Day: January 15, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a challenge on free speech grounds to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in a case testing the legality of state efforts to keep minors from viewing such material online.

A.M. Edition for Jan. 15. The Securities and Exchange Commission sues the billionaire, alleging he misled shareholders about his Twitter stock purchases in the lead up to his takeover of the platform. Plus, after a long standoff, South Korean invest igators arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over a short-lived declaration of martial law. And the WSJ’s Carrie Keller-Lynn explains how Israel’s tech sector has raked in more investment despite uncertainty from the war in the Middle East. Kate Bullivant hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Texas anti-pornography law is going before the Supreme Court in a collision of free speech rights, regulation of online content and how to protect children.

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Senate Republicans are promising no drama for Trump’s cabinet nominees in hearings this week. Do Democrats have anything to say about that? Plus, L.A. neighborhoods remain on lockdown after wildfires, and anti-corruption officials arrest South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. For more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter . Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Ryland Barton, Jason Breslow, Gigi Douban, Ally Schweitzer and Lisa Thomson. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas, Iman Ma’ani and Lilly Quiroz. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent and our technical director is Stacey Abbott. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.

Will there be ways to bypass the ban – or could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?