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George Conway to Trump: “You Would Have Been Fired From Any Other Job by Now” – Slate
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Hundreds of thousands are protesting an extradition bill in Hong Kong. Here’s why. – USA TODAY
CLOSE Proposed amendments to a Hong Kong extradition bill that would allow the transfer of criminals to China drew hundreds of thousands of protesters. Wochit Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to demonstrate against proposed amendments to an extradition bill, which would allow the transfer of those accused of crimes to mainland China. The massive demonstration took place just three days before Hong Kong’s full legislature…
Responding to Pelosi’s ‘prison’ remark, Democrats say Trump committed crimes – NBC News
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he believes President Donald Trump has committed crimes when he was asked about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent comment that she would prefer to see Trump “in prison” than “see him impeached.” “He did,” O’Rourke, a former House member from Texas, told ABC’s “This Week” when asked about Pelosi’s remark and whether he thought Trump had committed crimes that could be prosecuted….
‘All of it is new’: Trump, acting DHS chief McAleenan defend deal with Mexico against reports saying little is new – NBC News
President Donald Trump and his acting homeland security chief on Sunday defended the U.S. agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs that Trump threatened to impose if the country did not stem the flow of migrants. “All of it is new,” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told “Fox News Sunday.” “We’ve heard commitments before from Mexico to do more on their southern border. The last time they deployed down there…
Thousands Of Protesters Take To Hong Kong Streets Against Extradition Bill – NPR
A protester shouts next to policemen as protesters march in a rally against the proposed amendments to extradition law in Hong Kong. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption toggle caption Kin Cheung/AP A protester shouts next to policemen as protesters march in a rally against the proposed amendments to extradition law in Hong Kong. Kin Cheung/AP Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in a show…
Body of police chief found after falling off fishing boat – ABC News
Search and rescue crews have recovered the body of a Texas police chief and former Army paratrooper who went missing after he fell off a fishing boat in Galveston Bay. Chris Reed, the police chief for the Kemah Police Department, lost his balance and went overboard due to a wake created by a larger passing vessel near Texas City on Friday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Reed’s wife called…
Widowed By Police Suicide, Women Want Officers To Reach Out For Help – NPR
Nicole Rikard’s husband, John Rikard, died by suicide in 2015. She talks with three other widows of police suicide every day. Eslah Attar for NPR hide caption toggle caption Eslah Attar for NPR Nicole Rikard’s husband, John Rikard, died by suicide in 2015. She talks with three other widows of police suicide every day. Eslah Attar for NPR Nicole Rikard had recently married Sgt. John Rikard of the Asheville Police…
Trump is ‘perfectly happy’ to hit China with new tariffs if Xi meeting doesn’t go well, Mnuchin says – CNBC
Mnuchin weighed in on several of the thorniest subjects thought to be separating the American and Chinese sides from a deal. For one, he said that the issue of removing China’s so-called non-tariff barriers to foreign companies succeeding within its borders remains central to the U.S. position on the talks. “In negotiating our agreement, one of the big parts of the agreement has always been about non-tariff barriers, is about…
House launches pre-impeachment agenda this week – Washington Examiner
House Democrats this week plan to begin making the case for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants the caucus to stay away from impeachment, but to mollify her pro-impeachment faction, she has sanctioned hearings as well as votes citing two Trump administration officials with contempt of Congress. The action starts Monday in the House Judiciary Committee where lawmakers plan to hold a series of hearings…
Trump is ‘perfectly happy’ to hit China with new tariffs if Xi meeting doesn’t go well, Mnuchin says – CNBC
Mnuchin weighed in on several of the thorniest subjects thought to be separating the American and Chinese sides from a deal. For one, he said that the issue of removing China’s so-called non-tariff barriers to foreign companies succeeding within its borders remains central to the U.S. position on the talks. “In negotiating our agreement, one of the big parts of the agreement has always been about non-tariff barriers, is about…
The deal that Trump announced would avert tariffs on Mexico reportedly mostly includes things Mexico agreed to do months earlier – Business Insider
The deal with Mexico that President Donald Trump said Friday would avert his impending tariffs mostly contains actions that Mexico had agreed to months ago, The New York Times reported Saturday. Among the items included in the agreement was a promise to deploy Mexico’s National Guard throughout the country and its southern border — but officials from both countries say the Mexican government had already vowed to do so in…
Beto O’Rourke described as ‘blank slate’ by Iowa Democrat introducing him – Washington Examiner
A local Democrat introduced Beto O’Rourke as a “blank slate” at a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday. “Beto is here because he wants to hear what rural Iowa and rural America is standing for. He is going from city to city. He wants to hear what we want. He is a blank slate that is waiting to be filled by our hopes and dreams for the United States,” the…
‘We All Owe Al Gore An Apology’: More People See Climate Change In Record Flooding – NPR
Floodwaters from the Arkansas River line either side of a road in Russellville, Ark., engulfing businesses and vehicles. Nathan Rott/NPR hide caption toggle caption Nathan Rott/NPR Floodwaters from the Arkansas River line either side of a road in Russellville, Ark., engulfing businesses and vehicles. Nathan Rott/NPR Angel Portillo doesn’t think about climate change much. It’s not that he doesn’t care. He’s just got other things to worry about. Climate change…
Mnuchin threatens China with tariffs if they bail on trade deal – New York Post
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reportedly urged China to come back to trade talks, threatening more tariffs if Beijing doesn’t live up to its commitments. “If they want to come back to the table and complete the deal on the terms that we were continuing to negotiate, that would be great,” he said Saturday in Fukuoka, Japan, according to the New York Times. “If not, as the president said, we’ll move…
White House Blocks Testimony Calling Climate Change ‘Possibly Catastrophic’ – Newsweek
The White House blocked a State Department senior intelligence analyst’s congressional testimony on climate change being “potentially catastrophic” this week because it didn’t “jibe” with the Trump administration’s views on the matter. The analyst, Rob Schoonover, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, was barred from submitting testimony to the House Intelligence Committee after officials refused the written document’s references to federal scientific findings on climate change, Washington Post reported. The…
New York Times: Mexico, US agreed on border policies months before Trump tariff threat – CNN
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For Democrats, Trump impeachment question is a personal struggle transcending politics – The Washington Post
Rep. Daniel Kildee (D-Mich.) is interviewed in the Capitol on April 4. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP) Mike DeBonis Rachael Bade Paul Kane June 8 at 6:00 PM For two House Democrats from different backgrounds, the searing debate over whether to impeach President Trump prompted an identical question: What about my grandkids? Rep. Daniel Kildee, who represents a blue-collar Michigan district that Trump nearly won in 2016, calls it the “Caitlin…
CNN Iowa Poll: Biden leads a tighter top tier in first caucus state – CNN
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Mexico: Tariff deal with US struck ‘fair balance’ – Washington Examiner
Mexican negotiators hailed the new tariff-averting immigration deal with the United States as a “fair balance” between their priorities and the more “drastic” proposals that President Trump initially demanded. “I think it’s a fair balance because they had more drastic measures and proposals at the start and we reached some middle point,” Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said of the deal, which Trump announced Friday night. Ebrard was particularly determined…
White House blocked state department testimony on climate change – Business Insider
The White House is engaged in a war of words about climate change. Last Wednesday, Rod Schoonover, a senior analyst at the US State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, was barred from submitting his written assessment of the effects of a warming world to the House Intelligence Committee, the Washington Post reported. Schoonover was scheduled to testify on behalf of the bureau at a climate change hearing held on…