Elon Musk’s lawyers say they can close his $44 billion Twitter acquisition on October 28 if Twitter agrees to cancel its upcoming trial, scheduled to begin October 17. The necessity of a trial, to decide whether Musk has to acquire Twitter, has been up for debate since Monday when Musk told Twitter he was willing to buy the company under the original terms agreed upon in April. Twitter has...
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Ban It, Divest It or Regulate It? Washington Looks for an Answer to TikTok

Hi, welcome to your Weekend!Interesting dinner table discussion this week: My 13-year-old daughter, hearing about Nancy Scola’s cover story on TikTok’s war in Washington, offered her prediction for what would happen if the U.S. took the drastic step of banning the app.“Every teenager in America would refuse to come out of their rooms,” she said. “They’d be so mad. They just wouldn’t go out...
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