Feds sue to KO Bolton’s Trump tell-all

there have been more than 8 million confirmed cases and more than 435,000 deaths.

The U.S. death toll has reached 116,526, according to Johns Hopkins University. That surpasses the number of Americans who died in World War I, when 116,516 were killed — although both death tolls are far from precise. The U.S. has the most confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 of any country.

Countries that appeared to have largely contained the virus are seeing new outbreaks.

In China, authorities on Tuesday locked down a third neighborhood in Beijing to contain an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people. Most of the cases have been linked to the capital's Xinfadi wholesale food market.

New Zealand, which hadn't seen a new case in three weeks, was investigating a case in which two women who flew in from London to see a dying parent were allowed to leave quarantine and drive halfway across the country before they were tested and found to be positive.

The reemergence of the virus in the country once praised for how it handled infections raised the specter international air travel could trigger a fresh wave of contagion just as countries are reopening airports to stimulate tourism.

Canada and the U..S agreed to extend to July 21 an agreement to keep their border closed to nonessential travel. The restrictions were announced in March and have been extended repeatedly, with many Canadians fearing cases arriving from the U.S.

Whatever's in John Bolton's book, President Trump really doesn't want it to see the light of day.

Trump's Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a federal judge to block the former national security adviser's book from being published next week over allegations that the expected bombshell is “rife with classified information.”

The civil lawsuit, filed in Washington Federal Court, came a day after Trump told reporters that Bolton (inset) would face “a very strong criminal problem” if the book, “The Room Where It Happened,” hits shelves as planned on June 23.

Tuesday's lawsuit confirms there could be criminal issues at hand, as it alleges Bolton's tellall would amount to an “unauthorized disclosure of classified information” — which can warrant charges under the Espionage Act.

In the court papers, the Justice Department notes Bolton's book is “500-plus” pages and would net him $2 million.

Against that backdrop, lawyers for the department wrote that Bolton cut short an ongoing White House vetting process of the book despite being obligated to complete it by contract.

“[Bolton] struck a bargain with the United States as a condition of his employment in one of the most sensitive and important national security positions in the United States government and now wants to renege on that bargain by unilaterally deciding that the prepublication review process is complete and deciding for himself whether classified information should be made public,” the department lawyers wrote.

But the Justice Department's lawsuit may prove a hard sell.

Bolton's publisher, Simon & Schuster, already has the book and is preparing to ship out copies to stores.

A Simon & Schuster spokesman contended Bolton has complied with the National Security Council's classification review and signaled it plans to move ahead with publication.