need to sell TikTok or face a ban in the U.S. The deadline to sell was January 19th. ByteDance, if you remember, tried to challenge that law, making the First Amendment argument, but they failed and announced that they would go dark on the deadline.
And Saturday night and Sunday morning, if you logged into the app, it gave a pop up message saying, quote, a law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. But hours after the app went dark, Trump promised to enact a provision in the ban that would allow it to come back for 90 days.
He said he was going to do that just after he's sworn in today at 12 p.m. Eastern. So that means watch out for the executive order as soon as this afternoon. It is just a temporary solution. He also did propose some long term options. On Sunday, he floated the idea on Truth Social for the U.S.
to have a 50 percent ownership in TikTok, a joint venture between the current owners or new owners that the U.S. chooses.
Other sources say he's not ruling out letting ByteDance continue to own TikTok with extra safety provisions in place, although that goes directly against the bipartisan bill that was passed by Congress that cites major national security issues with the Chinese-owned company that could spy on U.S. citizens, harvest their data, and spread disinformation.
You know, I thought it was a bold move of TikTok to kind of unilaterally and proactively go dark, because depending on how long it lasted, you never know what the impact would have been. It's possible that had they been dark for longer, that people may have actually been like, wow, I got a lot of things done. I went outside. I went for a walk. I wrote the great American novel. Yeah, exactly.
But it was, I think, too short for there to be a real impact.
All right, time for the speed read from CNN on Sunday afternoon, local time, about 10 a.m. on the East Coast. Three Israeli hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th were handed over to the Red Cross after 471 days in captivity in the Gaza Strip. The three women are 24-year-old Romi Gonen. She was shot in her hand and kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival.
28-year-old Emily Damari, a British-Israeli dual citizen who was taken from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza border. And 31-year-old Daron Steinbrecher, a nurse also from that same kibbutz, they were released to Israeli officials and brought to an Israeli military outpost near the border where their moms were waiting alongside medics for an initial exam.
And then they were later transferred to a hospital in Israel where they met the rest of their families. The hospitals reported that they are in good physical condition, so they were able to focus on on reunifying them with their families, but they are going to stay at the hospital for a few days to get more comprehensive medical checks.
During the release and the start of the ceasefire, thousands of people in both Gaza and Israel were celebrating in the streets, which was quite a sight to see on both sides. Now, in exchange for those three female hostages, Israeli officials released 90 Palestinian prisoners. Now, the IDF will remain in Gaza, but gradually withdraw to areas closer to the border.
In addition, hundreds of aid trucks will be permitted to enter the Gaza Strip each day. There were images of displaced Palestinian families moving back on foot toward their homes in the north. This signaled the beginning of the first phase of a six-week ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas after 15 months of war.
Now in this initial phase, 33 hostages are set to be released, about 25 of whom are believed to be alive. On date 16 of this initial phase, talks will resume to negotiate the second phase of the deal.
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