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Well, the Supreme Court upheld the TikTok ban.

I'm Imran Shake, and it's time for your Saturday Daily Crunch, starting with three big headlines.

The Supreme Court has upheld the law that will effectively ban TikTok on Sunday, January 19th.

The decision marks the end of TikTok's months-long legal fight against a law that essentially

forces the bite-dance-owned app to shut down unless it divests its U.S. operations on national security grounds.

As of tomorrow, it will be illegal for app stores and internet hosting services to distribute

the social network.

TikTok has warned that the app will simply go dark on Sunday, but it's unclear what exactly

will happen once the ban takes effect.

In an opinion published early on Friday,

the Supreme Court said it was writing in response to an appeal

from three groups of petitioners,

two TikTok operating entities,

and a group of U.S. TikTok users

who requested that the ban,

a result of the new protecting Americans

from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act be dismissed

on First Amendment free speech grounds. Now, upholding the ban kicks TikTok's fate to the next stage.

Whether President-elect Trump, after he takes office, chooses to make an extraordinary intervention

or whether some form of a sale goes forward.

On the first point, Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier today that he had a conversation with China's leader,

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