Local and national news, NPR, things to do, food recommendations and guides to Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland EmpireCongress is set to vote and pass a bill that could ban the popular app TikTok nationwide and be sent to the Senate for a vote. The bill would force the Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from TikTok and other applications that it owns within six months after passage of the bill or face a ban.
professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-director of the High Tech Law Institute., the $30 million state program is modeled after other California guaranteed basic income programs. Ten schools are participating, some having already started and others starting in the fall. The initiative focuses on vulnerable students.
Book clubs can be a wonderful way to build community. Picture it: a dozen or so people coming together for a common purpose, maybe noshing on a cube of cheese and sipping a glass of wine, everyone getting their moment to participate in the discussion and share sparkling insights. But, like any group endeavor, there can be complicated dynamics to navigate. How do you choose the book? How do you deal with problem members? What’s the secret to making a book club last? Joining us to discuss is.
Today on AirTalk, we’ll look back on what we’ve learned in the four years since the start of the pandemic withand hear more about this new research on how long COVID stays in the body after infection from the man who led the studies on it --Artists' Songs Remain Silent As TikTok And Universal Music Group Continue Licensing Negotiations
Universal Music Group has pulled all their artists’ songs off of TikTok after the two companies failed to reach a new licensing agreement to pay artists for the use of their songs on the social media platform. TikTok began muting videos that included UMG music on February 1. This includes songs that credit even just one co-writer or producer under UMG’s network.