Klobuchar, Smith to consider TikTok ban as part of massive foreign aid package

WASHINGTON — Jen Shaffer, whose genealogy business took off after she used TikTok to market her services, is among millions of Americans concerned about the future of the popular social media platform as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on legislation that could ban the app. Shaffer, who lives in New Brighton, traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to try to persuade Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith to vote against the bill that would require TikTok, owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance, to change its ownership within a...