U.S. court rejects TikTok request to temporarily halt pending ban

Owner ByteDance faces Jan. 19 deadline to sell the short-video platform

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TikTok is facing a potential ban in the U.S. if owner ByteDance doesn't divest from the video-sharing app. © Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- TikTok must now move quickly with a request to the Supreme Court to block or overturn a law that would require its Chinese parent ByteDance to divest of the short-video app by Jan. 19 after an appeals court on Friday rejected a bid for more time.

TikTok and ByteDance on Monday had filed the emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking for more time to make their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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