Trump may have exceeded his presidential authority in banning TikTok. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning.A federal judge said the Trump administration's actions against TikTok "likely exceed" the president's authority. A federal judge granted TikTok an injunction Sunday, temporarily blocking the US government's attempt to block new downloads and software updates of the app in the US.A hacker published thousands of students' grades and private information after a Nevada school district refused to pay ransom. The leaked...

Robert Mueller Leah Millis/Reuters Former special counsel Robert Mueller's team was acutely aware that the "third act in this play would be an inevitable investigation of us, by the Trump administration, when our investigation was complete," Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor who worked on Mueller's team, wrote in his new book. The jokes "took on a darker hue" ahead of the November 2018 midterms, when another prosecutor in Mueller's office, Jeannie Rhee, said that if Republicans "retain the House, we all need to retain criminal lawyers. That's how bats--- crazy they are. I am not joking." "And I knew she wasn't," Weissmann wrote. "Jeannie...

Trevor Milton resigned from Nikola amid fraud allegations. REUTERS/Massimo Pinca A second woman has accused Nikola Motors founder and ex-chairman Trevor Milton of sexual assault, CNBC reported Monday. The woman accused Milton, in a formal complaint to police in Utah on Friday, of digitally penetrating her when she was 15 and he was 22, according to CNBC. Another woman, Milton's cousin, accused him of groping her breasts when she was 15 and he was 18, in a social media post last week, and explained the incident to The Wall Street Journal. Milton stepped down from Nikola earlier this month following the...

An absentee ballot election worker consolidates a large stack of absentee ballot applications at the Mecklenburg Board of Elections office in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 4, 2020. LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images Brooklyn residents reported receiving absentee ballots with envelopes with the wrong name and address, Gothamist reported. The New York City Board of Elections told THE CITY that a private vendor hired to print and distribute absentee ballots in Brooklyn and Queen is responsible for the error.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Voters across Brooklyn reported getting a mislabeled "official absentee ballot envelope," that could potentially...

Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Saturday, April 4, 2020, in Washington. Associated Press/Patrick Semansky Documents obtained by The New York Times show officials in President Donald Trump's administration pressured the Centers for Disease Control to relax guidelines for school reopenings earlier this summer.  Dr. Deborah Birx, a physician on the White House Coronavirus Task Force directly took a role in asking the CDC to include documents that undermined the threat of coronavirus to school-aged children in mid-July.  In early July, Trump criticized the CDC for advising schools to not...

A patient receives an influenza vaccine in Mesquite, Texas, in this January 23, 2020 file photo. LM Otero/AP A third of American parents don't plan to vaccinate their kids against the flu, according to a new poll from the National Poll on Children's Health.  Experts have warned that this year's flu season and the coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm healthcare systems and spark a further public health crisis in the US.  Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Robert Redfield previously encouraged people to get their flu shots, warning in an interview with WebMD that this "could be the worst fall from a...