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President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down a law that could ban the platform by Jan. 19 while the government emphasized its position that the statute is needed to eliminate a national security risk. “President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute. Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act’s deadline for divestment of January 19, 2025, while it considers the merits of this case,” said Trump’s amicus brief, which supported neither party in the case and was written by D. John Sauer, Trump’s choice for solicitor general. The argument submitted to the court is the latest example of Trump inserting himself in national issues before he takes office. The Republican president-elect has already begun negotiating with other countries over his plans to impose tariffs, and he intervened earlier this month in a plan to fund the federal government, calling for a bipartisan plan to be rejected and sending Republicans back to the negotiating table. Trump has also reversed his position on the popular app, having tried to ban it during his first term in office over national security concerns. He joined the app during his 2024 presidential campaign and his team used it to connect with younger voters, especially male voters, by pushing content that was often macho and aimed at going viral. He said earlier this year that he still believed there were national security risks with TikTok, but that he opposed banning it. This month, Trump also met with TikTok CEO Shou Chew at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The filings Friday come ahead of oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 10 on whether the law, which requires TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company or face a ban, unlawfully restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment. The law was was signed by President Joe Biden in April after it passed Congress with broad bipartisan support. TikTok and ByteDance filed a legal challenge afterwards. Earlier this month, a panel of three federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the statute , leading TikTok to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The brief from Trump said he opposes banning TikTok at this junction and “seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office.” In their brief to the Supreme Court on Friday, attorneys for TikTok and its parent company ByteDance argued the federal appeals court erred in its ruling and based its decision on “alleged ‘risks’ that China could exercise control” over TikTok’s U.S. platform by pressuring its foreign affiliates. The Biden administration has argued in court that TikTok poses a national security risk due to its connections to China. Officials say Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok’s U.S. patrons or use the platform to spread or suppress information. But the government “concedes that it has no evidence China has ever attempted to do so,” TikTok’s legal filing said, adding that the U.S. fears are predicated on future risks. In its filing Friday, the Biden administration said because TikTok “is integrated with ByteDance and relies on its propriety engine developed and maintained in China,” its corporate structure carries with it risk.

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Lifestyle Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. In this article Unpacking the TikTok-led viral boycott of seed oils What the research actually says about seed oils An Aussie nutritionist weighs in on which oils are best According to TikTok, seed oils are rife with health risks and shouldn’t be consumed at all. Here’s what the actual evidence and a qualified nutritionist want you to know. Every time you open TikTok or any major social media platform, you’re bombarded with information regarding what you should and shouldn’t be doing for your health. While there are plenty of wonderful health professionals creating and sharing useful content online, there are just as many (if not more) totally unqualified voices fuelling opinion-based – and often dangerous – trends. The latest? Apparently, seed oils – Rice bran, Safflower, Sunflower, Corn, Canola, Cottonseed, Soybean, and Grapeseed oil – need to be purged from our pantries and never consumed again. @seanmikekelly STOP USING CANOLA OIL! ♬ original sound - Sean Kelly - Sean Kelly The trend, accompanied by hashtags such as #seedoilbad and #boycottseedoil, initially surfaced on the video platform a few years ago, undergoing a resurgence in recent months thanks to some very vocal ‘experts’. To be clear, most creators on the app warning against people using seed oils don't have a problem with the pure substances themselves, but rather are criticising the industrially-produced commercial iterations widely available to consumers. As well-known biologist Gary Brecka explains in this TikTok , mass producers subject seed oils to several heating processes and added chemicals in order to achieve a commercially viable colour, consistency and odour. However, the theories and (loose) evidence contributing to this widespread cancellation of seed oils are largely based on industries in the US. Still, thanks to the video platform, viewers all over the world– Australia included – have grasped the issue of seed oils and whether they are safe to consume. But as Chloe McLeod, a dietitian specialising in advanced sports nutrition , says, these viral TikTok claims shouldn’t be confused with evidence-based findings. “There is plenty of evidence to show seed oils are completely safe for consumption and aren’t something we need to be fearful of. The main thing when looking at fats or oils is we ideally want a higher omega 3 to omega 6 ratio,” she explains, sharing we should all be aiming to include plenty of oily fish in our diets and plant-based sources like chia seeds, walnuts and linseeds. Oils and healthy fats are an important part of our diet. Image: Pexels What are the best oils for cooking? With so many options available in supermarkets, choosing the best oil to roast potatoes or crisp up a schnitzel can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. However, McLeod says there’s no questioning which one we should all reach for. “Hands down the best oil when it comes to its nutritional profile is good quality extra virgin olive oil,” she says. “It contains a diverse range of antioxidants and polyphenols that is unique to extra virgin olive oil and has good evidence to support its benefits for heart health, gut health, mental health and reducing inflammation.” Plus, extra virgin olive oil has quite a high smoke point and tolerates heat up to 210 degrees Celsius while maintaining its levels of antioxidants, meaning it’s totally safe to use with most recipes and kitchen appliances. In restaurants, oils are repeatedly heated to high temperatures and infrequently changed. Image: iStock But if you’re pantry has been cleaned out of extra virgin olive oil from your weekend attempt at Foccacia baking, reaching for other alternatives – including the seed oils – won’t do any major harm. Long before the TikTok experts started piling criticism onto seed oils, one 2022 report in association with Harvard University completely debunks the alleged health risk. According to Guy Crosby, ​​an adjunct associate of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the negative health outcomes associated with processed and packaged foods have less to do with seed oils and more to do with their higher percentages of refined carbohydrates, sodium, and sugar. “Sure, if you cut back on these foods, chances are you’re going to feel better,” Crosby explains, sharing that a food’s cooking environment also plays a big role in its health rating. When oils – seed or otherwise – are used to cook in restaurants or commercial kitchens, they are repeatedly heated to high temperatures and infrequently changed, “Cooking with seed oils at home isn’t an issue,” he says. More Coverage What is 'starvemaxxing'? The dangerous new TikTok trend explained Staff Writer Experts say you should probably ignore TikTok's tampon prosecco hack Ashleigh Austen Originally published as Are seed oils actually bad for you? More related stories Gold Coast ‘I see them having sex’: Luxury tower’s eye-catching flaw Residents of a new luxury tower in a swanky suburb can be seen “urinating, showering and fornicating” by neighbours. Read more Victoria Why Melbourne-themed cafes are popping up around the world? Melbourne-themed cafes are springing up around the world, from Budapest to Nantes. Here’s what they’re trying to capture about our local cafes and why they’re proving a hit. Read more

NASSAU, Bahamas — Scottie Scheffler brought a new putting grip to the Hero World Challenge and felt enough improvement to be satisfied with the result, a 5-under 67 that left him three shots behind Cameron Young on Thursday. Young was playing for the first time since the BMW Championship more than three months ago and found great success on and around the greens of Albany Golf Club, chipping beautifully and holing four birdie putts from 15 feet or longer for his 64. He led by two shots over Justin Thomas in his first competition since his daughter was born a few weeks ago. Thomas ran off four straight birdies late in his round and was a fraction of an inch away with a fifth. The big surprise was Scheffler, the No. 1 player in golf who looked as good as he has all year in compiling eight victories, including an Olympic gold medal. His iron play has no equal. His putting at times has kept him from winning more or winning bigger. He decided to try to a "saw" putting grip from about 20 feet or closer — the putter rests between his right thumb and his fingers, with his left index finger pointed down the shaft. "I'm always looking for ways to improve," Scheffler said. Scheffler last year began working with renowned putting instructor Phil Kenyon, and he says Kenyon mentioned the alternative putting grip back then. "But it was really our first time working together and it's something that's different than what I've done in the past," Scheffler said. "This year I had thought about it from time to time, and it was something that we had just said let's table that for the end of the season, take a look at it. "Figured this is a good week to try stuff." He opened with a wedge to 2 feet and he missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-5 third. But he holed a birdie from about the same distance at the next par 5, No. 6, and holed a sliding 6-footer on the ninth to save par. His longest putt was his last hole, from 12 feet for a closing birdie. "I really enjoyed the way it felt," he said. "I felt like I'm seeing some improvements in my stroke." Young, regarded as the best active player without a PGA Tour victory, is treating this holiday tournament as the start of a new season. He worked on getting stronger and got back to the basics in his powerful golf swing. And on this day, he was dialed in with his short game. He only struggled to save par twice and kept piling up birdies in his bogey-free round on an ideal day in the Bahamas. "The wind wasn't blowing much so it was relatively stress-free," Young said. Patrick Cantlay, along with Scheffler playing for the first time since the Presidents Cup, also was at 67 with Ludvig Aberg, Akshay Bhatia and Sahith Theegala. Thomas also took this occasion to do a little experimenting against a 20-man field. He has using a 46-inch driver at home — a little more than an inch longer than his regular driver — in a bid to gain more speed. On a day with little wind, on a golf course with some room off the tee, he decided to put it in play. "Just with it being a little bit longer, I just kind of have to get the club out in front of me and get on top of it a little bit more," Thomas said. "I drove the hell out of it on the back, so that was nice to try something different and have it go a little bit better on the back." Thomas said the longer driver gives him 2 or 3 mph in ball speed and 10 extra yards in the air. "It's very specific for courses, but gave it a try," he said. Conditions were easy enough that only four players in field failed to break par, with Jason Day bringing up the rear with a 75. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Stock market today: Wall Street inches higher to set more records

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A Fulton County judge has ordered the Fulton District Attorney’s office to turn over documents from its election interference investigation that were sent to Special Counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. House Jan. 6th Committee. On Monday, Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the DA’s office to turn over the documents to Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit in Washington, within five business days. “Judicial Watch looks forward to getting any documents from the Fani Willis operation about collusion with the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress on her unprecedented and compromised ‘get-Trump’ prosecution,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement. The Fulton DA’s office referred matter to the County Attorney’s Office, which represented Willis in the lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. County Attorney Soo Jo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In August 2023, the DA’s office obtained a racketeering indictment against President-elect Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, although four of them have since entered guilty pleas. The case is now on hold while the Georgia Court of Appeals considers whether the DA’s office should be disqualified because Willis had a romantic relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade. On the same month the Fulton indictment was handed up, Judicial Watch filed an Open Records Act request with the DA’s office seeking records it sent to the special counsel’s office and the House committee. When the county attorney’s office said the DA’s office did not have them, Judicial Watch filed suit this past March. In a six-page order, McBurney found that because the county attorney’s office had not met the filing deadline to respond to the lawsuit, the DA’s office must be found to have violated the Open Records Act. Moreover, McBurney found the office is in default and must turn over to Judicial Watch any records that are not legally exempted from disclosure under the act within five business days. The act shields records from being disclosed if they are part on an ongoing investigation. McBurney also set a Dec. 20 hearing to decide how much Fulton County must pay Judicial Watch in attorneys’ fees.

ENTRUSTED with our readers’ deep secrets, the Dear Deidre team really have a unique insight into what dilemmas the nation is grappling with. Of course, there are some constants — cheating, differing sex drives, low self-esteem and loneliness. Advertisement 3 Sally Land reveals the nation’s most common dilemmas of 2024 But some issues loom larger in certain years as new problems come to the fore. As 2024 nears an end, we take a look at what exactly our readers have been writing in about. Every year, we help thousands of people by answering every single dilemma with a personalised answer, and we’ve kept a record of the issues we’ve tackled. Relationship issues consistently come out on top, with 23 per cent of the emails Dear Deidre receives focused on romantic problems. Advertisement READ MORE DEAR DEIDRE HERE TO HELP Is Something Playing On Your Mind? Our expert-led Dear Deidre team can help HERE TO HELP Do YOU have a dilemma? Dear Deidre can help - confidentially & for free Sex came a close second, with 19 per cent of readers writing in with a sexual dilemma. Interestingly, half of every single relationship message addressed cheating. Sometimes, the unfaithful party would be writing in, otherwise a suspicious or heartbroken partner worried about their relationship. Among the emails about cheating on partners, home surveillance and doorbell cameras featured more prominently, with some partners forgetting to turn off cameras before inviting flings to come back to their homes. 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Advertisement Social media has been a common theme in all the categories. It is impossible to quantify but has had a huge impact. So many of the relationship problems relate to partners ogling scantily clad influencers or flirting with others they have met online. Plenty don’t see this as cheating but the feeling of betrayal is real for those on the receiving end. Advertisement And it’s not just cheating that worries people. Time spent watching endless videos encourages weird infatuations, with one woman complaining her husband had become obsessed with the French election. Opportunity for temptation He insisted they spend their family holiday in France watching speeches — and had previously had no interest in politics. The issue of phone addiction came up, particularly for parents fretting about not only what their children were being exposed to, but also how their mobile activity was affecting their own behaviour. Advertisement They asked our team for help on how to manage this. And a huge number of adults wrote in fed up with their partner, who had little interest in them but spent all hours playing online games or scrolling through their socials. It’s clear that while technology enables us to do far more and do it efficiently, left unchecked it threatens our real-world connections and provides more opportunity for temptation. Next year, I will be recording when social media, phone usage and the internet are mentioned as part of the problem, and I predict this will be a huge growth area. Advertisement Below is a reader’s letter about ogling, followed by one about winter fuel allowance. I also break down what percentages of our mail different types of letter make up. Mortified after ex saw me having sex on security cam (Letter from November 14) 3 My ex saw me having sex with a one-night stand after helping me install a security camera system Credit: getty DEAR DEIDRE: MY ex saw me having sex with a one-night stand using the camera security system he’d installed as a favour to me. Advertisement I was completely unaware that he was watching this, until he turned up the next morning and got very upset with me. Originally, I was grateful for his help setting up the system, but now I feel really uncomfortable. He said he’d received an alert on his phone and checked it by chance, but I can’t help worrying he’s keeping an eye on me. He insists he hasn’t been watching and that was a one-off, but the whole experience has really unsettled me. Advertisement I’m 36, my ex is 39, and we were together for eight years before we broke up five months ago. Our split was both mutually agreed, and amicable, and we decided to remain friends. We still met up and sometimes even had sex, but as we didn’t discuss what this meant I thought we were simply friends with benefits. I really appreciated still having him in my life. Advertisement When I was moving house, he offered to help, knowing how useless I am at DIY. He helped put up shelves, and installed security cameras which he set up online so I could view them through an app. I knew he had access to it all while he set it up but assumed he’d log out. So when I brought a man home, I didn’t think twice. Advertisement Now I feel mortified. He says he didn’t mean to breach my privacy, but I feel so conflicted. DEIDRE SAYS: Watching you have sex with another man was a huge breach of your privacy, and you shouldn’t take it lightly. Advertisement As a priority, please ensure that you are the only one with access to your security system. Make sure you’re the primary account holder and change your password so that he doesn’t have access. It’s completely understandable that this experience has made you question the sort of person he is. Unless you decide you can trust him completely, you would be wise to stay away. Advertisement At the very least, it’s clear that the lines are blurred between you and your ex and some boundaries need to be re-established. As for your relationship with him, you need to decide if there’s any hope of a future together. If you decide there’s not, it would be best to step away so you can both move on. My support pack Moving On will help. Advertisement Left freezing since losing fuel payment (Letter from December 18) 3 I’m forced to choose between putting my heating on or buying food Credit: getty DEAR DEIDRE : SINCE the Government cut my Winter Fuel Payment, I’ve been struggling to afford my bills. Now I’m forced to choose between putting my heating on or buying food, and the stress is making me unwell. I’m a 76-year-old pensioner, and live alone. Advertisement Until this year, I was receiving £200 payments to cover the cost of my heating bills, and I heavily relied on it. So when the Government announced the change, I went into a complete panic. My pension is already low as it is, so without the extra payments I knew it was going to be a hard couple of months. When I contacted the council for help, they told me that, while I was eligible to apply, I had missed the deadline so now I’d have to go without. Advertisement Ever since, my life has been an absolute nightmare. Now I wake up every morning to a freezing house – and no matter what I do, I can’t keep warm. The constant dread is getting me down, and I’m now struggling to cope. DEIDRE SAYS: Advertisement I can only imagine how distressing this must be for you. While the qualifying week for this year’s Fuel Payment has now passed, you may still be eligible if you successfully apply for Pension Credit by December 21. Read more on the Scottish Sun GHOST TOWN Former Scots shopping hotspot 'decaying' as multimillion pound revamp ‘failing’ VAX HORROR Striken Scots 'gaslit' by health bosses after complications from Covid vaccine Please note that you only have two days to do this, so please take action today. You may also be eligible for a £150 Warm Home Discount. You can find out more about this on the government website ( gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-scheme ). 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