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New ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Teaser Unleashes Ghost

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Marvel Studios gave fans a Memorial Day treat with a teaser for "Ant-Man and the Wasp" that features new footage of the duo on a mission to stop their latest foe -- Ghost. The short clip features Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) laying out his grocery-list-style plan to destroy the villain Ghost to Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope Van Dyme (Evangeline Lilly). "If you want to do something right, you make a list," Lang says in the teaser. The clip also features more of Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost, who has the ability to phase through matter. It appears that the good guys' attempts to rescue Janet Van Dyme (Michelle Pfeiffer) from the Quantum Realm brings some unintended consequences. Not among the new footage were any clues as to "Ant Man and the Wasp's" connection to the events of "Avengers: Infinity War." We'll just have to wait until the movie comes out on July 6. Watch the teaser above. How might "Ant-Man and the Wasp&q

Trump announces tariffs on China, tech crackdown ahead of key trade meeting

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Specifics of the new limits will be announced by June 30 and will take effect “shortly thereafter,” the White House said. The moves come less than 10 days after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the trade war with China was “on hold.” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is due to arrive in Beijing on Saturday for talks aimed at cooling trade tensions between the two countries. The president has been seeking Chinese agreement to reduce the $375 billion U.S. goods trade deficit. But two days of talks in Washington ended earlier this month with only vague Chinese promises to buy more U.S. agriculture and energy products. “The Trump administration is back in attack mode against China after what had appeared to be a temporary truce in the trade tensions,” said Eswar Prasad, former head of the International Monetary Fund’s China division. “China’s unwillingness to agree to a trade deficit reduction target or make other major concessions has probably emboldened those in the administ

CIA says North Korea won't give up nukes, but might open a burger joint

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WASHINGTON — A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News — a finding that conflicts with recent statements by President Trump that Pyongyang intends to do so in the future. President Trump is continuing to pursue a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the CIA analysis, which is consistent with other expert opinion, casts doubt on the viability of Trump's stated goal for the negotiations, the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile. "Everybody knows they are not going to denuclearize," said one intelligence official who read the report, which was circulated earlier this month, days before Trump cancelled the originally scheduled summit. Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Fake News NBC just stated that we have given up so much in our negotiations with North Korea, and they have given up nothing. Wow, we haven’t g