Start-ups with Chinese ties have found it increasingly difficult to do business and list shares in the United States.

The video app that once styled itself a joyful politics-free zone is now bracing for a nationwide ban and pinning its hopes on President-elect Donald Trump.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a new law that would lead to a ban of the social media platform TikTok, clearing the way for the widely popular app to shutter in the U.S. as soon as Sunday.

Justices reject the Chinese app’s First Amendment challenge to a federal law against “foreign adversary” control.

The possibility of the U.S. outlawing TikTok kept influencers and users in anxious limbo during the four-plus years that lawmakers and judges debated the fate of the video-sharing app. Now, the moment its fans dreaded is here,

TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.

President Biden will not enforce a ban on TikTok that is set to take effect Sunday, a U.S. official said, leaving its fate to Donald Trump.

The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation’s highest court upholding a law that’s set to officially cut the cord and halt new downloads off the app starting Sunday.

Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.

In May 2024, President Joe Biden signed a law that would ban TikTok from U.S. app stores on Sunday, Jan. 19, if TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, did not sell the app. ByteDance executives have repeatedly said they are not willing to sell the app.