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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -TikTok Inc on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the state of Montana’s new ban on use of the Chinese-owned short-video app.     ByteDance-owned TikTok argues the ban, which would take effect on Jan. 1, violates First Amendment rights of the company and users. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Montana, also argues the ban is pre-empted by federal law because it intrudes upon […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Mohamed Nureldin KHARTOUM (Reuters) -A week-long ceasefire period agreed by Sudan’s warring factions and designed to allow for the delivery of aid began late on Monday hours after the army conducted heavy air strikes across the capital Khartoum against its paramilitary rivals. The ceasefire, which was agreed on Saturday after five weeks of fierce battles between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), was […]

By Kiana Wilburg GEORGETOWN (Reuters) -At least 19 children died after a fire gutted a secondary school dormitory in Guyana overnight, emergency services and the government said on Monday. The building in the central city of Mahdia was “completely engulfed in flames” by the time firefighters arrived around midnight, the Guyana Fire Service said in a statement on Monday. Fourteen children died at the scene and another five in hospital. […]

By Saeed Azhar and Shreyashi Sanyal NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street finished mixed on Monday, helped by gains in Alphabet and Meta Platforms, while some investors refrained from big bets ahead of a fresh round of talks about raising the U.S. debt ceiling. U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy were set to meet on Monday to discuss raising the federal debt ceiling, just 10 days […]

By David Morgan, Nandita Bose and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy said on Monday afternoon that talks over raising the U.S. federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling were “on the right path” hours ahead of a meeting with Democratic President Joe Biden. The president and the speaker of the House of Representatives, McCarthy, have just 10 days to reach a deal to increase the government’s self-imposed […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, formally kicked off his 2024 presidential campaign on Monday, betting his upbeat message will sell in a party in which many voters are still firmly behind former President Donald Trump. In a speech to supporters in his hometown of North Charleston, South Carolina, Scott, 57, leaned heavily into his personal experience as the impoverished child of a […]

(Reuters) -The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said on Monday that a Ukrainian “sabotage group” had entered Russian territory in the Graivoron district bordering Ukraine and was being repelled by Russian forces. The Ukrainian outlet Hromadske cited Ukrainian military intelligence as saying two armed Russian opposition groups, the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), both consisting of Russian citizens, were carrying out the attack. The Telegram […]

(Reuters) – TikTok filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Montana after the state passed a law banning the short-video app. “We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana,” TikTok said in the court filing. (Reporting by Jasper Ward and David Shepardson in Washington, writing by Paul Grant; editing by Eric Beech) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – TikTok filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Montana after the state passed a law banning the short-video app. “We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana,” TikTok said in the court filing.   (Reporting by Jasper Ward and David Shepardson in Washington, writing by Paul Grant; editing by Eric Beech) Brought to you by […]