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News to Go: Tuesday, June 19

Here's what you need to know going into Tuesday
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Heavy rains cause rural Wisconsin dam failure

A state of emergency has been declared in northwestern Wisconsin because of the severe weather. One death being attributed to the floods. Governor Scott Walker declared a state of Emergency and The National Weather Service is warning people to avoid area.

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Microsoft under fire for ICE deal

Microsoft came under fire on social media for its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that's separating families at the U.S.-Mexican border. The company now says it's "dismayed," by new actions by the Trump administration to jail immigrant parents who attempt to come to the U.S. without going through legal channels, and take their children away into detention facilities.

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New tariff threat

A new 10 percent tariff on $200 billion in Chinese imports is being threatened by President Trump in his latest move toward what could become a trade war. The President says the tariff will go into effect if China refuses to change its practices, and if it insists on going forward with new tariffs of its own. China's Commerce Ministry criticized the new threat, saying it's an "act of extreme pressure and blackmail."

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Police have arrested 18 demonstrators who shut down part of the light rail system in Minneapolis to protest federal immigration deportations.

President Trump wants to create a space force

President Trump announced that he is directing the Pentagon to create the 'Space Force' as an independent service branch. Trump said that "we are going to have the space force" which he deemed a "separate but equal" branch of the military. Trump says the United States will "be the leader by far" in space and looks to revive the nation's flagging space program. The president also vows to soon return the United States to the moon and to reach Mars.

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US President Donald Trump shows his signature on Section 232 Proclamations on Steel and Aluminum Imports in the Oval Office of the White House on March 8, 2018, in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Marijuana medicine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide soon whether to give its first approval to a prescription drug made from the marijuana plant. But parents who have used other products containing chemicals from the plant to treat their children's severe forms of epilepsy are feeling more cautious than celebratory. They want assurance that existing medical marijuana markets in more than two dozen states won't be harmed if the drug called Epidiolex gets approved.



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