(Bloomberg) -- TikTok content creator Tiffany Cianci is doing all she can to persuade President-elect Donald Trump to save the popular social media app, which the government calls a national security risk. Cianci live-streamed outside the US Supreme Court ...

Donald Trump has claimed he would “save TikTok in America, ” a far cry from the days of 2020 when he sought to ban the social media platform via an executive order.

Most of the justices seemed unpersuaded by TikTok's arguments against the ban on the company—but that doesn’t meant TikTok is gone forever (cue Donald Trump...)

On Friday, the Supreme Court heard last-minute arguments about the ban, with TikTok angling for an intervention or, at least, a temporary ruling to buy it a bit more time. They didn’t go especially well for TikTok — even justices who sounded sympathetic to the company’s arguments about free speech seemed satisfied by the government’s core national security argument.

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the U.S. Supreme Court Friday that President-elect Donald Trump could ignore the ban of TikTok if he chooses.

Donald Trump sentenced in hush money trial, avoiding punishment. Following his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records concerning a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels,

WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT SAY ABOUT HIM, Donald Trump does not lack ambition. For him, making vast, sweeping promises to solve every problem the country has ever faced comes as naturally as, well, lying. Here is a partial list of things he has promised to make happen “on Day One” of his second administration.

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.

Also, Los Angeles firefighters worked to contain the city’s largest fires. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

More than three dozen balls and other similarly glitzy affairs reflect just how broad the MAGA coalition has become.

The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.