President Donald Trump was ready to let TikTok "go dark" — and that hardball stance forced China back to the negotiating table, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. But while Washington ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump was willing to let TikTok "go dark." The White House extended the divestiture deadline for TikTok parent company ByteDance to Dec. 16.

According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Trump’s willingness to let TikTok “go dark” was the key factor in securing a deal for the app’s U.S. operations. This firm stance on national ...

Once again, the Trump administration is hyping a deal that could see TikTok finally sold to US owners to avoid a nationwide ban that Congress successfully argued was otherwise necessary to protect ...

After the Supreme Court upheld a long-awaited TikTok ban, the app went dark. 14 hours later, it was back. Here's how it unfolded.

A proposal to save TikTok from going dark in the United States would involve investments from a number of US-based venture capital firms, private equity funds and tech companies. Together, the ...

U.S. leaders have done a stunning about-face on TikTok, leaving the public to question whether years of dire warnings about a national security threat were overstated from the start. Just four years ...

In a wide-ranging CNBC Squawk Box interview on Tuesday, Bessent pointed to the turning point: "President Trump made it clear that he would have been willing to let TikTok go dark, that we were not ...