Live coverage: Trump prepares for criminal sentencing while Supreme Court considers TikTok's future

President-elect Trump is slated to be sentenced in his hush money conviction on Friday in New York, the final step in securing his status as the first felon to assume the presidency when he is inaugurated in just over a week.

The Supreme Court late Thursday closed off Trump's last pathway to halt his sentencing, a move the justices attributed to an appeals process that can take place after sentencing and the fact that he can appear in court virtually, determining that would lessen the burden on his transition duties.