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* Trump signed a deal today to facilitate the sale of China-based TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. U.S. operations are expected to be run by a new joint-venture company, shrinking the stock of the China-based owner ByteDance to less than 20%. * The White House is raising the stakes of a potential government shutdown by drafting a request for federal agencies to prepare “reduction in force” plans in the event that Congress doesn’t pass a spending bill before Oct. 1. * Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned as many as hundreds of senior military officers to Washington next week for an extremely rare meeting whose purpose has yet to be disclosed.  * Trump met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan this morning. The leaders were expected to discuss lifting the U.

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