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Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it

Only America’s courts can save the video app now

Demonstration against crackdown legislation on TikTok on Capitol Hill.
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Editor’s note (April 24th): This story was updated after Joe Biden signed the bill into law.

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