It looks as if a deal between the U.S. and China on the ownership of TikTok may be close. Is that a good thing? The honest answer: It depends. Last year, Congress passed a bill with overwhelming support demanding that Chinese parent company ByteDance either sell TikTok to an American company or have it banned from U.S. app stores beginning Jan. 19, 2025. After multiple legal challenges and multiple appeals, the Supreme Court decisively weighed in against ByteDance, upholding the law 9-0. The push to ban TikTok was driven by a growing body of concerns about the app’s malign activities and reach into the United States, summarized in a January 2025 Heritage op-ed: TikTok employees based in China have regularly accessed U.S. user data. Hundreds of TikTok and ByteDance employees also worked for Chinese state propaganda organizations. TikTok and ByteDance are compelled by law to share any data with the Chinese Communist Party at any time for any reason. Chinese actors have used TikTok to push political messages to influence U.S. elections. TikTok previously tracked the location and movement of U.S. reporters investigating the app. TikTok censors bad news about China and filters pro-China news to U.S. users. TikTok is “capable of changing the app’s behavior as it pleases without users’ knowledge.” TikTok’s U.S.-based servers are made by Inspur, a company controlled by the Chinese military and sanctioned by the U.S. government. ByteDance has a CCP “party committee” in its corporate structure and a Chinese government official sitting on its board. One online monitoring group found TikTok was pushing harmful content on eating disorders and self-harm to “vulnerable teens” every 30 seconds.  Despite pledging to ban TikTok in his first term, President Donald Trump entered office committed to negotiating the sale of TikTok to an American entity, claiming the authority to issue a series of 90-day waivers to prevent the law from taking effect while a deal was being negotiated. Negotiations have dragged on for months, in part because the law dictates that ByteDance must fully cede control over user data and the app’s all-important algorithm to a U.S. entity. To date, the Chinese government has been unwilling to entertain a full-scale divestment. On Sep. 15, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer engaged in trade talks with the Chinese government in Madrid, Spain. There, they announced a “framework” for a TikTok deal to “switch to U.S.-controlled ownership.” Beijing reportedly entered talks with “aggressive asks” for “compensation,” but the U.S. team said it wasn’t interested in “big gives,” as Trump is now ready to allow the app to “go dark” if a deal isn’t reached. For now, it’s impossible to assess the merits of this TikTok framework agreement because the devil is very much in the details. If the Trump administration is able to negotiate a true divestment—one in which TikTok fully cedes control of its algorithm and U.S. user data to an American-controlled entity—the administration deserves praise for finding a way to extract the CCP from the phones of over 100 million mostly young Americans. But if Beijing is ultimately unwilling to entertain a true divestment, seeks egregious concessions, or proposes a sham sale that gives the appearance of a divestment but allows Chinese entities to retain control of the data and algorithm, the deal should be rejected, and Trump should follow through on his threat to let TikTok die.  The post TikTok: Take a Good Deal or No Deal at All appeared first on The Daily Signal.

My first impression of Charlie Kirk

Christian Author Frank Turek was with Charlie Kirk when he was fatally shot. In fact, he was the guy in the white shirt doing the hand motions. He has now shared exactly what happened the moment Charlie was shot and the 4-mile drive to the hospital. Much of this we had not heard before. “Now, here’s what Erika wants me to relate…” “He was looking past me right into eternity. He was with Jesus already. He was killed instantly and felt absolutely no pain.” “If that’s any comfort at all, Charlie didn’t suffer.” Christian author Frank Turek, who was with Charlie Kirk when he was assassinated, says Charlie was with Jesus the moment he was hit. “Now, here’s what Erika wants me to relate…” “He was looking past me right into eternity. He was with Jesus already. He was killed instantly… pic.twitter.com/jGJjfuENMO — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 17, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT: Frank Turek: There. Now, here’s what Erica wants me to relate on Sunday. This is gonna be the hard part, but maybe also the comforting part. Charlie Kirk was literally like a son to me. I have three sons. He was like my fourth son. My three sons are a little bit older than Charlie. He was like my fourth son. So when he was hit, if your son got hit, what would you do? What would you do? I got in the car, ’cause if there was any way I could save him, I had to do something. And I couldn’t just, “Oh, yeah, just take him. You guys got it.” So they got him into the side of the car, it was an SUV, it was the SUV we took over. And I’m on one side, and there’s actually some video of this, somebody’s taken video of this. I’m on one side of the car, the right side, and they’re getting Charlie in. So I run over to the other side, but the guy who was dragging him in is now blocking that entrance. So at that point, I run around to the back, I pop the back gate open and I jump in the back. The car lurches forward. Apparently somebody jumped in the car, so the car lurches forward. I almost fall out of the SUV. Then I grab the thing and close it and there’s five of us in the car now. Justin is driving, Dan is up front with the GPS. Rick has got him, Rick’s on my left and Brian is there, and I’m coming over the back seat and Charlie’s laid out in front, just right in front of me. And Charlie’s so tall we can’t close the door. We drove four miles—something like four miles—all the way to the hospital with the door open. To this day, I don’t know how Brian stayed in the car, ’cause we’re just, “Go, go, go, go, go.” We’re trying to stop the bleeding. You saw it. And I’m yelling, “Come on, Charlie. Come on. Come on.” Meanwhile, my phone is still on. My son and daughter-in-law are hearing this whole thing. And his security team—again, Justin, Dan, Brian, and Rick—they loved Charlie, but they’re much cooler than I. I mean, they’re just calmly, but swiftly, doing exactly what they were trained to do. Rick starts praying out loud. I’m praying out loud. We’re yelling, “Come on, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.” My son’s hearing all this and we’re doing the best we can to navigate traffic. This is not a highway. We’re on surface streets. And suddenly there’s an ambulance coming toward us. And there was conversation in the car, “Should we stop?” We’re like, “No, no. Just keep going, just keep going.” The doctor later said that was the right thing to do. The ambulance goes by us, we’re still heading to the hospital trying to get there. At one point somebody says, “Let’s get there in one piece,” ’cause we’re just cutting through intersections, beeping the horn. This is not an emergency vehicle. There’s no lights, none of this. And I go, “We gotta start CPR.” So I try and start that. Now Charlie wasn’t there, his eyes were fixed. He wasn’t looking at me, he was looking past me right into eternity. He was with Jesus already. He was killed instantly and felt absolutely no pain. That’s what I was told later. But, of course, we had to try. And by the way, there was just nothing—nothing any of us could do about it. We were giving him CPR but nothing was happening. It wasn’t like if we had better first aid or we had better medical facilities or we were faster to the hospital, we could have saved him. We couldn’t. So if that’s any comfort at all, Charlie didn’t suffer. He was gone. He was with Jesus. Absent from the body, present with the Lord. That’s where he was. Now, it is true, when we got to the hospital and they started working on him right away, they did get a pulse back. And so Rick and I were just—everyone’s praying—we’re just praying for a miracle. We had a small sliver of hope. And the doctor later said that we got a pulse because Charlie was a very healthy man, but the shot was catastrophic. So twenty or thirty minutes later, the surgeon came out and said he was dead. He was the man in the white shirt making all those hand-signals, and he categorically denies any wrongdoing: The viral accusations against Dr. Frank Turek are categorically false. Dr. Turek was at Utah Valley University as part of Charlie Kirk’s team, standing with him as a close friend and mentor. Their bond was marked by deep respect and unwavering support. Like everyone, we want… pic.twitter.com/NonSR8A9OR — Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) September 12, 2025 You can watch the full video here if you want: The Greatness of Charlie Kirk: An Eyewitness Account of His Life and Martyrdom https://t.co/IA1bMMuMiW — Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) September 17, 2025 In the interest of telling both sides of this story, I do have to report honestly that there are some people online who do not trust Turek or his story, like this person: “Devil’s Advocate” is a pretty good name for that account I suppose. I want to be clear I am not saying that is my opinion, but I do agree there were no tears or watery or red eyes.  That said, some people just aren’t the crying type.

HE JUST DID IT! This is huge breaking news coming out this evening, just posted by President Trump on his TruthSocial. ANTIFA is now officially a “terrorist organization”! Not only that, but he is pushing strongly for those who fund it (Soros?) to be investigated and prosecuted! This is huge! Screenshot here if easier to read: He told us just a few days ago he would do this, and now he has! Another promise made, promise kept! Here is President Trump from two days ago: REPORTER: Do you plan on designating Antifa a domestic terror organization?@POTUS: “It’s something I would do, yeah… and also, I’ve been speaking to @AGPamBondi about bringing RICO against some of the people… that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for… pic.twitter.com/eAuK3nXKVh — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 15, 2025 Share!

Oh my goodness this is powerful! In fact, this might be the best thing you’ll see all week! Meet Pastor Rob McCoy, who Charlie Kirk was proud to call his pastor. Pastor Rob seems like an incredible guy, humble, down to Earth, not seeking big attention or fame or a big church…but at the same time he knows on Sunday when he speaks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service he will for a brief moment have the attention of the world upon him. And he says he will make sure that when the spotlight is on him for those few short minutes, that he is going to deliver a Gospel message so clear and so powerful that people won’t leave there talking about Charlie Kirk but they’ll be talking about Charlie Kirk’s savior! And of course that’s exactly what Charlie Kirk would have wanted. INCREDIBLE! If this short clip is any indication of what’s to come on Sunday, it’s going to be very special and very powerful. Watch here: JUST IN: Charlie Kirk’s Pastor Rob McCoy gets emotional as he talks to me about delivering the Gospel message at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service this Sunday in Arizona: “When they leave that building, they’re not going to have Charlie Kirk’s name on their lips. They’re going to… pic.twitter.com/2BjDdJSIaP — David Brody (@DBrodyReports) September 17, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT: David, I have—uh, I, I’m not an evangelist. I could do the work of an evangelist. I’m obedient. Yeah. I, I don’t even know that I’m a really good pastor. I, I’ve pastored and shepherded a church for 25 years, but I’ve always joked, and it’s slightly true. I have the gift of preaching a church down to a manageable size. Now, now why in the world did Charlie pick me as his pastor? I was the first church that he was invited to come and speak at, and I encouraged him to put his faith into everything he did and not to compartmentalize it. For any reason—that’s my claim to fame with Charlie. But he was… he continued to call me his pastor. And I was in Korea with him, and this is what I said to him: “Charlie, your, your stock has gone through the stratosphere. Since the election, I see very little of you. You don’t have to keep calling me your pastor. You’re loyal. I know we got history, but there are guys you would benefit far more from having. I mean, you got Jack Hibbs. You got Alan Jackson. I mean, I can go through a list of amazing men.” And he said, “Rob, not only are you my pastor,” he said, “you’re America’s pastor.” And I said, “Charlie, you’re in the book of Who’s Who. I’m in the book of Who’s He. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” And doggone it, if he wasn’t right. I may not be America’s pastor today, and after Sunday, I won’t be. But for 11 minutes in Glendale, Arizona in front of 70,000 people and a billion tuning in worldwide, I’m gonna be the man he wanted me to be. And I’m gonna be faithful to present the gospel, to share with them that when they leave that building, they’re not gonna have Charlie Kirk’s name on their lips. They’re going to have Charlie Kirk’s Savior’s name on their lips, which is what he always wanted. Backup here if needed: Charlie Kirk’s Pastor On The Message He Will Give At Sunday’s Memorial Service: “They Won’t Leave With Charlie Kirk’s Name On Their Lips!” pic.twitter.com/Draq21pY7Z — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) September 18, 2025 Well done Pastor Rob! Go get ’em on Sunday!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an extraordinary two-minute protest today denying that Israel had any involvement in the assassination of American political activist Charlie Kirk. The highly charged statement, delivered with unusual emotion and [...] The post Netanyahu Issues Unprecedented 2 Minute Denial Explaining Why Israel Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk appeared first on The People's Voice.

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