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Body of police chief found after falling off fishing boat – ABC News
Search and rescue crews have recovered the body of a Texas police chief and former Army paratrooper who went missing after he fell off a fishing boat in Galveston Bay. Chris Reed, the police chief for the Kemah Police Department, lost his balance and went overboard due to a wake created by a larger passing vessel near Texas City on Friday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Reed’s wife called…
Widowed By Police Suicide, Women Want Officers To Reach Out For Help – NPR
Nicole Rikard’s husband, John Rikard, died by suicide in 2015. She talks with three other widows of police suicide every day. Eslah Attar for NPR hide caption toggle caption Eslah Attar for NPR Nicole Rikard’s husband, John Rikard, died by suicide in 2015. She talks with three other widows of police suicide every day. Eslah Attar for NPR Nicole Rikard had recently married Sgt. John Rikard of the Asheville Police…
Trump is ‘perfectly happy’ to hit China with new tariffs if Xi meeting doesn’t go well, Mnuchin says – CNBC
Mnuchin weighed in on several of the thorniest subjects thought to be separating the American and Chinese sides from a deal. For one, he said that the issue of removing China’s so-called non-tariff barriers to foreign companies succeeding within its borders remains central to the U.S. position on the talks. “In negotiating our agreement, one of the big parts of the agreement has always been about non-tariff barriers, is about…
House launches pre-impeachment agenda this week – Washington Examiner
House Democrats this week plan to begin making the case for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants the caucus to stay away from impeachment, but to mollify her pro-impeachment faction, she has sanctioned hearings as well as votes citing two Trump administration officials with contempt of Congress. The action starts Monday in the House Judiciary Committee where lawmakers plan to hold a series of hearings…
Trump is ‘perfectly happy’ to hit China with new tariffs if Xi meeting doesn’t go well, Mnuchin says – CNBC
Mnuchin weighed in on several of the thorniest subjects thought to be separating the American and Chinese sides from a deal. For one, he said that the issue of removing China’s so-called non-tariff barriers to foreign companies succeeding within its borders remains central to the U.S. position on the talks. “In negotiating our agreement, one of the big parts of the agreement has always been about non-tariff barriers, is about…
The deal that Trump announced would avert tariffs on Mexico reportedly mostly includes things Mexico agreed to do months earlier – Business Insider
The deal with Mexico that President Donald Trump said Friday would avert his impending tariffs mostly contains actions that Mexico had agreed to months ago, The New York Times reported Saturday. Among the items included in the agreement was a promise to deploy Mexico’s National Guard throughout the country and its southern border — but officials from both countries say the Mexican government had already vowed to do so in…
Beto O’Rourke described as ‘blank slate’ by Iowa Democrat introducing him – Washington Examiner
A local Democrat introduced Beto O’Rourke as a “blank slate” at a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday. “Beto is here because he wants to hear what rural Iowa and rural America is standing for. He is going from city to city. He wants to hear what we want. He is a blank slate that is waiting to be filled by our hopes and dreams for the United States,” the…
‘We All Owe Al Gore An Apology’: More People See Climate Change In Record Flooding – NPR
Floodwaters from the Arkansas River line either side of a road in Russellville, Ark., engulfing businesses and vehicles. Nathan Rott/NPR hide caption toggle caption Nathan Rott/NPR Floodwaters from the Arkansas River line either side of a road in Russellville, Ark., engulfing businesses and vehicles. Nathan Rott/NPR Angel Portillo doesn’t think about climate change much. It’s not that he doesn’t care. He’s just got other things to worry about. Climate change…
Mnuchin threatens China with tariffs if they bail on trade deal – New York Post
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reportedly urged China to come back to trade talks, threatening more tariffs if Beijing doesn’t live up to its commitments. “If they want to come back to the table and complete the deal on the terms that we were continuing to negotiate, that would be great,” he said Saturday in Fukuoka, Japan, according to the New York Times. “If not, as the president said, we’ll move…
White House Blocks Testimony Calling Climate Change ‘Possibly Catastrophic’ – Newsweek
The White House blocked a State Department senior intelligence analyst’s congressional testimony on climate change being “potentially catastrophic” this week because it didn’t “jibe” with the Trump administration’s views on the matter. The analyst, Rob Schoonover, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, was barred from submitting testimony to the House Intelligence Committee after officials refused the written document’s references to federal scientific findings on climate change, Washington Post reported. The…
New York Times: Mexico, US agreed on border policies months before Trump tariff threat – CNN
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For Democrats, Trump impeachment question is a personal struggle transcending politics – The Washington Post
Rep. Daniel Kildee (D-Mich.) is interviewed in the Capitol on April 4. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP) Mike DeBonis Rachael Bade Paul Kane June 8 at 6:00 PM For two House Democrats from different backgrounds, the searing debate over whether to impeach President Trump prompted an identical question: What about my grandkids? Rep. Daniel Kildee, who represents a blue-collar Michigan district that Trump nearly won in 2016, calls it the “Caitlin…
CNN Iowa Poll: Biden leads a tighter top tier in first caucus state – CNN
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Mexico: Tariff deal with US struck ‘fair balance’ – Washington Examiner
Mexican negotiators hailed the new tariff-averting immigration deal with the United States as a “fair balance” between their priorities and the more “drastic” proposals that President Trump initially demanded. “I think it’s a fair balance because they had more drastic measures and proposals at the start and we reached some middle point,” Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said of the deal, which Trump announced Friday night. Ebrard was particularly determined…
White House blocked state department testimony on climate change – Business Insider
The White House is engaged in a war of words about climate change. Last Wednesday, Rod Schoonover, a senior analyst at the US State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, was barred from submitting his written assessment of the effects of a warming world to the House Intelligence Committee, the Washington Post reported. Schoonover was scheduled to testify on behalf of the bureau at a climate change hearing held on…
Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal – The New York Times
Ms. Sanchez also told Ms. Nielsen that the Mexican government’s new national guard, which had been created just a month earlier to combat drugs and crime, would be redirected to the border with Guatemala, the entry point for most of the Central American migrants. At the time, Ms. Nielsen and the other American negotiators referred to the Mexican promise as the “third border” plan because the Mexicans proposed creating a…
Washington Post: White House blocked State Department agency from warning about climate change – CNN
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Pelosi hits Trump’s deal with Mexico, accuses him of ‘threats and temper tantrums’ – Fox News
Video Trump and Mexico reach deal on trade, migration Reaction and analysis from Fox News contributor Richard Fowler. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Saturday hit parts of President Trump’s deal with Mexico on stopping migrant flows after he threatened to slap tariffs on the country — saying that Trump was engaged in “threats and temper tantrums.” “President Trump undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening…
Beto O’Rourke described as ‘blank slate’ by Iowa Democrat introducing him – Washington Examiner
A local Democrat introduced Beto O’Rourke as a “blank slate” at a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday. “Beto is here because he wants to hear what rural Iowa and rural America is standing for. He is going from city to city. He wants to hear what we want. He is a blank slate that is waiting to be filled by our hopes and dreams for the United States,” the…
Mnuchin says Trump still has authority to impose tariffs if Mexico does not abide by immigration deal – CNBC
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