TikTok’s parent company ByteDance spent more than $10 million on lobbying last year, marking the company’s most expensive lobbying year to date. According to a Q4 lobbying disclosure report filed Tuesday, ByteDance spent $2.3 million on expenses related to lobbying activity between Oct. 1 through the end of the year.

From the US Supreme Court’s ruling on TikTok and Israel’s cabinet okaying a ceasefire pact with Hamas to US President Joe Biden commuting the sentences of thousands, several important events took place in the world this week.

The popular video app went dark in the United States late Saturday and then came back around noon on Sunday, even as a law banning it took effect.

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Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL), incoming National Security Advisor to President-Elect Donald Trump, spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.

Mike Waltz, Trump's appointed National Security Advisor, says in an interview to CBS: 'Hamas will never rule Gaza.'

President-elect Donald Trump said mass deportations will begin “very quickly” after taking office, one of a number of plans he discussed in a phone interview with NBC News on Saturday.

Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas. (Video courtesy of Associated Press) READ: Join this channel to get access to perks: Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel!

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On Monday evening, just hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate passed the Laken Riley Act, an extreme bill that would allow for the deportation and detention of any undocumented immigrant merely suspected of a nonviolent crime. And they did it with the help of 12 Democrats.

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Before examining the pitfalls and weaknesses of the Gaza cease-fire, let us welcome even the least of what it may achieve. Fifteen months after the horrendous Hamas attack on Israel and the launch of Israel’s retaliatory invasion,