TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order

(AP) -- TikTok said Sunday it was restoring service to users in the United States after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban that President-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause by executive order on his first day in office. Trump said he planned to issue the order to give TikTok's China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent U.S.ban. He announced the move on his Truth Social account as millions of U.S. TikTok users awoke to discover they could no longer ...

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Public explores adult ed and training at Bridgeport schools

BRIDGEPORT — Community leaders believe the sky’s the limit in terms of education and training opportunities for students and adults in and ...

Temple Shalom’s Shabbat service recognizes Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Beallsville school releases honor roll and principal’s list students

Semifinals set after day two of OVAC championships

St. C, Beaver Local, Linsly take OVAC swimming titles

WELLSBURG — It was another big night in the pool for Linsly. The Cadets boys and girls swim teams made it three OVAC titles in a row by ...

Bellaire takes rematch against Bulldogs

River staves off rally from Shadyside

ADA KANOPSIC

Gwendolyn Ada Kanopsic, 100, of St. Clairsville, Ohio passed away on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at her home. Private funeral services will be held at Toothman ...

MARGUERITE PRIMOVIC

Marguerite Primovic 93, died Jan. 14, 2025. Visitation Jan. 17, 2-4 and 6-8 pm., Wilson Funeral Home, Brookside. Condolences, www.wilson ...

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Wall Street rips higher after inflation data and strong bank profits

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ripped higher Wednesday following a shot of adrenaline from an encouraging update on U.S. inflation. Strong profit reports from Wells ...

Biden officials say they built up U.S. pandemic defenses, Trump promises changes

Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground

Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work

By NADIA LATHAN Associated Press/Report for America BUCKHOLTS, Texas (AP) — On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of ...

Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office

The rise — and potential fall — of TikTok in the US

US defense contractor to build 4,000-worker advanced manufacturing facility in central Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — U.S. defense contractor Anduril Industries is preparing to build a massive advanced manufacturing facility in central Ohio, adding a planned ...

JD Vance's Ohio hometown struggles with how to recognize the incoming vice president

Vivek Ramaswamy, an Ohio native, is interested in filling Vance's old Senate seat, AP source says

West Virginia governor axes DEI and enacts vaccine exemptions on first full day in office

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey issued a slew of aggressive executive orders on his first full day as West Virginia's chief executive ...

Trial starts for West Virginia couple accused of subjecting their 5 children to forced labor

Former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Thomas McHugh dies at 88

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