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Erica Werner Seung Min Kim Damian Paletta June 3 at 10:07 PM Congressional Republicans have begun discussing whether they may have to vote to block President Trump’s planned new tariffs on Mexico, potentially igniting a second standoff this year over Trump’s use of executive powers to circumvent Congress, people familiar with the talks said. The vote, which would be the GOP’s most dramatic act of defiance since Trump took office,…

CLOSE President Donald Trump is set to begin a state visit to the United Kingdom on Monday. He said he plans to meet with politicians who support Britain’s exit from the European Union, and that there is an opportunity for a U.S.-British trade deal. (June 3) AP, AP WASHINGTON — Minutes after the House of Representatives passed a $19.1 billion bipartisan disaster assistance bill, President Donald Trump praised it and called…

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Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 4 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 4 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A young and healthy Texas couple on a dream vacation in Fiji died suddenly after they both contracted a mysterious illness. Family of David and Michelle Paul said the Fort Worth couple began feeling unwell the day before they were supposed to leave Fiji and…

Thirty years ago, Chinese troops opened fire on protesters who had gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, killing hundreds if not thousands of people in a massacre that crushed a student-led movement for democracy. The actions of China’s citizens and the government’s authoritarian reaction in the spring of 1989 have rippled across history, shaping the path party leaders would take the country for the following three decades. Here’s a guide to…

A federal judge rejected a request by House Democrats to stop President Trump from transferring funds to build his border wall. Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that one chamber of Congress cannot sue the executive branch over spending. “This is a case about whether one chamber of Congress has the ‘constitutional means’ to conscript the Judiciary in a political turf war with the President over the implementation of legislation,” McFadden wrote….

The second article of impeachment might be that Trump encouraged and benefited from foreign interference in the 2016 election. This, too, is unforgivable. But, again, the broad outlines were known before the election – he invited Russia’s help, he crowed about WikiLeaks’ publication of stolen Democratic emails – and, again, he was elected anyway.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard attends a news conference with the Mexican delegation negotiating tariffs with U.S. officials on Monday in Washington, D.C. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard attends a news conference with the Mexican delegation negotiating tariffs with U.S. officials on Monday in Washington, D.C. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images The Mexican government has employed a tone of friendship that’s averse…

Video Brit Hume on Trump Trip Fox News’ senior political analyst on the long, positive relationship between the US and the UK. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is bigger than personal or political differences, Brit Hume said Monday night. Hume, Fox News’ senior political analyst, said on “Special Report” that President Trump’s visit to London highlighted his point. During a formal dinner at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth…

The city engineer who gunned down 12 people at a municipal building in Virginia Beach told a supervisor that he planned on quitting his job for “personal reasons,” according to his resignation letter released Monday. The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, 40, submitted the letter Friday — the same day he opened fire at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. In an email, Craddock — who had worked at the city’s public utilities…

As expected, Apple has announced iOS 13 onstage at WWDC 2019, giving a first look at the company’s latest software for the iPhone. According to Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, iOS 13 is the “next big release for iOS,” and will offer a variety of improvements to the operating system. Chief among those is a new (and long-awaited) dark mode, improvements to performance, and more changes….

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump toured historic Westminster Abbey, where British royals are crowned, wed and buried, as the first day of the Trumps’ state visit to Britain continued Monday. The Trumps’ visit to the Abbey also included a solemn laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, first interred in 1920 in the central aisle of the Abbey. The presidential couple were accompanied by Prince Andrew, Duke of York,…

Video President Trump, family met with pomp and circumstance at Buckingham Palace Brexit Party leader and Fox News contributor Nigel Farage breaks down the big moment as the royal family greets President Trump. President Trump mixed high-level diplomacy with schoolyard taunts as he kicked off his overseas visit meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace and later touring Westminster Abbey — while sparring on the side with one of his biggest…

The Lofgran and Weed families outside Buckingham Palace. CNN Crowds are beginning to gather outside Buckingham Palace ahead of US President Donald Trump’s arrival to meet the Queen. For two American families, Trump’s UK trip came as a surprise. “We were on holiday and just read he was coming, and thought, ‘this is going to be interesting!’” Andrea Lofgran, from Arizona, told CNN. “When we came around the corner and…

Exempting Australia from tariffs effectively allowed Australian producers to sell cheaper metals to the United States than their competitors from Europe, North America and Asia. Aluminum imports from Australia rose by 45 percent from 2017 to 2018. They are up even more, by 350 percent, for the first three months of 2019, compared with the same period in 2018. But Australia remains a relatively small supplier of aluminum to the…

CLOSE While the Caribbean is historically considered pricey, the Dominican Republic offers some of the best all-inclusive deals in the region. There’s a wide range of resorts in the Dominican Republic, and travelers can find good value in the Dominican peso whether they’re on a budget or looking for luxury. The 2019 Backpacker Index ranks Puerto Plata, Samana and Punta Cana, along with Playa del Carmen in Mexico, as the top four…

Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will leave the Trump administration, President Donald Trump announced Sunday. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo white house By VICTORIA GUIDA 06/02/2019 10:46 PM EDT President Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Kevin Hassett, his chief economist and a prominent promoter of the president’s tax cuts, will be stepping down from his position with a replacement to be named soon. “Kevin…

Video Chris Wallace pushes back against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s criticism of Fox News Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Gillibrand claims a ‘false narrative’ has been created in the abortion debate. Things got heated at a Fox News town hall in Iowa Sunday when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. used the platform to blame the network for allowing discussions of infanticide in debates about abortion and women’s reproductive rights. When asked by a retired pediatric…

A city engineer in Virginia Beach who killed 12 people in a shooting rampage at work had submitted his resignation letter earlier that day, a city official said Sunday. Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen said DeWayne Craddock, 40, sent his two-weeks notice in an email Friday morning. Hansen said Craddock, who had worked with the city’s utilities department for 15 years and died in a gun battle with police,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that he never called Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, “nasty.” The president used the adjective while discussing Meghan in a recent interview with Britain’s The Sun newspaper in the run-up to his state visit to the U.K. on Monday. But debate on social media since then has raged over whether his use of “nasty” referred…