TikTok ban deadline looming as Amazon, AppLovin and more TikTok bids announced. Will Bytedance, Trump strike deal to save TikTok in US? What to know

Many questions remain about the state of a potential deal, but loyal TikTok users have reason to be optimistic. Several interested parties have raised their hands to potentially buy the app, and Trump has expressed a desire to help facilitate a deal and preserve access to the platform.

President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that had been upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, which said the ban was necessary for national security.

Saturday is meant to be the deadline for TikTok parent company Bytedance to sell the platform to a non-Chinese buyer or face its possible ban in the United States. According to a source familiar with the White House led discussions about a deal,

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order protecting him from removal want to force the Trump administration to bring him back. Government lawyers have called the man’s deportation an “administrative error” but said there was little that could be done to force his return.

As TikTok faces another potential ban in the U.S. if not sold to an American buyer, Amazon has expressed interest as have several other companies.

This Saturday is the deadline for TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the app’s U-S operations or face a ban in the United States. CBS News has learned that Amazon has now put in a bid to buy TikTok.

E-commerce giant Amazon put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok days before the April 5 deadline for the company to find a non-Chinese buyer or shut down in the United States. President Donald Trump is still weighing his top choice as other suitors line up with offers,

President Donald Trump has floated tariff relief for China in exchange for the country’s approval of a deal to sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer. That proposal has predictably been panned by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Advisers to President Donald Trump are expected Wednesday to present the president with options for a deal to invest in TikTok that involves a number of well-heeled venture capital, private equity funds and tech companies,

President Donald Trump said his administration was “very close” to a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if not sold by its Chinese owner by the weekend. “We’re very close to a deal with a very good group of people,