The G7’s pledge of $20m (£16m) to douse the fires in the Amazon has been dismissed as “chump change” by environmental campaigners, as concerns grow about political cooperation on deforestation and other climate issues. The MORE
President Trump’s net approval rating has plunged in every key battleground state since taking office in January 2017, according to Morning Consult’s tracking poll. Disapproval numbers are larger than approval numbers in 15 states including MORE
CNN has put together a series of fact checking segments on Trump’s performance at the G-7 Summit. Please watch below: The biggest take away from Trump’s performance at the G-7, “The Truth Doesn’t Matter.”
China poses numerous threats to the world economic order. It has little regard for intellectual property and practices a kind of state-sponsored capitalism in which companies owned in whole or in part by the government have unfair advantages. It uses the MORE
As part of Barbie’s Inspiring Women series, Matel has released its Rosa Parks doll. Matel launched the series in 2018 and today announced Parks would join other historic women such as, Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart and Katherine MORE
Monmouth University Polling Institute released a new poll showing Bernie Sanders (20%), Joe Biden (19%), and Elizabeth Warren (20%) in a virtual three-way tie. In June Monmouth showed Biden up 32% compared to Warren at MORE
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Okay, she was kinda-sorta diplomatic about it, but still. After Donald Trump blathered some nonsense about never, ever doing things for political reasons (really?), and claimed that he ran in one election (false) and won, MORE
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction, actions that state prosecutors said helped fuel the state’s opioid epidemic MORE
Humana Pharmacy has deployed an artificial intelligence system in its call centers that gives the human employees gentle nudges to be more empathetic with customers. . . . The algorithm, built by the AI development MORE
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called Monday for the United States to buy Greenland from Denmark, citing the potential economic benefits in purchasing the mineral-rich Arctic island territory. MORE
A reporter asked Trump about Russia’s ouster from the G-7, previously known as G-8. Trump, once again, falsely claimed that Russia outsmarted Obama. “It was annexed during President Obama — I know you like President MORE
California Governor Gavin Newsom and AG Xavier Bacerra announced another laws against the Trump administration “challenging a new rule that allows indefinite detention of migrant children and their families.” “No child deserves to be left MORE
On Monday, Trump claimed China called his top trade people last night and said the country wanted to make a deal. “China called last night our top trade people and said ‘let’s get back to MORE
It’s become increasingly clear that U.S. power is not only absent under Trump, but unneeded. It is unlikely anyone will unlearn this lesson. MORE
Attorney Bryan Keith Schmitt, 48, was indicted Friday for felony murder and aggravated assault in the death of Hamid Jahangard, 60, a real estate investor and father of two. MORE
Presidents Trump and Macron will be making a joint statement from the G7 at Biarritz, France. MORE
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed to reporters that Trump did not attend today’s G-7 Summit’s session on climate, biodiversity, and oceans. MORE
Unrepentant racist and birther, Joe Arpaio, announced he will run for sheriff of Maricopa County in 2020. If he wins the election, it will be his 7th term. MORE
Axios reported that on numerous occasions, Trump has suggested nuking hurricanes before they make landfall. In one briefing, the president said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one MORE
The White House and a network of Conservatives have allied to identify and discredit news organizations deemed hostile to Trump. They plan to do this by publicizing damaging information about certain journalists. The group has MORE
From the Washington Post: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise visit to the city hosting the Group of Seven summit Sunday, a move that caught President Trump off-guard and added another element MORE
Atheists and agnostics know more about religion than most other religious groups, while people who identify as “nothing in particular” are among the least knowledgeable. Out of 32 multiple-choice questions on the survey, atheists and MORE
On ABC’s This Week, former Congressman Joe Walsh announced his plan to primary Trump. “I’m going to run for president,” Walsh told Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. ABC: George Stephanopoulos pointed out to Walsh that MORE