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TIKTOK SUES TRUMP OVER HIS PENDING ORDER TO BAN ITS APP

Video app TikTok is suing the Trump Administration over its efforts to ban the popular Chinese-owned service over national-security concerns.

TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, insisted that it is not a national-security threat and that the government is acting to “further the president’s anti-China political campaign.”The company said the government is acting without evidence for its allegations or due process. It filed suit this week in federal court in California against

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