President Donald Trump ordered the federal government on Monday not to enforce the law banning TikTok nationwide for 75 days, giving China-based owner ByteDance more time to sell a stake in the ...

"For all those that want to save Tik Tok in America, vote for Trump!" he said in a Sept. 4 video on Truth Social. "The other side is closing it up. But I’m now a big star on TikTok." He has 14.8 ...

Shou Chew will join tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the fate of the app hangs in the balance. By Maggie Haberman and Sapna ...

The move is under discussion as the Chinese-owned app faces a Sunday deadline to find a new buyer or shut down in the United States. By Maggie Haberman David McCabe and Sapna Maheshwari President ...

TikTok is preparing to shut down its popular short-video app to hundreds of millions of users in the U.S. if a federal ban goes into effect Sunday, reports say. Sunday is the deadline for TikTok's ...

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Scottish tennis star Jacob Fearnley has defeated Arthur Cazaux to reach the third round of the Australian Open. The 23-year-old, from Dalkeith, came back from a set down to win the second-round clash ...

That said, even if SCOTUS were to block the ban, it had better act fast - lawyer Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, told The Register that there's no stay in effect that will ...

The future of TikTok's operations in US hangs in the balance, but a new proposal has emerged in a deal put together by Chinese officials thrusting Elon Musk into the spotlight once again. The ...

Jacob Fearnley has emerged as Scotland’s brightest tennis prospects after a breakthrough year in 2024. The 23-year-old comes into the sport at the same time that Scotland - and Britain’s ...

A looming U.S. TikTok ban is starting to sink in for content creators whose livelihoods rely on the popular video app. The ban is expected to take effect on Jan. 19, after the Supreme Court heard ...

Picture a drugs dealer and you might imagine a Mexican tattoo artist with a machete in his closet and a rucksack full of crystal meth. That’s not a cheap racist stereotype: during a real-life ...