The aim is to place oversight control in the hands of American software company Oracle and other investors. Under federal law, TikTok must split apart from China, or face a nationwide ban.

The White House is negotiating with Oracle and other investors to acquire TikTok, allowing ByteDance to retain a minority stake while Oracle oversees the app's data and algorithms. Key concerns include eliminating potential Chinese access to data,

Vice President-elect JD Vance of Cincinnati, a former Marine, will live on the grounds of a Naval observatory in Washington, D.C. See it on the map.

A lawyer for TikTok content creators on Friday urged the White House and the Justice Department to clarify to Apple and Google that they can continue to offer the TikTok short-video app in app stores on Sunday when a legal ban is set to take effect.

A TikTok ban Sunday would implicate tech giants like Google, Apple and Oracle, who risk enormous fines if they keep the app operational.

A White House spokesman said the Spanish-language pages would soon be reinstated, though officials in Trump’s first administration reneged on a similar promise.

"We see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office on Monday," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Saturday.

The issue with the search engine results was noticed by users on social media sites X and Bluesky early on Thursday morning.

On Monday, the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, joined “First Buddy” Elon Musk to watch Trump be inaugurated as the 47th president. Musk later stole the headlines following an appearance at a rally in which he made an “odd salute”.

The details of Stargate Project involve a collision of money, politics, and egos—with many potential conflicts down the road.

Washington’s landscape is being shaped by executive order and the president’s love of faceless, monolithic buildings.