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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…

Denver is set to become the first city in the United States to effectively decriminalize the psychedelic substance in “magic mushrooms,” but only after it appeared the ballot measure would fail in a tight race. The measure, sponsored by a group of citizen activists, appears to have passed Wednesday by a 1.12 percent margin, according to NBC-affiliate KUSA. The move underlines Denver’s role in shaping the national conversation around drug…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 8 Fox News Flash top headlines for May 8 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decried U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s support for disputed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro Wednesday as “disgusting” and “not in either of our countries’ best interests.” “It is disgusting to see leaders, in not only the United Kingdom but the…

Video House Judiciary Committee votes to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt 24 Democrats voted yes and 16 Republicans voted no to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt. In yet another dramatic escalation in the ongoing battle between House Democrats and the Trump administration, the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed the Justice Department for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted report and the underlying evidence. The subpoena comes hours…

Updated at 8:06 p.m. ET A day after the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, local officials urged people not to view such attacks as part of life in Colorado. “These are aberrant acts,” 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler said. This week’s attack happened not long after the 20th anniversary of the school shooting in nearby Columbine. The shooting injured eight people and left one student dead….

WASHINGTON – The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., according to a published report. The subpoena is in relation to Russia investigation matters, Axios reports. The move will pit a Republican-led congressional committee – chaired by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) – against the Republican White House. This also marks the first time one of the president’s children has been handed a subpoena. While special counsel Robert Mueller was…

LOS ANGELES — Federal and local agents seized more than 1,000 weapons Wednesday at a home in one of the richest neighborhoods in the country, authorities said. Los Angeles police and agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives discovered the rifles and pistols while serving a search warrant at the residence in the Holmby Hills area of west Los Angeles. “This stemmed from an investigation of…

Video New York Times reports Trump tax figures show financial trouble from 1984-1995 The president goes on the defense on Twitter after the New York Times reports on his ‘decade in the red’; Kevin Corke reports from the White House. The New York Times no doubt considers it quite a coup to have obtained and published President Trump’s tax return information from 1985 to 1994. But doing so violated Trump’s right under…

Video Rep. Jim Jordan: House Democrats are trying to destroy Attorney General William Barr The push to hold William Barr in contempt is an effort to prevent the attorney general from investigating the origins of the Mueller probe, says Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee. House Judiciary Committee Republican Jim Jordan charged at an explosive hearing on Wednesday that Democrats were out to “destroy” Attorney…

Video Rep. Jim Jordan: House Democrats are trying to destroy Attorney General William Barr The push to hold William Barr in contempt is an effort to prevent the attorney general from investigating the origins of the Mueller probe, says Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee. House Judiciary Committee Republican Jim Jordan charged at an explosive hearing on Wednesday that Democrats were out to “destroy” Attorney…

Video Rep. Jim Jordan: House Democrats are trying to destroy Attorney General William Barr The push to hold William Barr in contempt is an effort to prevent the attorney general from investigating the origins of the Mueller probe, says Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee. House Judiciary Committee Republican Jim Jordan charged at an explosive hearing on Wednesday that Democrats were out to “destroy” Attorney…