Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has been talking about buying TikTok since earlier this year. The long shot is getting shorter.

TikTok’s future in the U.S. is in serious jeopardy after a federal appeals court rejected its push to overturn a law that could ban the app next month. The popular social media app’s fate now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court and the incoming Trump administration,

The owners of TikTok have appealed to halt the decision to ban the app in the United States. When might the app stop functioning in this country? As early as 19 January, TikTok may be completely banned in the United States.

The Department of Justice has asked a U.S. appeals court to reject ByteDance and TikTok’s emergency motion that aims to temporarily block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19.

China-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok on Monday asked an appeals court to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance divest TikTok by Jan. 19 or face a ban,

The Department of Justice asked an appeals court late Wednesday night to reject a temporary block to a law that could result in banning the popular TikTok app in America.