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Good news: On Friday, the U.S. has reached a deal with Canada and Mexico to end tariffs on metal imports. As first reported by Politico, “The agreement completely lifts the 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum. In a development that will bring relief to pro-traders, it does not involve quotas.” As the Washington Examiner’s Colin Wilhelm notes, this should expedite congressional passage of the president’s…

Karen DeYoung Liz Sly Josh Dawsey May 17 at 7:36 PM As Iran girds for possible war with the United States, President Trump may turn out to be the best friend it has. Despite the saber-rattling of senior aides and Trump’s own tweets, when push has come to shove over the past two years, the president has repeatedly backed away from the threatened use of military force. Whether the target…

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Richard Strauss was employed as a doctor at Ohio State University from 1978 until he retired in 1998. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Richard Strauss was employed as a doctor at Ohio State University from 1978 until he retired in 1998. AP For nearly two decades, a doctor at The Ohio State University sexually abused at least 177 male students, according to an exhaustive independent investigation commissioned by the…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 17 Fox News Flash top headlines for May 17 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com President Trump on Friday denied reports of infighting among White House advisers over the situation with Iran, as he ripped reporters for citing anonymous sources in stories about his administration. “It’s bulls–t,” the president said during a speech to a convention of Realtors in Washington,…

“I don’t see what good it would do at this particular time,” Mr. Neal told CNN, when asked about the possibility of contempt proceedings. “I think if both sides have made up their minds, better to move it over to the next branch of government, the judiciary.” That did not sit well among Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, who have consistently pushed a more aggressive approach toward getting…

CLOSE President Donald Trump’s new immigration proposal would create a system to prioritize highly skilled immigrants. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will suspend tariffs on steel and aluminum that were imposed on Canada and Mexico a year ago in an effort to gain leverage in broader trade negotiations, the White House said Friday.   Trump was poised to lift the tariffs in coming days, said two sources familiar with the…

CLOSE As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole beneath a border wall in a video provided by US Customs and Border Protection. An advocate for the migrants says it shows their desperation. (April 2) AP, AP The Trump administration is preparing to send Central American migrants caught along the southern border to Border Patrol stations “across the entire nation,” according to a…

The president has made heavy use of tariffs as a cudgel to both extract concessions from trading partners and limit the influx of foreign goods into the United States. But the tariffs rest on a controversial and little-used legal provision that gives the president broad authority to limit imports to protect the national security of the United States. Mr. Trump’s Friday proclamation said a Commerce Department investigation concluded that imports…

Missouri’s Republican-led House passed a bill banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy with an exception for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest. Republican Gov. Mike Parson is likely to sign the bill, following the governors of Alabama, Georgia and several other states who have also recently signed stringent abortion legislation. “Until the day that we no longer have abortions in this country, I will never waiver in…

Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin just set new lows for… Vermont’s 2.2%, Pennsylvania’s 3.8% and Wisconsin’s 2.8% set new lows for state unemployment rates, as indicated by records that go back to 1976. Jobsread more

Video William Barr on investigation into origins of Russia probe, conclusion Trump didn’t obstruct justice Attorney General William Barr sits down with Bill Hemmer to discuss the use of the anti-Trump Steele dossier by intel officials. Attorney General Bill Barr, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, revealed that the recently announced review of the origins of the Russia probe will focus in part on a controversial briefing that intelligence officials gave…

Abortion has been a unifying issue for Republicans in recent years, but now that the possibility exists of overturning Roe v. Wade, we’re starting to see fissures develop. As long as Roe v. Wade has been on safe ground, as has been the case since 1992, abortion could be a unifying issue on the Right. It was easy for most Republicans to simply talk about the importance of judges and…

President Donald Trump’s long-awaited plan to overhaul the immigration system proposes a merit-based system to admit more high-skilled, well-educated immigrants. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images White House By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 05/17/2019 07:55 AM EDT President Donald Trump predicted Friday there’s a “good chance” that congressional Democrats will decide to work with him to pass his recently unveiled immigration plan before next year’s election, despite every indication to the contrary. “Will the…

America’s push to upgrade airports gets traction with new New… When the New Orleans new terminal opens later this year, it will be the latest upgrade and expansion of a U.S. airport, a key part of America’s infrastructure sorely in need… Airlinesread more

President Trump said court-ordered FBI surveillance of his 2016 presidential campaign was treason and those connected to it should serve long prison sentences. “A really bad situation,” Trump tweeted Friday. “TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!” My Campaign for President was conclusively spied on. Nothing like this has ever happened in American Politics. A really bad situation. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON! —…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday released a statement calling on Congress to pass a slate of legislation aimed at guaranteeing abortion and other reproductive rights around the country, even if Roe v. Wade falls. The statement, posted on Medium, comes as a wave of strict anti-abortion laws are sweeping the country. On Wednesday, Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama signed into law a bill banning nearly all abortions in the…

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Still, other women said they were alarmed by the limits emerging from the Legislature and the governor’s office, which opponents have vowed to challenge in court. “It’s insulting as an educated woman — in consultation with my highly educated doctor — that I can’t come to a decision that’s best for me and for my health,” said Erin Arnold, who lives in Birmingham and teaches biology. “A woman should have…

Carol D. Leonnig Rosalind S. Helderman May 16 at 10:07 PM A federal judge on Thursday ordered that prosecutors make public a transcript of a phone call that former national security adviser Michael Flynn tried hard to hide with a lie: his conversation with a Russian ambassador in late 2016. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington ordered the government also to provide a public transcript of a November…