TikTok's fate up for U.S. House vote as Trump defends app he tried to ban

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill Wednesday that would ban TikTok in the country unless its ties with Chinese parent company ByteDance are cut within six months. The legislation faces an unlikely but powerful opponent: former President Donald Trump, who once tried to ban the video app himself.

The bill passed its first test in a House committee vote last week with unanimous support from both Republican and Democrat lawmakers. But the fate of TikTok, which 170 million Americans use to share and flip through short clips, is far from certain after Trump's about-face.