The Supreme Court declined to stop the U.S. ban from beginning on Sunday, Jan. 19, citing security concerns with TikTok's Chinese ownership

The US Supreme Court has refused to rescue TikTok from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday in the United States on national security grounds – a major blow to a platform used by nearly half of all Americans.

President Donald Trump’s decision on Monday to reprise a ban on transgender Americans serving in the military will reignite a legal fight over the controversial effort that was met with pushback by federal courts – but not definitively settled – during his first term.

That decision shifts the focus to whether President-elect Donald Trump can intervene after he takes office on Monday.

Noel Francisco, who argued on behalf of TikTok and ByteDance, said the potential Supreme Court decision is "enormously consequential" for the platform's 170 million users in the U.S. and their ...

The ban will go into effect on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its U.S. operations to an American entity.

Minutes before the court released its decision, Trump said on social media that he’d just spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping about TikTok and other issues. The U.S. Depart

The high court doesn't announce which opinions it is releasing. But the justices are up against a Sunday deadline for TikTok to cut ties with China.

Looming over the Supreme Court's TikTok decision is what could happen after Donald Trump takes office. Trump promised to "save" the popular platform.

The United States Supreme Court is poised to announce a critical decision on Friday that could determine the future of TikTok in the country. The app, immensely popular among Americans, faces a potential ban due to concerns over national security and data privacy.

The Supreme Court could rule on TikTok’s fate as soon as Wednesday ... we go dark—essentially the platform shuts down,” TikTok’s lawyer Noel Francisco told the court Friday about the impact of the federal law. “It’s essentially gonna stop ...

Supreme Court upholds law to leave TikTok ban in place. Can Donald Trump save the app? Here's what this means for users come this Sunday.