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The US House of Representatives has passed a bill which would ban TikTok in the US if its owners don’t sell.

The bill would force the app’s owner ByteDance to sell its stake in the platform within six months or have the app be banned from US app stores and web hosting services.

It was introduced amid concerns over ByteDance’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The bill passed by a vote of 352-65, and will now go on to the Senate, according to the Associated Press.

TikTok currently has around 170 million users in the US.

Lawmakers in favour of the bill…

Politics

By Josh Christenson

Bipartisan legislation that would force Chinese government-linked ByteDance to sell off TikTok cleared a House committee vote unanimously on Thursday — with lawmakers defying an all-out pressure campaign by the app and disgruntled users to kill the bill.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act by a 50-0 vote during a markup session.

The bill would bar companies like Apple or Google from offering TikTok on their app stores or providing the social platform with web hosting services in the US unless ByteDance divests itself with 180 days.

The…

MUMBAI: As the third anniversary of the first Quad Summit nears – it is two weeks from now, Karine Jean Pierre, press secretary, White House, while addressing media queries late night on Wednesday (India time) stressed that president Joe Biden was incredibly proud of the progress that the Quad has made over the past three years.
“We are hoping to continue that momentum in 2024 under India’s host year.And we’re talking about not just the US, but obviously India, Japan, and Australia. And we all have a shared vision here of a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. The Quad is helping all of our nations deliver concrete benefits to the Indo-Pacific across a number of critical, important sectors,” she said. So, we look forward to continuing that progress for the Quad in 2024 and…

University of Northern Colorado and Greeley city officials will host an open house next week to provide more information about the city’s planned pilot program for shared e-scooters and e-bikes on campus and in downtown Greeley.

The city is proposing to launch a one-year pilot program starting in July for community members to access the shared devices across the designated mobility zone, which reaches east of 35th Avenue to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and north of U.S. 34 to 5th Street, with an extension north to A Street at 14th Avenue.

The open house will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the University of Northern Colorado’s University Center, 2101 10th Ave., in Columbine Suite A.

The city’s 2045 transportation master plan recommended the city take an approach of…

Proposals for a men’s emergency and transitional shelter for a site on Yonge Street, just south of the railway bridge in Aurora, have not been fully placed on the backburner.

The Regional Municipality of York is set to solicit public feedback at a special open house at the Aurora Public Library on Monday, Jan. 29 from 5 to 8 p.m.

If brought to fruition, the emergency and transitional shelter will share land with a York Region pumping station already operational on site.

Proponents of the plan have said the site is an ideal location due to its proximity to transit and a major commercial corridor, while…