The US is the worst-hit country from the pandemic with over 4.7 million cases and more than 155,000 deaths.

The move comes over a month after the Trump administration on June 23 suspended the H-1B visas along with other types of foreign work visas until the end of 2020 to protect American workers in a crucial election year.

A federal committee has been reviewing whether Donald Trump could ban TikTok in the US. Its members agree that TikTok cannot remain in the US in its current form.

Trump's comments came after published reports that the administration is planning to order China's ByteDance to sell TikTok.

Pompeo said US diplomatic efforts were working and momentum was building to mitigate the threats that the Chinese Communist Party presented.

Trump told reporters that mail-in-vote would delay the counting of votes and election results.

Trump, who is trailing badly in the race for the White House, argued that mail in voting brings in rigging in elections. He has been a big opponent to it.

The first death in the US was reported on February 29. The country reached 50,000 deaths 54 days later on April 23, and 34 days later, on May 27, crossed 100,000 deaths.

In May, Trump disclosed that he was taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus after consulting the White House doctor.

After returning from a trip to North Carolina where he promoted efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Trump retweeted a series of tweets advocating for hydroxychloroquine.

After months of hearing Trump denigrate mail-in balloting, Republicans in the critical battleground state now find themselves far behind Democrats in the perennial push to urge their voters to cast ballots remotely.

Final-stage testing of the vaccine began with volunteers at various US sites given either a real shot or a dummy without being told which.

The White House confirmed that O'Brien has mild symptoms and 'has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site.'

The US withdrawal, another example of growing American disenchantment with international institutionalism, necessitates a brief overview of the corresponding international law and the futility of such a move.

In his proclamation last month, President Donald Trump banned the entry into the US of workers in several key non-immigrant visa categories, including the H-1B, arguing that they eat into American jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biden has built his campaign around the election being a 'battle for the soul of the nation' and says he felt compelled to run for president after he heard Trump's respond to a deadly 2017 white supremacist attack on counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

China denounced the order as 'outrageous' and said it would draw a firm response if not reversed.

'Samosas and other snacks will always follow you. The only way to stop indulging in them is to understand how foods cooked in polyunsaturated vegetable oils --sometimes with dangerous trans fats-- can have deadly consequences on your health..'

The troops of India and China are locked in a standoff in several areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh since May 5. The situation deteriorated last month following the Galwan Valley clashes that left 20 Indian Army personnel dead.

So far more than 140,000 Americans have died due to coronavirus and 3.8 million have tested positive. While the US economy is slowly coming back to normal, the pandemic is now spreading in the Sun Belt of the country.