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Icons for the smartphone apps Xiaohongshu and TikTok are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

US TikTok users flock to Chinese app Xiaohongshu in protest with TikTok ban looming

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, some U.S. TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. The self-described “TikTok refugees” landed on Xiaohongshu as an alternative to TikTok.

The Supreme Court is seen as the court discusses TikTok, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a federal law that could force TikTok to shut down on Jan. 19

A TikTok sign is displayed on top of their building in Culver City, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

The Supreme Court might let the U.S. ban TikTok unless it’s sold. Here’s what to know.

President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters after a meeting with Republican leadership at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case

A TikTok sign is displayed on top of their building in Culver City, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech and national security

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CORRECTS EMHOFF TO SECOND GENTLEMEN INSTEAD OF FIRST - Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff pay their respects as they walk past a portrait of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as her casket lies in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. O'Connor, an Arizona native and the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court, died Dec. 1 at age 93. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign event, Tuesday, Dec.12, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Appeals court denies Trump’s ‘presidential immunity’ argument in defamation lawsuit

FILE - People stand on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb.11, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States. It’s the court’s first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

The Supreme Court will rule on limits on a commonly used abortion medication

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Coralville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Judge pauses Trump’s 2020 election interference case while he appeals his immunity claim

FILE - The New Mexico Supreme Court Building is seen, Jan. 9, 2023, in Santa Fe, N.M. The New Mexico Supreme Court is weighing whether to strike down local abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general, in a state where abortion laws are among the most liberal in the country. Oral arguments were scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 13, in Santa Fe. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

New Mexico Supreme Court weighs whether to strike down local abortion restrictions

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a meet and greet, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

DeSantis goes after Trump on abortion, COVID-19 and the border wall in an Iowa town hall

FILE - This file photo shows Celina Washburn at a protest on Sept. 23, 2022, outside the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to voice her opposition to an abortion ruling. On Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, the Arizona Supreme Court heard arguments over whether a pre-statehood ban on nearly all abortions has been repealed or limited by other statutes passed over the last 50 years that regulate the procedure. The court is reviewing a lower-court decision that said doctors couldn’t be charged for performing the procedure in the first 15 weeks of pregnancy because other Arizona laws over the years allow them to carry out abortions. (AP Photo/Matt York, file)

An abortion ban enacted in 1864 is under review in the Arizona Supreme Court

FILE - Demonstrators march and gather near the state capitol following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, to let her terminate the pregnancy, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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File - The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company's new building in New York on Sept. 6, 2023. A federal court jury has decided that Google's Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

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FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Nov. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

The Supreme Court rejects an appeal over bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

FILE - President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. President Joe Biden is trying to focus the campaign on former President Donald Trump's comments and policy proposals, sometimes more than his own. It's a time-worn strategy of White House incumbents to try to negatively define their rivals in the public's eyes. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

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The NRA has a surprising defender in its free speech case before the Supreme Court: the ACLU

FILE - Abortion-rights supporters take part in a protest Thursday, May 30, 2019, in St. Louis. Some Republican state lawmakers have proposed a measure that would allow women who have abortions to be charged with homicide. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri lawmakers propose allowing homicide charges for women who have abortions

Ethan Crumbley sits in court listening to victim impact statements, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Pontiac, Mich. Parents of students killed at Michigan's Oxford High School described the anguish of losing their children Friday as a judge considered whether a teenager will serve a life sentence for a mass shooting in 2021. Crumbley, 17, could be locked up with no chance for parole for killing four fellow students and wounding others. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, Pool)

Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack

FILE - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is shown before administering the oath of office to members of the Texas Supreme Court, Jan. 6, 2003, in Austin, Texas. O'Connor, who joined the Supreme Court in 1981 as the nation's first female justice, has died at age 93.(AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Supreme Court is adopting its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The policy was issued by the court Monday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement

Issue 1 supporters cheer as they watch election results come in, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Columbus Ohio. Ohio voters have approved a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. The outcome of Tuesday’s intense, off-year election was the latest blow for abortion opponents. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Democrats see abortion wins as a springboard for 2024 as GOP struggles to find a winning message

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Daniel McCaffery, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge, arrives at his polling place to vote in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democrat Dan McCaffery wins open seat on Pennsylvania Supreme Court

CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO BRITAINY NOT BRITIANY - Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during an election night rally after he was elected to a second term in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. At right is his wife Britainy Beshear. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear reelected to second term in Kentucky, overcoming state’s GOP dominance

Supporters of Issue 1 cheer at a watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Columbus Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights

FILE - Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., addresses the crowd before President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy, June 28, 2023, at the Old Post Office in Chicago. Pritzker on Friday, Nov. 3, cheered the opinion by the 7th District U.S. Court of Appeals upholding the state's ban on semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines which he signed in January in response to a deadly mass shooting at a 2022 July 4th parade in Highland Park. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Federal appeals court upholds Illinois semiautomatic weapons ban

FILE - Signs for and against a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio stand in front of the Greene County Board of Elections in Xenia, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2023. Abortion rights supporters have raised nearly twice as much money as anti-abortion groups in the fall campaign related to a constitutional amendment that would ensure abortion access in Ohio. Much of the money comes from national groups or wealthy donors outside the state. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

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ADDS RESERVE TO BASE NAME - Visitors climb the stairs to board a plane after it was moved across the tarmac at March Air Reserve Base to its new home at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, Calif., on Aug. 15, 2023. Jonathan J. Dunn, the pilot accused of threatening to shoot a commercial airline captain is an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel who served as commander of a reserve squadron at March Air Force Reserve Base in Southern California, according to the Air Force. (Will Lester/The Orange County Register via AP)

A pilot accused of threatening to shoot a commercial airline captain is an Air Force Reserve officer

FILE - Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita speaks, Nov. 8, 2022, in Schererville, Ind. According to a court opinion filed Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, Indiana's attorney general violated professional conduct rules in statements he made about a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio last year. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Indiana attorney general reprimanded for comments on doctor who provided rape victim’s abortion

People gather in the parking lot of the Hamilton County Board of Elections as people arrive for early in-person voting, in Cincinnati, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. They urge people to vote for or against the measure known as Issue 1. Issue 1 is the only abortion question on any state ballot this year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

An Ohio amendment serves as a testing ground for statewide abortion fights expected in 2024