Day: January 17, 2025

Ronald Reagan kept formalities brief and stayed warm after parade attendees were warned their flesh would freeze

Also, Trump said it will be too cold for an outdoor inauguration. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.

TikTok didn’t get any help from the U.S. Supreme Court today, but that Sunday deadline is feeling less and less like the end of the app in the U.S., regardless.

Legal experts called President Biden’s announcement that the 28th Amendment was officially law “cynical and irrelevant” as well as “an embarrassingly pandering moment.”

The 49ers are going all-in for a Robert Saleh reunion. The former New York Jets head coach has an offer on the table from San Francisco to become the highest-paid defensive coordinator in the NFL, according to The Athletic’s Matt Barrows. “I think it’s become obvious now that it’s Saleh or bust really, because [the 49ers] haven’t done much work with anybody else to this point,” Barrows said on the “49ers +/-” podcast with Tim Kawakami. “And I’ve…

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Even with any assurances from Donald Trump, companies like Apple, Google, and Oracle would be taking a risk by not complying with the TikTok ban.

In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok rather than the First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.

America won’t miss the app.