The Latest Breaking News from John Kirby

TikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-sharing app with the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday accused the United States itself of spreading disinformation about TikTok's potential…

The Biden administration released dramatic footage of an encounter between Russian fighter jets and an American surveillance drone as the United States sought to show that Russia was lying with claims that its warplane never hit the US aircraft.

The US says the extremely popular video-sharing app ‘screams’ of national security concerns and considers a countrywide ban

China is accusing the U.S. of spreading disinformation amid reports the Biden administration is calling for TikTok's Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the company

National Security Council spokesperson says Russian pilots were either ‘reckless’ or ‘reckless and incompetent’

The White House says it will be ‘impossible’ for Moscow to obtain any useful material from the downed craft

Kremlin has vowed to recover drone after it crashed in international waters

The US says Russia’s intercept was part of a ‘pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions’

Russian officials say a bid will be made to recover a US drone from the Black Sea while US authorities say no intelligence can be gained.

US says any recovery operation in such deep water would be difficult and unlikely to yield useful intelligence

The incident between a US surveillance drone and Russian jets prompted rare telephone conversations between the two countries' defence ministers and military chiefs, a statement from the Kremlin reveals.