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Trump will visit Puerto Rico next week

President Donald Trump says he’ll visit hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico next Tuesday.

 
GOP, White House eye deep cuts to corporate tax rate

The White House and congressional Republicans are finalizing a tax plan that would slash the corporate rate while likely reducing the levy for the wealthiest Americans, with President Donald Trump ready to roll out the policy proposal at midweek.

 
North Korean diplomat says Trump tweet a ‘declaration of war’

North Korea’s top diplomat said Monday that a weekend tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump was a declaration of war and North Korea has the right to retaliate by shooting down U.S. bombers, even in international airspace.

 
Kim Jong Un says ‘deranged’ Trump will pay for threats

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump deranged and said he will pay dearly for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on the horizon.

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Sessions can’t refuse grant money for sanctuary cities, judge rules

Attorney General Jeff Sessions can’t follow through — at least for now — with his threat to withhold public safety grant money to Chicago and other so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to impose new tough immigration policies, a judge ruled Friday in a legal defeat for the Trump administration.

 
Russian sources bought political Facebook ads during 2016 election

Facebook has discovered that it sold about $100,000 in political ads to Russian-linked sources over the past two years, and has shared that information with authorities investigating Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election.

 
Trump won’t rule out attacking N. Korea over its nuclear test

President Donald Trump signaled Sunday that he was not ruling out a retaliatory strike against North Korea in response to the isolated country’s overnight nuclear test, which he called “very hostile and dangerous to the United States.”

 
Trump visits Harvey victims in Texas, Louisiana

President Donald Trump cupped a boy’s face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief supplies into vehicles, patted storm victims on the shoulder and declared the work “good exercise.”