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Why TikTok may be back to square one with Trump

US court decision latest drama surrounding wildly popular Chinese video app

A federal district judge blocked a key part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s TikTok ban from going into effect Sunday night.    © Reuters

A federal district judge blocked a key part of U.S. President Donald Trump's TikTok ban from going into effect Sunday night, even as its Chinese parent ByteDance has yet to form a plan for the popular video app that would satisfy either Washington or Beijing.

Following a 90-minute hearing Sunday morning, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected part of the U.S. Justice Department's argument that barring Trump's order would "infringe on the president's authority to block business-to-business economic transactions with a foreign entity in the midst of a declared national-security emergency."

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