The FBI also says that it is treating last month's mass shooting in Gilroy, California,
was domestic terror.
It turns out the gunman had a target list of religious institutions, federal buildings,
courthouses and the two major political parties.
He killed three people and wounded 13 at a popular food festival, before killing himself.
The Chinese currency stabilized today after sliding on Monday to an 11-year low.
That calmed Wall Street, and stocks made up almost half of Monday's losses.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 311 points to close at 26029.
The Nasdaq rose 107 points, and the S&P 500 added 37.
Meanwhile, China's Central Bank denied manipulating its currency to gain advantage in a trade
fight with the U.S.
Instead, it warned Washington to pull back from the brink of greater economic damage.
But White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow argued the Chinese are bearing the real burden.
LARRY KUDLOW, Director, National Economic Council: China's slashing its prices.
That's killing their profits and their companies.
Production and supply chains are moving out of China.
We have elasticity of demand.
Our importers can shop elsewhere outside of China.
That's hurting China.
JUDY WOODRUFF: President also played down fears of a prolonged trade fight, and he vowed
again to protect American farmers after Beijing said that it will stop buying U.S. agriculture
products.
Separately, President Trump has frozen all of the Venezuelan government's assets in the
U.S. in a new blow at President Nicolas Maduro.
The sanctions also mean that U.S. companies and individuals could face penalties for doing
business with Maduro's government and his top supporters.
This is the latest U.S. move to aid opposition leader Juan Guaido in his bid to oust Maduro.
The United States fired off a new warning to Turkey today not to attack Kurdish forces
in Northeastern Syria.
The mainly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces have fought against the Islamic State, or
ISIS, but Turkey regards the Kurds as terrorists.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said today that a Turkish invasion would be unacceptable.
He spoke en route to Japan.
MARK ESPER, U.S. Defense Secretary: We want to sustain the continued defeat at least of
the physical caliphate of ISIS, right?
That becomes a question if they move in and the SDF is impacted.
We're obviously holding thousands of fighters, ISIS fighters.
And so those are some the -- some of the things we risk if there's a unilateral incursion
into Northern Syria by the Turks.
JUDY WOODRUFF: In Ankara, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again talked of military
action, insisting that control of the Syrian border region is critical to Turkey's safety.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkish President (through translator): It's our country's top priority
to drain the terror swamp in Syria's north.
Turkey cannot feel safe as long the forces in our south, which are growing like a cancer
cell and being grown with the heavy weapons of our allies, is not eliminated.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Military delegations from the U.S. and Turkey have been meeting in Ankara
this week, trying to negotiate a settlement.
North Korea says that it keeps testing missiles because the United States is inciting military
tensions.
The North fired two more short-range missiles into the sea early today, the fourth such
test in two weeks.
In a statement, Pyongyang defended the tests and cited U.S. weapons sales to South Korea
and a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise.
Back in this country, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel has officially dropped out of
the 2020 Democratic presidential race.
He said in a video today that he will back Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the nomination.
Gravel is 89.
He didn't actively campaign or appear in any of the Democratic debates.
And Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison has died in New York after a brief illness.
She pioneered American multiculturalism in her novels, and was the first African-American
woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Toni Morrison was 88 years old.
We will explore her life and legacy at the end of the program.