US AND CANADA

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Historically, and in stunning display of wealth and political power, Donald Trump’s second-term White House is unprecedentedly powerful as a consumer of Silicon Valley’s own elite. With the United States facing increasing economic disparity and a precipitous fall in faith in its institutions, the entrance of tech entrepreneurs into Washington D.C. is indicative of a fundamental change in America’s rulemaking.

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Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and setting out to reshape the country’s institutions.

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On January 19, 2025, TikTok stopped working in the U.S., keeping about 170 million users in the dark as a federal ban took hold. The app opened onto a notification stating, “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”

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Tens of millions of residents along the East Coast are bracing for several inches of snow Sunday followed by dangerously cold temperatures that will grip much of the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine.

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With the United States ready to ban TikTok, millions of American users are racing to alternatives. The sudden spike in popularity of Chinese social media app RedNote-software, better known as Xiaohongshu in China-became quite prominent. According to data from analytics firm Similarweb, the number of daily active users for RedNote in the U.S. surged from less than 700,000 to about 3.4 million in one day.