The U.S. government and TikTok will go head-to-head in federal court on Monday as oral arguments begin in a consequential legal case that will determine the future of TikTok in the country.

TikTok faced pushback in a federal court on Monday in its efforts to stop a law that requires the app to divest from its Chinese ownership or face a ban in the United States.TikTok has until January to find a buyer or face the ban,

Tik Tok, the short video app that nearly half of Americans use is fighting *** law forcing the company to change ownership or be outlawed in the US. President Biden signed into law *** bill Congress passed this year requiring Tik Tok's Chinese owners to sell the US arm of the company to an American buyer.

President Biden signed legislation that could ban TikTok into law in April, teeing up a countdown for the video-sharing app's sale.

In a historically unusual targeting of a single company for its Chinese ties, the TikTok law passed in April with a wave of support from both Democrats and Republicans before bein