This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cities looking to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings have notched a decisive court victory. Last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by plumbing and building trade groups against a New York City ban on natural gas in new buildings….
Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has appealed against the country’s Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) decision to bar him from participating in May’s presidential election. Constitutional court judges will meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss Georgescu’s appeal, and a final ruling should be issued by Wednesday evening. The BEC rejected his candidacy on Sunday after a…
Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | AP After posting almost 200 videos, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and racking up millions of views, Carla Lalli Music is quitting YouTube. Substack is her new focus. Music is a cookbook author and food content creator, and she is shifting her focus to Substack, a subscription platform…
Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi BBC Shein has been relaunched in India by Reliance Retail Chinese fast fashion app Shein has relaunched in India five years after it was banned by Delhi, under a deal with Indian firm Reliance Retail. An official from Reliance Retail, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC…
TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect. A message appearing on the app for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use TikTok for now”. “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he…
Donald Trump has said he will “most likely” will give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a ban that is due to take effect on Sunday, on the eve of his swearing-in as the 47th US president. Trump told NBC News an announcement on the matter would probably come on Monday once he takes office. It…
The Supreme Court did not give TikTok a last minute stay of execution. If the popular social media site is going to continue to operate in the US, it will have to be politicians or businessmen, not judges, who save it. And the politicians – pressed to balance national concerns about China with TikTok’s massive…
Lemon8, a photo-sharing app by Bytedance, and RedNote, a Shanghai-based content-sharing platform, have seen a surge in popularity in the U.S. as “TikTok refugees” migrate to alternative platforms ahead of a potential ban. Now a law that could see TikTok shut down in the U.S. threatens to ensnare these Chinese social media apps, and others…
Chinese social media app RedNote has skyrocketed to the top of Apple’s app store, underscoring concerns that TikTok will soon be effectively banned in the U.S. RedNote, or Xiaohongshu, as it’s known in China, is the No. 1 free app on the Apple app store as of Monday, followed by TikTok’s photo-sharing Lemon8 app and…
TikTok isn’t the only party asking the Supreme Court to overturn the federal law that could see the app sold or banned later this month. A group of eight TikTok creators also sued the government over the law, saying it violated their First Amendment rights. The creators have argued that they have not found the…
