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President Donald Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. are locked in a legal battle over Trump's income tax returns.

Relations between the world's two largest economies have plunged to their worst point in years over a variety of issues, ranging from trade and cybersecurity to the Covid-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump's national security advisor Robert O'Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Wilbur Ross, the 82-year-old secretary of commerce under President Donald Trump, had been working from his home in Florida since at least late March.

China would prefer to see U.S. President Donald Trump win a second term in office as it would allow Beijing to continue to pursue its international ambitions, said an analyst on Monday.

China ordered the U.S. to close the Chengdu consulate on Friday. It was in retaliation for a U.S. order to shut the Chinese consulate in Houston.

China has no more allies in Washington, even among the Democrats, analysts said during a virtual conference organized by Singapore-based bank DBS on Thursday.

"We've moved quickly before and I see no reason why we can't move quickly again," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

"There's a $1,200 check coming, that's going to be part of the new package," Kudlow said in an interview on CNN.

The modified U.S. drone export policy is largely viewed as a Trump administration effort to sell more weapons overseas.

Republicans are expected to release their coronavirus stimulus plan next week as millions of Americans stare down a financial cliff.

A researcher who took refuge in the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco after allegedly lying to investigators about her Chinese military service was arrested and will appear in court on Friday, according to a senior Justice Department official.

Meanwhile, Beijing has not publicly agreed to evacuate from its consulate in Houston.

Michael Cohen's release came a day after a judge ruled he was improperly returned to prison in retaliation for failing to agree to a ban on him publishing a book about Trump.

The judge said the tactics that used by federal officers raised serious questions about potential violations of the First Amendment.

China's Foreign Ministry announced Friday it is revoking the license for the U.S. consulate general in the southwestern city of Chengdu.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's seeming attempt to rally the Chinese people against the Communist Party of China has the opposite effect of increasing support for the ruling party, said Daniel Russel, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2013 to 2017.

Michael Cohen, who served President Donald Trump for years as a lawyer, had previously been furloughed from prison due to coronavirus concerns.

President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida, portions of August's Republican National Convention, citing the threat of the coronavirus.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed the Chinese government in a sweeping address Thursday, saying the United States will no longer tolerate Beijing's playbook to usurp global order.