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The committee’s chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff, issued a subpoena on Thursday for Mr. Barr to hand over the full Mueller report and evidence, as well as all counterintelligence and foreign intelligence generated by the special counsel’s investigations. He gave the Justice Department until May 15 to comply. If Mr. Barr ignores that deadline, the Intelligence Committee would probably hold its own contempt proceedings and send another recommendation to the…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Markets U.S. equity futures were little changed Thursday as traders awaited a midnight deadline for tariffs to increase. Stock futures opened slightly lower, with S&P futures contracts down 0.1%. Dow and Nasdaq futures both fell 0.12%. China’s Vice Premier Liu He is meeting with top U.S. trade officials Thursday evening in Washington, just hours before the new tariffs are set to go into effect. President…

The three students who disarmed a gunman in a Colorado school shooting leapt up from their desks without a word and with no thought for their own safety when they spotted the gun, recounted one of the young men. They slammed the teenager, a classmate of theirs, against the wall and struggled with him when shots rang out. Kendrick Castillo, who led the charge, slumped to the ground….

A vigil held Wednesday evening to recognize the victims and heroes of the shooting earlier this week at a Colorado high school turned into a political protest after some students in attendance expressed frustration with the tone and focus of the speeches. According to local news reports, a group of students walked out of the event, organized by a local chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, after…

The civil action came as North Korea’s weapons tests over the past several days have threatened the disarmament discussions that President Trump opened. Mr. Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, abruptly ended their second meeting earlier this year when Mr. Trump refused to ease sanctions unless the North dismantled all of its nuclear weapons. Though the Justice Department obtained a sealed seizure warrant for the ship in July,…

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The growing chorus calling for Facebook’s breakup just added a big voice: Chris Hughes, one of the social media giant’s co-founders and Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate. In an op-ed published in the New York Times on Thursday, Hughes laid out a scathing case for the government to crack down on Facebook and scale back Zuckerberg’s power. He argued that regulators should unwind the company’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, create…

Emily Wax-Thibodeaux Ariana Eunjung Cha May 9 at 12:14 PM Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the Alabama Senate had voted to pass the nation’s strictest abortion bill. After a shouting match broke out, the Alabama Senate on Thursday tabled an amendment to a controversial bill that would criminalize abortions by making performing the procedure a felony punishable by up to 99 years imprisonment. The decision…

North Korea on Thursday fired projectiles that are believed to be missiles from the country’s western area, South Korea’s military says. The same day in Seoul, people watch a TV showing footage of a previous missile launch by North Korea. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption toggle caption Ahn Young-joon/AP North Korea on Thursday fired projectiles that are believed to be missiles from the country’s western area, South Korea’s military says. The…

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<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Economy Beijing has made adequate preparations to respond to the U.S. on trade, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Thursday. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He Liu He and his team are in the U.S. on Thursday and Friday for an 11th round of negotiations on trade issues. U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced on Sunday that tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods would…

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A co-founder of Facebook is calling for the government to break up the tech giant in an op-ed article published in The New York Times Thursday morning. “The Facebook that exists today is not the Facebook that we founded in 2004,” Chris Hughes, who started Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in their Harvard dorm, told NBC News following the publication of his op-ed article on the same topic. “And the one…

CLOSE Students of the Colorado STEM school shooting stormed out of an “interfaith vigil,” saying their trauma was being politicized. USA TODAY A vigil honoring Colorado high school shooting victim Kendrick Castillo dissolved into protest late Wednesday with some students walking out and others chanting “mental health” when speakers discussed gun control. More than 2,000 attended the vigil at STEM School Highlands Ranch High School, as STEM School Highlands Ranch students…

Alex Wong/Getty Images mueller investigation By ANDREW DESIDERIO 05/08/2019 07:26 PM EDT Updated 05/08/2019 07:54 PM EDT Wed May 08 19:54:51 EDT 2019 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff issued a subpoena to the Justice Department on Wednesday for the unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, in addition to all of the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information collected during the 22-month investigation. The subpoena comes after Schiff (D-Calif.)…

But instead of celebrating Kendrick Castillo’s graduation, the family of the 18-year-old will be mourning his death. Castillo, a senior at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver, was killed in a classroom Tuesday in a shooting that police say was carried out by a pair of his classmates: 18-year-old Devon Erickson and a younger classmate who has not been identified because she is a juvenile. Eight other students were…

After negotiations with the Department of Justice fell apart, House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee voted to find Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not complying with the panel’s subpoenas to provide documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.  The vote passed along party lines, 24-16, after six hours of contentious debate on the topic. The contempt resolution will now go to the full House for a…

One day after the Senate Majority Leader proclaimed the Russia investigation, “Case closed” in a speech on the Senate floor – and hours after President Trump declared the same on Twitter – multiple news organizations reported Wednesday that the Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena for additional testimony by Donald Trump Jr. on the Russia probe, a surprise action by a committee controlled by Republicans in…

LOS ANGELES – The Latest on the seizure of more than 1,000 guns in Los Angeles (all times local): 8:05 p.m. Authorities say they’ve arrested a man after seizing more than 1,000 guns from a mansion in a posh area of Los Angeles. Police and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a search warrant at around 4 a.m. Wednesday at the home on the border…