By Andrew Chung, John Kruzel and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Supreme Court upheld on Friday a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it,

With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.

The U.S. Supreme Court has narrowly denied Donald Trump’s request to delay his criminal hush money sentencing, Friday in New York.

After hearing arguments on Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to uphold the law, meaning that TikTok will be banned effective if the parent company ByteDance does not sell the company by Sunday.

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

"We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation," the President-elect tells Kristen Welker in a phone interview

Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power",

The President-elect will decide the ultimate fate of the social media app set to be banned in the U.S. the day before his inauguration.

WASHINGTON: Thousands of people gathered in Washington on Saturday (Jan 18) to protest President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, as activists for women's rights, racial justice and other causes ral

In response to TikTok’s retaliation to the ban by going dark on Sunday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shared a statement attempting to call their bluff: “It is a stunt, and we see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office on Monday.

Shou Zi Chew thanked the incoming president for efforts to "find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States."