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TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are suing the U.S. government over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to an approved buyer. The lawsuit filed Tuesday might set up what could be a protracted legal fight over its future in the United States. The companies argue that the new law vaguely paints ByteDance's ownership of TikTok as a national security threat in order to circumvent the First Amendment, despite no evidence that the company poses a threat. It also says the law is so “obviously unconstitutional” that its sponsors are instead portraying it as a way to regulate TikTok’s ownership.

    North Carolina's intermediate appeals court says a man convicted of killing someone with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because the judge failed to instruct jurors about a possible self-defense argument. A three-judge panel on Tuesday vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Ronald Wayne Vaughn Jr. in the 2017 shooting death of Gary Somerset. It happened during a dispute with Vaughn's landlord over a trailer he was renting in Lincoln County. Somerset was the landlord's son. He yelled ‘let’s end this' and rushed at Vaughn before he was killed. The panel said jurors should have been told about a possible stand-your-ground defense.

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