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Seeking to comfort grieving families and shaken survivors, President Donald Trump spent more than an hour privately Thursday with some of those impacted by a Texas mass school shooting that killed 10 and wounded more than a dozen on May 18. The latest spasm of violence in a year marred by assaults on the nation's schools, the shooting at Santa Fe High School was the latest to test the president's role as national comforter-in-chief. Trump met with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting, and did not publicly share his message for the grieving families and local leaders during a meeting at a Coast Guard base outside Houston.

Vince Cable plans to remain as Lib Dem leader ‘until he is 95’

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has rejected calls to make way for a successor, with friends telling Business Insider that he plans to stay in the job for another 20 years. Ellis Island was the first place many hopeful immigrants saw upon arrival on US shores, the repository for all their dreams.

Trump talks tough on trade ahead of G-7 meetings in Canada

The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe. The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe.

Sanctions and regime change – Iran and Venezuela

When United States President Barack Obama first imposed sanctions on Venezuela in 2015, the stated purpose and subsequent actions by the Obama administration were to effect behaviour change in Venezuelan leadership, not to replace the Nicol s Maduro government. There was mounting evidence Maduro was pursuing a non-democratic path, human-rights violations were becoming the norm; and rule-of-law and justice in Venezuela faced significant challenges.

GOP senator: Work during August recess to help confirm judges

Charles Ernest Grassley GOP lawmakers, top advisers have campaigned to stop Trump from firing Sessions: report Senate grapples with prison reform bill Break the partisan gridlock on judicial nominations MORE said on Friday that the Senate should work into the August recess to help confirm judicial nominations, blaming Democrats for trying to "obstruct" Donald John Trump Trump tells Trudeau on NAFTA: US will agree to fair deal or 'no deal at all' Dem senator suggests Trump 'sending a message to witnesses' with pardons Kim Jong Un hasn't changed his stance on denuclearization: report MORE "Lets work Friday/Saturday/August recess to get more done in the Senate [and] help the judicial branch do its job," Grassley wrote in a tweet.

The man who investigates the investigators, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz

When President Donald Trump recently tweeted his demand that the Justice Department determine whether his campaign was improperly "infiltrated or surveilled," the task of conducting that inquiry fell to the agency's inspector general, Michael Horowitz. Horowitz is the man in Washington who investigates the investigators and is now assigned to determine whether there is any truth to Trump's allegation of a spy being planted in his campaign, which he dubbed "spygate," or to many other allegations the president and his lawyers have leveled against the Department of Justice and FBI leadership.

Editorial: Tariffs and Trumpspeak

As we stumble into trade actions and retaliations that neither the U.S. nor anyone else needs, it's hard not blame President Donald Trump's peculiar and one-sided economic views. The European Union tried a wake-up call to Republicans, targeting retaliatory tariffs against products from Republican states: Harley-Davidson motorcycles and bourbon felt the bite of new tariffs.

Sunday on – This Week’: President Trump’s Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani introduces Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump to deliver remarks at a campaign event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Oct. 22, 2016. This Sunday, George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to discuss the Trump team's strategy in the Mueller investigation.

Trump pardons favor the celeb-connected, conservative causes

President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned a conservative commentator he claims "was treated very unfairly by our government!" and announced he's thinking about clemency for Martha Stewart and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, among "lots" of other people. "What they did to him was horrible," Trump told reporters, speaking of his decision to clear the name of Dinesh D'Souza, who had pleaded guilty to campaign finance fraud.