Trump launched into a Twitter rant against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Saturday evening after she and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell turned down his offer of five-minute COVID-19 tests.

Republicans, led by Kevin McCarthy, are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to open the House of Representatives as the Senate, led by Mitch McConnell, returns to work Monday afternoon. 

Donald Trump vowed Monday to bring back his widely-viewed coronavirus briefings, but said they will be limited to one or two a week instead of the daily briefings he held over the last two months.

Trump took aim at the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC led by Conway, and referred to the group as 'RINO Republicans'.

HOT OR NOT: It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: The 17th athletics World Championships were held this week in Doha with plenty of drama on and off the track at the Khalifa International Stadium.

Caroline Ball explores the apple varieties that Britain is at risk of losing in a fascinating new book. The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale Farm in Kent grows two thousand different kinds of apples.

The explosion, at the Vector laboratory in Siberia, left a worker with second and third degree burns. The lab is one of two places in the world which houses the smallpox disease.

A fellow prisoner at the Kgosi Mampuru II jail in Pretoria said the double-amputee athlete 'got up and stomped' after hearing the ruling on the radio, adding that he was p***** off.'

Pistorius was released last week after just a year in prison for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp through a locked toilet door in their bedroom in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013.

Stephanie Browitt, 23, from Melbourne, was touring touring New Zealand with her family as passengers on board the Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas cruiseliner.

McDonald's stores in New Zealand have announced they are having difficulty sourcing ingredients to make their famous burgers because of coronavirus lockdowns.

Australia is edging closer to lifting coronavirus restrictions as four million people download the tracing app.

Professional rugby and netball are close to returning to action in New Zealand after the government unveiled its rules for sport when the country next eases its coronavirus restrictions.

It took LeBron James to help the Los Angeles Lakers snap a lengthy losing streak against Portland. James had 28 points and seven assists and the Lakers defeated the Trail Blazers 114-110.

This was hardly the ideal way for LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers to cap what amounted to an eventful week of highs and lows.

Los Angeles Lakers have been handed a boost with news that LeBron James is close to being back on the court wearing the purple and gold.

LeBron James suffered the worst defeat of his career as the Los Angeles Lakers went down 136-94 to the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night. The previous worst had been a 36-point margin.

Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points, Norman Powell had 20 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 111-98 on Thursday night.

Andre Drummond had 19 points and 23 rebounds, and the Pistons took advantage of James' absence, beating Los Angeles 111-97 on Friday night.

Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe was greeted by hundreds of fans as he arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Monday evening following a week in Los Angeles.

LeBron James has welcomed Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers by handing over his No 23 jersey to his close friend and fellow NBA All-Star. 

During a closed-door meeting in China last week, LeBron James pressured NBA commissioner Adam Silver to punish Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey for his support for Hong Kong.

Golden State Warriors' have now lost two on the spin to start their season after falling to a heavy 120-92 defeat against Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.

Luka Doncic scored 21 of his 27 points in a dynamic second half and Kristaps Porzingis added 15 points as the Dallas Mavericks snapped the LA Lakers' 10-game winning streak with a 114-100 victory.

They improved to a 23-3 record, which extended their second-longest road winning streak in franchise history to 13 games and rallied from a double-digit deficit to win for the eighth time already this season.

Domantas Sabonis scored 26 points and Malcolm Brogdon made a tiebreaking reverse layup with 36.4 seconds left on Tuesday night to give the Indiana Pacers a 105-102 victory over Los Angeles.

Buoyed by a perfect five-game homestand, the Denver Nuggets hit the road and kept on winning. Paul Millsap scored 21 points and the Nuggets dominated the second half in defeating the Lakers.

LA Lakers snapped their season-long four-game losing streak, after LeBron James (left) scored 21 points in victory against Portland Trail Blazers.

The NBA has postponed the Los Angeles Lakers' next game against the Clippers on Tuesday night after the deaths of retired superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash.

NBA ROUND-UP: LeBron James (left) posted a triple-double and Anthony Davis scored 33 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 120-116 in overtime Wednesday night.

NBA ROUND-UP: Some things never change and the Los Angeles Lakers continued to gather steam heading into the play-offs as they won on Friday night to stay top of the Western Conference.

Anthony Davis scored 30 points, LeBron James added 28 and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Clippers 112-103 on Sunday, ending their Staples Center co-tenant's six-game winning streak.

Last Friday, the NBA sent a memo to its teams telling them to prepare in case it becomes necessary to play games without fans, as sports leagues in Europe have already done.

Quibi, a short-form video app, began streaming 10 minute 'quick bites' of original content which users quarantined because of the coronavirus complained they can't watch on TV.

The Lakers were in stunning form throughout the season that was halted by coronavirus on March 11. With 19 games until the play-offs, the club had the best win-loss record in Western Conference.

Jennifer Aniston joined pals Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Bateman and Will Speck for a bit to eat in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

The White Shepherd - who she shared with ex Justin Theroux - sadly passed away in the summer and Jennifer admits she has been thinking about getting another dog.

The actress, who won the Best Actress in a Drama Series prize for The Morning Show, revealed the gorgeous white silk dress she wore was actually from her own closet.

Jennifer Aniston appeared more than content to be off the carpet and on the couch in her Los Angeles home on Monday evening, as she proudly indulged in an episode of ABC's The Bachelor.

The Friends star is thinning out the clothes she has at her home to pass the time as she stays at her 8,500 square foot mansion in Bel-Air, California due to coronavirus.

During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, the 51-year-old actress told the titular host that she found footage of her audition for Search For Tomorrow while cleaning out her closets.

The shadow foreign secretary, an outsider in the leadership race to succeed him, said she had no option but to give him zero after the party suffered its worst defeat in 85 years.

Sir Keir Starmer today refused to say whether he is politically closer to Tony Blair or Jeremy Corbyn as he said Labour must learn lessons from its last four general election defeats and not just 2019.

The rudderless party could lose 315 councillors and control of heartland cities including Sheffield under the worst-case scenario laid out for the May 7 poll.

In part one of Sky News documentary Bad Blood/New Blood Turnbull ally Craig Laundy claimed Finance Minister Matthias Cormann's signing of the petition sealed the former PM's fate.

Malcolm Turnbull says a cabal of media moguls conspired with right-wing Liberals led by Tony Abbott to bring down his government - so Mr Abbott could bring the Coalition back to victory in 2022.

Tulsi Gabbard said Monday she wants to confront Hillary Clinton after the failed 2016 presidential candidate perpetuated a conspiracy theory that she's a 'Russian asset.'

After walking the runway at the Burberry show at London Fashion Week, Kendall Jenner spent some time with Kourtney Kardashian's ex Luka Sabbat.

Kim Kardashian stepped out on Thursday night to ring in Paris Hilton's 39th birthday with the heiress in Los Angeles. Kardashian was joined by sister Kourtney, as well as a slew of other famous faces.