From CNN, I'm a FOMI DK, for the five things you need to know for Friday, January 17. The families of hostages held in Gaza are anxiously waiting for a vote on a ceasefire deal reached between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday. This was a security cabinet approved the deal earlier today, and the country's wider cabinet is expected to meet for a vote. Phase one of the deal is expected to start at some point on Sunday and last for six weeks.
It includes a pause in the war and an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli custody. Moshe Levi, whose brother-in-law was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th, 2023, is pushing for the latter negotiations to happen sooner. The hostages is the humanitarian case at this point, and so we can't expect them to keep waiting for decision-makers to decide whether XYZ is appropriate for a deal. I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States.
That's TikTok's CEO, Shou Chu, responding to the Supreme Court's decision that allows a ban against the app to take effect this weekend. The ruling rejects an appeal from the app's owners, claiming the ban violated the First Amendment. The courts said Congress' national security concerns were a deciding factor in how it weighed the case, and that President-elect Donald Trump once wanted to ban TikTok. Today, Trump said he'd be, quote, making the decision when asked if he would take measures to try and reverse the ban.
Still, TikTok's Chinese parent company, Bike Dans, has maintained it has no intention to sell the app. So will 170 million Americans see the app go away? Here's CNN's adas gold. A phone where there's a few possibilities of what the app will look like on Sunday.
One is that it will still live on users' phones, but it could get glitchy and buggy because the cloud services behind it have to find different methods outside of the United States to process the data, and over time, it will stop being updated by app stores. It's also possible that TikTok will just take the step itself to shut itself down and post a pop-up as has been reported explaining the ban to users. We just don't know exactly what President-elect Trump plans to do. He doesn't take office until Monday, although he has said he wants to work on some sort of solution to keep the app on people's phones.
Some federal workers are quietly changing job descriptions to protect their roles from the scrutiny of Department of Government Efficiency or Doge. Five sources familiar with the effort told CNN, they are removing mentions of policy decision-making and terms related to diversity programs from Britain's job descriptions, duties, and performance reviews. Some said they are concerned that Doge will use AI to target buzzwords and job descriptions without carefully studying the roles despite their efforts. Elon Musk and Vivek from Swami, the representatives of Doge, have said they plan to recommend slashing the federal workforce and cutting the government's annual budget by at least $1 trillion.
They didn't respond to CNN requests for comment. On Sunday's episode of One Thing, two government workers share their mixed feelings about the incoming Trump administration. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine named State and Senate Governor John Houston to fill the U.S.
Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Houston emerged as the favorite over the last few weeks after visiting President-elect Donald Trump alongside DeWine at Mar-Lago Resort in December. And the governor referenced his close relationship with Houston as a factor in his decision.
Houston is a fiscal hawk who often claims passing quote, the most conservative state budget in four years during his time as State House Speaker. Coming up, a new bug has entered the chat. Hey, welcome back. Scientists have newly identified as super-giant sea-buds species that's named after an iconic Star Wars villain.
But then, his battery are members of the Isopod family, characterized by their hard, protective exoskeleton and seven pairs of legs. The giant deep-seak critter got its name after researchers noticed its head and that of Darth Vader's lips similar. The scientists officially described the newfound species this week in the journal Zukis, writing that B-battery is much larger than the typical Isopod, with one specimen in the study weighing 2.2 pounds. That is it for us, tune in tomorrow for a new episode of 5 Good Things.