‘Godspeed my friend’ as terminals go dark

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Spirit Airlines kiosks at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on May 2, hours after the carrier shut down. Leslie Josephs/CNBC BALTIMORE/NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines was hours away from its final flights Friday afternoon. Jeremiah Burton was hours away from his first. “It’s my first time flying,” Burton, a 45-year-old air conditioning and heating technician, told […]


TikTok goes dark for 170M US users as app mentions Trump will work on solution

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TikTok has gone down — for now. The popular video-sharing app, used by 170 million Americans, went dark late Saturday after TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company announced that they will make their services “temporarily unavailable.” Shortly before 11 p.m., US users were greeted with a message that said: “Sorry TikTok isn’t available right now” and the site […]


Biden, Trump Weigh in as TikTok Threatens to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday

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The incoming Trump administration and the Biden administration went back and forth on Saturday over the status of TikTok and whether a ban of the service would take place, after the video app said that it would be forced to “go dark” on Sunday when a federal law takes effect. President-elect Donald J. Trump told […]


TikTok says it will go dark Sunday unless Biden admin assures service providers they won’t be punished

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TikTok said the popular video-sharing platform will go dark on its 170 million American users on Sunday unless the Biden administration can guarantee service providers won’t be punished for operating the app when the ban takes effect.  The statement came hours after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law forcing the app to be divested […]


The Dark Side of Chicken Soup for the Soul

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fact-Checking Chicken Soup for the Soul Readers who grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s will likely […]