US President Trump says US has a buyer for TikTok

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the US and China have a deal that will keep the short-video app TikTok operating in the United States, transferring its US assets to US owners from China’s ByteDance, potentially resolving a saga that has lingered for nearly a year.

A deal on the popular social media app, which counts 170 million US users, stands as a breakthrough in months-long talks between the world’s No. 1 and No. 2 economies that have sought to defuse a wide-ranging trade war that has unnerved global markets. Trump did not announce…