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President Trump has already tried to use tariffs to straighten out what he views as a harmful trade deficit. It hasn’t worked at all. In fact, the overall monthly U.S. trade deficit increased by 17% between March 2017 and March 2019. Even worse, ever since Trump’s new trade war with China, he has had to spend more money bailing out angry farmers hurt by his tariffs than he has taken…

Video Eric Shawn: Mueller, Barr & Schiff, and the new Russia probe Alex Little on what it really takes to prepare a FISA warrant. Former assistant U.S. attorney Alex Little said on Saturday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had messages for both Republicans and Democrats in Congress when he held his first post-probe press briefing on Wednesday. “It’s pretty clear he had two audiences — I think one was congressional Democrats,…

Video Kamala Harris vows to fine companies that pay men more than women Is the 2020 hopeful’s plan to close the gender pay gap a good strategy? Independent Women’ Forum senior policy analyst Patrice Onwuka and youth political strategist Malia Fisher debate. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ star appears to be dimming as other Democrats rise past her while she struggles to gain a footing among likely voters. The junior U.S….

Former FBI Director James Comey slammed Attorney General William Barr for “echoing conspiracy theories” in an interview on CBS. “Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts and show them. That is what Justice is about,” Comey tweeted on Saturday. Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts…

Virginia Beach officials on Saturday identified the 12 victims killed in a mass shooting at the city’s municipal center. Eleven of the victims were city employees and one worked as a contractor at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. The gunman, identified as a city employee named 40-year-old Dwayne Craddock, died after a long gunfight with police. A local police officer was wounded while confronting the gunman. Chief James Cervera said in…

“Democrats, we have a fight on our hands,” she said, “and it’s a fight for who we are as a people. It’s a fight for the highest ideals or our nation. And Democrats, with this president, it’s a fight for truth itself.”

How the Sackler family became nonprofit pariahs The family behind Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, has closed down all new funding of nonprofits while it deals with myriad lawsuits related to its role in the opioid… Pharmaceuticalsread more

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12 killed after gunman opens fire ‘indiscriminately’ at Virginia Beach office: Police originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A city worker opened fire “indiscriminately” at the Municipal Center in Virginia Beach Friday afternoon, killing at least 12 people before he was shot dead by police in a “long gun battle,” police said. Eleven of the victims died on the scene and one succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital,…

“Here’s what you have to remember. Tariff equals tax hike,” said Paul Ingrassia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive journalist now working with the Revs Institute, said on CNBC Friday. But even vehicles assembled in the U.S. — including those bearing foreign brand names like Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai — would be hit by the tariffs if a resolution isn’t found before they go into effect in less than two weeks….

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The Illinois Senate late Friday sent to the governor legislation that establishes a woman’s “fundamental right” to an abortion. The 34-20 vote approving the Reproductive Health Act comes in response to new laws passed in other states narrowing abortion rights. At the same time, Nevada’s Democratic…

Beijing to investigate FedEx for ‘damaging rights of Chinese… According to Xinhua, FedEx failed to deliver express packages to designated addresses in China, “seriously damaging the lawful rights and interests of its clients and… Marketsread more

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It’s a vast expansion of the Trump administration’s enhanced screening of potential immigrants and visitors. In a move that’s just taken effect after approval of the revised application forms, the department says it has updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa forms to request…

Employees describe shooting scene Virginia Beach police say shooting suspect taken into custody Megan Banton, an employee who works in the building, told WTKR she could only think about making it home safe to her baby. “I have an 11-month old baby at home and all I could think about was him and trying to make it home to him,” Branton said. Sheila Cook, an employee at the courthouse in…

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., called for the public release of “all backup and source documentation” from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee sent out a tweet critical of Mueller after federal prosecutors, in compliance with an order from a federal judge, released the transcript of a voicemail former Trump lawyer John Dowd left for retired Lt….

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Seung Min Kim Josh Dawsey Damian Paletta May 31 at 8:19 PM President Trump, confronted with the latest surge of migration that threatens his tough-on-the-border image, was ready to launch his newest plan — across-the-board tariffs on Mexican goods, likely to wound the healthy economy and trigger protests from parts of his own party.  But during a Wednesday night huddle inside the Oval Office, Trump was running into a roadblock:…

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., called for the public release of “all backup and source documentation” from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee sent out a tweet critical of Mueller after federal prosecutors, in compliance with an order from a federal judge, released the transcript of a voicemail former Trump lawyer John Dowd left for retired Lt….

Attorney General William Barr contradicted himself in a significant way during an exclusive interview with CBS News, during which he revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) “didn’t agree with the legal analysis” the former special counsel Robert Mueller used in his obstruction-of-justice investigation into President Donald Trump. The attorney general added during the CBS interview that Mueller’s analysis “did not reflect the views of the department” and instead represented…

Image copyright Getty Images New Chinese tariffs of up to 25% have been imposed on $60bn (£46bn) worth of US goods. The tariffs, which came into force at midnight in Beijing on 1 June, are in retaliation for the US doubling tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods in May. China had previously imposed tariffs of between 5-10% on 5,140 US products. On Friday, China announced plans to blacklist some foreign…