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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck southern California late Friday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Popular videosharing app TikTok has asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration banning on the Chinese socialmedia network, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

Speaking on Thursday, Nathan Sales, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism, accused the Iran-backed group of smuggling and storing chemicals, including ammonium nitrate.

The United States and Guyana will begin joint maritime patrols aimed at drug interdiction near the South American country's disputed border with crisisstricken Venezuela, the U.S. secretary of state and Guyana's new president said on Friday.

This year's pilgrimage to the Uman tomb of Rabbi Nahman, founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement, was upset by the coronavirus pandemic, with many believers' journeys ending hundreds of kilometres away

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Guyana on Friday, saying the government in neighboring Venezuela is illegitimate and must leave power.

A school counselor at a central Kentucky Army post that started inperson classes in August died this week after being diagnosed with the coronavirus, officials said.

Democrats will defend their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in November elections, in which about one in 10 of the chamber's 435 seats will be the goal of a competitive race, according to nonpartisan tracking services.

Libya's commander who rules the eastern half of the country and who was behind a yearlong military attempt to capture the capital, Tripoli, said Friday that oil production would restart soon, ending a monthslong blockade of the nation's vital oil fields.

Thailand on Friday reported its first coronavirus death in more than 100 days, a health official said, after an infected Thai citizen had returned from abroad earlier this month.

Israel is set to go back into a full lockdown later Friday to try to contain a coronavirus outbreak that has steadily worsened for months as its government has been plagued by indecision and infighting.

Britain's health minister said on Friday that the novel coronavirus was accelerating across the country with hospital admissions doubling every eight days but refused to say whether or not another national lockdown would be imposed next month.

Peruvian President Martn Vizcarras job is on the line Friday as opposition lawmakers push through an impeachment hearing criticized as a hasty and poorly timed ouster attempt in one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday bluntly contradicted President Donald Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine may be only weeks away, warning Americans they cannot trust the president's word.

A Black man captured on video being repeatedly punched by a white Georgia sheriffs deputy during a traffic stop will be released from jail after being granted a signature bond by a judge.

President Donald Trump intensified efforts to appeal to his core base of white voters on Thursday by downplaying the historical legacy of slavery in the United States and blasting efforts to address systemic racism as divisive.