Author: Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY

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.

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.

The Trump administration is using the coronavirus pandemic to ratchet up pressure on foreign governments to release Americans detained abroad.

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.

President Trump called the war powers measure “very insulting” and slammed Republicans who supported the effort to curb his military authority.

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.

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.

The Trump administration has objected to provisions in a global cease-fire resolution. The U.N. Security Council could vote on it as early as this week.

Speculation about Kim’s health began to swirl after the North Korea leader failed to attend the April 15 celebration of his grandfather’s birthday.

The WHO chief has become the Trump administration’s latest punching bag, with Republicans reviving his past controversies and demanding his ouster.