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Frank Bruni: Republicans are dropping like flies – Salt Lake Tribune
In the cause of figuring out whether, in November 2020, Trump will be rewarded with a second term, many numbers and dynamics get tossed around: the unemployment figures, the Dow Jones, the trade war, the advantages of incumbency, the peculiarities of the Electoral College and Trump’s approval ratings, consistently low but not entirely static.
Brexit: U.K. cabinet member Amber Rudd resigns over Boris Johnson government’s handling of Brexit – CBS News
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a new blow Saturday when a Cabinet minister resigned, saying she did not believe Johnson was sincere about getting a Brexit deal with the European Union. Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said in a letter to the prime minister that she was resigning because “I no longer believe leaving with a deal is the government’s main objective.” Rudd also slammed Johnson’s expulsion…
Protesters Besiege Central Hong Kong After Rally Near U.S. Consulate – The New York Times
Months of protests have taken a toll on the economy of Hong Kong, a major international banking hub, and some residents fear that the American bill would further damage the city’s financial well-being. Brian Chan, 23, an engineer who joined the march, said he was not worried about the effect the legislation might have on the Hong Kong economy. “Freedom and democracy is more important than economics,” Mr. Chan said….
Kamala Harris apologizes amid criticism of her response to a questioner’s offensive remark about Trump – CNN
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Trump Says He Called Off Secret Talks At Camp David With Taliban, Afghan Leaders – NPR
President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room on Sept. 4. He says he called off talks at Camp David between the Taliban and Afghan leaders. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room on Sept. 4. He says he called off talks at Camp David between the Taliban and Afghan leaders. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Updated at 2:33 a.m. ET Sunday President…
Piles of rubble and splintered homes are slowing down search efforts in the Bahamas – CNN
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Warren gains, Harris slips — and the room for movement is vast – ABC News
A gain for Elizabeth Warren and a slip in support for Kamala Harris place Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Warren atop the field in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, days in advance of the Sept. 12 Democratic debate in Houston, sponsored by ABC and Univision. The poll finds Biden, this summer’s front-runner, far better rated for electability than for being “the best president for the country.” Still, his supporters…
Top weather agency memo warned staff not to contradict Trump on his Dorian forecast for Alabama – Washington Examiner
Hours after President Trump delivered an outdated forecast to Alabama over Labor Day weekend, warning the state could get hit hard by Hurricane Dorian, a memo circulated around the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration instructing employees not to contradict the president. The directive, sent by a top NOAA official, told staff to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts…
Storm Dorian makes landfall in Canada – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The storm has made its way up from the US to Atlantic Canada Storm Dorian has made landfall in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia as a post-tropical cyclone. The powerful storm hit Halifax on Saturday with winds of 100mph (160km/h), toppling trees and cutting power to more than 450,000 homes. Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the military would be deployed to help…
Trump says he canceled secret Camp David meeting with Taliban leaders – CNN
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Former NOAA officials critical of defense of Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claim on Alabama – USA TODAY
CLOSE President Donald Trump was questioned by reporters Wednesday about an altered Hurricane Dorian map he displayed in the Oval Office. The map showed what looked to be a hand-drawn half-circle suggesting Alabama was in the path of the storm. (Sept. 4) AP, AP WASHINGTON – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is facing fierce criticism from former officials after the agency issued a statement that defended President Donald Trump and…
M.I.T. Media Lab Director Steps Down Over Financial Ties To Jeffrey Epstein – NPR
Joichi Ito stepped down as Director of the M.I.T. Media Lab on Saturday after a New Yorker article alleged the lab concealed its ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Kimberly White/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kimberly White/Getty Images Joichi Ito stepped down as Director of the M.I.T. Media Lab on Saturday after a New Yorker article alleged the lab concealed its ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Kimberly White/Getty…
Michelle Goldberg: Dare we dream of the end of the GOP? – Salt Lake Tribune
That resolve to resist has led many voters to define their own beliefs in opposition to Trump’s. On immigration, for example, “every Trump outrage increased the proportion of Americans who said, ‘We are an immigrant country,’” writes Greenberg. Indeed, according to recent Pew data, 62% of Americans say that immigrants strengthen the country, while 28%, a near record low, see them as a burden.
In Dorian’s wake, a shattered town haunted by its missing – The Washington Post
Hundreds of people displaced by Hurricane Dorian gather at a port that has been turned into a distribution and evacuation center in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Anthony Faiola September 7 at 9:35 PM MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — Her husband is missing. She can’t bring herself to say “gone.” Lynette Dean, a 46-year-old accountant, heard his screams when Hurricane Dorian brought the sea into their living room….
Bahamas evacuees arrive at a Florida port on a cruise ship after facing Hurricane Dorian’s devastation – CNN
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Head of MIT’s Media Lab resigns amid Jeffrey Epstein controversy – reports – The Guardian
The director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, Joi Ito, has reportedly resigned in the wake of continued scrutiny over the center’s financial relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The prestigious university center had admitted to accepting some financial donations from Epstein, despite the financier’s history of pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a child. But new reports from the New Yorker and the New York Times…
House panel is probing U.S. military use of Trump-owned property in Scotland – The Washington Post
Colby Itkowitz Missy Ryan September 7 at 4:42 PM The House Oversight Committee is investigating why a financially struggling airport near a Trump-owned golf course in Scotland has seen an uptick in expenditures by the U.S. military since President Trump took office. Chairman Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. Jamie Raskin, both Maryland Democrats, sent a letter to the Defense Department’s acting secretary, Patrick M. Shanahan, in June asking for all…
California boat fire: The Conception was a ‘fire trap’ experts say – Los Angeles Times
A day of diving off Santa Cruz Island ended like countless others aboard the Conception, with dozens of divers asleep in tightly arranged bunks that all but filled the belly of the 75-foot boat. As always, there were two ways out in case of emergency — up a curved stairway at the front of the cabin, or through an escape hatch in the ceiling over bunks at the rear. Before…
Iran Breaks With More Limits in Nuclear Deal as It Pushes for European Aid – The New York Times
In fact, American officials are not confident at all. Since Mr. Trump left the agreement in May 2018, not a single other participant has joined him in renouncing it or reimposing sanctions. Rather, the Europeans have sought workarounds that would keep Iran within the terms of the deal, and they have argued that Mr. Trump erred gravely by scrapping the agreement rather than building on it. Russia and China appear…
Hurricane Dorian’s aftermath in the Bahamas: The latest – CNN
In a story of how residents came together to save one another amid dangerous conditions, Jensen Burrows and d’Sean Smith — as well as a dozen other jet skiers — rescued 100 people who were trapped in flooded homes in the Bahamas on Tuesday. “They did a phenomenal job, not just with us. What we saw when we came out is that they continued to go back in and over…
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