Trump orders Justice Department to not enforce TikTok ban

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the Justice Department to not enforce a law that effectively bans TikTok for 75 days. 

It directs the Justice Department not to take action or impose penalties against "any entity for any noncompliance" with the law. 

The widely popular short-form video app briefly shuttered in the U.S. this weekend hours before a bipartisan law that gave TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance until Jan. 19 to divest or be cut off from U.S. app stores and web-hosting services went into effect.