The Chinese-owned app is battling for survival as a deadline looms over its fate.

Welcome to TOPLive. The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on the future of the popular video app TikTok, which is set to be banned in the US if China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t give up control. Join us starting at 9:50 a.m., 10 minutes before the hearing starts, as we bring you the latest news and analysis.

The justices also have before them a plea from President-elect Donald Trump to give him time to reach a “political resolution” and avoid deciding the case.

The fate of a law that would likely ban social media platform TikTok in the United States goes before the Supreme Court as the justices consider whether to block it.

The attorney general argues that the social media company violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by listing itself as appropriate for children.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the TikTok divest-or-ban law as it considers whether to give the company more time.

The social media app is likely to disappear from the app stores of Google and Apple right away. But it’s unclear if users will completely lose access.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over a law that could lead to TikTok shutting down in the U.S. in less than two weeks.

The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court. The justices largely hold the app’s fate in their hands as they hear the case Friday.

With over 170 million American users, the US Justice Department has said the app poses "a national security threat of immense depth and scale" because of its Chinese parent company and access to US users' data. The BBC asked young people if they could live without the app.

If the ban is upheld, TikTok will be banned later this month due to a law put in place by the Biden administration. The government says China can gather data on Americans or manipulate the content on TikTok to shape U.S. users' opinions, the government claims.