Tonight on PBS News Weekend, President-elect Trump makes a plea to the Supreme Court

for the future of the wildly popular social media platform TikTok.

Then looking back on the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed more than 200,000 lives 20 years ago this week.

From the perspective of survivors, when you go minute by minute of their experience,

it's almost like a horror film because you don't really understand what's happening,

and it's all incredibly unpredictable.

And as the year winds down, what music and which artists got our toes tapping

in 2024? Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away. President-elect Donald Trump has urged

the Supreme Court to block a law that would force the popular social media app TikTok to be sold

or shut down. It's set to take effect the day before his inauguration. The app has over a billion

monthly active users. TikTok has said

more than 150 million are in the U.S. But the Biden administration says TikTok poses grave

national security threats because its China-based parent company Bite Dance is subject to the will

of the Chinese Communist Party. In a legal filing last night, Trump told the justices that a delay would allow his administration

to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing national security concerns.

Bobby Allen is a technology correspondent for NPR.

Bobby, thank you so much for being here.

Let's remind folks, this law, this TikTok law just passed earlier this year.

Why did proponents of the law want to see it passed? And how did TikTok respond?

So TikTok's problem has always been China. Since the app surged in popularity in the pandemic,

bombmakers in Washington have been really concerned because

TikTok has ties to Beijing. Its parent company is based in bite dance, and the fear has always been

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