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When President Joe Biden meets with European leaders next week, he will commit to dropping tariffs protecting U.S. steel and aluminum and resolving other trade disputes this summer. ...Bloomberg’s indicated the surrender of metals tariffs was practically a done deal. Bloomberg, CNBC, and Reuters said they had reviewed a draft statement that would be issued at the conclusion of an EU-U.S. summit in Brussels set to begin on June 15.

New Jersey’s Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy is leading by double digits in the state’s gubernatorial race, a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released this week found. The Garden State held its primary elections on Tuesday, solidifying former New Jersey Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli’s (R) bid against Murphy, who won the Democrat nomination and is now vying for a second term:

It’s spreading… New York — Boston — Miami– ..... Snip..... Via the Palmieri Report— and NBC Miami— Multiple people were arrested for displaying the banner. Advertisement - story continues below Multiple people were ejected from the Miami Marlins game Tuesday night after they hung signs supporting the Proud Boys and Donald Trump. Multiple photos showed the massive signs reading “Trump Won – Take Back America” and “Proud Boys Did Nothing Wrong – Free All Political Prisoners 1/6/21” unfurled at the game as the Marlins played the Colorado Rockies at loanDepot Park. A spokesperson for the team confirmed at least five...

Dr. Biden wore a jacket that read “Love” on the back. And the media received the signal and went right into full tongue-bath mode. What a change from the last first lady who wore a “Let the children all die” coat or something. We could spend all day talking about the difference in coverage of the two first ladies, but we won’t. Needless to say, the White House Press Corps is here for the “Love” jacket. If their work product looks identical to the work product of the White House communications staff that is because it is. The days of...

@glennbeck When will Obama stop being a COWARD and admit he's a Marxist? It's not 2010 anymore. Everybody's admitting it! Clip...

New York (CNN Business)Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's longtime chief legal analyst, has returned to the network eight months after he exposed himself during a Zoom call with New Yorker colleagues. On Thursday afternoon Toobin was interviewed about that incident, and about recent legal news, by anchor Alisyn Camerota on "CNN Newsroom." "I feel like we should address what's happened in the months since we've seen you," Camerota said. She summarized the situation and said "to quote Jay Leno, 'what the hell were you thinking?'"

Former U.S. President Barack Obama in an interview for CNN's Anderson Cooper shared his thoughts, among other things, on the global crisis of democracy. "All of us as citizens have to recognize that the path towards an undemocratic America is not gonna happen in just one bang. It happens in a series of steps" - said the former president. "And when you look what's happened in places like Hungary and Poland, that obviously did not have the same democratic traditions as we did, they weren't as deeply rooted, and yet as recently as 10 years ago were functioning democracies, now...

"The United states will purchase an additional half billion doses from Pfizer, Pfizer vaccine, that will donate nearly 100 low and lower middle income countries, they will be the beneficiaries." =========================================================================== The Biden administration quietly ended President Donald Trump’s policy that saw many Americans receive lower cost insulin and epinephrine pens on the same day he promised to purchase 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to be sent to foreign countries. Yesterday, Biden promised world leaders at the G7 summit that the United States of America would finance the purchase of 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to be given to poor countries at...

@daveweigel Legislators from SEVEN states have now visited the Arizona audit, or will today. Colorado state Rep. Ron Hanks was just on the floor, Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase is coming by in a bit. "I’ll be bringing this information back to Virginia," she says. Legislators from PA, NV, AK, and WI have been here or are coming here. Hanks came up to the area where media is sitting, but walked away as we approached. "I've got no comment."

From direct stimulus payments to unemployment benefits, Americans have received several different forms of financial aid during the pandemic. But a large chunk of that aid - as much as 50% - might not have made it into the hands of the right people. Axios reported on Thursday that unemployment fraud has been on the rise during the pandemic, with Blake Hall, the CEO of ID.me, a fraud-prevention service, telling the news service that America has lost $400 billion to fraudulent claims and that as much as 50% of unemployment claims might have been stolen. The CEO of LexisNexis Risk...

<p>SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico officials are opening up applications next week for the second round of cash payments to residents who are ineligible for federal stimulus funds, including immigrants in the country without legal permission.</p><p>The application window for the $5 million program opens Monday, the Human Services Department announced Thursday, and closes June 25.</p>

TENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 5:20–26 Friends, our Gospel for today is again taken from the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has symbolically established himself as the new Moses, giving a law upon a mountain. His “you have heard that it was said . . . but I say . . .” has revealed that he has authority even over the Torah. To be clear, the Law is not being abrogated here; it is being intensified. The Law was always meant to bring humanity into line with divinity. In the beginning, this alignment was at a fairly basic level....

CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — Jill Biden is sending a sartorial message of “love” as she accompanies her husband President Joe Biden overseas. The first lady wore a black jacket with the word “love” outlined on the back in silver beading as she and the president met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Thursday. She wore the same jacket more than two years ago to kick off Biden’s presidential campaign. “We’re bringing love from America,” she told reporters, explaining her fashion choice. “This is a global conference and we are trying to bring unity across the globe...

VIDEOThe just released Interior Department Inspector General fact check about the events at Lafayette Park in 2020 involving President Donald Trump provided a brutal fact check to the TDS reactions to that incident by Erin Burnett and Don Lemon. As you can see in this video, even CBS Evening News reported "vindication for the Trump administration."

@YouGovAmerica What Americans think about cryptocurrency in 2021 % who agree I don't really understand cryptocurrency - 69% Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is just a fad - 47% Cryptocurrencies are the future of online financial transactions - 32%

rmy General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned on Thursday that China's military is rapidly expanding its capabilities, saying that the U.S. must take steps to ensure that it maintains a competitive advantage moving forward. Milley, who has served as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since September 2019, made the assessment during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday. The top U.S. general cautioned that the Chinese military has been building its capabilities at "a very serious and sustained rate," Reuters first reported. "We must ensure that we retain our competitive and...

Moscow — A court in the Russian capital has granted government prosecutors' their wish, formally designating the anti-corruption and political movement led by jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny an extremist entity. It was likely the fatal blow for what has become the most resilient opposition force in Russian politics over the past decade.The court handed down its decision on Wednesday after a 12-hour closed-door hearing, essentially putting Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and an associated network of regional offices in the same category as ISIS and the Taliban in the eyes of the Russian government....Many of Navalny's close allies, including the...

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On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN host and Chief Domestic Correspondent Jim Acosta stated that the report by Interior Department Inspector General Mark Greenblatt that Park Police did not clear protesters from Lafayette Park so then-President Donald Trump could do a photo op “sounded as if this inspector general was auditioning to become the inspector general at Mar-a-Lago.” And “is almost a whitewash of what occurred on June 1.” Acosta said, “I certainly think it raises more questions than it answers. I mean, the IG report is saying that the Park Police cleared the park with the purpose...

'Something Really Special': 12,000 NHL Fans Take Over for Anthem Singer to Deliver Stunning Rendition Hockey fans gave a stirring rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Wednesday, taking over for the national anthem singer before a playoff game between the New York Islanders and the Boston Bruins. Singer-songwriter Nicole Raviv regularly performs the national anthem before Islanders games at Nassau Coliseum, according to the NHL. Her microphone was having technical issues before Saturday’s Game 4 in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The 12,000 fans in attendance quickly jumped in and helped her sing as the microphone cut...