Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said President Trump acted on national security grounds, seeing a rising tide of imports as a threat to the domestic metals industry. But officials from the European Union, Mexico and Canada dismiss the idea that their shipments endanger the United States.
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Following two days of talks with Kim Jong Un's top aide, the secretary of state spoke as though the summit President Trump had canceled last week was likely to be reinstated, but he still framed it as an "expected" first meeting.
Experts say the key to Pyongyang's willingness to scale back its nuclear program will be the administration's ability to provide the Kim regime a sense of security, in addition to economic and political incentives.
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President Trump's comments came after he tweeted earlier today that he would offer a full pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws.
Considering the "Hamilton" creator's ever-expanding sphere of interests, questions about ambitions that might take him far afield of Broadway and Hollywood don't seem so far-fetched. But he says he is content being a "private citizen with a big megaphone."
TBS, the network that airs Bee's "Full Frontal," apologized for airing the word. Autotrader announced it was pulling its ads from the show. Conservatives and the White House had lashed out at what they saw as a double standard over reactions to Bee's comment and Roseanne Barr's firing over a racist tweet.
President Trump, congressional Republicans, the oil industry and Alaskan leaders have been pushing to develop the refuge, but the Interior Department's initial response to the consortium's permit application was scathing, calling the plan "not adequate."
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The former Trump campaign chairman faces two upcoming trials — one in Virginia in July and another in Washington in September — on felony counts related to his decade-long work for a pro-Russian politician and entities in Ukraine. He has pleaded not guilty.
Three Senate Democrats asked the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to probe whether the agency's chief received an improper gift from a top aide who conducted a housing search for him last year, citing new emails.
The American Federation of Government Employees claims that Trump's executive order violates the First Amendment guarantee of the right to freedom of association and oversteps the president's constitutional authority.
Sales have fallen for more than six straight years despite efforts to revamp stores, stock more mattresses and appliances, and partner with sites such as Amazon. The struggling retailer has closed nearly 1,000 stores in the past five years.
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