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U.S.-China Trade Talks Stumble on Beijing’s Spending at Home

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Senior EditorChairman, computer chips, Derek Scissors, Leader, manufacturing industries, Peterson Institute for International Economics, President, trade representative, Trump administration, Xinhua news agency

BEIJING — One year ago, when he began a multibillion-dollar trade war with China that shook the global economy, President Trump demanded that Beijing end lavish government spending aimed at making the country a world power in computer chips, robotics, commercial aircraft and other industries of the future. Today, as the two sides struggle to reach a truce, the Trump administration is finding just how difficult that will be. Trade talks between the United States and China nearly ground to a halt this past week, and a seemingly intractable dispute…

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Trump Administration Outlines Case to Strike Down Obamacare

May 2, 2019May 3, 2019 Senior EditorAssistant Attorney General, CNN, Congress, Department of Justice, DoJ, health insurance, Joseph Hunt, Trump administration, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans

The Trump administration has revealed its legal argument against the Affordable Care Act, claiming Congress rendered the law unconstitutional by removing the individual mandate. The individual mandate imposed a penalty on American who do not have health insurance, but was removed the the ACA by Congress in 2017. The Justice Department argues, since Congress included findings that said the individual mandate was necessary for the law’s protections for people with preexisting conditions, the entire law cannot function without it. Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt wrote in the filing to the…

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Stepsister, Yes; Grandma, No: U.S. Sets Guidelines for Revised Travel Ban

June 29, 2017June 29, 2017 Senior Editorbona fide relationship, Civil Liberties Union, close family, Immigration rights advocates, new guidelines, New York Times, President Trump, travel ban, Trump administration, United States, United States Citizenship

The meaning of “bona fide relationship” was not precisely explained, and the phrase has created much uncertainty for migrants and others seeking to travel to the United States from the six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — singled out in President Trump’s revised travel ban, issued in March. (An earlier version of the ban included Iraq.) Continue reading the main story The Trump administration has now made the definition explicit. According to a diplomatic cable obtained by The New York Times, “close family” is “defined…