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In this June 29, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. President Trump on Jan. 9, 2020, suggested that the balance of a far-reaching trade deal with China might be put off until after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

China says US orders it to close its consulate in Houston

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, residents line up at a security checkpoint into the Hotan Bazaar where a screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

US sanctions Chinese companies over Muslim abuse complaints

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 15, 2020, file photo, two people walk past a closed sign at a retail store in Chicago. Ever since the U.S. government launched its emergency lending program for small businesses on April 3, there have been complaints that bigger companies had their loans approved and disbursed more quickly. There is now evidence to back up those complaints. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Head of the line: Big companies got coronavirus loans first

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2005, file photo, Dustin Lee Honken is led by US Marshals into the Federal Courthouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, prior to his sentencing. Honken an Iowa meth kingpin who kidnapped and killed five people, including two young girls, to thwart his prosecution for drug trafficking in 1993 is set to become the third federal inmate to be executed this week. Honken would become the first defendant from Iowa to die from capital punishment since 1963 if his lethal injection takes place as scheduled on Friday, July 17, 2020, in Terre Haute, Ind. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette via AP, File)

Dustin Honken executed, third federal prisoner this week

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, March 3, 2020, file photo, Hawaii Gov. David Ige speaks to reporters at the state Department of Health's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)

Florida virus deaths surge, vaccine research moves forward

By TERRY SPENCER and ADAM GELLER - Associated Press

China: US Xinjiang warning ‘bad for the whole world’

Associated Press

In this Sunday, April 12, 2020, file photo, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, right, delivers his homily over mostly empty pews as he leads an Easter Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Due to coronavirus concerns, no congregants were allowed to attend the Mass which was broadcast live on local TV. The New York archdiocese received at least four large Paycheck Protection Program loans, one worth at least $5 million. The beneficiaries included the archdiocesan department of education and the neo-gothic St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

AP: After lobbying, Catholic Church won $1.4B in virus aid

By Reese Dunklin and Michael Rezendes - Associated Press

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a patient receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. A Maryland man who received a vaccine in Baltimore earlier this year believes he may have been successfully vaccinated as part of a clinical trial. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US bets on untested company to deliver COVID-19 vaccine

By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN - Associated Press

People wearing face masks pass by posters about precautions against new coronavirus at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The Latest: China easing into reopening as local cases wane

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Michael Pack (VOA photograph) ** FILE **

Michael Pack, U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO, cleans house, aligns message

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

US signals it will resist freeing detained migrant families

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Novartis pays $678M to resolve suit over sham doctor outings

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump signs his name on a piece of paper during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Health experts slam US deal for large supply of virus drug

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo Olympic Rings and a model of Misha the Bear Cub, the mascot of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, left, are seen in the yard of Russian Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia. A U.S. government study concludes that Americans do not get their money’s worth out of the $2.7 million that Congress sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency this year. The report from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy concludes that the U.S. is under-represented on WADA’s key policymaking committees. It says WADA has not moved quickly or far enough to reform itself in the wake of the Russian doping scandal. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

Study says US doesn’t get value from WADA contribution

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Former paramilitary leader Emmanuel Constant is detained by Haitian police at his arrival to the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Human rights groups have accused Constant of killing and torturing Haitians when he became the leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s presidency was toppled in 1991. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

US deports ex-paramilitary leader ‘Toto’ Constant to Haiti

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

In this July 31, 2019, file photo, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

John Bolton breach of contract lawsuit filed by U.S.

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 10, 1912 file photo the Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage. The U.S. government will try to stop a company's planned salvage mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine, arguing the expedition would break federal law and a pact with Britain to leave the iconic shipwreck undisturbed. U.S. attorneys filed a legal challenge before a federal judge in Norfolk, Va, late Monday, June 8, 2020. The expedition is expected to occur by the end of August. (AP Photo/File)

US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic’s radio

By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press

In this March 2020 file photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. Given through an IV, the medication is designed to interfere with an enzyme that reproduces viral genetic material. (Gilead Sciences via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. government anticipated to run out of remdesivir by end of June

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this May 11, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Senate confirms Trump’s pick to lead Voice of America

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 30, 2020, file photo, police walk through tear gas as they try to disperse protesters in Las Vegas. Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terror charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence during recent protests in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Prosecutors: 3 men plotted to terrorize Vegas protests

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press