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U.S President Donald Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz. Leaders of some of the world’s major economies have arrived in France for the G7 summit. Ludovic Marin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ludovic Marin/AP U.S President Donald Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz. Leaders of some of the world’s major economies have arrived in France for the G7 summit. Ludovic Marin/AP President Trump…

But key questions have yet to be answered: how many fires will be fought, how many troops will be assigned and how much will be spent. Images of forest fires — including many that were several years old — set off an outcry this week as world leaders, celebrities and others raised alarm about the fate of the world’s largest rain forest. Forest fires in the Amazon are common this…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A NASA astronaut has been accused of committing the first crime in outer space after her estranged wife alleged she stole her identity and accessed her bank account without permission during a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Former Air Force intelligence officer Summer Worden, from…

Under international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of Brazil’s Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the huge blazes while thousands took to the streets to protest his environmental policies. Brazilian forces will deploy starting Saturday to border areas, indigenous territories and other affected regions in the Amazon to assist in putting out fires for a month, according to a presidential decree authorizing…

“Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing our companies HOME and making your products in the USA,” Mr. Trump tweeted, adding, “We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them.” Mr. Trump’s threat to invoke the 1977 act to force companies to leave China would be his most recent unorthodox use of standby authorities that…

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Evan Vucci/AP Photo foreign policy By MATTHEW CHOI 08/23/2019 06:51 PM EDT President Donald Trump offered Friday to help Brazil contain forest fires raging in the Amazon rain forest, putting him at odds with a key ally going into the weekend’s G7 meeting. “Just spoke with President @JairBolsonaro of Brazil. Our future Trade prospects are very exciting and our relationship is strong, perhaps stronger than ever before. I told him…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com In a case that brought national attention to Florida’s  “Stand Your Ground” gun law, a jury on Friday night convicted a licensed gun owner on manslaughter charges after deliberating for six hours following a weeklong trial. The defendant, Michael Drejka, was accused of killing Markeis McGlockton in…

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a rally in Philadelphia on May 18. Pennsylvania went for Donald Trump in 2016 after 28 years of backing a Democrat for president. (Matt Rourke/AP) Laura Hughes August 24 at 6:00 AM PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. Alyn E. Waller, a senior pastor at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, believes African American voters in his city hold the key to the White House….

The yearly rainfall ranges from 80 to 400 inches (200 to 1,000cm). Most of this rain, which can get very heavy, runs through the Amazon’s rainy season roughly from mid-December to mid-May. But the Amazon is a massive forest, meaning its climate varies depending on what area. It rains far less in central Amazonia than in the Peruvian Amazon or at the eastern Amazon of Brazil. READ MORE Amazon rainforest…

Ms. McClain, meanwhile, was gaining national attention for another reason. NASA was promoting the coming milestone of an all-female spacewalk, with Ms. McClain set to do work outside the space station with her fellow astronaut Christina Koch. But in a sudden switch a few days before the spacewalk, NASA scrapped Ms. McCain’s role, explaining that there were not enough suits available in the two women’s size. “Saturday Night Live” skewered…

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The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life. The Justice Department revealed that a psychologist had approved removing him from a suicide watch. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life. The Justice Department revealed that a psychologist had approved removing him from a suicide watch. Mary Altaffer/AP The Justice…

As protests in Hong Kong continue, scholars and experts worldwide have expressed their concern over the city’s economic recession and rising violence. During an exclusive interview with People’s Daily Online, Martin Jacques, a senior fellow at Cambridge University, called for restored stability and order in Hong Kong, adding that its future lies only with China. Jacques explained that there is a difference between the original peaceful demonstrations and attacks on…

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The lungs of the world” are burning. More than 74,000 fires have consumed approximately 7,200 square miles this year in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon, according to Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research. The world counts on its largest rainforest to cleanse our atmosphere of greenhouse gases.  Here are six graphics that put the number and scale of this year’s fires in perspective as well as the potential implications for climate change. First,…

VERDICT: Guilty: Michael Drejka convicted of manslaughter in Markeis McGlockton’s death LARGO — Jury deliberations stretched late into Friday evening in the trial of Michael Drejka, accused of manslaughter in the shooting death of Markeis McGlockton in a convenience store parking lot. The courtroom was left in suspense for hours as they debated the question of whether the July 19, 2018, shooting at the Circle…

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone radiation treatment since Aug. 5 for a malignant tumor on her pancreas, the Supreme Court said Friday, marking her second bout with cancer in the last year and her fourth overall. The 86-year-old justice “tolerated treatment well. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in her body,” the court said in a statement. “No further treatment is needed…

Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Images (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) Jeanne Whalen Abha Bhattarai Reed Albergotti August 23 at 4:40 PM President Trump’s extraordinary edict demanding U.S. companies move out of China — delivered in a series of angry tweets Friday — left industries of every stripe scrambling to understand how seriously to take the order, and how the White House might enforce it. Businesses from retail to…