In this image taken with a long exposure, the Volcan de Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, spews molten rock from its crater in Alotenango, Guatemala, Sunday, June 3, 2018. Rescuers struggled to reach rural residents cut off by the deadly volcanic eruption Sunday. (AP Photo/Luis Soto) (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
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Developing now, Monday, June 4, 2018
- A volcano eruption near Guatemala’s capital leaves at least 25 people dead
- Violence breaks out in Portland, Oregon when Antifa members rush a Patriot Prayer rally
- Rudy Giuliani challenges Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team to 'man up' and make a decision about their investigation without seeking to subpoena President Trump
- China raises the odds of a possible trade war by saying it will not buy more U.S. products if the Trump administration slaps tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese imports
- Bill Clinton says in an interview that impeachment hearings would already be underway if a Democrat was president and faced Russian collusion allegations
- First lady Melania Trump will skip the upcoming G7 summit in Quebec and will not travel to Singapore for her husband President Trump's planned sit-down with Kim Jong Un, her spokeswoman tells Fox News
THE LEAD STORY - 'VOLCANO OF FIRE': At least 25 people were killed Sunday after a volcanic eruption near Guatemala's capital, and authorities feared the death toll could rise with an undetermined number of people unaccounted for ... The Volcan de Fuego, Spanish for "volcano of fire," exploded in a hail of ash and molten rock shortly before noon Sunday, blanketing nearby villages in heavy ash. Then it began sending lava flows down the mountain's flank and across homes and roads around 4 p.m. local time. Eddy Sanchez, director of the country's seismology and volcanology institute, said the flows reached temperatures of about 1,300 degrees. Dramatic video showed a fast-moving lahar, or flow of pyroclastic material and slurry, slamming into and partly destroying a bridge on a highway between Sacatepequez and Escuintla.
- Three stranded in Kilauea, Hawaii lava zone are airlifted; cops cite 7 others for loitering near lava
BLOODY SUNDAY IN PORTLAND: Violence broke out in downtown Portland, Ore., on Sunday as Antifa activists stormed a Patriot Prayer rally — about a year after similar dueling rallies triggered bloody fights and arrests ... Some protesters on Sunday hurled bottles and fireworks at police officers while others were caught with knives and other weapons, Portland Police tweeted. Officials encouraged people to get out of the immediate area "for their safety." Many of the Antifa activists wore black and covered their faces. Some protesters said they were demonstrating against police brutality; one sign bluntly read "F--- the police." Patriot Prayer, which bills itself as a peaceful First Amendment advocacy group, organized a rally — "Tiny's Freedom March," a going-away event for Tusitala John Toese, who's close with group leader Joey Gibson — for 5 p.m. The Rose City Antifa scheduled a counter-protest for 4 p.m. "to show Patriot Prayer, just as we showed them last year, that their violence and hatred has no place in Portland."
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'COME ON, MAN UP': Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sensitive to pulling "another Comey" as the Russia probe enters its final months, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in an interview Sunday ... Calling the investigation a "long nightmare with the American people," Giuliani also issued a challenge directly to Mueller's team, telling investigators to "man up" rather than seek to subpoena President Trump. "They have to make a decision without it," Giuliani said on ABC's "This Week," noting that the Trump team has already made available several witnesses and turned over more than a million documents. "So, come on, man up and make your decision." Meanwhile, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told “Fox News Sunday” that President Trump’s legal team will “take it to court” if Mueller subpoenas him as part of the Russia probe.
- Michael Goodwin: James Comey isn't above the law
- John Roberts: Trump attorneys' letter to Mueller spells out legal arguments against Trump sitting down for interview
TRADE WAR RUMBLINGS: China has balked at stepping up its purchases of American products, raising the odds of a trade war, if President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to tax billions of dollars' worth of Chinese imports ... The warning from Beijing came after delegations led by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and China's top economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, wrapped up talks on Beijing's pledge to narrow its trade surplus. White House advisers were insisting on fundamental changes in ties between the world's two biggest economic powers. At the outset of the event Ross said the two sides had discussed specific American exports China might purchase, but the talks ended with no joint statement and neither side released details.
- Trump: 'UNFAIR' trade practices can 'no longer be tolerated,' US 'must be treated fairly'
- American farmers fear they'll pay the price of Trump's trade war
BILL CLINTON TALKS IMPEACHMENT: Former President Bill Clinton argued Sunday that impeachment hearings would already be in full swing if a Democrat were in the Oval Office and if the special counsel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election were as deep as it is now ... “I think if the roles were reversed — now, this is me just talking, but it’s based on my experience — if it were a Democratic president, and these facts were present, most people I know in Washington believe impeachment hearings would have begun already,” Clinton told “CBS Sunday Morning.” Clinton is no stranger to impeachment hearings. After a lengthy investigation by independent counsel Ken Starr, the Republican-controlled House in 1998 voted to impeach him for perjury and obstruction of justice in relation to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
- James Clapper: 'Would not have been appropriate' for me to warn candidate Trump about Russian interference
MELANIA TO MISS G7, NORTH KOREA SUMMITS: First lady Melania Trump will not join her husband at the G7 summit in Quebec later this week and there are "no plans" for her to travel to Singapore to meet with North Korea's leader later this month, a spokeswoman told Fox News late Sunday ... Mrs. Trump stayed behind Friday when President Donald Trump, and family-- including his daughters, eldest son and son-in-law-- went to the Camp David retreat for the weekend. She hasn't made a public appearance since before her five-day hospital stay in mid-May for treatment of a kidney condition the White House only described as benign. Mrs. Trump took to Twitter last week to dispel rumors circulating about her whereabouts.
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1998: A federal judge sentences Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
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1972: A jury in San Jose, Calif., acquits radical activist Angela Davis of murder and kidnapping for her alleged connection to a deadly Marin County courthouse shootout in 1970.
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