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John Wagner August 27 at 12:33 PM President Trump on Tuesday blamed “Radical Left Democrats” for spreading a “false and nasty rumor” about a bedbug infestation at his golf resort in Doral, Fla., after he said he would like to hold next year’s Group of Seven summit at the property. “No bedbugs at Doral,” Trump wrote in a midmorning tweet. “The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located…

CLOSE Oklahoma lawyers argued Johnson & Johnson aggressively marketed opioids that overstated their effectiveness and underplayed the addiction risk. USA TODAY Oklahoma’s $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson will likely be followed by more trials and legal settlements seeking to hold a drug company accountable for a U.S. opioid crisis that has ripped apart lives, families and communities. Monday’s ruling could help shape negotiations over roughly 1,500 similar lawsuits filed by…

“It’s nearly impossible to fire a federal worker,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “I know that because a lot of them work for me and I’ve tried and you can’t do it.” At Minnesota’s Farmfest, it was clear that Mr. Perdue’s Southern charm could go only so far. His answers to questions about how the trade war with China would end were curt, and his quip about whining farmers left some with…

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“The critical finding is that Johnson & Johnson engaged in false, deceptive and misleading marketing,” said Abbe R. Gluck, who teaches health policy and law at Yale Law School. From 2000 through 2011, members of Johnson & Johnson’s sales staff made some 150,000 visits to Oklahoma doctors, focusing in particular on high-volume prescribers, the state said. In addition, the pharmaceutical giant supplied most of the nation’s opioid material to other…

Media captionOklahoma Attorney General: Johnson & Johnson built its brand out of “greed” Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m (£469m) for its part in fuelling Oklahoma’s opioid addiction crisis, a judge in the US state has ruled. The company said immediately after the judgement that it would appeal. The case was the first to go to trial out of thousands of lawsuits filed against opioid makers and distributors. Earlier…

After Donald Trump revealed that his struggling Trump National Doral Miami resort in Florida may host the G7 summit next year, the hashtag #TrumpBedBugs began trending on Monday with thousands of Americans ridiculing the president over a bug infestation at the luxury resort in 2017. Trump held a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of the G7 summit in Biarritz on Monday where he confirmed…

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Firefighters walk a burned tract of the Amazon jungle during an operation in Porto Velho on Sunday. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters) Terrence McCoy Marina Lopes August 26 at 11:38 PM RIO DE JANEIRO — Millions in aid are being pledged. Hundreds of soldiers are heading into the jungle. The Amazon is burning — and the world has taken notice. Now comes the hard part. The fight to quell the blazes will be…

Video Chris Stirewalt reacts to new poll showing Biden in statistical tie Chris Stirewalt reacts to new poll showing Biden in statistical tie If a new poll showing former Vice President Joe Biden trailing his rivals is indicative of a new trend, his 2020 hopes are dashed, according to Chris Stirewalt. The Monmouth University survey showing a virtual three-way tie between Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren,…

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BIARRITZ, France, Aug 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would probably host next year’s Group of Seven summit of developed world leaders at one of his own properties – the Trump National Doral golf resort in Miami. The G7 countries take it in turn to stage the summit, often choosing locations that show off areas of natural beauty. Trump said the Florida resort was a…

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President Donald Trump at times sought to placate allies with assurances he would work with them to broker trade deals or find areas of compromise despite firmly established differences. | Jeff J Mitchell – Pool/Getty Images Foreign Policy The president managed a G-7 summit his way — unwilling to commit to clear stances and declining to be boxed in by anyone. By GABBY ORR 08/26/2019 05:23 PM EDT BIARRITZ, France…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s suggestion on Monday that he is considering hosting the 2020 G-7 meeting at his Miami golf course reignited questions about whether he has personally profited from the presidency — and warnings from constitutional experts that such a move would violate the emoluments clauses of the Constitution. Trump said that no official decision on the 2020 summit had been made yet — but extolled the virtues…

Investors must remember when President Donald Trump does something to make the stock market go down, in short time he’ll say something to help stocks go back up, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. Wall Street is the “equivalent of his Nielsen ratings,” the “Mad Money” host said, which is why it’s a mistake to dump an entire portfolio on a tweet-induced sell-off by Trump, such as in last Friday’s 623-point…

Video Gov. Steve Bullock on his presidential campaign, DNC debate controversy Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Steve Bullock joins Dana Perino for an exclusive interview on ‘Fox News Sunday.’ With the deadline to qualify for next month’s third round of Democratic presidential debates closing in, the Democratic National Committee is facing an angry chorus of criticism from the candidates not likely to make the cut. At issue is the DNC’s criteria for…

A judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled against Johnson & Johnson, the deep-pocketed corporate giant, and ordered it to pay the state $572 million in the first trial of an opioid manufacturer for the destruction wrought by prescription painkillers. Johnson & Johnson, which contracted with poppy growers in Tasmania, supplied 60 percent of the opiate ingredients that drug companies used for opioids like oxycodone, the state had argued, and aggressively…

Erin Cunningham August 26 at 2:18 PM ISTANBUL — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that he was open to talks amid an economic crisis at home and rising tensions with the West, a move that could set the stage for eventual negotiations with the United States.  Rouhani, a moderate, said Iran should use diplomacy to find solutions following the U.S. withdrawal last year from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran…