A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled against outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden's effort to protect immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children, siding with Texas just days before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

The Supreme Court will review a lower-court decision that blocked a rule from the Biden administration that helps students defrauded by their colleges to have their loans forgiven. President Joe Biden’s administration has forgiven billions of dollars of student loans under the borrower defense rule.

The Biden administration rule made it easier for students claiming their colleges defrauded them to apply for loan forgiveness.

TikTok is widely expected to go dark on Sunday – leaving more than 170 million American users unable to access the China-owned app.

Online users discussing this rumor pointed to an NBC News article published in the final days of Joe Biden's U.S. presidency.

U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle hailed a ruling by the Supreme Court on Friday that upheld a law that gives popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok until Sunday to be bought by an American company or be banned.

Biden's pronouncement adding the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, is considered a symbolic statement unlikely to alter a decades-long push for gender equality.

As President Biden's term ends, his administration's focus on diversity is highlighted by historic appointments, including the first Native American Cabinet official and the first female Treasury Secretary.