Biden signs bill approving $95B in aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan
The bill also includes a provision forcing TikTok’s Chinese owner Byte Dance to sell the social media site or be banned in the U.S.
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The bill also includes a provision forcing TikTok’s Chinese owner Byte Dance to sell the social media site or be banned in the U.S.
The bill gives TikTok 270 days to part ways with Chinese company Byte Dance and instead find a new owner or it'll be taken out of U.S. app stores.
President Biden signed a foreign aid package into law that includes a potential ban on TikTok in the U.S. Here's what experts say could happen next.
On Saturday, House leaders passed a bill ordering TikTok’s parent company to sell TikTok within a year, or risk it being banned from coast to coast.
The company said the legislation would "trample the free speech rights" of TikTok users.
TikTok now has more than 6 million users in Illinois – and thousands of businesses have grown to rely on the social media platform to advertise. But it has also been used to spread disturbing and dangerous content. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
In recent months, there has been no shortage of videos posted to TikTok that have ended up at the center of controversies.
The House on Wednesday passed legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance doesn't sell its stake.
TikTok could soon be faced with a difficult choice. Congress has advanced legislation that would order the social media platform to cut ties with their Chinese owners, or get removed from app stores in the U.S.
Lawmakers' phones were flooded after TikTok alerted users to tell their representatives to oppose legislation targeting the app's Chinese ownership.
Krishnamoorthi represents Illinois’ 8th congressional district and is a co-author of the bill ordering TikTok to break ties with their Chinese owners or get kicked off U.S. app stores.
The new bipartisan bill would force parent company ByteDance to divest from TikTok or face a ban in the U.S.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced a measure that would give the app's Chinese parent company six months to divest, or face a U.S. ban. CBS 2's Marie Saavedra explains.
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has long faced national security concerns that it would share U.S. users' data with the Chinese government.
The trend uses the song "End of Beginning" as people post their favorite places, activities, and memories of Chicago.
It's the new number 1 reason for a toddler to go to the bathroom.
Parents who lost their kids after bullying and violence on social media packed the hearing, including one family from Chicago.
Two Chicago parents were in the front row on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee pushed big tech executives to do more to protect children from sexual exploitation on social media.
A TikTok account shared a scene of an absolutely massive web created by dozens – and maybe hundreds of spiders. They are so big as to be compared to the size of a watch.
A growing TikTok trend might be helping Gen Z become more financially responsible. Loud Budgeting is all about talking openly with friends and family about how much money you are willing to spend, when and where.
Health officials say it's not safe to eat starch toothpicks. Restaurants use them as an environmentally friendly way to pick up finger foods.
In an interview with CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot, Dr. Youn explains what autojuvenation is and how it works.
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas grinds on, social media has become a front line in the battle over public opinion. Teens are getting caught in the middle.
Whose that wonderful girl? Could she be any cuter? Mona, the small green puppet who is the star of Nanalan', an old Canadian TV show, gains new fans on Tiktok.
If the abstract feeling of childlike wonder could be embodied, it would be in the form of a small puppet named Mona, the main character of "Nanalan'." And more than 20 years after her debut on Canadian TV in 1999, her sing-a-long, "Whose that wonderful girl? Could she be any cuter?" is going viral on TikTok. Mona is a three-year-old green puppet with wide eyes, wearing a corduroy pink dress, matching pink pigtails, and a contagious smile. She speaks in small, short sentences with bursts of energy and emotion. Creators Jamie Shannon and Jason Hopley say the idea was born out of their love for their own nanas, inviting viewers into the magical experience of playing as a kid at a grandparent's house.
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Keith Hill, president of Amalgamated Transit Union 241, said the driver radioed for police help. But nobody came, Hill said.
Playing without Cody Bellinger, the Cubbies used Swanson's big swing and a solid start by Jameson Taillon to earn its second straight win.
The Sox executed a double steal in the fifth to cut Minnesota's lead to 4-3. But they went on to lose as Minnesota scored two more runs.
Skies will be mostly Wednesday night with temperatures in the 30s.
Guidice said he left City Hall on good terms.
Mayor Brandon Johnson denied that the Bears' shiny new dome could end up costing taxpayers a pretty penny.
Bears president Kevin Warren said the new stadium would include replacing Soldier Field with additional parks and public sports fields, while preserving the stadium's iconic colonnades, which were built as a war memorial for American veterans.
Jurors in former President Donald Trump's trial in New York heard testimony from a former media executive about his efforts to bury negative stories about Trump before the 2016 presidential election.
Regulators prohibit new noncompetes, which impede millions of U.S. workers from getting a better job.
Employees at dozens of now-closed Foxtrot Market and Dom's Kitchen stores, now jobless, wonder what comes next for them as their paychecks will soon end.
The family didn't get their cut of the estate sale, not hearing back from the salesman until CBS 2 got involved.
The Better Business Bureau warns that anyone buying an event ticket should watch out for fake ticket scams.
Financial records show Paul Croft and J.D. Frost raised about $30 million for a hydrogen plant that was supposed to be, at one point, in Indiana. It never existed, an attorney says.
Anyone with these sausages in their refrigerators should throw them away or return them to the store.
The city's measles dashboard said a total of 63 measles cases have been confirmed in Chicago this year, with one new case this week.
The department said anyone who visited the Sam's Club at 9400 S. Western Ave. in Evergreen Park one day last week may have been exposed to someone with measles.
Health officials are warning consumers not to consume Infinite Herbs basil sold at some Trader Joe's and Dierberg's stores after 12 people were sickened.
Officials said there was no known link between this case and the recent outbreak of measles at a migrant shelter in Chicago.
Health department officials said the case does not appear to be linked to new migrant arrival shelters in Chicago, and the source of infection is unknown.
Mayor Brandon Johnson denied that the Bears' shiny new dome could end up costing taxpayers a pretty penny.
Employees at dozens of now-closed Foxtrot Market and Dom's Kitchen stores, now jobless, wonder what comes next for them as their paychecks will soon end.
The company announced Tuesday that it received a stalking horse bid to purchase its operating assets.
Dozens of typewriters clutter the shelves of the 24-year-old business owner's workshop inside his parents' home in Downers Grove.
The closure affects both Dom's locations in Chicago, and all 33 Foxtrot stores in Chicago, Texas, and the Washington D.C. area.
Still, Ravinia is capitalizing on the situation with a limited-edition shirt—reading, "Ravinia Interrupta," and calling the cicada buzz the loudest song of summer.
The singer was found deceased at her home, a representative said.
Anticipation was growing at a fever pitch before Taylor Swift's latest album, "The Tortured Poets Department," dropped at midnight EDT. But it turned out it's actually a double album.
Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, "Ramblin' Man," has died.
Colbert lived in Chicago for 11 years, performing and "cutting his comedy teeth" at the legendary Second City and attending Northwestern University. His show will broadcast from Chicago's storied Auditorium Theater Aug. 19-22 on CBS.
Police in riot gear broke up crowds of protesters at the University of Texas, while police said protesters refused to relocate at the USC campus in Los Angeles.
The Bears are expected to pick Williams as their first-round draft pick, and they may use their other pick for Odunze. CBS 2's Marshall Harris reports from the NFL Draft in Detroit.
The team says the time to get a deal done is now, cautioning state lawmakers that the project will only get more expensive the longer it takes. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
In point of fact, the 17-year periodical cicadas that are coming this year in the Chicago area are expected be gone before gone before opening night. CBS 2's Sara Machi reports.
CBS 2 Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon has a look at the extended forecast.
Bears president Kevin Warren said the new stadium would include replacing Soldier Field with additional parks and public sports fields, while preserving the stadium's iconic colonnades, which were built as a war memorial for American veterans.
"As a parent because I never want to see my son go backward from where he's grown so much in this school, and it's heartbreaking to see."
The civil rights lawsuit filed by Reed's mother accuses police of using "brutally violent, militarized policing tactics" during a traffic stop on March 21.
Crime stats of those who were carjacked, robbed, shot, or killed give an overwhelming sense of a society unmoored. But the spectacle of crime can evoke fear, often overshadowing those who are truly affected: the victims.
Keith Hill, president of Amalgamated Transit Union 241, said the driver radioed for police help. But nobody came, Hill said.
Police arrived at the scene sooner than if they had waited for the first 911 call.
Anthony Robinson's attorney said his previous defense lawyer failed to present evidence that showed it was physically impossible for him to be the shooter.
The village board is working on a resolution to hire Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor before her lone term as Chicago's mayor, to investigate claims Henyard has been misusing public funds.
DCFS Director Heidi Mueller was asked Thursday why some kids in the system are being held in psychiatric hospitals longer than medically necessary.
CBS 2 discovered the woman, Whitley Temple, was hired by the City of Chicago while awaiting trial.
Playing without Cody Bellinger, the Cubbies used Swanson's big swing and a solid start by Jameson Taillon to earn its second straight win.
The Sox executed a double steal in the fifth to cut Minnesota's lead to 4-3. But they went on to lose as Minnesota scored two more runs.
The Sky introduced No. 7 pick Reese Wednesday along with No. 13 pick Brynna Maxwell.
X-rays after the game Tuesday night were clean, but an MRI today showed the fractures.
Williams is the only quarterback with whom the Bears met ahead of a draft, in which five of the first six could be QBs.
Keith Hill, president of Amalgamated Transit Union 241, said the driver radioed for police help. But nobody came, Hill said.
Police said the thieves used different types of force to make off with large quantities of cigarettes and bottles of alcohol in each incident.
School officials said police arrested the gunman and recovered a gun.
One of the men sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, while the other had a knife in his hand, police said. Both men beat until he fell to the ground, police said.
The task force isn't only responding to thefts on retail strips such as the Magnificent Mile or making arrests. They are working directly with businesses.
