NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR

President Trump tweeted tonight that all tariffs, barriers and subsidies should be dropped by both the European Union and the United States saying "That would finally be called Free Market and Fair Trade!"

European Union representatives are coming to Washington tomorrow to talk trade amid President Trump's demand that EU tariff barriers to US goods be dropped.  He is threatening US tariffs against EU nations until they comply with his demand.

CBS News reports that a law enforcement source tells them that Toronto mass shooter Faisal Hussain visited ISIS websites and may have expressed support for the terrorist group.   They are investigating whether Hussain lived in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Canada's Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says that at this stage there is "no connection between that individual and national security".    Hussain killed two and wounded 13 when he opened fire on restaurants and cafes in the "Greektown" neighborhood Sunday night.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Toronto's mayor John Tory said the city council is considering a motion urging Canada's federal government to ban the sale of handguns and ammunition in the city.  Mayor Tory has questioned why anyone would need a gun in Toronto.

Israel shot down a Syrian military plane today.  The Israelis say the Syrian aircraft entered its airspace but the Syrians say the plane was conducting military operations against Islamic State aligned forces in the Golan Heights.

Syria accused the Israelis of helping the jihadists who are facing defeat as the last opposition force in southwestern Syria following major military victories for the regime of President Bashar Assad backed by Russian airpower.

Top Russian officials are visiting Israel talking about Syria's future.  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov have offered a 100 kilometer or 62 mile buffer zone keeping Iranian forces away from Israel's borders.

Russia's embassy in Israel has denied reports that Israel has rejected their offer.

Brian Kemp, the candidate backed by President Trump, won the primary runoff for the Republicans tonight to be the GOP candidate for Governor of Georgia this fall.  Kemp defeated Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle by a wide margin.   He will face Democrat Stacey Abrams in the general election.

"A Remainer is in charge of Brexit now"....That's the reaction of "Mr.Brexit" Nigel Farage to British Prime Minister Theresa May's statement today saying she will personally lead the negotiations with the European Union to pull the UK out of the EU by March of next year.

May supported "Remain" in the 2016 referendum and supporters of Brexit already see her recently adopted position on Brexit as a sellout and a "Brexit In Name Only".

Wednesday is election day in Pakistan with national parliamentary elections and voting for four provincial assemblies.   A party led by a former star cricketer, Imran Khan, is trying to beat the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who is now jailed on corruption charges.

Many believe the military is behind the scenes manipulating the charges against Mr. Sharif and promoting an electoral victory for Mr. Khan.

Pop singer Demi Lovato is in a Los Angeles hospital following a heroin overdose.  The TMZ website says Lovato OD'd and was treated with Narcan at her home in Hollywood hills earlier today.  An aunt of the singer,  Kerissa Dunn, posted on social media that she is "awake and responsive".

An heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, Clare Bronfman, is among four more people being charged in the federal criminal case against the Nexium (Nxvim) group.   The feds alleged Bronfman, daughter of the late philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, used her fortune to finance the group's operations.

It is alleged that the organization was a sex trafficking-forced labor group behind its public profile as a mentoring program.

Comedian Bill Cosby should be declared a "sexually violent predator" according to a Pennsylvania state assessment board.   It will up to a judge to determine whether the 81-year old Cosby will be classified according to the board's recommendation which would require him to register as a sex offender and undergo monthly treatment.

Cosby's sentencing hearing is set for September 24th in Norristown, Pennsylvania where he was convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

A jury was quickly picked this afternoon in Portland, Oregon for the trial of an FBI agent accused of lying about shooting at a pickup truck driven by Oregon Standoff protester LaVoy Finicum who was killed by Oregon State Police moments later.

Finicum's widow, who has filed a wrongful death suit in connection with his killing, is at the trial seeking justice for her late husband.  Protestors were outside the federal courthouse today but the supporters of LaVoy Finicum were kept out of the courtroom supposedly to allow the jury pool in for the selection process.

They only got in once the jury was actually picked.

The trial of W. Joseph Astarita starts tomorrow morning at 9am.