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Damian Paletta Heather Long August 13 at 10:42 AM The White House on Tuesday said it would delay imposing tariffs on Chinese imports of cellphones, laptop computers, video game consoles, and certain types of footwear and clothing until Dec. 15, significantly later than the Sept. 1 deadline President Trump had repeatedly threatened. The announcement, which came from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, likely ensures that Apple products and…

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Directed by a task force for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI agents reportedly raided the private island of criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein. The island, Little Saint James, is located between islands St. Thomas and St. John in the Virgin Islands. One witness, who sailed past the island, described the scene to INSIDER. The search, which occurred Monday morning local time, occurred two days…

Directed by a task force for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI agents reportedly raided the private island of criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein. The island, Little Saint James, is located between islands St. Thomas and St. John in the Virgin Islands. One witness, who sailed past the island, described the scene to INSIDER. The search, which occurred Monday morning local time, occurred two days…

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Directed by a task force for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI agents reportedly raided the private island of criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein. The island, Little Saint James, is located between islands St. Thomas and St. John in the Virgin Islands. One witness, who sailed past the island, described the scene to INSIDER. The search, which occurred Monday morning local time, occurred two days…

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Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 13 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 13 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A California Highway Patrol officer was gunned down Monday in a shootout off the 215 Freeway, The Los Angeles Times reported. The scene was chaotic. The Times reported that the suspect was stopped by an officer on a motorcycle. At some point, the suspect grabbed a…

The Trump administration’s new immigration crackdown — which could deny green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance — would have major ramifications on the California economy, experts and advocates said Monday. Laurel Lucia, director of the healthcare program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, says the policy could have a damaging effect on California and the country’s overall economy. Many…

Video Conspiracies and questions surround Jeffrey Epstein’s death Barr demands investigation into Epstein’s death; Bryan Llenas reports. She has been described as everything from vivacious and highly connected to the people-pleasing life of the party. She’s also been accused of functioning as something of a “madam” and “recruiter” for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, 66, who apparently took his own life on Saturday while in federal custody over sex trafficking charges. With the…

“I didn’t think it was possible,” Stephen Colbert said during his Late Show monologue tonight, “but President Donald Trump can still shock me. It’s kinda nice, you know? After all these years he can still keep the relationship fresh.” Whether Colbert clobbering Trump like Moe on Curly is “fresh” is in the ear of the beholden, he was at it again tonight. The topic du jour was POTUS retweeting conspiracy theories…

Video New green card rule for immigrants using welfare New rule would make it easier to deny green cards for immigrants getting government assistance; USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli weighs in. The White House’s new green card rule strengthens a question asked of immigrants for more than a century, according to the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Ken Cuccinelli. The rule announced earlier Monday strengthened a long-held…

On Monday, Chinese officials focused on what they described as “deranged acts” by the protesters, including throwing gasoline bombs, saying they marked the emergence of terrorism in the Chinese city. “Radical Hong Kong protesters have repeatedly used extremely dangerous tools to attack police officers,” Yang Guang, a spokesman for the Chinese government’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said in a news briefing on Monday, according to Chinese state broadcaster…

Video Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Jeffrey Epstein Criminal defense attorney Phil Hamilton weighs in on the circumstances surrounding accused sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sex trafficking minors, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell early Saturday in an apparent suicide that has raised questions as to how the wealthy financier could have killed himself in a high-security federal lockup in which…

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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Adelia Johnson thought she understood where Connor Betts was coming from when he shared that he’d contemplated suicide, and even when he once told her in a drunken call about wanting to hurt people. As they dated this spring, they bonded over their struggles with mental illness, she said, so his dark thoughts didn’t seem so abnormal. Not to her, as someone familiar with the…

In May, a United Nations panel on biodiversity released a massive, troubling report on the state of the world’s animals. The bottom line: As many as 1 million species are now at risk of extinction if we don’t act to save them. Species of all kinds — mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, plants, marine life, terrestrial life — are disappearing at a rate “tens to hundreds of times higher than the…

There are a great many questions about the death of fraud financier and serial sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. So far, there have been only a handful of answers. That in itself gives rise to even more questions. I say “death” rather than “suicide” because, contrary to the insistence of many, Occam’s razor does not dictate that the most well-connected sex trafficker in the Western world most likely died in federal…

Video Attorney General Bill Barr raises questions about the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death Former FBI agent Chad Jenkins weighs in on the apparent suicide of accused sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Attorney General William Barr on Monday blasted corrections officials and vowed to investigate the “serious irregularities” uncovered at the federal prison in Manhattan where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was held and found dead Saturday morning. Barr’s criticism came amid complaints about squalid,…