Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol at noon yesterday local time, beginning his second term as he returns to the White House after four years.

After a brief weekend outage, TikTok was up and running again yesterday in the United States after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order today to keep the popular video platform active.

Chinese and Thai police have captured 12 suspects allegedly involved with a cross-border human trafficking group based in Myawaddy, Myanmar, and are chasing other suspects of the group, the Ministry of Public Security said Friday.

China will introduce a new category of innovative medicines to its public medical insurance system to encourage drug development.

China’s birth rate increased last year, with the number of newborns climbing to 9.54 million thanks to more government support and a slight effect from Chinese people wanting to have children during the Year of the Dragon.

Tiktok voluntarily shut down service in the U.S. just hours before a Sunday deadline, cutting off access to tens of millions of users after the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively banned it over concerns about its ties to China.

U.S. filmmaker David Lynch, celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days before his 79th birthday.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced today that he will not enforce the TikTok ban scheduled to take effect Sunday, a day before the inauguration of President-elect Donal Trump. Instead, the fate of the popular app will be left to the incoming Trump administration.