WASHINGTON—Federal officials granted TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. a 15-day extension of a deadline for completing a divestiture deal, in another delay of the Trump administration’s efforts to turn the social-media app into an American company, according to a court filing.

The deadline extension to Nov. 27 was granted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., a U.S. panel that oversees cross-border mergers and acquisitions, according to the filing by TikTok Friday in the U.S. District Court in Washington,…

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