Video-sharing platform TikTok is suing the United States government, claiming a new law that forces its divestment from its Chinese owners violates the First Amendment. It was expected that TikTok would challenge the law in court, and on Tuesday, the company filed a lawsuit with a federal appeals court in Washington. President Joe Biden recently signed into law a bill, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, that would ban the platform if Chinese tech...

TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to block the newly passed law that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. unless its Chinese owner sells it. The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, argues the law is a violation of Americans' First Amendment right to free speech. It also claims the provision that requires ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok's U.S. operation within nine months is not "...

TikTok sued the federal government on Tuesday over a new law that would force its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media app or face a ban in the United States, stoking a battle over national security and free speech that is likely to end up in the Supreme Court. TikTok said the law violated the First Amendment by effectively removing an app that millions of Americans use to share their views and communicate freely. It also argued that a divestiture was “simply not...

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday indefinitely postponed former President Trump's classified documents trial date in Florida. Why it matters: The classified documents trial is now unlikely to end before the 2024 presidential election, where Trump is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. Trump has successfully pushed for delays in multiple criminal trials ahead of November's election. Driving the news: Cannon wrote in the Tuesday filing that the trial start date, originally scheduled...

Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that it will change its name to Scouting America next February, to emphasize its commitment to inclusion. The youth organization said the new name is meant to help everyone, including boys and girls, feel welcome. The change will go into effect on February 8, 2025, the organization’s 115th anniversary, the Boy Scouts of America said. “While this may be a surprise to some of you, for us this is a straightforward evolution and the next natural...

New York may become the first state to bar gun companies from selling pistols that can easily be converted into machine guns. A proposed law, introduced Tuesday by Democratic state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, takes aim squarely at Glock. The Austrian company, whose polymer-framed pistols have played a dominant role in the handgun market since the 1980s, has faced growing criticism from gun safety groups for declining to modify a design that easily converts into an automatic weapon. “Any business...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is softening her threat against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying she will give the Speaker more time to demonstrate his commitment to conservative priorities before forcing a vote on her resolution to boot him from power.  Last week, Greene said she would “absolutely” force her motion to vacate proposal to the floor this week, citing Johnson’s track-record of working across the aisle with President Biden on major legislation.  But on...

Only 8% of college students say they’ve participated on either side of campus protests concerning the Israel-Hamas war, while a small portion view the war as an important issue, according to a poll by Generation Lab obtained by Axios. Students ranked the conflict in the Middle East as the least important issue (13%) facing them out of nine options. Health care reform ranked the top issue (40%), followed by educational funding and access (38%), according to the poll. In the wake of pro-...

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration’s intensive public and private campaign to forestall Israel’s assault on Rafah has become its toughest test to date with its Middle East ally.  Hours after President Biden on Monday warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a full-scale assault on Rafah, Israel’s military conducted what it called targeted airstrikes in the eastern part of the city and sent in tanks as it seized the enclave’s border crossing with Egypt.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is being hit with a censure resolution on Tuesday after she referred to some Jewish students as "pro-genocide" during a recent visit to Columbia University. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is introducing the resolution against Omar on Tuesday, a source familiar with his plans told Fox News Digital. The New York City Ivy League school has been the flashpoint for nationwide demonstrations on college campuses, where students have set up tent encampments to protest their...