US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday which will ban all US citizens from carrying out transactions with ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok. It isn’t effective immediately, but has a 45-day deadline.

Facebook Inc on Wednesday took down a post by US President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus, news wires reported. The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are "almost immune" to COVID-19.

The US President Donald Trump is for the first time floating a “delay” to the presidential election, scheduled for 3 November, as he makes unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud, news wires reported.

Despite the record daily number of Covid-19 cases, the Brazil’s government issued a decree reopening the country to foreign visitors arriving by plane, ending a four-month travel ban in hopes to revive tourism, news wires reported.

The US will announce later on Wednesday plans to withdraw about 12,000 troops from Germany, but will keep nearly half of them in Europe to address tension with Russia, news wires reported, citing sources from the Pentagon, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They stressed that only a relatively small number of advanced units would move anytime soon. The rest of the troop movements would take years to fully implement.

A coalition of 35 US states, cities and counties sued President Donald Trump on Friday over his directive not to count undocumented immigrants when apportioning seats for the House of Representatives, news wires reported. Critics said Trump’s order is designed to help Republicans.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China on Thursday and said Washington and its allies must use "more creative and assertive ways" to press the Chinese Communist Party to change its ways, calling it the "mission of our time."

The US House has approved a bill to remove statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders from the Capitol, as a reckoning over racial injustice continues following the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis.

President Donald Trump is to send "a surge" of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on crime. Chicago and two other Democratic-run cities are being targeted in the Republican president's move, amid a spike in violence. But federal deployments in Portland, Oregon, have proved controversial. Local officials say they have raised tensions amid ongoing protests.

The United States said Wednesday that it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property” and the private information of Americans.