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But the president is losing his trade war based on Trump's own preferred statistic-U.S. the trade deficit-which has continued to grow both in overall terms and with respect to China specifically. Preliminary talks by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He haven't produced even a plan for additional trade negotiations.

Sanders also took the opportunity to list the times she's felt insulted by the press, including by Michelle Wolf's stand-up routine this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. President Donald Trump is introduced at the Make America Great Again Rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, July 31, 2018 . While the 90-minute briefing was less than ten minutes away from wrapping up anyway, Acosta later tweeted that he walked " saddened " by a " shameful " performance.

Texas-based Defense Distributed had planned to make the instructions widely available Wednesday following the U.S. State Department's settlement of a years-old lawsuit against the company. A U.S. gun rights advocate began gearing up for a legal fight Wednesday to be able to publish online blueprints for 3D-printed firearms, as the White House signaled support for a federal judge's decision to block the venture.

Skelley added that Trump's rally Thursday night in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, seems like a wasted opportunity, given that the Senate race there between Democratic Sen. U.S. Reps. Gus Bilirakis and Matt Gaetz, two Florida Republicans running for re-election, joined him as well. "There's some danger for DeSantis in thinking 'This is all I need is to win this endorsement in a primary, '" she said.

President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani , said Monday that he does not know whether Trump would ever pardon Michael Cohen, the President's embattled ex-lawyer now under criminal investigation. Christie said that if Cohen wants to make a deal with prosecutors, he may be hurting himself by making claims publicly about Trump. In April, authorities raided Cohen's home, office and hotel room as part of an investigation into his business dealings and efforts during the 2016 campaign ...

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said he's "not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at Helsinki" between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as he warned about malign activities from the Kremlin meant to influence the November vote.

Laguerre's Facebook page filled up with supportive comments, in French and in English, congratulating her for standing up to her attacker. In a scene that has shocked an entire nation, a man approached her in broad daylight, struck her in the face and somehow managed to get away.

Trump had openly weighed replacing Kelly in recent months, consulting friends and advisers about Kelly's performance and soliciting feedback on potential successors - including Mick Mulvaney , a former congressman who heads the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , and Nick Ayers , a Republican strategist who serves as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence .

Israeli army spokesman Ronen Manelis said the militants came as close to 200 metres to the Israel-Syria border, before they were targetd by Israeli forces. The peacekeeping mission was halted in 2014, over security concerns, amid the violence in Syria's civil war. Russian Federation on Wednesday said that Iran had withdrawn its heavy weaponry to about 50 miles from the border, a measure Israeli officials said was inadequate .

Official results Wednesday showed that the ruling ZANU-PF party had easily won most seats in the parliamentary ballot strengthening President Emmerson Mnangagwa's prospects of holding onto power in the key presidential race. The peaceful environment provided the people of Zimbabwe the opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights. Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the army had been deployed in Harare to disperse a violent crowd and to restore "peace and tranquillity".

Edgard Arevalo said Wednesday. Regional military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Besana said one other government militiaman was wounded in the blast that shattered a part of the barricades surrounding an army militia outpost in the village of Colonia.