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Here's your midday brief for Friday, September 19th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump said today that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping approved an agreement for a group of investors to take control of TikTok's U.S. operations.

This caps off months of tense negotiations that put the video sharing app at the center of trade talks between the two sides.

A spokeswoman for TikTok didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump said he and she agreed to meet at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea this fall

and that he would travel to China early next year and that she would

reciprocate. The GOP-controlled House has passed a stopgap spending bill with a vote of 217 to

212, keeping the government funded until late November. The vote was largely along party lines,

with nearly all Democrats voting against the measure.

The bill would fund the government through November 21st and provide $88 million in additional security funds for lawmakers, the executive branch, and the judiciary, reflecting heightened anxiety about political violence.

While Democrats can't block the House vote, they can stop the measure in the Senate.

If no deal is reached, funding would lapse after September 30th, prompting a partial government shutdown.

And we are exclusively reporting Blackstone named Katie Keenan as the new CEO of its real estate

mega fund after the fatal shooting of former CEO, Wesley LaPatner. Keenan as the new CEO of its real estate mega fund after the fatal shooting of former CEO,

Wesley LaPatner. Keenan will become chief executive of BRE, one of the firm's biggest funds aimed

at individual investors, as well as global head of Core Plus real estate.

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