Amazon has expressed interest in buying TikTok ahead of deadline for ByteDance to sell the social media app or face a U.S. ban.

U.S. President Donald Trump will consider on Wednesday a final proposal related to TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline for the app to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a U.S. ban, a White House official told Reuters.

President Donald Trump will meet with Vice President JD Vance and other advisers Wednesday to discuss a deal for TikTok as a deadline nears.

News of the offer emerged as Trump prepared to meet with senior officials to review the approaching cutoff for TikTok's sale.

A startup run by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content social media site OnlyFans, has partnered with a cryptocurrency foundation to submit a late-stage plan to acquire TikTok.

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.

Marketing platform AppLovin said on Thursday it has submitted a bid for TikTok assets outside of China, ahead of the April 5 deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to find a non-Chinese buyer for the short video app used by 170 million Americans.

The video app is barreling toward a Saturday deadline to change its ownership under federal law or face a ban in the United States.

Despite the increasing number of potential buyers, neither the app nor its Chinese owner have confirmed they will do a deal.

Congress passed legislation with bipartisan support last April to have TikTok banned stateside if it did not find a new owner for its U.S. assets, as lawmakers said the data it scraped from users made it a national security threat due to its ties to China.

The White House was nearing a TikTok deal, but China hit the brakes after Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs, a source told AP.

On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by White House reporter Cat Zakrzewski to discuss the latest on the massive set of tariffs President Trump is putting into place.

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Trump imposed the steepest US tariffs in more than a century, stepping up his campaign to reshape global trade.

U.S. President Donald Trump smashed a more than 75-year-old global trading system with a new baseline 10% U.S. tariff on goods from all countries and higher reciprocal tariff rates for countries that his administration says have high barriers to U.