Hezbollah's Secretary-General Naim Qassem is expected to give a televised address on Saturday at 6:00 p.m., Hezbollah-affiliated news network Al-Mayadeen reported. This is a developing story.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to attend the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation conference in Egypt in the coming days, Hezbollah-affiliated network Al-Mayadeen reported on Saturday.

A US appeals court on Friday rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban.TikTok and ByteDance on Monday filed the emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking for more time to make its case to the US Supreme Court.The companies warned that without court action the law will "shut down TikTok — one of the nation's most popular speech platforms — for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users."

Bank of America, the second-largest U.S. lender, plans to contribute to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural committee but has yet to decide on the amount, a BofA spokesperson said Friday.BofA, along with JPMorgan Chase & CoJPM.N, were the two largest bank contributors to Trump's 2017 inauguration. JPMorgan representatives declined to comment on Friday.The inaugural committee plans and finances inaugural events, including opening ceremonies and parades, galas and balls, but not the swearing-in ceremony itself, according to the Federal Election Commission.Bank of America contributed $1 million to both Trump's first inaugural fund and to President Joe Biden's in 2021. JPMorgan donated $500,000 for Trump's 2017 inaugural festivities.