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EL PASO, Texas – Police reported a multiple people are dead and one person is in custody after a shooting Saturday at a Walmart in El Paso near Cielo Vista Saturday. Phone calls started coming in at approximately 10 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time about the shooting at the Walmart and “possibly” at a nearby mall, El Paso police said.  Here’s what we know about the shooting so far. Department of Homeland Security…

Police officers detain opposition candidate and lawyer Lyubov Sobol in Moscow on Saturday. Sobol was one of more than 600 arrested in Saturday’s protests, according to an independent monitoring agency. Dmitry Serebryakov/AP hide caption toggle caption Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Police officers detain opposition candidate and lawyer Lyubov Sobol in Moscow on Saturday. Sobol was one of more than 600 arrested in Saturday’s protests, according to an independent monitoring agency. Dmitry Serebryakov/AP…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump’s greatest allies for a 2020 win: AOC and ‘The Squad’ Trump defends position on trade after threat of new China tariffs Man punched outside Trump rally: ‘If anything, it’ll increase’ my activism MORE on Saturday defended his policy of using tariffs to pressure other nations to negotiate revised trade deals after the latest round of U.S. talks in China wrapped up without any significant progress toward…

President Trump said Thursday of Hong Kong, “they’ve had riots for a long period of time,” where locals are protesting efforts by communist China to crack down and violate Hongkongers’ human rights. “Somebody said that at some point they’re going to want to stop that,” Trump added. “But that’s between Hong Kong and that’s between China, because Hong Kong is a part of China.” This phrasing, a bizarre regurgitation of…

South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, threatened retaliation. “If Japan intentionally hurts our economy, it will also have to suffer big damage,” Mr. Moon said. With the specter of the China conflict as a backdrop, Mr. Trump on Friday promoted his trade record in an event in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, where he announced that his administration had secured access for American cattle ranchers to the European market. The agreement…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s two top staffers are leaving her Congressional office following a firestorm of controversy. Her Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti is done as of Friday. Ocasio-Cortez’s Communications Director Corbin Trent plans to be her Congressional spokesman until the end of the month but will then transition to her 2020 campaign to play the same role. Chakrabarti will head to New Consensus, a nonprofit climate change group that helps…

SAN DIEGO (KABC) — Three people are dead and two others were injured in a bluff collapse just north of Grandview Surf Beach in Encinitas, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed. The bluff fell onto a group of beachgoers at 3 p.m. north of the Grandview Beach staircase, just below South Ponto State Beach. The nearest intersection is 1700 Neptune Ave., deputies said. The chunk of cliff that…

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpKentucky miners’ struggle is that of many working Americans Cummings releases statement on attempted break-in after Trump attacks PhRMA top lobbyist to leave post MORE has created massive uncertainty about who will serve in his top intelligence post — even on an interim basis. On Friday, Trump abruptly dropped plans to tap Rep. John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeWashington Post report raises questions about record of Trump’s DNI pick…

“What really does set this list of products apart from all of the earlier tariffs are it’s basically consumer goods,” said Chad Bown, a trade analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “It’s clothing, and toys, iPhones.” John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP “What really does set this list of products apart from all of the earlier tariffs are it’s basically consumer goods,” said Chad Bown, a…

Video Kimberley Strassel says Democrats know impeachment is not a winning strategy Nearly half of the House Democrats now support some type of impeachment inquiry against President Trump; reaction and analysis from Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal columnist and a member of the paper’s editorial board. With a majority of her caucus now supporting impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., vowed Friday that the president would be “held accountable.” But she stopped short of…

GILROY, Calif. (AP) — The gunman in the deadly Northern California festival shooting killed himself, according to a finding by the Santa Clara County coroner’s office that contradicts earlier police accounts that officers fired the fatal shot. Santino William Legan, 19, shot and killed three people— including two children — Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Thirteen others were wounded. Authorities have not been able to determine his motive. Nicole…

Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will leave the congresswoman’s office to work for a climate change non-profit | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo congress By JOHN BRESNAHAN 08/02/2019 07:24 PM EDT Saikat Chakrabarti, the controversial chief of staff to high-profile freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will be leaving her office to work for a non-profit focusing on the Green New Deal. Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director, will…

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President Donald Trump told an Ohio audience Thursday that China is footing the bill for the massive tariffs he’s slapped on foreign goods coming into the United States. “Don’t let them tell you, the fact is — China devalues their currency, they pour money into their system. Because of that, you’re not paying for those tariffs. China’s paying for those tariffs,” the president said, hours after announcing the new set…

Mike DeBonis David Weigel John Wagner JM Rieger August 2 at 4:28 PM The movement to oust President Trump from office crossed a new threshold Friday, with a majority of House Democrats endorsing an impeachment inquiry — a development that ramps up pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who continued to resist the move. The push in the House to remove Trump has been accelerated by testimony from former special…

During Wednesday night’s Democratic primary debate, CNN’s Jake Tapper knew exactly what he was doing when he queued up a question for Tulsi Gabbard about her past criticisms of Kamala Harris’s approach to racial issues and her attack on Joe Biden. Gabbard went off. Clearly, Gabbard had done her homework, and she absolutely dragged Harris for her abysmal record as California attorney general. During her time in office, Harris took…

Here’s where the jobs are — in one chart Several industries showed particularly strong growth in hiring including education, health care, professional and business services. Economyread more