Tuesday's Headlines: Trump delays steel and aluminum tariffs for Canada, Mexico and European Union
Trifecta of cheap loans, high stock prices and low consumer prices is coming to an end ; Trump-allied House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as 'last...
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President Trump delayed his promised tariffs on metal imports for the key allies until June 1, marking at least a temporary retreat from the hard-line trade policy and giving other nations more time to negotiate for relief. The White House said it reached agreements with Argentina, Australia and Brazil, saying more details will be finalized in 30 days.
The result is that Americans spend more money on staples, pay more to borrow money to buy big-ticket items such as cars and homes, and are seeing less growth in their investments.
The lawmakers are targeting the deputy attorney general, who oversees the special counsel investigation, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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President Trump's foreign policy has taken him on conflicting paths: moving to enact tariffs and cut immigration while also considering reentry to a trade deal that he pulled out of last year. Post reporters traveled across the country to ask what "America first" really means — and what role the United States should play in the world.
Using a genealogy site and crime-scene evidence, investigators painstakingly built about 25 family trees containing thousands of relatives from the early 1800s to present day.
A group of Central American asylum seekers had spent the day languishing on the ground outside a border crossing after U.S. officials said they did not have space to process them, in what became a high-profile test of Trump administration immigration policies.
The statement from embattled White House chief of staff John Kelly came about 45 minutes after NBC News published a story that described a number of alleged fights he had with President Trump.
The list from the special counsel includes almost four dozen questions that range from President Trump's motivations for firing FBI Director James Comey a year ago to contacts Trump's campaign had with Russians, according to a report published in the New York Times.
The Australian cardinal will face at least one charge at trial after being accused of sexually abusing multiple victims decades ago. A magistrate on Tuesday dismissed some of the other charges against him.
Several comedians not only argued in favor of Wolf's set at the White House Correspondents' Associations Dinner, but said that most critics missed the point of her jokes.
Emile Wickham said he and his dining companions faced discrimination at Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant in Toronto. The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario agreed.
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