The shift in US policy is likely to further inflame US-China tensions and could provoke fresh retaliatory steps from Beijing.
Author: Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY
‘Congress and the country need answers now’: Pelosi demands briefing on reported Russian bounty operation
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants to know if President Trump was briefed on the alleged Russian bounty on US troops “and if not, why not.”
‘We can mute that line’: State Department cuts off reporter trying to ask about Bolton’s book during censorship briefing
During a briefing on Chinese propaganda, the State Department’s spokeswoman muted a reporter who tried to ask about John Bolton’s explosive new book.
‘I have been living a nightmare,’ mother says as Iran releases American Navy veteran Michael White
White had been granted a medical furlough and transferred to Swiss custody in Tehran after he contracted COVID-19 in an Iranian prison in March.
‘Shocking moment’: Australian minister seeks probe of US police hitting reporter covering White House protest
In the incident – carried live on Australian TV – a federal officer can be seen slamming his shield into the cameraman and then punching the reporter.
Prisoners are given a ‘face mask and an onion’: Americans detained abroad face new threat amid pandemic
The Trump administration is using the coronavirus pandemic to ratchet up pressure on foreign governments to release Americans detained abroad.
Pompeo to resume travel with a tightly controlled visit to Israel, as pandemic continues to grip the world
The Secretary of State’s visit is likely to focus less on COVID-19 than on Israel’s controversial plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
Senate fails to override Trump’s veto of Iran war resolution that would have curbed his ability to launch a strike
President Trump called the war powers measure “very insulting” and slammed Republicans who supported the effort to curb his military authority.
Trump says he’s seen evidence coronavirus came from Chinese lab. US intelligence agencies say it was not man-made
U.S. intelligence agencies will continue to examine whether the virus originated in animals or if it was was accidentally released by a Chinese lab.
‘A near impossibility’: Experts doubt North Korea’s claim of zero coronavirus cases
Experts say there’s evidence of at least a small-scale COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea. And some fear Kim Jong Un’s lockdown could spark a famine.