FEDERAL JUDGE POSTPONES TRUMP BAN ON POPULAR APP TIKTOK
A federal judge postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned the popular video sharing app TikTok from U.S. smartphone app stores around midnight.
A more comprehensive ban remains scheduled for November, about a week after the presidential election. The judge, Carl Nichols of the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia, did not agree to postpone the later ban.
The ruling followed an emergency hearing in which lawyers for TikTok argued that the administration’s app-store ban would infringe on First Amendment rights and
