Sometimes, it’s hard to keep track what’s happening in the news, so for everyone’s sake, The Root is recapping some of the most interesting and flat out insane moments since the New Year kicked in and especially since Trump walked back into the White House.

The temporary shutdown of TikTok left users in La Crosse, Chippewa Falls and Winona feeling anxious about the potential ban of their online community and platform. Now, the threat of a TikTok ban remains.

Despite a 75-day reprieve, shop owners from Foley to Opelika are worried their growth won't be sustainable without the platform.

If you’re still recovering from the temporary TikTok ban and feeling a bit put-off by the on-again-off-again nature of the app (it’s giving toxic situationship energy), we’ve got just the cure for you: a curated list of hobbies to entertain yourself that don’t involve swiping,

If you’re waiting for TikTok to be available for download—or update—again, you may have to practice patience. Here’s why.

Marvel Snap, the game caught in the TikTok ban, was reinstated on Play Store under the original developer's name, Second Dinner. The app retains old stats but has a new US-based publisher called Skystone Games, providing an opportunity for new players to try it again.

While the TikTok ban has been suspended for 75 days, thanks to President Trump, the app is still not available in the Google Play Store, nor the Apple App

TikTok, owned by ByteDance, is on the verge of being banned in the United States. The thing is, the government also went after other ByteDance apps, and there are quite a few of them operating in the U.

DeepSeek, which was rolled out on Jan. 15, rose to the top of the charts in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store on Tuesday, and has been downloaded more than 2 million times.

The spotlight on DeepSeek comes amid rising tensions over trade, geopolitics and other issues between the two superpowers. The U.S. has already imposed significant export controls on China in an effort to rein in Beijing's production of semiconductors used in developing advanced AI, with the most recent curbs coming in December.

While rival chatbots including ChatGPT collect vast quantities of user data, DeepSeek’s use of China-based servers are a key difference and a glaring privacy risk for Americans, experts told The

Nearly a week after it was removed, the TikTok app is still missing from Apple and Google’s app stores. Because these app stores are the primary way many people get the software, TikTok’s absence basically means you can’t newly install the app — at least,