President Donald Trump appeared to surprise Defense Department officials Monday with his request for a sixth branch of the U.S. military: the Space Force. “When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,” the president said during remarks at the White House.

Opposition to the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents mounted over the weekend, uniting the president’s supporters and critics. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse and one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile evangelical supporters, called the policy “disgraceful.” Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy “cruel” and “immoral” in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

The Canadian Supreme Court severely limited religious liberty in the country on Friday when it ruled against a Christian university trying to open a law school. In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled regional law societies had a right to block accreditation for the school over objections to its community covenant, which requires students and faculty to abstain from sex outside heterosexual marriage.

President Donald Trump on Friday blasted the conclusions in a Justice Department report claiming former FBI Director James Comey broke protocol but didn’t act with political bias in his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email use. The report, released Thursday, included more text messages exchanged by two FBI agents investigating Clinton. Trump focused on the clear bias in those messages but directed most of his ire at the agency’s leadership. “The end result was wrong.

The Trump administration announced a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion in Chinese goods today, adding to the tariffs previously imposed on the country. Beijing responded with tariffs on $50 billion in U.S. goods, heightening fears of an accelerating trade war. The new Chinese tariffs target U.S. beef and soybeans, a shot at President Donald Trump’s supporters in rural America.

The New York attorney general sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation on Thursday, claiming it acted as the president’s personal piggy bank. Attorney General Barbara Underwood, a Democrat, demanded the foundation pay $2.8 million in restitution and dissolve. Her predecessor, who started investigating the foundation in 2016, already ordered it to stop fundraising in New York. The president’s foundation acted as “little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to assuage fears among U.S. allies this week that President Donald Trump would ease restrictions on North Korea before it gives up its nuclear weapons. “We’re going to get denuclearization,” Pompeo said during a visit to Seoul, South Korea. “Only then will there be relief from the sanctions.” The top U.S. diplomat sought to counter claims in North Korean media that Trump would grant concessions before denuclearization.