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The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to sell the popular video app or have it banned in the US. The legislation escalated a showdown between Beijing and Washington over control of a wide range of technologies that could impact national security, freedom of expression and the social media industry.

The measure came despite TikTok’s efforts to mobilize its 170 million US users against the bill.

Republican leaders quickly pushed the bill through the House of Representatives and it passed on a lopsided 352-65 vote, reflecting broad support for legislation that would directly target China in an election year. The bill received broad bipartisan support, despite Donald Trump’s recent criticism of the ban.

The bill faces a difficult path to passage in the Senate, although President Biden has said he would sign it. But it will likely face legal challenges, and finding a buyer for just the U.S. portion of TikTok, which could cost more than $50 billion, would be difficult without breaking antitrust laws. It would also require Chinese approval.

Analysis: In the four years since President Trump tried to ban TikTok, it has become clear that the security threat posed by the app has much less to do with who owns it than with who writes TikTok’s code and algorithms.

Israel allowed a small convoy carrying food into northern Gaza through an Israeli border crossing for the first time since the war began last October.

The six trucks came as global pressure mounts on Israel to allow more aid into the enclave, where hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of starvation.

Little aid has reached northern Gaza following large aid groups suspended operations there, citing lawlessness, poor road conditions and Israeli restrictions on convoys.

The food was only a fraction of what would be needed to feed Gaza’s hungry residents. The US and other countries are also sending aid by ship to the Gaza coast and dropping it from the air.

Elsewhere in Gaza: The Israeli military confirmed it had bombed an aid warehouse in Rafah and said it had killed a Hamas commander in an attack that the UN said killed at least one aid worker.

A roughly $1 billion bid for The Telegraph from former CNN CEO Jeff Zucker appeared to be on life support after the British government proposed legislation that would ban foreign states from owning newspapers and news magazines.

Mr. Zucker’s bid is heavily dependent on financing from investment partners in the United Arab Emirates. The use of Emirati funds sparked an uproar at Westminster over foreign influence in the British media, with critics citing the UAE’s autocratic government and poor human rights record.

The Telegraph is particularly important to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, which is so influential in Conservative politics that it is often referred to as ‘The Torygraph’.

The idea of ​​”color blindness,” the idea that the Constitution prohibits the use of race to distinguish citizens, was originally championed by civil rights activists as a path to a more just society in the US.

Now, colorblindness has been co-opted by conservative groups who use it to undermine programs designed to explicitly address racial inequality, argues Nikole Hannah-Jones in an essay in The New York Times Magazine. (Here are five lessons from the play and a video explaining them.)

Lives lived: Malachy McCourt was a stage actor, bartender and best-selling memoirist who became something of a professional Irishman in America. He died at the age of 92.

Arsenal makes progress against Porto: Analysis of a hotly contested Champions League series.

Tennis’ Comeback Moms: Then return to the sport birth.

Repair golf: Can Jay Monahan the PGA Tour together again?

“Unloading the Hay Wagon,” a 17th-century painting by Dutch old master Isaac van Ostade (pictured above), is put into storage in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Once owned by a British-Jewish couple living in France, it was seized by Nazi collaborators during World War II before ending up in a Dutch museum.

The collectors’ heirs demanded the painting’s return in 2006, and the Netherlands investigated the matter and recommended restitution the following year. But the family still doesn’t have the painting, thanks to a diligent Dutch notary who will only release it when he receives missing documents.

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