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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…

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…