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Clark County Council OKs certain multifamily housing in commercial or mixed-use zonesTikTok 's battle to stop its ban in the U.S. hit another roadblock. On Friday, a federal appeals court panel unanimously upheld the Biden-era law that gave ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, nine months to either get a new owner or be banned in the U.S. The deadline is looming; unless the courts stop it, it will go into effect the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes the Oval Office. A ban would require app stores like Apple and Google and internet hosting companies to stop distributing or updating the TikTok app or face penalties. The company argued that the law violates First Amendment rights to free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement to Reuters that it sets a "flawed and dangerous precedent." "Banning TikTok blatantly violates the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use this app to express themselves and communicate with people around the world," Patrick Toomey, the deputy director of the ACLU's National Security Project, told Reuters. But that argument didn't quite work in court. "The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States," the court’s opinion, which was written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, read, according to the Associated Press . "Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States." TikTok is expected to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, but we don't yet know if the court will accept it. If the decision does make it all the way up the justice system, TikTok is confident the court will side with them. "The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue," TikTok said in a statement to Reuters. This is just the latest in the constant battle over TikTok on the U.S. political playground that began in 2019, with a barrage of bills attempting to limit TikTok's reach. The fear, politicians argued, is that TikTok poses a national security threat because its parent company is based out of China and subject to Chinese intelligence laws which could, theoretically and hypothetically, force ByteDance to give its data with China. TikTok has consistently denied this claim, but that hasn't stopped everything from national bans to state-wide bans. And the most recent move is affecting more than just TikTok itself: Meta shares , for instance, rose 2.4 percent after the court upheld the law on Friday.

Is It Possible To Dig All the Way Through the Earth to the Other Side?NoneTikTok's future in the U.S. appeared uncertain on Friday after a federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge to a law that requires the social media platform to cut ties with its China-based parent company or be banned by mid-January. A panel of three judges on The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously that the law withstood constitutional scrutiny, rebuffing arguments from the two companies that the statute violated their rights and the rights of TikTok users in the U.S. The government has said it wants ByteDance to divest its stakes in TikTok. But if it doesn't and the platform goes away, it would have a seismic impact on the lives of content creators who rely on the platform for income as well as users who use it for entertainment and connection. Here are some details on the ruling and what could happen next: What does the ruling say? In their lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance, which is also a plaintiff in the case, had challenged the law on various fronts, arguing in part that the statute ran afoul of the First Amendment and was an unconstitutional bill of attainder that unfairly targeted the two companies. But the court sided with attorneys for the Justice Department who said that the government was attempting to address national security concerns and the way in which it chose to do so did not violate the constitution. The Justice Department has argued in court that TikTok poses a national security risk due to its connections to China. Officials say that Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok's U.S. patrons or use the platform to spread, or suppress, information. However, the U.S. hasn't publicly provided examples of that happening. The appeals court ruling, written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, said the law was “carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary." The judges also rejected the claim that the statute was an unlawful bill of attainder or a taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Furthermore, Ginsburg wrote the law did not violate the First Amendment because the government is not looking to “suppress content or require a certain mix of content” on TikTok. What happens next? TikTok and ByteDance are expected to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, but it's unclear whether the court will take up the case. TikTok indicated in a statement on Friday the two companies are preparing to take their case to high court, saying the Supreme Court has “an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech." "We expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue,” a company spokesperson said. Alan Morrison, a professor at The George Washington University Law School, said he expects the Supreme Court to take up the case because of the novelty of the issues raised in the lawsuit. If that happens, attorneys for the two companies still have to convince the court to grant them an emergency stay that will prevent the government from enforcing the Jan. 19 divestiture deadline stipulated in the law, Morrison said. Such a move could drag out the process until the Justices make a ruling. Tiffany Cianci, a TikTok content creator who has supported the platform, said she was not shocked about the outcome of the court's ruling on Friday because lower courts typically defer to the executive branch on these types of cases. She believes the company will have a stronger case at the Supreme Court. “I believe that the next stages are more likely to produce a victory for TikTokers and for TikTok as a whole,” Cianci said. What about Trump? Another wild card is President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first term but said during the recent presidential campaign that he is now against such action . The Trump transition team has not offered details on how Trump plans to carry out his pledge to “save TikTok." But spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last month that he plans to “deliver” on his campaign promises. After Trump takes office on Jan. 20th, it would fall on his Justice Department to enforce the law and punish any potential violators. Penalties would apply to any app stores that would violate a prohibition on TikTok and to internet hosting services which would be barred from supporting it. Some have speculated that Trump could ask his Justice Department to abstain from enforcing the law. But tech companies like Apple and Google, which offer TikTok's app on their app stores, would then have to trust that the administration would not come after them for any violations. Craig Singleton, senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said enforcement discretion — or executive orders — can not override existing law, leaving Trump with “limited room for unilateral action." There are other things Trump could potentially do. It's possible he could invoke provisions of the law that allow the president to determine whether a sale or a similar transaction frees TikTok from “foreign adversary” control. Another option is to urge Congress to repeal the law. But that too would require support from congressional Republicans who have overwhelmingly supported the prospect of getting TikTok out of the hands of a Chinese company. In a statement issued Friday, Republican Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said he was “optimistic that President Trump will facilitate an American takeover of TikTok” and allow its continued use in the United States. Is anyone trying to buy TikTok? ByteDance has said it won't sell TikTok . And even if it wanted to, a sale of the proprietary algorithm that powers TikTok is likely to get blocked under Chinese export controls that the country issued in 2020. That means if TikTok is sold without the algorithm, its likely that the buyer would only purchase a shell of the platform that doesn't contain the technology that made the app a cultural powerhouse. Still, some investors, including Trump’s former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and billionaire Frank McCourt, have expressed interest in buying it. This week, a spokesperson for McCourt’s Project Liberty initiative, which aims to protect online privacy, said participants in their bid have made informal commitments of more than $20 billion in capital. The spokesperson did not disclose the identity of the participants. Haleluya Hadero, The Associated Press

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To remember the 14 women who were killed 35 years ago today in an anti-feminist mass shooting at École Polytechnique in Montreal, a ceremony in a park dedicated to the victims — not far from where the tragedy took place — was hosted by the Quebec Women’s Federation also known as the FFQ. “35 years ago, somebody decided to kill women for who they were,” said Marina Mathieu, the project coordinator of the FFQ. Sylvie St-Amand, the president of the FFQ adding, “It’s a tough day. It’s really sad. It’s really frightening still this day.” “In Quebec, today we have already 25 women that were killed this year in Quebec.” At the ceremony, the names of each victim were read including Annie St-Arneault. Her brother Serge spoke at the event. “She was a fantastic woman. She was extremely intelligent. She was tremendously intelligent and so close to each one of us, so committed. It is a tremendous loss,” said St-Arneault. “We’re in a day in age right now where we see that we have lost some of the gains that we fought for. So on this December 6th day, it’s the time for us to remember why we keep fighting because violence against women is still there,” said Anathalie Jean-Charles, the Region of Montreal Chapter director of Shelter Movers (Transit Secours). This event coincides with the final day of the 12 days of action to end violence against women, an opportunity to address various forms of violence and to suggest solutions to each of them to prevent and to generate lasting positive changes in the lives of women and girls. “The theme this year was online or offline let’s fight gender-based cyber violence for this campaign because we think that violence is transmuted today online and so many people are experiencing hate crimes and cyber violence,” said Mathieu. White roses were also placed on the memorial plaques of each of the 14 women killed 35 years ago. To mourn their loss, December 6th is also the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women informally known as White Ribbon Day. “All those women were also part of a social network committed to the lives of the community. And what we lost is more than just a few women, it’s all what they could have done for the society as a whole,” said St-Arneault. Laura Irina Martins Visanu, a sexology student at the Université du Québec à Montréal adding, “It’s really heartbreaking and the thing is, feminicides still happen to this day. “It could have happened to someone I know and it’s very sad to see that the reality of back then is still, it still exists today, so we’re really fighting hard to make this type of violence stop, but it’s hard and it’s very difficult to make it stop.”NEW YORK — “The Apprentice” star Sebastian Stan, who portrays a young Donald Trump in the biopic released last month, revealed this week his co-stars and other actors have since distanced themselves from the controversial project out of fear. The biographical drama, directed by Ali Abbasi, chronicles the early days of the president-elect when he was a rising Manhattan real estate tycoon in the 1970s and ’80s. It also explores his relationship with lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn, played in the film by Emmy-winning “Succession” star Jeremy Strong. Amid the film’s theatrical rollout in October, Trump trashed the project on social media — calling it “ a cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job .” He slammed the people involved in the film as “human scum,” and suggested it was strategically “put out right before the 2024 presidential election, to try and hurt the greatest political movement in the history of our country.” Following the film’s release and Trump’s presidential victory just weeks later, Stan said other actors have been unwilling to publicly discuss the contentious movie or the polarizing figure at the center of it. During a Q&A about the film in Los Angeles this week, Stan revealed he wasn’t able to participate in an upcoming series for Variety’s “Actors on Actors,” which features one-on-one conversations between actors discussing their work. “I couldn’t find another actor to do it with me, because they were too afraid to to go and talk about this movie. So I couldn’t do it,” he said earlier this week, as seen in a video shared on social media . “We couldn’t get past the publicists or the people representing them, because [they were] too afraid to talk about this movie,” the 42-year-old added. “And that’s when I think we lose the situation. Because if it really becomes like that — fear or that discomfort to talk about this — then we’re really going to have a problem.” Variety Co-Editor in Chief Ramin Setoodeh confirmed Stan’s account. “What Sebastian said is accurate. We invited him to participate in ‘Actors on Actors,’ the biggest franchise of awards season, but other actors didn’t want to pair with him because they didn’t want to talk about Donald Trump ,” he said in a statement to the media. Despite Trump’s scathing review, Stan previously said he “should be grateful” the film depicts him in a “complex, three-dimensional” way, noting those who worked on the project weren’t interested in “simply vilifying or [demonizing]” the real-life subjects of the movie. ©2024 New York Daily News. Visit nydailynews.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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The Minnesota Wild have acquired defensive prospect David Jiricek and a 2026 fifth-round draft pick from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for defenseman Daemon Hunt and a 2025 first-round draft pick, a 2027 second-round draft pick, a 2026 third-round draft pick, and a fourth-round draft pick. Daemon Hunt is player back...picks are a first, second and a fourth https://t.co/XdWSbZNA6V After being healthy scratched and sent to the American Hockey League (AHL), the reports that former sixth overall pick Jiricek would be traded picked up. As just a 20-year-old defenseman, there is a lot of promise in Jiricek’s future, and he will have a chance to thrive on a defensive core alongside Brock Faber, who will make great for a great duo on the right side of their defensive group. Wild Adding Jiricek Makes Defense Group Excellent There is little doubt that Jiricek will become a high-end top-four defenseman, and given the fact that he is a right-shot, that makes him even more valuable. The Wild have had a strong defensive group for a number of years, and with players like Matt Dumba and others moving along, there has been some turnover, but they always seem to find the right piece to fit in. Jiricek has 53 games of NHL experience, collecting a goal and 11 points in that time. The offensive play isn’t the most important aspect of Jiricek’s game, though. He has a big body, can play with some physicality, and has great defensive tendencies. The Wild will likely insert him into the NHL lineup right away, rather than having him play in the AHL. The Blue Jackets opting to deal the player has to do with the fact that while he has done excellent in the 88 AHL games he has played, there is a log jam on the right side of the defense group, including the impacts from claiming Dante Fabbro off of waivers and acquiring Jordan Harris in the Patrik Laine trade. Blue Jackets Get Strong Haul of Future Assets Hunt is a good defensive prospect who is 22 years old, and was drafted in the third round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. He has played in 13 NHL games and earned one assist. In the AHL, Hunt has been a strong player, scoring 44 points in his 119 games. The highlight of the trade is the draft picks coming back for Columbus. Acquiring a 2025 first-round draft pick from Minnesota was always going to be an important asset for them. As the Blue Jackets continue to rebuild their roster, acquiring a second draft pick in the first round this year was needed. On top of that, having a second, third, and fourth-round pick will help add to their depth in the draft in future years. While it wasn’t a long wait for the trade to come down in hindsight, it felt like an eternity. The deal is done, and this kind of deal isn’t looming over the team anymore. There is a strong case for both teams to have won the trade. The Wild help themselves now and with the regular season success they have been having, they are in a great spot. The Blue Jackets help their future, and move a player they have been actively looking to move. This article first appeared on The Hockey Writers and was syndicated with permission.Tayshawn Comer scores 18 to lead Evansville past Campbell 66-53

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