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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is calling on the state senate to vote out a Democratic lawmaker after she said she hopes President Trump is assassinated – that is unless she resigns first. "Senator Chappelle-Nadal said she hopes the President is killed. Republicans and Democrats have called on her to resign," Greitens, a Republican, wrote on Twitter Friday. "Her response: 'Hell no.' Last night, in an interview, she refused to apologize – twice." "If she will not resign, the Senate can vote to remove her.

A group of nearly 300 of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's college classmates from his Yale 1985 graduation class are urging him to resign, in an effort to distance himself from President Trump's remarks on violence in Charlottesville, Va.  The letter, says Mnuchin has a "moral obligation" to resign from his role in the president's cabinet. "We, some of your fellow members of the Yale College Class of 1985, write to you today in response to President Trump’s comments on the recent events in Charlottesville.

United States Trade Representative MORE launched a full-fledged investigation into China's alleged intellectual property theft on Friday, marking the Trump administration's firmest actions yet against China's trade practices. "After consulting with stakeholders and other government agencies, I have determined that these critical issues merit a thorough investigation," Lighthizer said in a statement.  The announcement came four days after President Trump

MORE (D-Hawaii) is calling for all of President Trump's Jewish cabinet members to resign in protest over his response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. In an interview on MSNBC Friday night, Schatz, who is Jewish, was asked if he thought Jewish cabinet members should resign in protest. ADVERTISEMENT Schatz comments were in part a response to Trump's impromptu, bombastic press briefing on Tuesday. During the briefing, Trump defended himself against bipartisan criticism that he was slow

Democrats are cheering the news that Stephen Bannon is out as White House chief strategist. Bannon has long been one of the least-liked figures in the White House on the left, and many Democrats have criticized his influence. Democrats have ripped the former leader of Breitbart News for promoting nationalist policies that they see as thinly disguised racism. Sen.

LONDON — A Belgian mother was killed while on holiday with her husband and two young sons.

BARCELONA, Spain — When an earthshaking explosion on Wednesday blew apart a house outside Alcanar, a town surrounded by olive groves and holiday homes overlooking the Mediterranean, the police first blamed it on a gas leak. “Nothing ever happens here,” Mayor Alfons Monserrat said. The Spanish police now believe that tiny Alcanar may have been the incubator for a conspiracy far more ambitious than even the van attacks in Catalonia that killed 14 people and injured more than 80.

BARCELONA, Spain — When an earthshaking explosion on Wednesday blew apart a house outside Alcanar, a town surrounded by olive groves and holiday homes overlooking the Mediterranean, the police first blamed it on a gas leak. “Nothing ever happens here,” Mayor Alfons Monserrat said. The Spanish police now believe that tiny Alcanar may have been the incubator for a conspiracy far more ambitious than even the van attacks in Catalonia that killed 14 people and injured more than 80.

In mid-September, Frank Lloyd Wright aficionados are expected by the busload in New Canaan, Conn., passing through a gate with the name “Tirranna” carved into the metalwork, to tour a 6,917-square-foot hemicycle house largely designed by America’s master architect. They’ll examine the mahogany cabinetry, admire the mitered glass windows that erase the barrier between inside and outside, snap photos of the swimming pool that cantilevers out over the Noroton River, and wander t

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s security forces, which suffered huge casualties in the nine-month-long slog to take back the city of Mosul, are replenished enough to begin the fight for the Islamic State stronghold of Tal Afar — one of the last urban areas held in Iraq by the militant extremist Sunni group, American defense officials said Friday. But the estimated 1,000 Islamic State fighters who are believed to be there could make a brutal and bloody last stand, the officials said, because Tal Afar has been encircled by Iraqi and Kurdish forces, making it difficult for the fighters to flee in large numbers.