STORY: The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Friday over a federal law that would force a sale of the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok by January 19th or face a ban on national security grounds.TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance have sued to block the law from taking effect,

The president-elect has filed a request with the Supreme Court to pause the enforcement of a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S.

The Supreme Court will consider the landmark TikTok ban, balancing free speech and national security over ByteDance’s Chinese ownership risks.

TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the US by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court strikes down.

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.

President-elect Donald Trump requested that the Supreme Court suspend the TikTok ban until after he takes office while he works on a political resolution. University of Minnesota Law School associate professor Alan Rozenshtein breaks down the legal basis for the request.

While President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block a looming U.S. ban on TikTok in a major case being argued on Friday that pits free speech rights against national security concerns over the Chinese-owned short-video app,

TikTok had an estimated $10.1 billion in U.S. advertising revenue last year and could score $12.8 billion this year, according to analysts at Benchmark. They reckon that revenue p

President-elect Trump's highly unusual intervention in the Supreme Court's TikTok case reads almost like a guy asking for a favor from an institution that still runs on formality. The big picture: Trump's last-minute effort to give TikTok a stay of execution is one more twist in a case that already scrambles every ideological dividing line.

The video platform app's fate is bound up in collision of free speech and national security, which will be debated in a hearing that starts Friday.