The US crossed the threshold of 20,000 COVID-19 patients in intensive care beds on Sunday, according to the COVID Tracking Project. The country reported 158,715 new infections on Monday.
The US Department of Justice, questioning Harvard University's use of race as a criterion in its admissions process on Thursday, supporting Asian-American applicants suing the Ivy League school for discrimination.
The US Federal Reserve established currency swap programs with nine central banks last week, whereby the Fed accepts other currencies in exchange for dollars, to meet the globally soaring demand for dollar and avoid liquidity crunch.
The UK government had not yet responded to Trump's comments, but when he was questioned by a journalist about the Sun interview on Friday morning, Trump said the US and UK "really have a very good relationship".
The US Department of Commerce on Monday announced suspending the export privileges of ZTE in the next seven years for alleged violations of the Export Administration Regulations.
The US also has pressured Chinese companies such as telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd with sanctions and ordered the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada in 2018. Meng's extradition case is still pending in a Vancouver court.
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The US government has imposed oil sanctions in Venezuela as well as sanctions on high-ranking members of the Venezuelan security forces and other senior officials. The US visas of other Venezuelan officials and their relatives have been revoked.
The United States, Bloomberg said, "cannot accept the disgraceful racial inequality in maternal health care that exists in Alabama and across the country."
The US president continued to parcel out information about his upcoming meeting with Kim, planned for this month or early next month. On Wednesday morning, he said the venue and timing for the summit had been hammered out.
The US Senate Republican campaign arm distributed a memo to GOP candidates, advising them to address the coronavirus crisis by aggressively attacking China, US political news website Politico revealed.The 57-page memo, dated April 17, was authored by the political consulting firm of Brett O'Donnell, a veteran Republican strategist who has advised Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton.The memo provides detailed instructions, including short and expanded versions, for candidates to memorize and use in public. It contains three main assaults: That China caused the virus "by covering it up", that Democrats are "soft on China" and that Republicans will "push for sanctions on China for its role in spreading this pandemic", Politico summarized.