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Donald Trump speaks with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. | Photo: Peter Kramer / NBC via Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump gave a murky answer when NBC’s Kristen Welker asked whether he would protect TikTok from its impending ban during a Meet the Press interview on Sunday. He didn’t say he would save the app from its ban but did seem to imply that ByteDance should sell it. After its argument that the ban is unconstitutional came up short in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals last week, ByteDance is requesting an injunction to stop the ban from taking effect until the Supreme Court can hear its appeal, and it now faces an uphill legal battle. If ByteDance’s motion isn’t granted, it has to sell TikTok by January 19th or face its expulsion from the US. Welker asked Trump what he would do after ByteDance’s failed appeal of the ban: This week a federal court upheld a law that could result in TikTok being banned. You said you’re going to rescue TikTok when you get into office. Are you going to take steps to protect it? Trump’s response praised his campaign’s use of the platform before deflecting the question: I used TikTok very successfully in my campaign. I have a man named TikTok Jack, he was very effective, obviously, because I won youth by 30 percent. All Republicans lose youth. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s changing. And last time we were down 30 percent with youth. This time we were up 35 percent with youth. And I used TikTok, so I can’t really, you know, I can’t totally hate it. It was very effective. But I will say this, if you do do that, something else is going to come along and take its place. And maybe that’s not fair. And really, what the judge actually said was that you can’t have Chinese companies. In other words, they have the right to ban it if you can prove that Chinese companies own it. That’s what the judge actually said. @nbcnews President-elect Donald #Trump weighs in on a potential ban on TikTok that could take effect one day before he assumes the White House if the app’s Chinese parent company does not divest. ♬ original sound - nbcnews Pressed again on if he would “protect TikTok” once he’s in office, Trump responded: I’m going to try and make it so that other companies don’t become an even bigger monopoly. A TikTok sale to an American company would be one way to achieve that. Trump’s position has been murky since he started positioning himself opposite of the Biden administration’s support of a ban — something Trump pushed for during his last term. Over the last several months, that’s included his Truth Social video urging people who “want to save TikTok” to vote for him and told CNBC in March that getting rid of the platform would only benefit Facebook, which he called an “enemy of the people.”

iPhone owners in Norway can now select Vipps as their default mobile payment app. | Image: Vipps A Norwegian payment app called Vipps is the first service to take advantage of a new, more open iOS ecosystem thanks to EU regulations. Starting today, Norwegians can use Vipps for tap-to-pay transactions and online payments, and they can even set the app as the default payment option on their iPhones, as reported by MacRumors. It’s all thanks to commitments Apple made in response to scrutiny from EU regulators. Since its launch a decade ago, Apple Pay has been the only way to use tap to pay on an iPhone. That’s changing with iOS 18.1, which makes tap-to-pay via NFC available to third-party developers for the first time. Apple committed earlier this year to open up the API after EU regulators ruled Apple Pay anti-competitive. This pressure from the EU has recently forced Apple to open up the famously locked-down iPhone in unprecedented ways, from adding RCS support to letting you delete pretty much any app you want from your phone. But unlocking the NFC chip is a particularly interesting test case since it could usher in a whole bunch of new and helpful ways to use your phone — or create a mess of competing payment and ID storage platforms that don’t cooperate with each other. Either way, it’s going to be a big deal, and the first step forward into that new era comes from a small financial organization in Scandinavia.

Sens. Joe Manchin, I-W.V., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., unveiled a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that would impose term limits on the number of years Supreme Court justices can serve to help "restore confidence in the Court."

The person of interest nabbed in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist Ivy League graduate who liked online quotes from "Unabomber'' Ted Kaczynski - and apparently hated the medical community.

Former President Bill Clinton said in an interview Monday the mainstream media blew Hillary Clinton's email controversy out of proportion during the 2016 presidential election.

Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, said Monday that the president-elect's comments about jailing House Jan. 6 Select Committee members were taken out of context. In an interview that aired Sunday, Trump said that Democrats who ...

China-based DJI and Autel Robotics could be banned from selling new drones in the United States market under an annual military bill set to be voted on later this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams reiterated his call for people to remove their masks and show their faces when entering shops and taxis, saying it's a "very smart, simple way" to help law enforcement.