Amy
Coney Barrett Criticized For Ties To People Of Praise
If President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court,
the federal judge can expect her second bruising round of confirmation
hearings in less than a year and more of what supporters call "unfair criticisms"
about her faith. Barrett, 46, is one of six judges Trump has already interviewed
to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the bench. She is a federal
appeals court judge who was appointed by Trump in 2017. Her Senate confirmation
was anything but easy as she was grilled by Democrats about her religious
background. Fox
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Trump
Calls Journalists 'Bad People'
"The crooked press." "They are so dishonest." "Fake news." "Bad people."
President Trump went on another extended riff against the nation's news
media on Thursday. It was startling partly because of its timing, one week
after five employees were killed at a newspaper 30 miles from Washington.
CNN
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who dies.
Justice
Dept: 19 Parents With Kids Under 5 Already Deported
The Trump administration argued on Friday that it may need more time
to reunite the immigrant families it separated, despite a looming deadline.
A federal judge ordered the government to turn over a list of children
under five by Saturday afternoon, and called for a Monday status hearing.
By July 10, officials must reunify all parents with their children under
the age of 5. The deadline for reunifying parents with children 5 and older
is July 26. CNN
Liberal
States Impose New Individual Mandate Ahead Of ObamaCare Rollback
But as that penalty disappears for Americans in January, a growing
number of liberal states are moving to enact their own individual mandates
requiring residents to purchase health insurance a last-ditch effort
to preserve a critical part of former President Barack Obamas 2010 health
care law. Fox
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'Bronx'
Candidate Blurs Facts On Her Own Residency, ICE Rules
As the Journal News reported, the original online bio for Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez -- the 28-year-old Bernie Sanders protégé who
defeated longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley on June
26 -- seemed to suggest that she commuted to a school in the suburbs from
her family's home in the Bronx borough of New York City. But after critics
noted that she and her family left the Bronx when she was 5 years old,
the bio was changed to imply that the Bronx was home to her "extended family,"
the newspaper reported. Fox
Manafort
Bank Fraud Trial Has Trump Campaign Connection
Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller intend to present evidence
at the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that a banking
executive allegedly helped Manafort obtain loans of approximately $16 million
while the banker sought a role in the Trump campaign. Manafort faces trial
on bank fraud and other financial charges in the Eastern District of Virginia
beginning July 25. Until now, there had been no indication that his role
in the Trump campaign would become part of the trial, and he had asked
the judge to keep details about his ties to President Donald Trump out
of the trial. CNN
VOA VIEW: CNN would report anything, even
if fake, that makes Trump look bad.
Puerto
Ricans Rush To Prepare As Storm Nears Caribbean
With Puerto Rico still recovering from hurricanes Irma and Maria last
year, cautious residents filled supermarkets and department stores Friday
as the first Atlantic hurricane of the season approached the Caribbean.
Hurricane Beryl, a Category 1 storm, is expected to move through the Lesser
Antilles late Sunday and pass south of Puerto Rico. The island is expected
to see minimal tropical storm-force winds, CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward
said Friday, but it is hard to predict the storm's path beyond the 48-hour
period. CNN
Commonly
Prescribed Heart Drug Recalled In 22 Countries
A common drug used to control blood pressure and help prevent heart
failure is being recalled in 22 countries because it contains a chemical
that poses a potential cancer risk. Valsartan is off-patent and is used
as a component of other generic medicines. Novartis, the company that originally
developed the drug, said Sandoz valsartan and valsartan/HCT film-coated
tablets are being recalled since they "do not meet our high quality standards."
CNN
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Zuckerberg
Tops Buffet To Become World's Third Richest Person
Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett
as the worlds third-richest person, further solidifying technology as
the most robust creator of wealth. Zuckerberg, who trails only Amazon.com
Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, eclipsed
Buffett Friday as Facebook shares climbed 2.4 percent, according to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bloomberg
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strong rebuttal.
Good
Week For The S&P 500 Held More Bad News For Active Funds
A week of tumult on the trade front was also the best week in a month
for S&P 500 bulls. Active stock managers werent celebrating. Theyve
watched in shock as the best-laid efforts to beat benchmarks are squeezed
as the contour of the rally shifts. Funds are being betrayed by the companies
they love, including tech megacaps and banks, as ones they ignored in industries
such as telecom and consumer staples vault to the top. Bloomberg
Trump
Eyes Even Higher Tariffs While China Trade War Escalates
President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on every single
Chinese import into America as the worlds two largest economies exchanged
the first blows in a trade war that isnt set to end anytime soon. After
months of rhetoric, a 25 percent levy on $34 billion of Chinese goods entering
the U.S. took effect just after midnight Washington time on Friday with
farming plows and airplane parts among the products targeted. China hit
back immediately via duties on U.S. shipments including soybeans and automobiles.
Bloomberg
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Pompeo
Seeks N Korea Breakthrough As Talks Enter Second Day
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened a second day of talks in North
Korea on Saturday with growing expectations that he needs to win specific
commitments from Pyongyang about its nuclear program or risk seeing the
nascent relationship between the U.S. and North Korea founder. Pompeo has
given few details about his goals for this latest round of talks -- his
third visit to North Korea this year but the first since President Donald
Trump and Kim Jong Un met in Singapore last month. Bloomberg
World
Cup: Brazil Knocked Out By Belgium
In years to come, when this stadium is a crumbling white elephant,
they will sit in almost empty stands, hear the wind whisper across the
marsh that surrounds it and believe what they hear is the ghosts of giants.
In three games Kazan has claimed the winners of 11 World Cups. First Germany
went, insipid against South Korea. Then, in a full-blooded epic, Argentina
were blown away by France. And then fell the biggest of them all, Brazil,
outwitted and outbattled by Belgium, who will face France in Tuesdays
semi-final. Guardian
Amazon
Already Undercutting Prices On Over The Counter Pills
As pharmacy chains await Amazon.com Inc.s entry into the prescription-drug
market, the online retail giant is already undercutting them for non-prescription
medicine for aches, colds and allergies. Median prices for over-the-counter,
private-brand medicine sold by Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and CVS Health
Corp. were about 20 percent higher than Basic Care, the over-the-counter
drug line sold exclusively by Amazon, according to a report Friday by Jefferies
Group analysts. Bloomberg
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China And Russia
Hit Back At US Tariffs
China retaliated by imposing a similar 25% tariff on 545 US products
- including cars, soya beans and lobsters - also worth a total of $34bn.
Russia is introducing extra duties on a range of products imported from
the US that can be replaced by locally made equivalents. They include road-building
equipment, products for the oil and gas industry, and tools used in mining.
BBC
VOA VIEW: The US will win any trade war.
Andrew
Wheeler: 'Point Man For Trump' Focused On Undoing Obama's EPA Agenda
Scott Pruitt, who on Thursday resigned as administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, was a firm favourite of Donald Trump. But Pruitt was
plagued by scandal and faltered in carrying out the presidents agenda
of peeling back clean air and water regulations. His replacement is likely
to be far more adept. Guardian
The
Anti-Abortion Conservative Quietly Guiding Trump's Pick
Just 20 months ago, Leonard Leos lifes work appeared in jeopardy.
Hillary Clinton would soon be elected president. A liberal judge would
be chosen to replace Antonin Scalia, the late lodestar of American conservatism,
on the supreme court. Staring at that vacancy, fear permeated every day
in that countdown to November 8, Leo recalled last year, in a speech to
fellow religious conservatives. His three-decade fight to push the US judiciary
to the right and enable a crackdown on abortion looked to be lost.
Guardian
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Paul
Ryan Views Allegations Against Rep. Jordan As 'Serious', Will Wait For
Probe, Aide Says
House Speaker Paul Ryan weighed in Friday on accusations that Republican
Rep. Jim Jordan ignored allegations of sexual abuse while he was an assistant
wrestling coach at Ohio State University decades ago. Through a spokesman,
Ryan said the university was right to investigate the claims and that he
would await the outcome of the probe. "These are serious allegations and
issues," Ryan spokesman Doug Andres said in an emailed statement. USA
Today
Feds
Drop Charges Against Final 38 Defendents Over Inauguration Day Riots
The U.S. attorney's office said Friday it is dropping all charges against
the remaining 38 people accused of rioting during a demonstration in Washington,
D.C., that coincided with the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Prosecutors
had initially charged or arrested 234 people during violent protests on
D.C. streets that began before the 2017 swearing in and continued until
after it was over. USA Today
House
Dems Lead Republicans By Double Digits In Generic Ballot In Battleground
States
Democrats in battleground states have a 12-percentage point lead over
their Republican counterparts in a generic House ballot, according to a
poll released Friday. The Washington Post-George Mason University Schar
School poll found 49 percent of registered voters would support a Democratic
candidate, compared to 37 percent who would cast a ballot for a Republican
contender. The survey showed 13 percent of respondents were still undecided
ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Washington Examiner
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Thai
Cave: Why They Can't Drill From Above
The 12 boys and their coach who are trapped in an underground cave
in Thailand have riveted attention on efforts to rescue them. Authorities
describe the situation as a race against time to avoid death. As cave experts
from around the world converge on Tham Luang Nang Non cave, the inevitable
monsoon rains of northern Thailand have made the rescue efforts increasingly
grim. A former Thai navy seal diver died during the rescue effort Thursday
after running out of oxygen while attempting to deliver air tanks. USA
Today
Obama
Holdover Drops Legal Claim To Take Over Trump's CFPB
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Deputy Director Leandra English
announced Friday that she will drop her legal bid to be named the agency's
acting director. In a statement provided by her lawyer, English thanked
the CFPB's career employees and said she would leave the agency, where
she has not maintained a presence, in recognition of President Trump's
decision to nominate a permanent director. Washington
Examiner
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Russian
Lawmakers 'Don't Understand Why' Election Interference Is A Big Deal
Russian lawmakers dont understand why the 2016 cyberattacks against
the Democratic Party sparked an array of U.S. , a senior Republican lawmaker
said after meetings in Moscow. There is a total disconnect on their part,
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Homeland Security and Government
Affairs Committee, told the Washington Examiner. "They don't understand
why their election interference has been blown up into such an issue. They
don't really have a clue, based on their perspective, of why the American
public so supports punishing sanctions against them because of the election
interference. Washington Examiner
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Teen
Immigrant Abortion Case Could Be Hurdle For Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Bid
One of the leading contenders for the Supreme Court, D.C. Circuit Judge
Brett Kavanaugh, could see his chance at the nomination hinge on his handling
of a legal battle last year over a 17-year-old immigrant's request for
an abortion. To Kavanaugh's backers, his role in the legal showdown that
played out over a couple of weeks last October exhibits the kind of judicial
restraint conservatives have long called for from members of the bench.
Politico
New
EPA Chief In 2016: Trump's A 'Bully'
Scott Pruitts replacement as leader of the EPA once dismissed Donald
Trump as a bully with so-so business skills the kinds of slights the
president rarely forgets. [A]s a businessman, he really hasn't been that
successful. He is a successful PR person, but not a businessman, Deputy
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, then an environmental adviser to Sen.
Marco Rubios presidential campaign, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post
in February 2016. [H]e has more baggage then all of the other Republican
candidates combined. Politico
VOA VIEW: A mouth can be a big problem.
Will
Susan Collins Get Snookered Again?
Senator Susan Collins of Maine really wants you know that shes not
going to rubber stamp just anyone President Donald Trump nominates for
the Supreme Court. In recent days she has embarked on a mini-media tour,
telling viewers of CNN, ABC and listeners of the New York Times The Daily
podcast that a nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade would not be acceptable
to me. Also disqualifying would be an activist judge who demonstrated
a disrespect for the vital principle of stare decisis, meaning deference
to past Supreme Court precedents. Politico
President's
Lawyers Set New Conditions For Mueller Interview
President Trumps lawyers set new conditions on Friday on an interview
with the special counsel and said that the chances that the president would
be voluntarily questioned were growing increasingly unlikely. The special
counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, needs to prove before Mr. Trump would agree
to an interview that he has evidence that Mr. Trump committed a crime and
that his testimony is essential to completing the investigation, said Rudolph
W. Giuliani, the presidents lead lawyer in the case. NY
Times
VOA VIEW: It's clear, but up or shut up.
Contractor
Housed Migrant Kids In Arizona
A company contracted to provide transportation for U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement housed children in an unlicensed facility near
downtown Phoenix, according to a report from Reveal from the Center for
Investigative Reporting. Children were held at the office building over
three weeks while the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" border-enforcement
policy caused officials to separate families who had crossed the border
illegally. USA Today
2
Women Publicly Allege Groping By Indiana AG
Two women who said Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill inappropriately
touched them at a bar in March are speaking out publicly for the first
time. Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon, a Democrat from Munster, identified
herself as one of Hills alleged victims in a letter submitted to The Indianapolis
Star. "I am not anonymous," she says in the letter. "I am a wife, mother,
business owner, and a State Representative. I am also a victim of sexual
battery, perpetrated by Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill." USA
Today
Nunes
Refers Sidney Blumenthal, Others Tied To Trump Dossier For Testimony
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sent another
letter Thursday his third in a week to two fellow GOP chairmen, referring
to them 15 people connected to the Russia investigation for testimony in
an open setting. Many of the individuals on the list, sent to House Oversight
Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., are tied to Hillary Clinton and the infamous Trump
dossier, which contains compromising, yet unverified claims about President
Trumps ties to Russia. InfoWars
GOP
Senator Open To Revising Russia Sanctions After Moscow Trip
President Trump and U.S. lawmakers should consider revising sanctions
targeting Russia so they focus more on Russian oligarchs, a senior Republican
lawmaker suggested after participating in a congressional delegation visit
to Moscow. You do something and nobody ever sits back and analyzes, 'Well,
is it working? Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told the Washington Examiner.
And I think you'd be hard-pressed to say that sanctions against Russia
are really working all that well. Washington Examiner
Media's
Anti Trumpers Aren't 'Leaving' The GOP. They've Been Fired.
When an anti-Trump voice in the media announces hes leaving the Republican
Party but no ones there to read about it, does it make a sound? Max Boot
who?! was the latest conservative writer to make the inconsequential
declaration that he wants Democrats to take Congress in this years midterm
elections. Washington Examiner
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Thai
Soccer Team Evacuation Postponed As Rescuers Continue Prepping Boys For
Dive
Thai soccer teammates trapped in a cave for almost two weeks will see
their stay underground extended after authorities announced early Saturday
that they would be delaying a planned evacuation attempt. The evacuation
of 12 schoolboys will be put off because they havent sufficiently learned
how to dive in the days since they were discovered by searchers, officials
said. Fox
Trump's Plans For
His UK Visit Revealed
Donald Trump will meet the Queen at Windsor and hold talks with the
prime minister at Chequers on his two-day visit to the UK next week. The
itinerary for Thursday and Friday confirms the US president will stay at
the US Ambassador's House in Regent's Park overnight. But he will spend
much of his time outside London at formal events. BBC
May Secures
Cabinet Backing For Brexit Plan
The cabinet has reached a "collective" agreement on the basis of the
UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit, Theresa May has said.
Ministers have signed up to a plan to create a free trade area for industrial
and agricultural goods with the bloc, based on a "common rule book". They
also supported what could amount to a "combined customs territory". The
BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said the plan, agreed after a 12-hour meeting, would
"anger many Tory Brexiteers". BBC
Justin
Trudeau-Reporter Who Accused PM Of Groping Says She Won't Pursue Incident
The woman who accused Justin Trudeau in 2000 of groping her at a music
festival in British Columbia has spoken out, saying that the incident took
place as described and that she is not interested in pursuing the matter
further. On Friday a day after the Canadian prime minister acknowledged
he had apologised to her the woman, identified as Rose Knight, issued
a statement saying that she was reluctantly addressing the issue in the
face of mounting media pressure. Guardian
Veterans
Respond To Army Discharging Immigrant Recruits
Military veterans said its a slap in the face that immigrant recruits
have quietly been kicked out of the Army after being promised citizenship
as the Department of Defense justified the branchs actions by saying
they were booted for legitimate reasons. NY Post
VOA VIEW: Fake news by liberals.
Weinstein
Co. Buyer Will Pay Claims By De Niro, Other Actors
The prospective buyer of the bankrupt Weinstein Co. has agreed to cover
claims made by the actor and others paving the way for the studios sale,
the parties announced on Friday. Lantern Entertainment, which has agreed
to pay $289 million for the studio co-founded by the disgraced Harvey Weinstein,
argued that since the contracts for De Niro and others were no longer active,
it wasnt responsible for paying them. NY Post
Trump's
Mar-A-Lago Wants to Hire Dozens Of Foreigners
Mar-a-Lago, President Trumps self-described Winter White House,
asked the feds permission to hire 61 temporary foreign workers as cooks,
waiters and waitresses despite his repeated knocks on immigrants and
cries to Hire American! The hires come as Trump is mired in an epic battle
with Congress over immigration reform, is fighting to have his wall built
on the southern border and has faced heat over the separation of nearly
3,000 migrant children from families illegally crossing that border. NY
Post
Super
Bowl Giant Busted With Heroin
A former Giants defensive lineman, who was a key piece of their Super
Bowl XLII-winning team, was arrested in Florida on heroin charges after
he rammed a deputys car following a pursuit, authorities said. Barry Cofield
a free agent who last played three games for the Giants in 2015 was
arrested Tuesday in Lake Mary on charges of possession of heroin, fleeing
and eluding and aggravated assault on a police officer, the Orlando Sentinel
reports. NY Post
Why
Europe Could Unravel Over A Question Of Borders
The European Union has always been sold, to its citizens, on a practical
basis: Cheaper products. Easier travel. Prosperity and security. But its
founding leaders had something larger in mind. They conceived it as a radical
experiment to transcend the nation-state, whose core ideas of race-based
identity and zero-sum competition had brought disaster twice in the space
of a generation. NY Times
Why
Is Megyn Kelly Helping Trump Discredit #MeToo?
Ever since Megyn Kelly arrived at NBC from Fox News last fall, she
has made giving voice to survivors of sexual harassment and assault a major
part of her daily morning show. It made sense given her own experience
with the late Roger Ailes. So why on Friday did she and her show follow
Donald Trumps lead in dismissing the #MeToo movement and all it has accomplished?
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Cohen
Hires Former Clinton White House Attorney Lanny Davis
Michael Cohen, beleaguered former personal attorney for President Donald
Trump, has hired Lanny Davis, a Washington-based lawyer who in the late
1990s advised then-President Bill Clinton as his legal troubles were unfolding.
Davis confirmed Thursday that he is representing Cohen, a previously fierce
Trump defender who has been under investigation by federal prosecutors
in New York for months. Huff Post
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