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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg completed a three-week course of radiation therapy to treat a tumor on her pancreas, according to a release sent by the Supreme Court Friday. The tumor was treated “definitively,” according to the statement, and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The court said that doctors detected the abnormality during a routine blood test early in July and then a biopsy at the…

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Video Bette Midler creates social media mess with tweet calling for president to be stabbed The actress jokingly tweeted someone should give President Trump a shiv, but there was a lot of backlash showing several people did not think her comment was a laughing matter. Entertainer Bette Midler isn’t one to mince words and her response to billionaire David Koch’s death was no different. After news of Koch’s death broke on Friday, Midler piled onto…

[Who’s in? Who’s out? Keep up with the 2020 field with our candidate tracker.] Mr. Moulton said he would run for re-election to the House, representing a coastal district to the north and east of Boston. Several other Democrats filed to run for his seat while Mr. Moulton was a presidential candidate, and he is likely to face a contested primary. Mr. Moulton said he would also relaunch his political…

With its announcement on Friday of new 5-10% tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods, China is escalating pressure on President Trump. Xi Jinping senses that Trump is increasingly desperate for a trade deal. He believes he can cajole Trump into making a more China-friendly trade deal. Trump’s response on Friday has been mixed. While his latest attack on Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell — questioning whether Powell is more…

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world’s richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and political candidates, has died at age 79, his brother said on Friday. Charles Koch, Koch Industries Inc’s chairman, disclosed the death in a statement that touched on his younger brother’s lengthy battle with prostate cancer and his philanthropic…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hit back at French leader Emmanuel Macron, after he urged dialogue among G-7 leaders on the rising number of fires in the Amazon rainforest. In a tweet Thursday, Bolsonaro accused Macron of using the “internal issue of Brazil and other Amazonian countries” for personal political gain. He also alleged his French counterpart had used sensationalism and fake photographs to call attention to the problem. “The Brazilian…

In our globalized economy, highly mobile capital works in favor of investors and consumers who value democratic protections. That dooms China’s authoritarian model unless Beijing can force the world to submit to its peculiar form of feudal mercantilism. Just look at Hong Kong. Multiple reports on Thursday suggest that Alibaba, China’s equivalent of Amazon, has suspended its plan to float shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. That’s just the…

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Karen DeYoung Josh Dawsey August 22 at 7:15 PM Like an annual holiday gathering where the main goal is to get through the day without a family explosion, one of France’s main objectives as host of this weekend’s Group of Seven summit is to minimize the chances that President Trump will blow it up. Subjects on which to tread lightly include some of the biggest problems the world’s major economies…

A federal employee turned over “credible” evidence to House Democrats of possible “inappropriate efforts to influence” the IRS presidential audit process, House lawyers said in a court filing Tuesday. In July, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., sued Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin after the latter rejected the panel’s request for six years of Trump’s tax returns. On Tuesday, House lawyers cited the new evidence in a motion asking a…

Nearly 73,000 wildfires have decimated the Amazon rainforest this year, a record amount for an ecosystem that produces 20% of Earth’s oxygen. From celebrities and politicians throughout the world to locals, frustration and mourning continues to mount over the amount of man-made devastation in the Amazon. Brazil’s space research center INPE has reported a recent 84% increase in forest fires from the same period in 2018. NASA satellite images showed…

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Top White House advisers notified President Trump earlier this month that some internal forecasts showed that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, stopping short of a recession but complicating his path to reelection in 2020. The private forecast, one of several delivered to Trump and described by three people familiar with the briefing, contrasts sharply with the triumphant rhetoric the president and his surrogates have repeatedly used…

Video Jewish model who came to Trump’s defense speaks out Model and founder of The Exodus Movement, Elizabeth Pipko, joined a panel of guests on Thursday to discuss the choice that Jewish Democrats will face in 2020. “Look, the Democrats have shown with their words and actions over the last several years that they are taking Jews and their support totally for granted,” Pipko said in an earlier interview. Pipko is a former Trump…

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The search for two firefighters who went missing during a fishing trip off the coast of Florida last week was suspended on Thursday night, officials announced. Jacksonville, Florida, firefighter Brian McCluney and Fairfax, Virginia, firefighter Justin Walker never returned after launching off the coast of Port Canaveral, near the Kennedy Space Center, on Friday, according to U.S. Coast Guard officials. Search and rescue teams continued to look for the pair…

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CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said that the recent jobs taken by Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserve extra scrutiny. Stelter explained that the criticisms the former press secretaries have received are warranted because of President Trump’s consistent habit of misleading the public, with the help of Spicer and Sanders. “The Trump White House has a record of misleading the public. All administrations spin. This administration lies consistently,…

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. It’s home to 30 million people and hosts the largest concentration of biodiversity on the planet. It’s quenched by the largest river in the world. It makes 20 percent of the oxygen on Earth. It holds upward of 140 billion metric tons of carbon. And right now, it’s burning. Across its 550 million hectares (one hectare is about the size of…