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Washington mdash; The Justice Department is investigating TikTok s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, for possible spying on U.S. citizens, including journalists, CBS News has confirmed.News of the probe comes as U.S. lawmakers have ramped up calls for action against the widely popular social media app over ByteDance s ties to China and national security concerns about the collection of user data. The Biden administration is mulling a possible nationwide TikTok ban if ByteDance does not divest itself from the app, TikTok confirmed to CBS News on Wed stanley cup nesday.Emily Baker-White, a journalist forForbeswho says she was one of reporters who had their TikTok data improperly accessed by ByteDance, was the first to report the federal investigation. The Justice Department declined to comment Friday. ByteDance admitted in December that its employees had inappropriately obtained data from American TikTok users, including two journalists and a number of people connected to them,according to the New York Times. We have strongly condemned the actions of the stanley mug individuals found to have been involved, and they are no longer employed at ByteDanc stanley becher e, ByteDance told CBS News in a statement on Friday. Our internal investigation is still ongoing, and we will cooperate with any official investigations when brought to us. The federal government has already banned the app from government-issued devices and a number of lawmakers have introduced legislation t Ogme Obama and Christie: How long can the love last
AP Michael A. Newdow, who led the failed charge to get the words under God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, is now heading an effort to keep religion out of President-elect Barack O stanley cup bama s swearing in. Newdow s group, consisting of 18 individuals and 10 smaller groups, has sued Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., several officials in charge of inaugural festivities, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery and megachurch pastor Rick Warren in U.S. District Court, the Washington Post reports. Lowery has been asked to deliver the benediction at the ceremony, while Warren is the transition team s controversial choice to deliver the invocation; Roberts is set to administer the oath of office. The oath traditionally includes the phrase so help me God, which the athiest group wants stricken.Click Here For All Of CBSNews s Special Inauguration CoverageNewdow brought similar suits four and eight years ago to kee stanley termosy p references to God and prayer out of President Bush s inaugurals. They were unsuccessful.The lawsuit argues that the prayers and religious references are completely exclusionary, showing absolute disrespect to Plaintiffs and others of similar religious views, who explicitly reject the purely religious claims that will be endorsed, i.e., a there exists a God, and b the United States government should pay homage to that God. stanley cup Scott Walter, executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, dismissed the suit as a publ