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Facebook announced Friday it will shut down the "trending" section of its newsfeed, which uses an algorithm to show users a selection of timely headlines.

Trump made the decision to meet with Kim Jong Un based on a letter he didn't even read.

President Trump has ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to determine how to keep U.S. coal and nuclear power plants operating even though they struggle to compete against plants using natural gas and renewable energy sources.

A dirt road illuminated by lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. | (REUTERS/Marco Garcia)

President Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore after all.

The European Union has opened a case challenging the Trump administration's steel and aluminum tariffs at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The tariffs went into effect Friday morning over the protests of U.S. allies in Europe as well as Canada and Mexico, and European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom initiated the case immediately thereafter.

This week's question: The New York State Supreme Court has ordered 30-year-old Michael Rotondo to move out of his parents' home, after he ignored multiple eviction notices from his mom and dad as well as their repeated request to please get a job. In seven words or fewer, come up with an advertising slogan for a legal firm that specializes in evicting millennials from their parents' homes.

Now that President Trump has taken charge of the Washington swamp, Steve Bannon wants GOP-hopefuls to stop trying to drain it.

Scott Pruitt's tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been marked by scandal. The EPA chief was caught paying below-market rent on a condo owned by an energy lobbyist. His first-class travel plans are reportedly made with input from lobbyists and GOP donors, and he spent $43,000 of agency funds on a phone booth plus $3 million on personal security.

Hawaiian authorities have ordered a mandatory evacuation for residents of some neighborhoods threatened by ongoing and still-expanding lava flows from the Kilauea volcano, and those who refuse to evacuate by noon local time on Friday will be subject to arrest. After the deadline, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency will not conduct rescue missions for those in evacuation areas.

President Trump considers himself a master deal-maker and often made his bargaining prowess a selling point of his campaign. But negotiation experts and people who have negotiated with and against Trump who were interviewed for a Friday Politico report on Trump's deal-making skills aren't so sure.

President Trump's seemingly inconsequential tweet about the Labor Department's new jobs report broke with presidential protocol, and some experts say it may have actually violated insider trading laws.

North and South Korean officials on Friday agreed to new rounds of inter-Korean negotiations to lower military tensions, reunite families separated for more than half a century, and build united sports teams for international competition.

Vice President Mike Pence talks to his predecessor, Joe Biden, at least once a month, reports an excerpt from a forthcoming book on the vice presidency published Friday at The Hill. Pence has also reached out to former Vice Presidents Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney, and Walter Mondale, and his conversations with Biden tend to center on foreign policy.

National Security Adviser John Bolton handpicked a chief of staff who has repeatedly argued that American Muslims who observe shariah should have their citizenship revoked and be deported.

President Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs went into effect Friday, and he responded to news of U.S. allies' anger with the arrangement on Twitter that morning:

The unemployment rate in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest in half a century, additionally shrinking the gap between black unemployment and white unemployment, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Following Thursday's news that President Trump might commute the prison sentence of his Apprentice buddy, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Fox News hosted Blagojevich's wife, Patti, to stump for her husband's release.

President Trump's effort to comfort mourning families seems to have hit the wrong note.

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee apologized Thursday for calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless c--t" while urging the president's daughter and senior adviser to change her father's approach to immigration policy. On Friday morning, however, President Trump said Bee should also lose her show:

After Fox News anchor Shepard Smith took a few moments to dismantle President Trump's claims that the FBI improperly spied on his campaign, Fox News host Sean Hannity defended the "spygate" conspiracy, criticizing House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) for taking the FBI's side over Trump's. Both segments made for compelling TV, but thanks to some careful editing from the liberal group Media Matters, you can now watch Smith fact-check Hannity in real time.

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President Trump imposed steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada, and Mexico, prompting immediate retaliation by some of America's closest allies. The U.S. tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum took effect at midnight Thursday. "This is protectionism, pure and simple," said Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission. Mexico said it would slap taxes on imported U.S. pork bellies, apples, cranberries, grapes, certain cheeses, and various types of steel. Читать дальше...

The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added 223,000 nonfarm jobs in May, more than expected. Economists polled by MarketWatch had predicted a gain of 200,000 jobs. The continued strong hiring helped bring down the unemployment rate from 3.9 percent to 3.8 percent, an 18-year low. The yearly rate of pay gains rose to 2.9 percent from 2.8 percent. Just over an hour before the numbers were released, President Trump tweeted: "Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30... Читать дальше...

The Labor Department released its May jobs report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., but President Trump tweeted about the then-forthcoming data just over an hour before it went public:

Critics of President Trump saw Thursday's full pardon of admitted campaign-finance-law violator and conservative provocateur Dinesh D'Souza as yet another signal that Trump will use his pardon power to protect and reward his allies.