If implemented, tit-for-tat tariffs would ripple through the world’s two largest economies, as evidenced by Tuesday’s falling stock markets, and the damage could spread.
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Trump administration pulls US out of UN human rights council
It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution.
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US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children
The new estimate comes as backlash widens over President Donald Trump’s’ decision to separate parents and children.
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Trump, Republican lawmakers struggle to address anger over family separations
One plan would keep children in detention longer than now permitted — but with their parents.
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Sen. Collins calls for White House to halt ‘inhumane’ practice of separating children from parents
Collins joins 12 other Republican senators in sending a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that says the Justice Department’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy is ‘the immediate cause of the crisis.’
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Trump threatens new tariffs on Chinese imports, in another step toward trade war
The president says that if China retaliates, he will add yet more tariffs.
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Trump announces plans for Pentagon to create ‘Space Force’
Creating a new joint military command is largely the purview of Congress, which would have to provide the authority and any funding or shifting of money to a new unit.
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Homeland Security reports about 2,000 children separated from families in last 2 months
The figures show that 1,995 minors were separated from 1,940 adults from April 19 through May 31.
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Ex-officials of firm undone for its use of Facebook data now working for Trump re-election effort
At least 4 employees of the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica work for a new company specializing in targeting voters and consumers, the Associated Press finds.
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Maine Voices: We cannot betray Ukraine by dismissing it, relegating it to the past
For Vladimir Putin, President Trump’s driving concern with his self-image is a weakness to be exploited.