Per the WSJ, 872 refugees who were already cleared to come to America, and who aren't from the 7 Muslim-majority nations under Trump's blanket ban, will be allowed to enter America, if they get here by Thursday. Jennifer Sime, senior vice president for U.S. programs at the International Rescue Committee, told the WSJ:
They will be allowed to enter until Feb. 2, and we are expecting arrivals... After Friday, there will be no arrivals regardless of whether they are from the seven countries.
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Growing security and privacy concerns over Chinese-owned short-video app TikTok have given a lift to alternatives like Byte and Dubsmash, which have seen spikes in downloads from smartphone users recently, according to data from SensorTower.
Why it matters: If TikTok's meteoric rise in popularity among U.S. youth gets slowed by rising tensions with China, or ended by a threatened ban by the Trump administration, American teens will still have to get their hits of meme-laden video somewhere.
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Alarmed at the prospect of relying on Chinese-made drones for public safety and monitoring critical industries, U.S. investors and the federal government are newly backing a domestic drone industry of hardware and software companies.
The big picture: The moves come as the industry continues to be led by DJI, a Chinese hardware maker — and as concerns grow both in China and the U.S. about reliance on the other country's technology.
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One of the country's oldest and most established media companies is starting to look more like a Hollywood studio than a traditional newspaper.
Driving the news: The New York Times has 10 scripted TV show projects in development, as well as 3 feature documentaries coming out this year and several other documentary projects in development and production, executives tell Axios.