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Austria‘s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for fresh elections after his ruling coalition collapsed following an apparent video sting that forced his deputy to step down. In a statement on Saturday, Kurz said he would ask the country’s President Alexander Van der Bellen to hold a new vote “as soon as possible”. The call came hours after Heinz-Christian Strache, the vice chancellor and leader of the far-right Freedom…

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Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 18 Fox News Flash top headlines for May 18 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com Australia’s ruling conservative coalition defied polls and scored a stunning political victory in the country’s general election on Saturday, with the main opposition party officially conceding the defeat. Opposition leader Bill Shorten called Prime Minister Scott Morrison to congratulate him on the election victory. He…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may not need Congress to go to war with Iran. That’s the case his lieutenants have been quietly building as tension between the two nations have escalated. The key elements involve drawing links between al Qaeda and Iran and casting Iran as a terrorist threat to the U.S. — which is exactly what administration officials have been doing in recent weeks. That could give Trump…

Recently resurfaced comments in which Joe Biden described the need to build a border fence and punish employers for hiring “illegals” are pure political gold for President Trump’s reelection efforts. When CNN dug up a video of Biden speaking hawkishly about immigration at a 2006 talk before a South Carolina rotary club, much of the focus was on how it could be used against him in the Democratic primary. But…

WeWork lost $1.9 billion last year, but it’s considering going… The We Company, parent company of WeWork, is the latest in a string of richly valued start-ups set to go public this year. It is valued at $47 billion, but like other newly… Technologyread more

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it could temporarily scale back restrictions on China’s Huawei Technologies, reported Reuters. The Commerce Department is considering issuing a temporary general license to “prevent the interruption of existing network operations and equipment,” reported Reuters citing a spokesperson. It came just two days after Huawei and its 70 affiliates were added by the U.S. to its “Entity List,” a move that bans the company…

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Nick Miroff Josh Dawsey May 18 at 12:10 AM An attempt by President Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller to engineer a new shake-up at the Department of Homeland Security was blocked this week by Kevin McAleenan, the department’s acting secretary, who said he might leave his post unless the situation improved and he was given more control over his agency, administration officials said. The closed-door clash flared over the fate…

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg fired back at President Donald Trump’s recent comment about being “absolutely fine” with the mayor’s gay marriage, sarcastically saying “that’s nice” while pointing out the administration’s poor record on LGBT citizens. Buttigieg was on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday evening at an event labeled as a book club discussion about “Shortest Way Home,” which he released earlier this year. But it was his…

Video Lara Trump: The president has been talking about fixing our broken immigration system for so long 2020 Trump campaign senior adviser says the president’s new policy proposal sets out to give legal immigrants the best chance possible to succeed in America. Lara Trump, a senior campaign adviser for her father-in-law President Trump, told “America’s Newsroom” hosts she’s unbothered by a new poll showing Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and…

China is powering ahead of the US in the race for mega start-ups The surge of growth is a testament to a unique business environment, as well as a population more than three times larger than the U.S. At the same time, it bears all the… China Economyread more

Good news: On Friday, the U.S. has reached a deal with Canada and Mexico to end tariffs on metal imports. As first reported by Politico, “The agreement completely lifts the 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum. In a development that will bring relief to pro-traders, it does not involve quotas.” As the Washington Examiner’s Colin Wilhelm notes, this should expedite congressional passage of the president’s…

Karen DeYoung Liz Sly Josh Dawsey May 17 at 7:36 PM As Iran girds for possible war with the United States, President Trump may turn out to be the best friend it has. Despite the saber-rattling of senior aides and Trump’s own tweets, when push has come to shove over the past two years, the president has repeatedly backed away from the threatened use of military force. Whether the target…

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Richard Strauss was employed as a doctor at Ohio State University from 1978 until he retired in 1998. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Richard Strauss was employed as a doctor at Ohio State University from 1978 until he retired in 1998. AP For nearly two decades, a doctor at The Ohio State University sexually abused at least 177 male students, according to an exhaustive independent investigation commissioned by the…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for May 17 Fox News Flash top headlines for May 17 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com President Trump on Friday denied reports of infighting among White House advisers over the situation with Iran, as he ripped reporters for citing anonymous sources in stories about his administration. “It’s bulls–t,” the president said during a speech to a convention of Realtors in Washington,…

“I don’t see what good it would do at this particular time,” Mr. Neal told CNN, when asked about the possibility of contempt proceedings. “I think if both sides have made up their minds, better to move it over to the next branch of government, the judiciary.” That did not sit well among Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, who have consistently pushed a more aggressive approach toward getting…

CLOSE President Donald Trump’s new immigration proposal would create a system to prioritize highly skilled immigrants. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will suspend tariffs on steel and aluminum that were imposed on Canada and Mexico a year ago in an effort to gain leverage in broader trade negotiations, the White House said Friday.   Trump was poised to lift the tariffs in coming days, said two sources familiar with the…

CLOSE As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole beneath a border wall in a video provided by US Customs and Border Protection. An advocate for the migrants says it shows their desperation. (April 2) AP, AP The Trump administration is preparing to send Central American migrants caught along the southern border to Border Patrol stations “across the entire nation,” according to a…