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Trump announces escalating tariffs against Mexico, starting at 5 percent, until illegal immigrants ‘STOP’ (FOX News)
President Trump on Thursday abruptly announced a new 5 percent tariff on Mexico beginning in early June, saying the levy will “gradually increase” until the ongoing illegal immigration surge at the southern border is “remedied” and illegal migrants “STOP.”
“On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP,” Trump wrote. “The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied, … ..at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow.” [Read More]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Be Bartending Tonight in New York (Observer)
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a bit busy in Washington, D.C. lately. Just this week, the representative from the Bronx struck a deal with none other than Texas Senator Ted Cruz based on a stance that both Capitol Hill denizens share: Members of congress shouldn’t be allowed to become corporate lobbyists. Somehow, though, Ocasio-Cortez has found time this Friday evening to make an appearance on behalf of the organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, a group which works to improve working conditions and wages for restaurant employees nationwide. [Read More]
William Barr interview: Read the full transcript (CBS News)
Attorney General William Barr sat down for an exclusive interview with Jan Crawford for “CBS This Morning.” He told Crawford helieves special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice, regardless of long-standing Justice Department policy that prohibits the indictment of a sitting president.
During a nearly hour-long interview in Anchorage, Alaska, CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford pressed the attorney general on a number of issues from obstruction to his new review of the Russia investigation. [Read More]
Over Memorial Day weekend, some shocking news broke about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. David Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning King biographer, came across some new details about the FBI’s secret bugs of King in the National Archives. (The full tapes are not scheduled for public release for about another decade.)
During one orgy in King’s room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., according to FBI summaries of the tapes, he watched and laughed as one of his ministers raped a parishioner. Another time, he jokingly referred to himself as the head of the “International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters.” There’s more, but you get the gist. [Read More]
