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 TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday his country is in a "fight" with the U

S., a day after protesters angered by Iran's tanking economy confronted police in front of parliament

In a televised speech, Rouhani blamed the U.S. for Iran's woes and said the U.S. is trying to damage the country by creating "an economic war

"  "The U.S. cannot defeat our nation, our enemies are not able to get us to their knees," he said

 Rouhani's comments came after protesters angered by Iran's tanking economy confronted police in front of parliament Monday

It was the first such confrontation since similar demonstrations rocked the country at the start of the year

The demonstration signaled widespread unease in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U

S. from Iran's nuclear deal with other world powers and restore sanctions on the country

 It wasn't immediately clear who led Monday's protests. Iran's semi-official news agencies, Fars, ISNA and Tasnim, described the protests at the Grand Bazaar as erupting after the Iranian rial dropped to 90,000 to the dollar on the country's black market, despite government attempts to control the currency rate

Videos posted to social media showed protesters at the bazaar heckling shopkeepers who refused to close

 A short time later, a little over a mile from the Grand Bazaar, videos shared by Iranians on social media appeared to show a crowd confronting police at parliament

Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported Tuesday that authorities detained many of the protesters

  Iranian protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in central Tehran on June 25, 2018

Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images  Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said the "main provocateurs" who planned the protest and threatened shopkeepers to close their stores were arrested

He did not elaborate on the number of people detained.  Still, ISNA reported the country's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, said Tuesday that the Rouhani administration hasn't done enough to confront the economic problems

 CBS News State Department reporter Kylie Atwood reports that this marks a revival of protests seen in December and January

At the end of last year, similar economic protests roiled Iran and spread to some 75 cities and towns, becoming the largest demonstrations in the country since its 2009 disputed presidential election

A crackdown on the protests in late December and early January saw at least 25 people killed and nearly 5,000 arrested

 Iran has announced a list of 15 demands for improving relations with the United States, including a U

S. return to the 2015 nuclear accord, in response to a similar list of demands made by Washington last month

 In May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for a wholesale change in Iran's military and regional policies, threatening the "strongest sanctions in history" if it refused

The U.S. withdrew from the landmark nuclear agreement with world powers earlier that month

 The nuclear deal, however, still stands, CBS News' Atwood reports. While the U.S

is out, other countries remain committed to the deal. The U.K., France, Germany, China and Russia are trying to hold onto the deal because they say it's the only way to control Iran's nuclear capability

 

For more infomation >> Iran's president says his country is in "economic fight" with U.S. - Duration: 6:45.

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US condemns killings in Plateau - Duration: 2:03.

The US has strongly condemned the attacks in Plateau in which no fewer than 86 people were killed and several others injured.

The US in a statement by Heather Nauert, spokesperson for the US Department of State, said the perpetrators of the attacks should be brought to justice.

"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of civilians and destruction of property in Nigeria's Middle Belt region over the weekend.

"We are concerned by the recent increase in armed violence against civilians and call on all political and community leaders to lend their voices to peace and to work together to find lasting solutions to these rural conflicts.

"We join President Buhari and others in sending our deepest condolences to the affected communities, and in the desire to see the perpetrators brought to justice and to prevent further violence," Nauert said.

According Terna Tyopev, the public relations officer of the Police Command in Plateau, 50 houses, two cars and 15 motorcycles were burnt in the attacks by herders.

The herdsmen were reported to have invaded Razat, Ruku, Nyarr, Kura and Gana-Ropp villages of Gashish District in Barkin Ladi local government area where the deaths occurred.

The Plateau government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Jos South local government areas following the attacks.

President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attacks, describing the incident as "very painful and regrettable," and warned that the government would not rest until the assailants were brought to justice.

For more infomation >> US condemns killings in Plateau - Duration: 2:03.

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U.S. Department of State stresses policy on N. Korea hasn't changed and its goal is CVID: VOA - Duration: 0:59.

Regarding U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's remarks to CNN that the U.S. is not going

to put a timeline on Pyongyang's denuclearization,... the U.S. State Department stressed that the

U.S. policy on North Korea hasn't changed,... and its goal is still the complete, verifiable

and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

Washington-based VOA reported Wednesday,... quoting an unnamed state department official,

that the administration's policy has not changed and that international sanctions remain in

full effect, with the U.S. working closely with China on engagement with North Korea.

The report also said U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo will lead follow-up negotiations at

the earliest possible date to implement the results of the North Korea-U.S. summit.

On Monday,...

CNN aired an interview in which Pompeo said that rather than put a timeline on Pyongyang,

the U.S. would regularly evaluate the regime's sincerity towards denuclearization.

For more infomation >> U.S. Department of State stresses policy on N. Korea hasn't changed and its goal is CVID: VOA - Duration: 0:59.

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L.A. visit by U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions sparks downtown protest - Duration: 3:17.

Dozens of protesters were gathering in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning to demonstrate a visit by Atty

Gen. Jeff Sessions, who is scheduled to deliver a speech to a criminal justice organization in the afternoon

 Immigration advocacy groups are targeting Sessions because of his role in defending President Trump's "zero tolerance" border policy that recently led to thousands of immigrant children and parents being detained and separated indefinitely

Advertisement  The groups will rally downtown about 11 a.m. outside the U.S. attorney's office before moving to the members-only California Club, where Sessions is expected to have lunch, according to protest organizers

Sessions is scheduled to give a speech at the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation's annual luncheon at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in the afternoon, according to the Department of Justice

Dozens of protesters blocked Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning to demonstrate a visit by Atty

Gen. Jeff Sessions. (KTLA)  By 8:30 a.m., about 150 demonstrators had gathered outside the federal courthouse on Spring Street

 Linda Perez, 68, said she woke up at 6:15 a.m. and took the train from Hollywood to downtown L

A. to voice her displeasure with Sessions.  "That man is evil. He's separating kids from families," Perez said

A former secretary for the Los Angeles Unified School District, Perez donned an "Impeach Trump" pin on her shirt as she held a sign reading "All religions believe in justice

"  She felt it was important to demonstrate against Sessions and his policies because she sees herself in the parents and kids affected by Trump's zero tolerance policy

 "It could have been me," said Perez, who emigrated from Mexico in 1994.

For more infomation >> L.A. visit by U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions sparks downtown protest - Duration: 3:17.

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Mass state police help catch suspect from Vermont following police chase in Deerfield - Duration: 0:44.

For more infomation >> Mass state police help catch suspect from Vermont following police chase in Deerfield - Duration: 0:44.

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U.S. Senate committee unanimously approves Harry Harris, S. Korean ambassador nominee - Duration: 1:44.

A U.S. Senate Committee has given the greenlight to U.S. President Donald Trump's pick for

the U.S. ambassador to South Korea....

Harry Harris who now awaits a full Senate vote scheduled for July.

Kim Hyo-sun reports.

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved President

Trump's pick for ambassador to South Korea.

Harry Harris, the former chief of the U.S. Pacific Command now awaits a full Senate vote

expected for early July.

Shortly after, he should fill the post that has remained vacant since the Trump administration

took office 18 months ago.

Harris,... who is considered a hawk on foreign policy issues,... had earlier supported the

idea of pausing joint military drills between Washington and Seoul, at his confirmation

hearing earlier this month.

"I think the whole landscape has shifted.

And I believe that we should give exercises, major exercises, a pause to see if Kim Jong-un

in fact is serious about his part of the negotiations."

Stressing the importance of continuing negotiations with North Korea,.. Harris also highlighted

the need to create breathing space.

"I think that we do need to create some breathing space for the negotiations to continue and

assess whether Kim Jong-un is serious on his part of the deal or not, and I think this

gives us that opportunity."

If confirmed by the Senate, Harris will serve as Washington's top enjoy to Seoul at a time

when the allies are coordinating closely on a range of issues,... mainly the denuclearization

of the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. Senate committee unanimously approves Harry Harris, S. Korean ambassador nominee - Duration: 1:44.

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EU's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods forces Harley-Davidson to move production overseas - Duration: 1:50.

The U.S. motorcycle company Harley-Davidson announced on Monday that it's moving production

for some its products outside of the United States to avoid EU tariffs.

President Trump has slammed the decision, calling it a 'surrender'.

Our Ro Aram reports.

The EU imposed import duties of 25 percent on a range of American goods last week, including

Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

That was in response to Washington's tariffs on European steel and aluminum, which President

Trump said was designed to protect U.S. jobs.

But now it seems those measures have produced unintended consequences.

Harley said Monday that the increased costs from the import taxes are threatening its

international sales and could cost the firm 90 to 100 million dollars a year.

In order to offset the impact of retaliatory EU tariffs, Harley-Davidson said it would

be shifting some production overseas, but didn't specify where.

The shift in production is expected to take about 18 months.

The Wisconsin-based company already has factories in Brazil and India, and is opening one in

Thailand, while closing its Australian plant.

The firm said that if it stayed in the U.S. then it would result in an incremental cost

of about 2,200 dollars per motorcycle sold in Europe.

President Trump had previously thanked Harley-Davidson for staying in America, while criticizing

other firms for moving production outside the U.S.

But his trade disputes with other countries has even forced America's most iconic motorcycle

manufacturer to look elsewhere.

Later Monday, Trump tweeted that he was "surprised" by Harley's decision, describing it as waving

the white flag.

Europe is Harley's second biggest market outside the U.S. and sold almost 40-thousand motorcycles

in Europe last year.

Ro Aram, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> EU's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods forces Harley-Davidson to move production overseas - Duration: 1:50.

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Chinese Lasers Reportedly Targeting US Aircraft - Duration: 0:59.

For more infomation >> Chinese Lasers Reportedly Targeting US Aircraft - Duration: 0:59.

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Comey Fingered in Case of Leak That Harmed US Defense 'for Years to Come' - Duration: 6:53.

For more infomation >> Comey Fingered in Case of Leak That Harmed US Defense 'for Years to Come' - Duration: 6:53.

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Senior US Congressman Responds to Dem Violence: America's Heading for Civil War - Duration: 3:17.

You don't need me to tell you that it's been a bad week for civility, and it's only

Tuesday.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders got kicked out of a restaurant for her political

beliefs on Friday night, and liberals celebrated the owner who did it.

Occupy ICE PDX — a Portland, Oregon, group of extremist activists — managed to temporarily

shut down an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office by blocking the entrance, according

to CNN.

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat never exactly tethered to rationality or civility,

finally seems to have floated off into the ether of hatred by issuing a thinly veiled

incitement to physical confrontation against Trump cabinet members during a rally in Los

Angeles.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, never one to be left out, blamed the threats on

President Donald Trump.

This, in short, is making comedian Samantha Bee's sexist, ill-informed rant look positively

quaint by comparison.

So, is America heading down the primrose path to civil war?

It's been a question posed many times over the past few years as the American polity

seems to moving from a grim trial separation to acrimonious divorce.

Any sort of "civil war," however, seemed more metaphorical than literal, particularly

in a nation where avocado toast and Netflix are more common than hardtack and cannonade.

At least to one prominent congressman, however, the possibility of physical conflict is a

very real thing.

Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican known for his opposition to illegal immigration,

posted an article about the Occupy ICE PDX incident on his Twitter account, along with

a very ominous message.

"America is heading in the direction of another Harpers Ferry," King tweeted Sunday.

"After that comes Ft.

Sumter."

Harpers Ferry, of course, is the now-West Virginia town famous for John Brown's 1859

abolitionist raid, widely considered the first salvo in the Civil War.

Fort Sumter, meanwhile, was the site of that war's first official battle.

So, how were liberals handling it?

Proving King right by protesting outside his office in Ames, according to the Ames Tribune,

saying that he "racist," "close-minded" and "homophobic."

King, who was first elected to Congress in 2002, is a controversial figure, particularly

regarding a 2017 tweet about immigration in which he said, according to USA Today, "We

can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."

That doesn't make King wrong about this the state of the country, however.

When so-called activists are stopping law enforcement from enforcing laws, they're

more or less declaring war on America.

Maxine Waters is clearly calling for physical resistance to the current administration,

and party leaders aren't disowning Waters, even as they mildly distance themselves from

the sentiment.

Are those the first steps toward civil war?

Is #TheResistance going to become the hashtag Confederacy?

Only time will tell, but the past few days have not been a pleasant augury.

For more infomation >> Senior US Congressman Responds to Dem Violence: America's Heading for Civil War - Duration: 3:17.

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U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis in China amid strained bilateral ties - Duration: 0:37.

General James Mattis is in Beijing for a first visit to China by a U.S. Defense Secretary

since 2014.

Officials say Mattis will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart as well as President

Xi Jinping on Wednesday to stress the importance of Beijing's role in denuclearizing the Korean

Peninsula.

His visit comes amid deepening trade conflict between the two countries as well as strained

military relations over the South China Sea and Taiwan.

Mattis will fly to South Korea on Thursday and Japan the next day.

For more infomation >> U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis in China amid strained bilateral ties - Duration: 0:37.

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S. Korean steel export to U.S. slammed on the back of its export quota - Duration: 0:47.

Korea's steel exports to the United States have suffered due to President Donald Trump's

import restrictions.

According to the Korea International Trade Association on Wednesday,… exports to the

U.S. have fallen sharply since Washington applied an export quota in March.

Exports of quota items including steel and solar modules dropped by 34-point-1-percent

from April to May, compared to the year before.

In exchange for an exemption from the 25 percent steel import tariffs applied to other countries,

South Korea accepted a quota of about 2-point-6-8 million tonnes of steel exports, or 70 percent

of the annual average Korean steel exports to the U.S. between 2015 to 2017.

South Korea is not allowed to export steel products exceeding that quota to the U.S.

market.

For more infomation >> S. Korean steel export to U.S. slammed on the back of its export quota - Duration: 0:47.

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Trump Just Blew the Lid Off BIGGEST SCANDAL in US History - Duration: 13:43.

Trump Just Blew the Lid Off BIGGEST SCANDAL in US History

Trump's administration has uncovered a frightening, and deadly, fact: the Department of Veterans

Affairs has been letting its hospitals hire doctors and nurses with revoked medical licenses!

Apparently this has been happening for the past 15 years.

Clearly, and for good reason, it violates federal laws.

In direct contradiction to a 1999 law that bars any VA from hiring a healthcare worker

whose licenses had been revoked in any state, in 2002 the VA distributed guidelines that

allowed its hospitals to hire doctors and nurses that had a license in one of the 50

states, even if they had, previously, been subject to a license revocation.

A report by USA Today starts out, "Veteran patients in imminent danger at VA hospital

in D.C., investigation finds."

That report goes on to explain that the conditions at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical

Center in Washington, D.C., are so dangerous that the agency's chief watchdog group actually

put out a report alerting patients about the issues at that organization.

Apparently multiple issues were found at that location, such as lack of critical supplies,

including bone material needed for knee replacement surgeries and tubes needed for kidney dialysis,

due to an ineffective inventory system.

Worse, perhaps, than the lack of an effective system was the fact that the inspector general

found that senior VA leaders knew about the problems for months but did nothing to rectify

it.

In addition to this finding, the investigators reviewed 25 sterile storage areas and found

that 18 of them were dirty.

These types of reports from the inspector general are, in fact, not commonly made, with

the last one having occurred in January 2015.

The Washington V.A.'s medical director, Brian Hawkins, has since been relieved of

his position and placed on administrative leave.

In addition to the immediate danger posed by these issues, there is the larger issue

of whether or not a government-run healthcare system, as promoted by many liberals, would

be able to provide quality healthcare to U.S. citizens.

If this V.A. debacle is any indication, it most certainly

would not.

For more infomation >> Trump Just Blew the Lid Off BIGGEST SCANDAL in US History - Duration: 13:43.

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Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin Take Their PDA Tour To Washington State - Duration: 2:30.

Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin Take Their PDA Tour To Washington State

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin's great North American reconciled-couple PDA tour continues out in Washington state.

The couple was photographed hanging poolside together in Ronald, Washington yesterday.

They attended church out in Kirkland, as Bieber likes to do with his girlfriends.

He and his last girlfriend, Selena Gomez, made Wednesday church date nights in Los Angeles their thing.

This whole situation is kind of a pattern for Bieber.

In his relationship with both Baldwin and Gomez, after breaking up, he started attending church conferences with his exes, which eventually lead to them getting full-on back together.

At this point, Baldwin and Bieber have been spotted being coupley together in Miami, New York, Ontario, and now Washington.

In New York City, they were filmed by paparazzi making out in the middle of a busy park sidewalk.

Bieber hinted it was just to get back at the paparazzi via an Instagram comment he liked.

(Whether it really hurt the paps though is hard to say, as juicy footage like that gets more coverage than say, a shot of Bieber and Baldwin hiding their heads under hoods.)Yesterday, Bieber did the unprecedented, going Instagram official with Baldwin when he shared a shot of her in his story.

This is treatment that Gomez, his ex, did not get during their rekindled romance this past fall and winter.

Gomez did, however, share a shot of Bieber for his birthday.

For more infomation >> Justin Bieber And Hailey Baldwin Take Their PDA Tour To Washington State - Duration: 2:30.

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U.S. Senate committee unanimously approves Harry Harris, S. Korean ambassador nominee - Duration: 1:46.

President Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to South Korea has been approved unanimously

by a U.S. Senate committee.

Harry Harris now awaits a full Senate vote scheduled for July.

Kim Hyo-sun has more.

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved President

Trump's pick for ambassador to South Korea.

Harry Harris, the former chief of the U.S. Pacific Command now awaits a full Senate vote

expected for early July.

Shortly after, he should fill the post that has remained vacant since the Trump administration

took office 18 months ago.

Harris,... who is considered a hawk on foreign policy issues,... had earlier supported the

idea of pausing joint military drills between Washington and Seoul, at his confirmation

hearing earlier this month.

"I think the whole landscape has shifted.

And I believe that we should give exercises, major exercises, a pause to see if Kim Jong-un

in fact is serious about his part of the negotiations."

Stressing the importance of continuing negotiations with North Korea,.. Harris also highlighted

the need to create breathing space.

"I think that we do need to create some breathing space for the negotiations to continue and

assess whether Kim Jong-un is serious on his part of the deal or not, and I think this

gives us that opportunity."

If confirmed by the Senate, Harris will serve as Washington's top enjoy to Seoul at a time

when the allies are coordinating closely on a range of issues,... mainly the denuclearization

of the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. Senate committee unanimously approves Harry Harris, S. Korean ambassador nominee - Duration: 1:46.

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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Weinstein On Travel Ban - Duration: 5:22.

For more infomation >> Former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Weinstein On Travel Ban - Duration: 5:22.

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China may no longer help U.S. in sanctioning North Korea: Trump - Duration: 0:41.

U.S. President Donald Trump says China may no longer help the U.S. when it comes to coordinating

sanctions against North Korea as the trade spat deepens between the world's two largest

economies.

At a Republican rally in South Carolina Monday night,... local time, President Trump said

the U.S. lost 817 billion dollars on trade last year,... noting that the biggest loss

was with China.

He also made the remarkable claim that Washington was responsible for (quote) "building China."

Watchers say the comments reflect Trump's concerns that Beijing could be about to ease

sanctions on North Korea.