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.”
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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
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
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
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
The White House said President Trump’s earlier suggestion that he regretted escalating the trade war with China was “misinterpreted” and that what he regrets is not raising tariffs higher. MORE
On his way to the G-7 meeting in France, Trump answered a few questions from the press, since we no longer have press conferences, and made a few comments. New format, bullet points: On tariffs: MORE
From The Hill and Yonhap News Agency: North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the East Sea on Saturday local time, South Korea’s military announced, the seventh such launch in less than a month. The South Korean MORE
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Friday after China said it will slap new tariffs on U.S. goods. At around 8:06 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 90 points, indicating a MORE
Trump’s hand picked Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell spoke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual symposium where he suggested, “the central bank is limited in its ability to counteract President Trump’s trade MORE
China announced it will place $75 billion dollars in new tariffs and resume 25% tariffs on US automobiles beginning September 1, 2019. The new tariffs will take place in two increments with the second round MORE
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This year alone, Brazil has suffered “72,843 fires with more than half in the Amazon region,’the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last MORE
President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared himself “the chosen one” as he defended his administration’s actions in the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. The president’s self-aggrandizing remark followed a string of criticisms aimed at his predecessors, MORE
BEIJING — China said Wednesday that it will levy sanctions against U.S. companies linked to a planned $8 billion sale of advanced F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan in a move that has further strained Sino-American MORE
Manchester United have “utterly condemned” the racist abuse aimed at Paul Pogba after the midfielder missed a penalty against Wolves, calling it “disgusting.” The midfielder stepped up ahead of Marcus Rashford, who was successful from MORE
At the Otay Mesa cargo facility in San Diego, CA, authorities seized nearly four tons of marijuana in a shipment of jalapeño peppers. The marijuana was valued at approximately $2.3 million dollars. Otay Mesa Port MORE
Marium, an orphaned baby dugong who became a beloved conservation symbol after photographs of her nuzzling human caretakers went viral earlier this year, has died. MORE
In his latest article, Leonard Pitts Jr. discusses “white fragility;” a term coined by sociologist Robin DiAngelo to explain why white people sometimes find it hard to discuss race and how the subject tends to MORE
Mourners have gathered in Iceland to commemorate the loss of Okjokull, which has died at the age of about 700. The glacier was officially declared dead in 2014 when it was no longer thick enough MORE
Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard border with Ireland and rising costs in social care in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to an unprecedented leak of government documents that lay bare the gaps in contingency planning. MORE
President Trump has expressed interest in the U.S. buying Greenland in conversations with aides #WSJWhatsNow pic.twitter.com/Wtz8HPgAOc — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 16, 2019 Sources close to Trump claim that on numerous occasions, he MORE
A flight attendant on Israel’s national carrier who fell ill with measles on a plane she was working on five months ago, has died. MORE
Heroic citizens and officers chased down a stabbing rampage suspect in Sydney, Australia in a dramatic video that shows one citizen approaching the man with a chair. At the end of the video, the suspect MORE
Realizing fears of a recession and the state of the global economy, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced it will delay some Chinese products subject to tariffs until mid-December. Most of the MORE