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A White House economic analysis of President Trump's trade agenda has concluded that Mr. Trump's tariffs will hurt economic growth in the United States, according to several people familiar with the research. The findings from the White House Council of Economic Advisers have been circulated only internally and not publicly released, as is often the case with the council's work, making the exact economic projections unknown.
He once called Donald Trump "a conman," but Mitt Romney now predicts that the current US president would "easily" win his party's presidential nomination in 2020 and "solidly" win a second term. Mr Romney, the GOP's failed 2012 presidential nominee from Massachusetts, now a Republican Senate candidate in Utah, made the prediction on Thursday as he welcomed dozens of high-profile business and political leaders to a mountainside retreat in Utah.
Two dozen current and former Utah Republican state lawmakers endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Mike Kennedy on Friday, according to his campaign. But at least one of them said he did no such thing, and another said she hadn't given permission.
Stepping onto the world stage for a pair of high-profile summits, President Donald Trump is scrambling the usual breakdown of allies and adversaries. In the span of a few days, he's embraced Russia and North Korea while pushing away America's closest friends, like France, Canada and Germany.
Ongoing tabulation of the June 5 primary vote in Orange County shows Undersheriff Don Barnes still holding a majority, with 50.6 percent of the vote. There are more than 160,000 ballots left to be counted, and if Barnes' total dips below 50 percent he'll face a runoff with Los Angeles County DA Investigator Duke Nguyen.
So I've been waiting to share my meditations on the electoral process until we got a final vote count for Assembly District 15, but I'm realizing that it could be a long time coming. If you want the latest version, possibly even the final, click here for the very competent web site which will tell you the latest numbers.
The former president took to Twitter to mourn the chef's apparent suicide and reflect on the memorable meal they shared in Hanoi, Vietnam on season 8 of Bourdain's award-winning CNN series Parts Unknown . Sharing a photo of the two enjoying some BAon chao - a traditional Vietnamese dish made up of grilled pork, broth, rice noodles and fresh herbs - Obama recalled the tv host's passion for food and "its ability to bring us together."
Remember this guy? He graduated from West Point and then posted a bunch of material on Twitter identifying himself as a Communist. According to one of Rapone's comrades, he is being given an Other Than Honorable discharge from the Army this month: The conversation is sure to be informative and lively.
Special prosecutor and former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert Mueller has indicted Konstantin Kilimnik, the man believed to be identified as Person A, in the investigation, Bloomberg and other media outlets are reporting. Paul Manafort, former chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, is also facing additional charges of witness tampering and obstruction of justice, The Washington Post reported .
I have no explanation for this sudden turn towards the left. Hopefully no explanation is needed: It's just a "blip," statistical noise, as often happens in polls.
PBS's Judy Woodruff asked former president Bill Clinton Thursday whether he thought it was a "good thing" that norms have changed when it comes to sexual harassment. Woodruff's example was former Minnesota senator Al Franken being forced to resign his post after accusations that, Woodruff said, were less serious than what happened in the Lewinsky scandal.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought additional charges against President Donald Trump's campaign chairman and a longtime associate who prosecutors have said has ties to Russian intelligence. The new indictment was unsealed Friday against Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik just days after prosecutors accused the two men of attempting to tamper with witnesses as Manafort awaits trial of felony charges related to his work on behalf of Ukrainian interests.
President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One as he arrives for the G7 Summit, Friday, June 8, 2018, in Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, Canada. President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One as he arrives for the G7 Summit, Friday, June 8, 2018, in Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, Canada.
The situation involving the Justice Department and New York Times reporter Ali Watkins is extremely disturbing, and another example of the government deciding to intrude on the activities of the press. It really is akin to the Obama Administration seizing the phone records of Associated Press journalists at State Department or the almost prosecution of former Fox News reporter James Rosen.
Fifty-six members of Congress, led by Rep. Vicky Hartzler , sent a letter Thursday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar asking him to investigate Planned Parenthood facilities that have allegedly been covering up sex abuse of minors, according to a recent undercover report by Live Action. The letter points out that Planned Parenthood is currently the largest recipient of Title X funds, although that may change if a proposed rule from the Trump administration goes into effect.
Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached a U.S. Navy contractor and stole huge amounts of highly sensitive intelligence involving secretive military operations, The Washington Post reported Friday. Hackers acting on behalf of Beijing stole the data in January and February after breaking into an unidentified contractor that works for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. officials said on condition of anonymity, the newspaper reported .
Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation say their first concern for the management and operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory is assuring the stability of the workforce and the safety of employees and the public while the lab meets its national security mission. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan weighed in Friday as the federal government announced a $2.5 billion-a-year management contract for the lab.
Alabama is appealing a federal judge's order to make the state's lethal injection procedures public and to unseal other court records about an aborted execution in the state. Chief District Judge Karon O. Bowdre on Thursday stayed her order to make the protocol and sealed hearing transcripts public as the Department of Corrections appeals.
The apparent suicide by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain Friday, just days after fashion designer Kate Spade's, is renewing attention to Minnesota's cash-starved suicide hotline, which is expected to shut down at the end of the month. Funding for Crisis Connections, Minnesota's half-century-old hotline, was a casualty of budget disputes between Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican lawmakers, leading to the governor's veto.
Ira Berlin, who died on June 5 at the age of 77, was one of the outstanding historians of his generation, whose writings on slavery and African-American culture transformed how scholars think about these crucial aspects of the American past. He also made a deep mark as a documentary editor, as founder of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, which has made accessible thousands of previously unexamined documents in the National Archives relating to the vast human drama of emancipation.