Inside TikTok’s frantic scramble to halt U.S. ban When TikTok pleaded with outgoing Biden officials and threatened to go offline, the White House pushed back, declaring it all a “stunt.” The ...

The 90-day extension marks the third time that Trump has delayed a TikTok sell-or-ban law from going into effect after it it was passed by Congress.

The law also prohibited new downloads of the app, starting Sunday. TikTok, less than two hours before the Jan. 19 ban was set to go into effect, shut down for American users on Saturday night.

It’s unclear whether Trump can legally pause the TikTok ban. The law allowed for a 90-day extension if ByteDance announced a sale to a non-“foreign adversary”-based company before the deadline.

Trump signs executive order to halt TikTok ban, risking legal showdown Measure directs Justice Department to not enforce the law for 75 days while administration determines “the appropriate ...

President Trump extends TikTok's deadline by 75 days, avoiding a ban. The app briefly went down over the weekend due to a law requiring divestment.

Ultimately, the law, which passed with bipartisan support and was signed by outgoing President Joe Biden last April, requires TikTok parent company ByteDance to sell the app to a buyer from the ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could ...

The law, which went into force Sunday, allows for fines of up to $5,000 per U.S. TikTok user against major mobile app stores — like the ones operated by Apple and Google — and internet hosting ...

TikTok said the app will have to “go dark” in the United States on Sunday barring a last-minute intervention from the Biden administration to halt enforcement of a federal ban.

TikTok and ByteDance have appealed to the Supreme Court for an injunction to block the law’s enforcement, citing the First Amendment rights of its 170 million American users.

President-elect Donald Trump is considering an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok ban-or-sale law for 60 to 90 days, buying the administration time to ...