Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban; Jury in Daniel Penny Trial Can't Reach Unanimous Verdict

A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in a few short months. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied TikTok’s petition to overturn the law — which requires TikTok to break ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January.

The jurors in Daniel Penny’s fatal subway chokehold trial told the judge Friday that they can’t reach a unanimous verdict on the top charge of manslaughter. Judge Maxwell Wiley is considering whether to give them what’s known as an Allen charge — an instruction urging them to make every possible effort to reach a verdict.

America’s job market rebounded in November, adding 227,000 workers in a solid recovery from the previous month, when the effects of strikes and hurricanes had sharply diminished employers’ payrolls. Friday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.1% in October to 4.2%.