Two Republican members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are deferring to President Trump on what to do about TikTok. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been working for years to get the app banned in the United States because it’s owned by ByteDance,

The human dancing videos and the cat dancing videos on TikTok have nothing on the dancing by politicians who voted for the law forcing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell the popular and

U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.

The United States Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban. However, the future of the platform is still unclear. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the court's decision,

The revised proposal allows for a new structure merging Perplexity AI and TikTok's U.S. business. The U.S. government could acquire up to a 50 percent nonvoting stake after a public offering valued at $300 billion or more. ByteDance would maintain equity in the new entity but cede control to a U.S. board.

TikTok held firm and refused to be sold, Congress blinked, and now everyone is scrambling to avoid a backlash from its younger user base.

The Capitol Hill Republicans who pushed aggressively to ban TikTok have gone almost totally silent on President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision not to enforce the ban. Asked directly by POLITICO about Trump’s executive order to grant TikTok a reprieve in defiance of the law passed by Congress,

The TikTok ban ignites a heated debate over privacy, free speech, and national security. While some view it as a necessary measure, others see it as an infringement on rights. The app is back online temporarily.

But he will face pressure from multiple directions. Some Republican senators, like Josh Hawley of Missouri and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, remain strongly supportive of the ban. “ByteDance and its Chinese Communist masters had nine months to sell TikTok ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company does not sell the platform by Sunday.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) says that’s because lawmakers agreed that it is a national security risk for Chinese company ByteDance to own the popular app. “The best way for TikTok to continue to exist is for it to be sold,” Hawley said. So far ...

On his first day in office, Trump declared that he would effectively ignore the law, and so TikTok lives. He appears to have engineered a short-term bailout for TikTok — whose app should have gone dark in the U.S. by now — after a wealthy donor supported the move and amid some belief that TikTok helped him get reelected.