Juliana Kim
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NPR News: 03-30-2025 5PM EDT
Richard Chamberlain's acting career spanned six decades. He rose to fame playing a compassionate and handsome physician in the 1960s TV show Dr. Kildare. And after a stint as a theater actor in the UK, he starred as a Western prisoner in the 1980s miniseries Shogun and portrayed a Catholic priest torn by love in the miniseries The Thorn Birds. Both roles earned Emmy nominations.
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In the 2000s, Chamberlain publicly revealed that he was gay in his autobiography. And over the years, he spoke more freely about the challenges in Hollywood when he felt he needed to hide his sexuality. Chamberlain died in Hawaii a few days before his 91st birthday. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Yeah, you know, a lot of users are relieved that it's back, but also feeling some kind of whiplash. I mean, leading up to the ban, I'd see videos on TikTok of people saying goodbye to the app with tears in their eyes. Then on Saturday night, the app just stopped working earlier than expected. It left TikTok users feeling shocked, grief, confusion. But yesterday, surprise again, it was back.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Congress passed a law last year basically requiring TikTok to shut down in the U.S. unless it cut ties from its China-based owner, ByteDance. The concern being that China could manipulate TikTok in ways that would pose a risk to American security.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Trump said he's going to issue an executive order to pause the ban once he's sworn in, so sometime today. Though it's worth noting that legal experts have questioned whether Trump can even use an executive order as an end run around a law Congress has already passed. Trump says he wants to give his administration more time to work out a deal.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
And he didn't mention a timeline, but he did tell NBC News that he was considering around 90 days.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Yeah, I mean, it's unclear, which is why Apple and Google haven't allowed TikTok back on their app stores after removing it. It's left new users unable to download TikTok. It also means the app can't receive important software updates, you know, to fix bugs and other glitches. The law says the White House has to certify to Congress that a TikTok sale is in progress before it can pause the ban.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Otherwise, Apple, Google, and other companies could potentially face hefty financial penalties. And it's why, for now, legal experts told my colleague Bobby Allen that Apple and Google are waiting to see Trump's next steps.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Yeah, I mean, Trump assures companies that they won't be held liable if they help to bring TikTok back online. But not everyone is sure that companies will be let off the hook that easily.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who's also the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned about this on X. He said companies working with TikTok before it splits from ByteDance could face hundreds of billions of dollars in fines, not just from the Justice Department, but from shareholder lawsuits and state attorneys general.