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BEIJING (Reuters) – “Foreign forces” are trying to hurt China by creating chaos in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that has prompted mass protests in the former British colony, an official Chinese newspaper said on Monday. Riot police surrounded Hong Kong’s parliament early on Monday after what had been a peaceful million-strong protest against the bill descended into running clashes between police and protesters. Hundreds of thousands had jammed…

Video Trump strikes deal with Mexico after threat of tariff hike National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd says President Trump had to threaten tariffs to force Mexico to step up and publicly agree to the deal. Even as he again hailed his administration’s last-minute, much-heralded deal on Friday with Mexico as a “successful agreement” to address illegal immigration at the southern border, President Trump on Sunday bluntly suggested he might…

BEIJING (Reuters) – “Foreign forces” are trying to hurt China by creating chaos in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that has prompted mass protests in the former British colony, an official Chinese newspaper said on Monday. Riot police surrounded Hong Kong’s parliament early on Monday after what had been a peaceful million-strong protest against the bill descended into running clashes between police and protesters. Hundreds of thousands had jammed…

Video Trump strikes deal with Mexico after threat of tariff hike National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd says President Trump had to threaten tariffs to force Mexico to step up and publicly agree to the deal. Even as he again hailed his administration’s last-minute, much-heralded deal on Friday with Mexico as a “successful agreement” to address illegal immigration at the southern border, President Trump on Sunday bluntly suggested he might…

BEIJING (Reuters) – “Foreign forces” are trying to hurt China by creating chaos in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that has prompted mass protests in the former British colony, an official Chinese newspaper said on Monday. Riot police surrounded Hong Kong’s parliament early on Monday after what had been a peaceful million-strong protest against the bill descended into running clashes between police and protesters. Hundreds of thousands had jammed…

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker greets supporters before the Iowa Democratic Party’s Hall of Fame event June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids. | Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo 2020 Elections The sprawling Democratic field, nearly all of whom attended the Hall of Fame dinner, sought to make a splash. By NATASHA KORECKI 06/09/2019 08:45 PM EDT Updated 06/09/2019 11:05 PM EDT 2019-06-09T11:05-0400 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In the early state where field…

Senators are ramping up their efforts to block President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump hits Comcast, MSNBC over ‘hatred,’ ‘fake news’ Trump hits Comcast, MSNBC over ‘hatred,’ ‘fake news’ Public support for liberal policymaking at 60-year high, survey says MORE’s emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies. Lawmakers in both parties are feeling a sense of urgency to respond to Trump’s use of executive powers before the weapons are delivered…

CLOSE President Donald Trump has called off plans to place tariffs on Mexico. Buzz60 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Sunday that there’s more to his deal with Mexico on tariffs and immigration than he announced two days ago, but he offered no specifics. Trump tweeted that there were some things Mexico said it would do to curb Central American migration that were “not mentioned” in a description of the agreement…

Microsoft is revealing the first details about its next-generation Xbox hardware today. Rumors suggested Microsoft would launch two new Xbox consoles in 2020, with one designed to be the equivalent of the current Xbox One X and the other, the Xbox One S. We’re now starting to get more information on the next high-end Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett. Microsoft is including a custom designed CPU based on AMD’s Zen…

Yesenia Bosquez’s family had moved into their top-floor apartment just two weeks before the crane came crashing through Sunday. She returned from a shopping trip to find her apartment, where she’d left her husband, Jay, to recover from a shoulder injury, crushed by the twisted metal. It took about 30 minutes for authorities to tell her that her husband had been rescued alive and had been holding their dog while medics…

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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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…