Trump extends deadline for US TikTok sale to September

Move gives more time for China-based ByteDance to divest app's American assets

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U.S. President Donald Trump had already twice granted a reprieve from federal enforcement of a law that mandated the sale or shutdown of TikTok that was supposed to take effect in January. © Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short-video app TikTok despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown without significant progress.

Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday's deadline for 90 more days, a step that he had previously signaled.

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