President Trump said he was acting in response to China’s announcement of plans to introduce new import taxes on $50 billion worth of American goods. “Rather than remedy its misconduct, China has chosen to harm our farmers and manufacturers,” the president said in a statement.
President Trump, while resisting calls from many top aides to oust the Environmental Protection Agency chief, has complained privately about him for days, White House advisers said.
The president also said he didn’t know where his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, got the money for the payment to Daniels, who says she was paid to keep quiet about her affair with Trump.
People taking part in a march last month in Budapest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban flash their cellphone lights. (AP)
The triumph of liberal democracy is being attacked from within by E.U. members that openly deride the bloc’s values, principles and rules, while wayward leaders, such as Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, threaten to pull their countries closer to the edge of autocracy.
President Trump’s decision in recent days to fire off tweets attacking Amazon.com and its founder, Jeff Bezos, highlighted a fracture in American society that is as much philosophical as it is economic. It also stems from Trump’s lifelong rivalry with billionaires who surpass him on lists of the world’s wealthiest men, aides and allies say.
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President Trump believes wars should be waged and won with overwhelming firepower, but American generals have found their own lessons. The differences in opinion are a source of tension between the military and the commander in chief.
The national address was remarkable because President Enrique Peña Nieto has endured, with diplomatic courtesy and sometimes stony silence, about two years of insults and threats from President Trump.
The conservative writer, who called for women who get abortions to be hanged, is the latest columnist fired after a social-media outrage.
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Retropolis
The Past, Rediscovered The 1968 presidential candidate announced Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination to a crowd in Indianapolis, invoking his own brother’s murder for the first time.
Ohio residents have been reporting raccoons with puzzling, zombie-like behavior. Fourteen afflicted animals have been put down.
Perspective
Finally healthy again, the 14-time major champion appears ready to make this return a sustained one.
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