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The winds of Washington are blowing icy cold for TikTok. A federal appeals court panel handed down a ruling that could send the app packing or at least force it into a kind of corporate divorce... The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has declared the law threatening TikTok’s existence to be totally constitutional , leaving the platform to fight for its digital life. In short, TikTok has until mid-January to break ties with its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance , or risk an outright ban in the United States. TikTok responded with the following statement: “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. Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people. The TikTok ban, unless stopped, will silence the voice...

A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic.  T he Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded that the coronavirus “ likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident ” ... The 520-page report , which was two years in the making, looked at the federal and state-level response to the pandemic, as well as its origins and vaccination efforts.  Among the report’s headline conclusions was that the US National Institutes of Health (NIS) funded contentious “ gain-of-function ” research – which enhances viruses to find ways to combat them – at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China prior to the outbreak. The department’s finding echoed that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which said in 2021 with “moderate confidence” that the virus probably spread after a laboratory mishap .  The House committee was convinced by the la...