TikTok users in the U.S. may get a reprieve from the threat of a shutdown after the Trump administration announced it has reached a framework deal with China for the ownership of the popular social video platform.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a press conference after the latest round of trade talks between the world’s top two economies concluded in Madrid that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping would speak Friday to possibly finalize the deal. He said the objective of the deal would be to switch to American ownership.

He did not disclose the terms of the deal, saying that it is between two private parties, but added that “the commercial terms have been agreed upon.”

What is the deal?

Little is known about the actual deal in the works, including what companies are involved and whether the United States would have a stake in TikTok. Li Chenggang, China’s international trade representative, said the two sides have reached “basic framework consensus” to properly solve TikTok-related issues in a cooperative way, reduce investment barriers and promote related economic and trade cooperation, according to China’s official news agency Xinhua.

Oracle Corp. has been floated as a likely buyer for the platform. Representatives for the company did not immediately respond to a message for comment on Monday.

In Madrid, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the team was “very focused on TikTok and making sure that it was a deal that is fair for the Chinese,” but also “completely respects U.S. national security concerns.”

Wang Jingtao, deputy director of China’s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, told reporters in Madrid there was consensus on authorization of “the use of intellectual property rights such as (TikTok’s) algorithm” — a main sticking point in the deal.

The sides also agreed on entrusting a partner with handling U.S. user data and content security, he said.

Extensions continue

Though he has no clear legal basis to do so, Trump has continued to extend the deadline for TikTok to avoid a ban in the U.S. This gives his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. The next deadline is on Sept. 17, and Trump has already signaled he would extend it if needed.

It is not clear how many times Trump can keep extending the ban as the government continues to try to negotiate a deal for TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance. While there is no clear legal basis for the extensions, so far, there have been no legal challenges against the administration. Trump has amassed more than 15 million followers on TikTok since he joined last year, and he has credited the trendsetting platform with helping him gain traction among young voters. He said in January that he has a “warm spot for TikTok.”

How do Americans view TikTok?

For now, TikTok continues to function for its 170 million users in the U.S. Tech giants Apple, Google and Oracle were persuaded to continue to offer and support the app, on the promise that Trump’s Justice Department would not use the law to seek potentially steep fines against them.

Americans are even more closely divided on what to do about TikTok than they were two years ago.

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that about one-third of Americans said they supported a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023. Roughly one-third said they would oppose a ban, and a similar percentage said they weren’t sure.

Among those who said they supported banning the social media platform, about 8 in 10 cited concerns over users’ data security being at risk as a major factor in their decision, according to the report.

Why does the U.S. want China to divest?

During his first term as president, Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, saying it posed a threat to U.S. national security. But his tune changed when he returned to the White House a second time, signing an executive order on his first day in office to keep the app running.

During Joe Biden’s Democratic presidency, Congress and the White House used national security grounds to approve a U.S. ban on TikTok unless its Chinese parent company sold its controlling stake.

U.S. officials were concerned about ByteDance’s roots and ownership, pointing to laws in China that require Chinese companies to hand over data requested by the government. Another concern became the proprietary algorithm that populates what users see on the app.

A suspected drunken driver pleaded guilty Monday to causing a crash on Interstate 694 in Arden Hills last year that killed a New Brighton couple.

Charges say Luis Eduardo Tipantuna Quinchiguano’s blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit to drive in the crash that killed Curtis John O’Connor, 76, and Karin Leigh O’Connor, 74, on westbound I-694 near Snelling Avenue about 8:45 a.m. Feb. 16, 2024.

Luis Eduardo Tipantuna Quinchiguano (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Tipantuna Quinchiguano, 32, of Minneapolis, reached an agreement with Ramsey County prosecutors, admitting to two counts of criminal vehicular homicide for driving in a grossly negligent manner.

Two counts of criminal vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol will be dismissed at his sentencing, which is scheduled for Dec. 8, according to court records. Tipantuna Quinchiguano remains jailed.

According to the criminal complaint, witnesses said that Tipantuna Quinchiguano crashed his 2008 Chevrolet Equinox into the couple’s 2018 Chevrolet Malibu and pushed the sedan into the left lane in front of a semitrailer. The semi collided with the driver’s side of the Malibu, and the couple died at the scene.

Troopers saw open bottles of alcohol in the Equinox and Tipantuna Quinchiguano, who would regain consciousness and quickly fall back to sleep, had bloodshot and glassy eyes and smelled of alcohol.

A preliminary breath test showed a 0.218 BAC on a “very weak puff of breath captured manually,” the complaint says.  The legal limit to drive in Minnesota is 0.08.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, constituting his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

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Trump made the announcement with Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee visiting the Oval Office, calling what’s coming a “replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts” in Washington.

That was a reference to last month, when the president deployed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital and federalized the city’s police force in a crackdown he has since argued reduced crime.

Trump said that, in addition to troops, the push in Memphis would involve officials from various federal agencies, including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Marshall’s service: “We’re sending in the big force now.”

Shortly before Trump’s announcement, the White House said on social media that the Memphis total crime rate was higher than the national average and suggested that the rate had increased since last year, bucking national trends.

That’s despite Memphis police recently reporting decreases across every major crime category in the first eight months of 2025 compared to the same period in previous years. Overall crime hit a 25-year low, while murder hit a six-year low, police said.

Despite the overall decrease, Memphis has dealt with stubborn gun violence problems for years. In 2023, the city set a record with more than 390 homicides.

Tennessee’s governor embraced the troop deployment as part of a broader law enforcement surge in Memphis. “Lee said Monday that he was “tired of crime holding the great city of Memphis back.”

Trump first suggested he’d be deploying the National Guard to Memphis on Friday, draying pushback from the Democratic leader of Memphis, which is majority Black.

“I did not ask for the National Guard, and I don’t think it’s the way to drive down crime,” Mayor Paul Young told a news conference Friday while acknowledging the city remained high on too many “bad lists.”

Speculation had centered on Chicago as Trump’s next city to send in the National Guard and other federal authorities. But the administration has faced fierce resistance from Democratic Illinois J.B. Pritzker and other local authorities.

Trump said Monday, “We’re going to be doing Chicago probably next” but also suggested that authorities would wait and not act immediately there.

“We want to save these places,” Trump said. He singled out St. Louis and Baltimore, but didn’t say either place would be getting federal forces or the National Guard.

Saber cuántas personas han sido expulsadas del país bajo esta práctica de deportaciones médicas es difícil, ya que no es una deportación formal o por medio de una organización gubernamental, y los hospitales no tienen que registrar o notificar al gobierno.

(Adi Talwar/City Limits)

Cuando se habla de deportaciones, se suele pensar en las deportaciones que hace el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos, o ICE como comúnmente se le conoce. 

Pero hay otras formas, menos conocidas y mucho menos reguladas. Se trata de las llamadas “deportaciones médicas” que realizan hospitales estadounidenses a inmigrantes que estuvieron en condiciones críticas. Estas se realizan aún cuando la persona hospitalizada está inconsciente.

Esto le ocurre a personas indocumentadas, que no tienen un seguro médico y sufren un accidente y quedan internadas, y luego, el hospital trata de deportarlas para frenar los costos.

Si bien las leyes federales del país exigen que los hospitales atiendan a cualquier persona que acuda a urgencias, independientemente de su situación migratoria o si tiene seguro médico. Una vez los hospitales dicen que la persona está estable, pueden darla de alta. 

Sin embargo, saber cuántas personas han sido expulsadas del país bajo esta práctica de deportaciones médicas es difícil, ya que no es una deportación formal o por medio de una organización gubernamental, y los hospitales no tienen que registrar o notificar al gobierno.

Uno de los pocos referentes está en una investigación de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Seton Hall y de New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, que en 2012 documentaban más de 800 casos de deportación médica realizadas o intentadas en el país entre 2006 y 2012.

Una investigación de tres años publicada el mes pasado en la revista The Nation y Type Investigations, reveló que MedEscort ha dicho haber repatriado a más de 6.000 pacientes a más de 100 países, con México, Haití y la República Dominicana entre los principales destinos.

En el único lugar donde se ha regulado parte de esta práctica es en la ciudad de Filadelfia. A finales de 2023, el Free Migration Project, otros defensores de los derechos de los inmigrantes y concejales se unieron para aprobar una ley para impedir que los hospitales deporten a los pacientes sin su consentimiento.

Así que para hablar sobre cómo funcionan las deportaciones médicas en el país, invitamos a Liset Cruz, editora auxiliar para POLITICO, quien investigó el tema para la revista The Nation y Type Investigations.

Más detalles en nuestra conversación a continuación.

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