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United States President Donald Trump on Saturday warned without evidence of a massive market crash if he’s not re-elected in 2020. “The Trump Economy is setting records, and has a long way up to go,” he said. “However, if anyone but me takes over in 2020 (I know the competition very well), there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before! KEEP AMERICA GREAT).”…

Jeffrey Chan, a 19-year-old student, said he intended to go to the protest on Sunday. “I hope the government will directly withdraw this law, and not push ahead with it at any later time,” Mr. Chan said. Not everyone in Hong Kong, however, was dismayed with Mrs. Lam’s actions. Starry Lee, a pro-establishment lawmaker of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, said that she understood and supported…

Video US Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots and other employees to report encounters with ‘unidentified aircraft.’ President Trump said he’s been briefed by Navy pilots regarding sightings of unidentified flying objects, but remained skeptical of the existence of UFOs. George Stephanopoulos of ABC News raised the issue during an interview with Trump released Saturday. PENTAGON FINALLY ADMITS IT INVESTIGATES UFOS “I was struck…

Advertisement When Hong Kong was returned to Chinese control in 1997, Beijing solemnly vowed that economic and political rights in the formerly British-ruled enclave would remain inviolate until at least 2047. In a legally binding Joint Declaration, it stipulated that freedom “of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of travel, of movement, of correspondence, of strike, of choice of occupation, of academic research, and of religious belief” would…

CLOSE Target store in Novato, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) It was a tough afternoon to be at Target. After what appeared to be a nationwide register outage Saturday, some stores reported they were up and running again. The outage tried the patience of some, while others did their best to take it in stride. Shoppers posted to social media about long waits at the checkout line and then leaving stores empty-handed Saturday afternoon. “We are…

United States President Donald Trump on Saturday warned without evidence of a massive market crash if he’s not re-elected in 2020. “The Trump Economy is setting records, and has a long way up to go,” he said. “However, if anyone but me takes over in 2020 (I know the competition very well), there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before! KEEP AMERICA GREAT).”…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpDC board rejects Trump Hotel effort to dismiss complaint seeking removal of liquor license on basis of Trump’s ‘character’ DC board rejects Trump Hotel effort to dismiss complaint seeking removal of liquor license on basis of Trump’s ‘character’ Mexico’s immigration chief resigns amid US pressure over migrants MORE mocked news reports of his campaign’s internal polling on Friday with a tweet highlighting numerous polls taken in 2016 that…

Second, without precluding impeachment for this or other conduct, the House should pass a resolution condemning the welcoming of interference, reaffirming the obligation to report such conduct, explaining the necessity of protecting the American people’s right to pick their own leaders (can you believe such a statement is needed?) and setting forth the danger of such influence-peddling schemes that reduce anyone stupid enough to take such a meeting as a…

Shibani Mahtani June 15 at 9:05 AM HONG KONG —  Hong Kong’s government has suspended, but will not withdraw, a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China, the territory’s chief executive said Saturday, an apparent compromise after days of massive protests that saw violence between police and young demonstrators in the global financial hub. But protest organizers insisted the government’s decision is not enough and said they will go…

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If you lived in Sudan, you wouldn’t be able to read this. The country is under a “near total” internet blackout now as its military government attempts to quell protests that have been rumbling since December. The country’s longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir was forced out in April, but Sudan has struggled to gain stability in the time since. Recently, things got violent. Celebrities and citizens have been turning their social…

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Arkansas authorities have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of former state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith (R), State Police and Randolph County Sheriff’s deputies announced Friday. Special agents have taken Rebecca Lynn O’Donnell, 48, into custody and criminal charges against her are pending, police said in a statement. Police said the investigation is currently at a “critical juncture,” and they are not releasing any further information to maintain the case’s integrity. Collins-Smith, 57, was reportedly…

It’s clear that President Trump had good reason to send the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, flanked by destroyers and cruisers, to the Persian Gulf to protect shipping lanes from Iranian aggression. Then again, if American military power is merely political performance art, rather than a tool of genuine deterrence, what’s the point? Even as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Tehran trying to calm tensions between the United States and…

Video Ash Carter on Iran sanctions, oil tanker incident Ash Carter on Iran sanctions, oil tanker incident Iran’s government is feeling the pressure of sanctions, though relations are still tense between Washington and Tehran, according to former Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was correct to claim Iran is to blame for an attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman this week, Carter told Bret Baier on “Special…

CLOSE Sarah Sanders is stepping down after serving as the public face of the White House during some of the administration’s most contentious chapters. USA TODAY Sarah Sanders stepped down as White House press secretary this week, leaving a new task for President Donald Trump: finding a new voice of the administration. Sanders has been a key member that the president has turned to and has often bucked tradition under her tenure. She stopped hosting press…

ABC News on Friday published the results of an internal poll conducted by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in March, a survey that Trump himself denied even existed. The poll found Trump trailing Joe Biden by huge margins in states he carried in 2016, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In Texas, which has voted for Republican presidents by wide margins for the last 43 years, Trump holds just a two point…

A woman died earlier this week in the Dominican Republic, the latest in a spate of reported illnesses and deaths at resorts in the Caribbean country, according to the U.S. State Department. Leyla Cox, 53, was staying at the Excellence resort in Punta Cana when she died on Tuesday, her son Will, told NBC News. Meanwhile, another family has reported that their loved one died in the Dominican Republic in…

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The debates will air June 26 and 27 on NBC and Telemundo affiliates across the country, along with MSNBC on cable. | POLITICO Illustration/Getty Images 2020 Elections The field of 20 candidates has been randomly split into two groups of 10 debaters on back-to-back nights later this month. By ZACH MONTELLARO and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO 06/14/2019 12:41 PM EDT Updated 06/14/2019 04:03 PM EDT 2019-06-14T04:03-0400 The Democratic National Committee announced the…