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CLOSE While the Caribbean is historically considered pricey, the Dominican Republic offers some of the best all-inclusive deals in the region. There’s a wide range of resorts in the Dominican Republic, and travelers can find good value in the Dominican peso whether they’re on a budget or looking for luxury. The 2019 Backpacker Index ranks Puerto Plata, Samana and Punta Cana, along with Playa del Carmen in Mexico, as the top four…

Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will leave the Trump administration, President Donald Trump announced Sunday. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo white house By VICTORIA GUIDA 06/02/2019 10:46 PM EDT President Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Kevin Hassett, his chief economist and a prominent promoter of the president’s tax cuts, will be stepping down from his position with a replacement to be named soon. “Kevin…

Video Chris Wallace pushes back against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s criticism of Fox News Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Gillibrand claims a ‘false narrative’ has been created in the abortion debate. Things got heated at a Fox News town hall in Iowa Sunday when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. used the platform to blame the network for allowing discussions of infanticide in debates about abortion and women’s reproductive rights. When asked by a retired pediatric…

A city engineer in Virginia Beach who killed 12 people in a shooting rampage at work had submitted his resignation letter earlier that day, a city official said Sunday. Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen said DeWayne Craddock, 40, sent his two-weeks notice in an email Friday morning. Hansen said Craddock, who had worked with the city’s utilities department for 15 years and died in a gun battle with police,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that he never called Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, “nasty.” The president used the adjective while discussing Meghan in a recent interview with Britain’s The Sun newspaper in the run-up to his state visit to the U.K. on Monday. But debate on social media since then has raged over whether his use of “nasty” referred…

Karla Adam Griff Witte June 2 at 6:26 PM LONDON — In Britain, a state visit doesn’t just mean dining with the prime minister, or even tea with the queen. It means an extraordinary level of pomp and pageantry, plus a sleepover at Buckingham Palace. At least, it normally does.  Britain is gearing up for this week’s state visit by President Trump as only Britain can do. There will be…

President Donald Trump inserted himself into the UK’s fraught politics ahead of his official state visit to the nation Sunday, suggesting the government should “walk away” from a Brexit deal with the European Union if British demands are not met. “I would walk away,” Trump said in an interview with The Sunday Times. “If you don’t get the deal you want, if you don’t get a fair deal, then you…

On Sunday, a senior Chinese official made a series of statements outlining the Chinese government’s terms for negotiation and pushed back on the United States’ use of pressure to force concessions, according to multiple reports. Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen, who led the working-level team in earlier negotiations, said on Sunday that the US bears responsibility for the collapse of trade talks, and noted that any deal must include “balanced”…

Video How do authorities in the medical community respond to mass shootings? Dr. Marc Siegel says that triaging victims is a major key to saving lives in a mass shooting situation. The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday. The gunman, identified as 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, was an engineer with the city’s…

Video How do authorities in the medical community respond to mass shootings? Dr. Marc Siegel says that triaging victims is a major key to saving lives in a mass shooting situation. The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday. The gunman, identified as 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, was an engineer with the city’s…

The Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military amid a furor over a Trump administration order to obscure the Navy ship named for the late Sen. John McCain from view during President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Japan. Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan told his chief of staff on Friday to speak with the White House military office “and reaffirm his mandate that the Department…

Video How do authorities in the medical community respond to mass shootings? Dr. Marc Siegel says that triaging victims is a major key to saving lives in a mass shooting situation. The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday. The gunman, identified as 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, was an engineer with the city’s…

“I fully expect these tariffs to go on to at least the 5 percent level on June 10,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo trade By KELSEY TAMBORRINO 06/02/2019 10:29 AM EDT Updated 06/02/2019 12:51 PM EDT 2019-06-02T12:51-0400 President Donald Trump is “deadly serious” about his threat to impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico over his concerns of illegal…

Donald Trump will land in the UK on Monday amid anger over comments made by his ambassador suggesting the NHS should be “on the table” in future trade negotiations. His visit also came as cabinet ministers vying for the Tory leadership suggested they could tear up plans for the Chinese tech giant Huawei to build parts of the UK’s 5G network, after the ambassador, Woody Johnson, warned it was “a…

Sen. John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (R-La.) on Sunday said Democrats who support impeaching President TrumpDonald John TrumpLondon mayor says UK is ‘on the wrong side of history’ with Trump visit Hickenlooper booed in San Francisco for denouncing socialism Cuomo calls Trump base ‘mostly middle aged angry white males’ MORE should “buy a spine” and do it. But he also said they’d regret it, pointing to polls that show a minority…

“I fully expect these tariffs to go on to at least the 5 percent level on June 10,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo trade By KELSEY TAMBORRINO 06/02/2019 10:29 AM EDT Updated 06/02/2019 12:51 PM EDT 2019-06-02T12:51-0400 President Donald Trump is “deadly serious” about his threat to impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico over his concerns of illegal…

Acting White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyMexican president on Trump immigration tariffs: ‘America First is a fallacy’ Dow futures plummet after Trump announces new Mexico tariffs Trump announces tariffs on Mexico over immigration MORE said Sunday that it wasn’t “unreasonable” for an administration staffer to ask that the USS McCain be hidden during President TrumpDonald John TrumpLondon mayor says UK is ‘on the wrong side of…

Video How do authorities in the medical community respond to mass shootings? Dr. Marc Siegel says that triaging victims is a major key to saving lives in a mass shooting situation. The Virginia Beach shooter who killed 12 people and wounded several others in a municipal complex on Friday had submitted his resignation earlier that morning, officials said Sunday. The gunman, identified as 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock, was an engineer with the city’s…

“I fully expect these tariffs to go on to at least the 5 percent level on June 10,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo trade By KELSEY TAMBORRINO 06/02/2019 10:29 AM EDT Updated 06/02/2019 12:51 PM EDT 2019-06-02T12:51-0400 President Donald Trump is “deadly serious” about his threat to impose a 5 percent tariff on all goods from Mexico over his concerns of illegal…

Acting White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyMexican president on Trump immigration tariffs: ‘America First is a fallacy’ Dow futures plummet after Trump announces new Mexico tariffs Trump announces tariffs on Mexico over immigration MORE said Sunday that it wasn’t “unreasonable” for an administration staffer to ask that the USS McCain be hidden during President TrumpDonald John TrumpLondon mayor says UK is ‘on the wrong side of…