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1/78   News Photos Slideshows PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS News Photos Slideshows - Hot Trends - Click on the image to view in augmented reality or in stereo 3D Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. Press Review David Koch   Jimmy Johns   Jeezy   Seth Moulton   Andrew McCabe   Game Day   Kuzy   Jung Hoseok   Happy Virgo   Amy Wax   Happy Birthday Tank   George Wonsley   IIHF   Rapsody   BOAT   Philanthropist   Kissinger   Tom Terrific   Saint Jhn   Dark Money   Knocked Loose   Clarence Darrow   T Swift   Dominic Rhodes   TM 104    2/78   Viola Davis’s message to white women: ‘Get to know me’ PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS But Davis does see a path forward: empathy and becoming educated on one another’s experiences. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 3/78   Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys’s husband, says hip-hop industry lacks compassion PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS Iconic hip-hop producer and Alicia Keys’s husband, Swizz Beatz, isn’t afraid to tell his guy friends he loves them. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 4/78   Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Is 'Having the Time of His Life' in Prison, Snooki Says PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Is 'Having the Time of His Life' in Prison Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 5/78   'Avengers: Endgame' tops 'Star Wars,' breaks previous pre-sale record PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS 'Avengers: Endgame' tops 'Star Wars,' breaks previous pre-sale record originally appeared on goodmorningamerica.com"Avengers: Endgame" tickets went on sale Tuesday and just like Thanos' famous snap, they were gone just like that. But way more than half.Fandango is reporting that "Endgame" has broken its pre-sale records, topping the previous holder, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."(MORE: New 'Avengers: Endgame' trailer features Captain Marvel, the battle to beat Thanos)Guess the force is strong with Earth's mightiest heroes. ... Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 6/78   Selma Blair reveals she cried with relief at MS diagnosis after being 'not taken seriously' by doctors PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS The 46-year-old actress is now revealing the agony she went through before receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) last August.'Ever since my son was born, I was in an MS flare-up and didn't know, and I was giving it everything to seem normal,' Blair told Robin Roberts in an interview that aired Tuesday on 'Good Morning America.' 'And I was self-medicating when he wasn't with me. Blair recalled that she would get so fatigued prior to her diagnosis that she would need to pull over to take a nap after dropping her son, now 7, off at his school one mile away from their home. During her interview with 'GMA' at her Los Angeles home, Blair was in an 'exacerbation' of MS, or an attack that causes new symptoms or the worsening of existing symptoms. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 7/78   They won't be loved: Maroon 5 play it safe with dullest halftime show of all time PEOPLE TOPIC NEWS Maroon 5 could have silenced their many haters with a spectacular performance. But they didn’t do that. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 8/78   Does U.S. women's soccer deserve equal pay? SPORTS TOPIC NEWS Has the U.S. women's soccer team done enough to warrant salaries that match their male counterparts? The 360 gives you all the angles on heavily-debated topics in the news. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 9/78   After fighting for 9/11 victims, Jon Stewart turns to Warrior Games SPORTS TOPIC NEWS The former “Daily Show” host is serving as the host and emcee of this week’s 2019 Department of Defense Warrior Games in Tampa, where about 300 wounded, ill or injured active-duty and veteran military athletes are competing in 14 adaptive sports. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 10/78   Kevin Love talks anxiety, depression and the time he thought he was going to die mid-game SPORTS TOPIC NEWS “Dear Men” explores how men are navigating the evolution of manhood. NBA All-Star Kevin Love’s mental health journey began in a moment of anxiety on the basketball court during a November 2017 game against the Atlanta Hawks. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 11/78   Is there a crisis with our boys? Expert says they need love, not discipline SPORTS TOPIC NEWS “Dear Men” explores how men are navigating the evolution of manhood. You can watch the current week's full episode of “Dear Men” every Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on Roku. So why are young men struggling? So I don’t never hold back my tears when I'm feeling an emotional overload,” he said. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 12/78   Aly Raisman on Larry Nassar assault: Sometimes people forget I'm still coping with it SPORTS TOPIC NEWS It has been a year since former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for abusing more than 150 girls. But Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman is still coming to terms with the sexual abuse she experienced as a teenager. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 13/78   Aly Raisman on Larry Nassar assault: Sometimes people forget I’m still coping with it SPORTS TOPIC NEWS Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman tells the Yahoo News show “Through Her Eyes” that she sometimes finds it difficult to hear the graphic details in the sexual assault stories of others, as she is still coping with her own traumatic experience. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 14/78   For the love of the brain: One mother's fight for CTE awareness SPORTS TOPIC NEWS Karen Kinzle Zegel spends her days working on the Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation website, fielding questions and giving out information on a disease she barely knew existed five years ago – until it took the life of her son, for whom the foundation is named. Karen remembers, “We were a football family, his dad was a coach, I would cheer and yell and you know, do all the things the football mom does. At the time, she was unaware of CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head – and the role it was playing in Patrick’s life. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 15/78   7 tax scams to watch out for this year In case wringing your hands over the tax man weren’t enough, criminals are out there trying to swipe your hard-earned cash and personal information from right under your nose. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 16/78   Mother Angry After School's Robocall Keeps Mispronouncing Daughter's Name As A Racial Slur The daughter's name is Nicarri. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 17/78   Avowed Apple Fan Jeb Bush Realizes His Apple Watch Can Take Phone Calls Jeb Bush's love of Apple products has been widely documented, and the Republican presidential candidate continues to wear his Apple Watch on the campaign trail. Yesterday, in a meeting with The Des Moines Register editorial board documented by USA Today, Bush stumbled upon a feature he didn’t realize his smartwatch was capable of: taking phone calls. Somehow Bush managed to take a call without picking up his iPhone, and the sound of a person’s voice saying hello breaks through the meeting noise, to which Bush responds, “My watch can’t be talking.” Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 18/78   Social media welcomes Pope Francis to the United States Pope Francis gets the social media treatment upon arriving in the U.S. Tuesday. As Pope Francis’s flight touched down in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Twitter unveiled a new batch of emojis created for the highly anticipated papal visit. Until his departure from the United States on Sunday, Twitter users chronicling the Catholic leader’s East Coast journey will be able to include a cartoon image of the Pope’s face in front of the American flag on all Pope-related tweets by using the hashtag #PopeinUS. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 19/78   Powell: No clear hint on rates but says Fed will aid economy TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent no clear signal Friday that the Fed will further cut interest rates this year but said it would 'act as appropriate' to sustain the expansion — phrasing that analysts see as suggesting rate cuts. Powell said President Donald Trump's trade wars have complicated the Fed's ability to set interest rates and have contributed to a global economic slowdown. Speaking to a gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell didn't give financial markets explicit guidance on whether or how many rate cuts might be coming the rest of the year. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 20/78   China announces tariffs on $75 billion of US goods as Trump heads to G7 summit in France TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Just as President Donald Trump was preparing to meet world leaders to discuss the global economy and his trade wars, China on Friday announced it would impose tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. imports in retaliation for duty hikes the United States pledged to slap on Chinese imports starting next month. The announcement also came just before the chairman of the Federal Reserve gave a speech investors and analysts planned to scrutinize for signs of how the central bank would address worries of a slowing economy -- and as President Trump sent mixed messages on tax cuts. Fed chair Jerome Powell suggested Friday that Trump’s trade wars were contributing to a possible global slowdown – and he said they have made it more difficult for the Fed to set policies on interest rates, according to the Associated Press. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 21/78   Avoid Student Loan Regret With These 4 Tips TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Just 43% of those with student debt said they tried to estimate monthly payments before taking out the loans. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 22/78   DOJ Disavows White-Nationalist Blog Post Sent to Immigration-Court Employees TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS The Justice Department on Thursday said it made a mistake by including a white-nationalist blog post in an email to immigration-court employees earlier this week.The link to VDare, a white-nationalist website, was included in the agency's Monday news briefing, a list of links to news stories about the agency and immigration sent to all federal immigration-court employees.“The daily EOIR morning news briefings are compiled by a contractor and the blog post should not have been included," an Executive Office of Immigration Review spokesperson said.A former Justice Department official added that the email is "generated by a third-party vendor that utilizes keyword searches to produce news clippings for staff. It is not reviewed or approved by staff before it is transmitted.""The Department of Justice condemns Anti-Semitism in the strongest terms,” EOIR assistant press secretary Kathryn Mattingly said.“Publication and dissemination of a white supremacist, anti-Semitic website throughout the EOIR is antithetical to the goals and ideals of the Department of Justice,” the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) said in a statement, adding that the post “directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs.”The Trump administration has recently begun efforts to decertify the NAIJ, the union representing immigration judges, which the union is contesting.“VDare’s use of the term in a pejorative manner casts Jewish history in a negative light as an Anti-Semitic trope of Jews seeking power and control,” union chief Ashley Tabaddor wrote.The union also called on the DOJ to provide "security measures for all judges," given the sentiments expressed in the blog post Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 23/78   Stock Market News: Earnings Send Foot Locker Stumbling, Salesforce Surging TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Bad news on trade sent major benchmarks lower early Friday. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 24/78   US new home sales slid 12.8% in July TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS The Commerce Department said Friday that new homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 635,000 units. Land and labor shortages continue to slow down builders, prolonging the housing shortage. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 25/78   What Kind Of Shareholder Owns Most Sensyne Health plc (LON:SENS) Stock? TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Every investor in Sensyne Health plc (LON:SENS) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. Generally... Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 26/78   China announces tariff hike on $75 billion of US products TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession. China also will increase import duties on U.S.-made autos and auto parts, the Finance Ministry announced. It gave no details of what goods would be affected but the timing matches Trump's planned duty hikes. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 27/78   Bitmain buying 600K more crypto mining chips that could bring $1.2 billion in profit – Report TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Technologies has reportedly placed a new order to buy 600,000 mining chips. “A supply chain person close to TSMC” i.e.The post Bitmain buying 600K more crypto mining chips that could bring $1.2 billion in profit - Report appeared first on The Block. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 28/78   Treasuries Gain and Stocks Fluctuate After Powell: Markets Wrap TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries gained and stocks fluctuated after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pledged to act as needed to sustain the expansion.Benchmark 10-year yields halted a two-day advance after Powell’s remarks bolstered speculation that the central bank will cut rates next month. Equities rebounded from earlier losses that were triggered by China’s decision to hit back at the U.S. with tariffs on $75 billion of imports. Oil fell.Investors sought haven assets as the news from Beijing rekindled concerns about the outlook for global growth that’s already looking shaky. The announcement comes as leaders from the Group of Seven nations prepare to meet in France and central bankers gather in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to discuss issues such as the economic slowdown.Here are the main moves in markets:StocksThe S&P 500 rose 0.1% to 2,927 as of 10:40 a.m. New York time.The Stoxx Europe 600 Index increased 0.4%.The MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed 0.3%.CurrenciesThe Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index was little changed at 1,210.63.The euro was little changed at $1.1076.The Japanese yen was little changed at 106.43 per dollar.BondsThe yield on two-year Treasuries fell five basis points to 1.57%.The yield on 10-year Treasuries decreased three basis points to 1.58%.Germany’s 10-year yield fell two basis points to -0.66%.CommoditiesThe Bloomberg Commodity Index decreased 0.1%.West Texas Intermediate crude fell 1.2% to $54.71 a barrel.Gold increased 0.9% to $1,521.50 an ounce.\--With assistance from Caroline Hyde, Joanna Ossinger, Adam Haigh, Todd White, Yakob Peterseil and Namitha Jagadeesh.To contact the reporters on this story: Rita Nazareth in New York at rnazareth@bloomberg.net;Vildana Hajric in New York at vhajric1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christopher Anstey at canstey@bloomberg.net, Rita NazarethFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 29/78   Can We See Significant Insider Ownership On The FTI Foodtech International Inc. (CVE:FTI) Share Register? TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS A look at the shareholders of FTI Foodtech International Inc. (CVE:FTI) can tell us which group is most powerful... Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 30/78   Fed chair Jerome Powell says Trump trade policies pose 'new challenge' TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS * President has attacked Powell and urged Fed to boost economy * Powell: ‘no recent precedents’ to guide policy in current climateJerome Powell made his remarks in a highly anticipated speech to other central bankers at Jackson Hole in Wyoming. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/APThe Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, warned on Friday the US central bank was facing a “new challenge” as it deals with the Trump administration’s seesaw trade policies.At a highly anticipated speech at Jackson Hole in Wyoming Powell said the Fed was prepared to act if a global economic slowdown hurts the US economy. But he warned it was navigating uncharted waters.“In principle, anything that affects the outlook for employment and inflation could also affect the appropriate stance of monetary policy,” Powell told other central bankers gathered for the Fed’s annual symposium.“There are, however, no recent precedents to guide any policy response to the current situation. Moreover, while monetary policy is a powerful tool that works to support consumer spending, business investment and public confidence, it cannot provide a settled rulebook for international trade,” he said.Powell speech made clear that the Fed is considering further cuts to interest rates but gave no information on when those cuts could come.President Donald Trump, who has been a persistent critic of the Fed and PowellIn July the Fed cut rates for the first time in a decade as the US’s 10-year economic expansion appeared to be slowing. Unemployment remains at a 50-year low and inflation is under control but Trump’s ongoing trade disputes appear to be taking a toll, hurting manufacturing and rattling stock markets.The Fed has tried to balance that potential slowdown with the fact that the economy still expanding and job creation remains robust. If and when the next recession comes it will have little room to manoeuver as its benchmark rate, a range of 2%-2.25%, is still historically low.Powell has faced a blistering – and unprecedented – public assault from Donald Trump over the Fed’s monetary policy. The Fed is supposed to be free to act independently, free from political interference, but the president has broken precedent by repeatedly calling on the central bank to ease monetary policy and stimulate the economy.Trump has called Powell “clueless” and threatened to demote him. Powell has said he would not resign even if Trump asked him to.Ahead of the speech Trump tweeted: “Now the Fed can show their stuff!”> Now the Fed can show their stuff!> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019A day earlier Trump had criticized the Fed for his perception that the central bank has kept rates too high.> The Economy is doing really well. The Federal Reserve can easily make it Record Setting! The question is being asked, why are we paying much more in interest than Germany and certain other countries? Be early (for a change), not late. Let America win big, rather than just win!> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2019The Fed chair was speaking as China announced it was preparing to impose $75bn in additional tariffs on US products, the latest round of levies in an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies.Beijing’s announcement follows the US’s announcement that it will impose an additional $300bn in tariffs on Chinese goods starting later this year.Powell said the Fed should try to “look through what may be passing events, focus on how trade developments are affecting the outlook, and adjust policy to promote our objectives.”But he warned the Fed had little experience in dealing with situations like the one it now finds itself in. “We have much experience in addressing typical macroeconomic developments,” he said. “But fitting trade policy uncertainty into this framework is a new challenge.” Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 31/78   Walmart, Tesla pause in legal fight over fiery solar panels TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Walmart's lawsuit against Tesla over fiery rooftop solar panels is being sealed by the court and both companies say they look forward to addressing all issues. Walmart sued Tesla for 'gross negligence' Tuesday, saying that the electric car company's energy division installed solar panels that went up in flames on its store rooftops. Neither company would say if the lawsuit had been dropped, but New York State Supreme Court records show it was 'returned for correction,' and it was not accessible online Friday. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 32/78   The Booming CBD Market Is the Key for Charlotte’s Web Holdings Stock TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS The cannabis sector has a projected market opportunity topping $200 billion, but the companies that focus on large specific niches such as CBD might provide the best reward to shareholders. Charlotte’s Web Holdings (CWBHF) has the results to prove that focus pays off and the stock is near all-times highs for this reason. Investors waiting for a pullback might not get the opportunity to load up on this hot sector.Q2 Results CWH actually reporting slightly disappointing numbers for Q2. The key being that reported revenues of $25.0 million missed analyst estimates by $1.2 million.Investors can clearly overlook short-term blips as the company moves toward national CB rollouts with CVS Health (CVS) and Kroger (KR), amongst others. Not to mention, the company generated adjusted EBITDA margins of 16% and net income of $2.2 million.Yes, while the big Canadian cannabis LPs lose tons of money building far flung operations across the globe, CWH has already generated a money machine. The company is focused solely on domestic CBD sales via either online sales or distribution partners. The company doesn’t need expensive stores either.For this reason, top line sales growth isn’t nearly as impressive as other market participants, but the gross margins are much higher. Q2 revenues only grew 45% YoY, but CWH is near an inflection point with growth and 7%% gross margins. Analysts forecast quarterly sales to surge to nearly $60 million by next Q1 and to eventually top $100 million by the following December quarter.From the June 2019 quarter to the December 2020 quarter, the CBD specialist will generate 300% quarterly revenue growth. Normal markets would salivate over this type of growth.Reason To Focus The reason to focus on a particular segment of the burgeoning cannabis market is the individual scale and sizes are massive. The domestic CBD market alone is projected to surge from ~$1 billion in 2019 to potentially $7 billion by 2023.(Source: CWB presentation)Too many companies are chasing the full $200 billon market opportunity to mounting losses and cash crunches. CWH has $51.4 million in cash and spent about $10 million in the first half of the year to build inventories. The company doesn’t have massive cash needs outside of building inventories to meet demand.The CBD company already has distribution deals for nearly 8,000 retail locations. CWH has a deal with Kroger for 1,350 stores while the large retailer has double the retail locations leading to easy expansion for CWH once the grocery chain and the market is ready for a full national rollout.TakeawayThe key investor takeaway is that Charlotte’s Web has already become a profit machine by focusing on a sole market niche with a market opportunity topping $7 billion in a few years.The stock has a reasonable market valuation in the $1.8 billion range now with a ’20 revenue target of $300 million. A cannabis or CBD stock trading around 6x forward sales estimates is rather reasonable for the sector, but the volatile sector and complexities of a national rollout of a product where the FDA still has plenty of questions should provide some hiccups that send the stock lower and offer a better entry point for new investors.Visit TipRanks’ Trending Stocks page, and find out what companies Wall Street’s top analysts are looking at now.Disclosure: No position. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 33/78   Cries of joy as odyssey over for Ocean Viking migrants TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS African migrants on board the Ocean Viking rescue ship howled with joy Friday as the news broke of an EU deal to take them in after a two-week standoff at sea. Jay Berger, the MSF coordinator on board, had planned to spread the news quietly after food rations were distributed. The Ocean Viking had been denied entry to dock by both Italy and Malta in the latest in a string of migrant boat standoffs. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 34/78   Is Secoo Holding Limited's (NASDAQ:SECO) 9.4% ROE Better Than Average? TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is... Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 35/78   The Latest: Analyst still sees likelihood of Fed rate cuts TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS In the wake of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, some analysts still foresee the likelihood of further interest rate cuts. 'I still think the Fed will cut the interest rate in September as an insurance policy,' says Sung Won Sohn, business economist at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Sohn suggests that the Fed will feel the need to act because of rising threats from the trade war and the global slowdown and because it won't want to wait for those threats to worsen. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 36/78   Trump’s disastrous China trade war could make a recession unavoidable TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS We're going to have a recession sooner or later. But Trump's trade war hurts the economy, and his tax cut ideas won't help. Here's what we should do. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 37/78   France to deploy celebrated cuisine to ease G-7 tensions TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS As tensions loom over this weekend's G-7 summit of world leaders in France, the country is counting on one key asset to cheer up the event: food. France hosts the summit of seven advanced economies starting Saturday in the southwestern seaside resort of Biarritz, known for its surfers, casino on the beach, luxury houses from the 19th century, and gastronomic specialties. The French presidency has chosen five local chefs, all with Michelin stars, to prepare lunches and dinners that will highlight the region's products. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 38/78   Despite Its High P/E Ratio, Is Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ:GNTX) Still Undervalued? TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS This article is written for those who want to get better at using price to earnings ratios (P/E ratios). We'll look at... Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 39/78   Is Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) Using Too Much Debt? TECHNOLOGY TOPIC NEWS The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says... Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 40/78   Scaramucci says he will start and fund a super PAC to 'dismantle' Trump POLITICS TOPIC NEWS Anthony Scaramucci piles on to his Trump bashing, revealing his plans to start and fund a political action committee to "dismantle" Trump. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 41/78   Ex-US marine says injured by Russian prison guards POLITICS TOPIC NEWS A former US marine who was arrested in Moscow on espionage charges said Friday he has been injured by guards in the prison where he is being held awaiting trial. 'I was injured in the prison... the prison doesn't want to tell you,' Paul Whelan told journalists from an accused's cage in a Moscow court, which was to decide on whether to extend his provisional detention. Whelan arrived in the court handcuffed and escorted by two security guards wearing black masks and plain clothes. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 42/78   Beto O’Rourke: As president, I’d institute a mandatory buyback of assault weapons POLITICS TOPIC NEWS Only America has more guns than people. Follow the lead of moms demanding action and students marching for their lives, writes candidate Beto O’Rourke Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 43/78   Sanders campaign boss concedes he may not win New Hampshire POLITICS TOPIC NEWS The campaign manager for Bernie Sanders emphasized Thursday that New Hampshire is a critical presidential primary state he expects Sanders to win, but he's leaving room for a scenario in which Sanders falls short. Faiz Shakir said he doesn't 'like the language of must-win,' though he does believe it is an important early voting state. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 44/78   Buttigieg Caters to the Abortion-Rights Constituency POLITICS TOPIC NEWS ‘They’re so busy attacking Planned Parenthood. I’d like to know what they think of unplanned parenthood, because there’s going to be a lot more of that if they keep this up,” intoned South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, swiping at GOP politicians during a town hall in Iowa on Wednesday afternoon.Perhaps his moronic attempt at wordplay could be forgiven considering the presidential hopeful’s audience: The town hall was hosted by NARAL Pro-Choice America, one of the most prominent pro-abortion groups in the country. And it’s not powerful in the abortion-advocacy world alone. Like Planned Parenthood, NARAL exercises a high degree of influence over the Democratic party; its support or lack thereof can make or break a candidate.Buttigieg’s half-baked dud of a laugh line, then, was an effort to ally himself with a core constituency of the Left — progressive, abortion-minded feminists — and to prove that, even as a white male with all sorts of privilege to disavow, he understands their concerns. Unfortunately for the mayor, that decidedly not-clever comment was the high point of his speech, which droned on for about 20 minutes and took his audience through a highlight reel of the GOP’s supposed animosity toward women and their freedoms.One has to feel a bit of pity for him. After getting a bump in the polls during March and April, Buttigieg has since run out of steam, languishing in the second tier behind Senators Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) — both of whom have considerably more feminist bona fides than he does, starting with the simple fact that they’re both women.Capturing the NARAL vote is considerably easier for anyone who can’t be told, “No uterus, no opinion.”Even so, the mayor can’t be accused of failing to try. His remarks on Wednesday ran the gamut from pandering to pathetic, as he called himself a feminist and insisted that “men running for president [must] be twice as vocal about this issue at this time.”Throughout the primary thus far, though, Buttigieg has shied away from questions about when and whether he’d limit abortion in any way, instead punting to vague platitudes about “trusting women.” He tried this again in the town hall: “If we mean business when it comes to freedom, that means defending reproductive freedom and the rights of women to make their own health-care decisions.”But, of course, abortion isn’t a “health-care decision” at all, as much as supporters of the “right to choose” would like us to believe it is. Abortion is a medical procedure that ends a distinct human life. Any policy conversation that ignores the central question of whether this particular type of killing ought to be legal ignores the heart of the controversy.Thus far, and likely by design, Buttigieg’s attempts at conversing about abortion have been nothing but dodges. “Even among people who have different views about where to draw the line, we have reached a decision about who should draw the line,” he said, invoking polls that show majority support for the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade. A Harvard graduate, Buttigieg is surely intelligent enough to know that support for Roe — a widely misrepresented and misunderstood ruling — is not the same as support for taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, the federal abortion policy he advocates.But Buttigieg knows his crowd. He knocked Vice President Mike Pence for his pro-life views, begging the audience, “Please don’t judge my state by our former governor.” He attacked the Trump administration for “forcing Planned Parenthood to withdraw” from the Title X family-planning program, a malicious twisting of the facts designed to hide Planned Parenthood’s dedication to profiting from abortion.And he had lots of promises for viewers, vowing to “ensure access to abortion care and proactively expand access to reproductive health,” eliminate the Hyde amendment that prohibits direct federal funding for abortion, and appoint judges “who understand that reproductive freedom is an American right.”But the most egregious part of his speech came at the end, when he distorted the story of an abortion controversy during his time as mayor. Last spring, as a Whole Women’s Health abortion clinic tried to open in South Bend — delayed by an ongoing health-and-safety investigation of its clinic in another state — a local pregnancy-resource center sought to open a new location next door.The Women’s Care Center (WCC) was founded in South Bend in 1984 to offer resources to help women with unexpected pregnancies carry their children to term, and today it operates the largest network of pregnancy-resource centers in the country. In every city where the WCC has a location, it opens next to an abortion clinic, so that pregnant women who don’t want an abortion will know there are other options.As mayor, Buttigieg vetoed the WCC’s request to open next to the Whole Women’s Health clinic, claiming that it would endanger the community. Here’s how Buttigieg characterized the incident in his speech on Wednesday:> For several years we’ve gone without a provider at all in my community, and then a Whole Women’s Health clinic sought to open in South Bend, the first to make abortion services available since 2015. I know how important this is in our area, even as the state puts up all kinds of invented licensing and bureaucratic hurdles to block them. And no sooner did they get established than we had a crisis-pregnancy center propose to move into a location immediately next door. They already had half a dozen locations in our area, but it had to be here, this new one, right smack next door. They insisted that the law be changed on zoning to allow them to do it on a residential property. By a one-vote margin, the council voted to send it to my desk.He went on to insinuate that allowing WCC to locate next door would lead to women being traumatized, despite the fact that there has never been an instance of violence or confrontation at a single WCC location.In the end, though, the moral of his story wasn’t about the abortion clinic or the Women’s Care Center; instead, it was a tale of his own heroism. He was, he assured his audience, “under extraordinary pressure to sign off on changing the law to facilitate the crisis-pregnancy center,” because according to him, WCC supporters “were among some of the most powerful and popular people in the community.”“It was a lonely day in the mayor’s office,” Buttigieg lamented. “But it was very clear what to do. I got out the veto pen and did the right thing.”But was it really the right thing? Each WCC location offers free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, counseling, referrals for prenatal care, parenting classes, and children’s clothing, diapers, and toys, serving 26,000 women annually. As of April, more than 16,000 babies during the previous year had been saved from abortion at the Women’s Care Center.His veto wasn’t right for women and families in South Bend. But it was the right thing, surely, for his political aspirations. And his choice to use the incident as a stump-speech anecdote catering to NARAL’s voters reveals that he issued that veto caring much less about the fate of women in his city than he did about how his decision would affect his political fate. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 45/78   Amazon fires: Bolsonaro actively trying to devastate rainforest, leaked documents show POLITICS TOPIC NEWS Jair Bolsonaro hopes to sabotage conservation efforts in the Amazon, leaked documents show.A series of powerpoint slides reveal that Brazilian government officials intend to build a bridge, motorway and hydroelectric plant through the rainforest. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 46/78   Drivers in Idaho keep harassing busloads of immigrants' children on their way to pre-school POLITICS TOPIC NEWS One driver reported experiencing threatening incidents with other drivers while she was driving a busload of children under the age of five. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 47/78   2020 Chevy Bolt EV Gets More Driving Range POLITICS TOPIC NEWS The Bolt goes from 238 miles to 259 and leapfrogs rival EVs from Tesla, Hyundai, and Kia. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 48/78   Trump dismisses recession warnings: 'I always find a way to win' POLITICS TOPIC NEWS The president has crowed about the state of the economy despite words of caution from within his administration. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 49/78   Russia launches floating nuclear reactor in Arctic despite warnings POLITICS TOPIC NEWS Russia will launch the world's first floating nuclear reactor and send it on an epic journey across the Arctic on Friday, despite environmentalists warning of serious risks to the region. Loaded with nuclear fuel, the Akademik Lomonosov will leave the Arctic port of Murmansk to begin its 5,000 kilometre (3,000-mile) voyage to northeastern Siberia. Nuclear agency Rosatom says the reactor is a simpler alternative to building a conventional plant on ground that is frozen all year round, and it intends to sell such reactors abroad. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 50/78   The Amazon is losing about 3 football fields' worth of rainforest per minute SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS Damage to this much of the rainforest, sometimes referred to as "lungs of the planet," could make the effects of climate change irreversible. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 51/78   Amazon rainforest fire a 'crisis', Macron says, but Brazil pushes back: What we know SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS As wildfires rage in the Amazon rainforest, global attention has ignited bitter dispute about who is the blame for burning "the lungs of the planet." Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 52/78   Democratic presidential candidates have a new approach for tackling gun violence: Treat it as a public-health crisis SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS Candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker want to draw on tactics used by community-based organizations to fight gun violence. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 53/78   Scientists a step closer to saving northern white rhino from extinction SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said in Kenya on Friday. Science is the only hope for the northern white rhino after the death last year of the last male, named Sudan, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya where the groundbreaking procedure was carried out Thursday. Two females, Najin, 30, and daughter Fatu, 19, are the only survivors of the subspecies of white rhino, and live under 24-hour armed guard at Ol Pejeta. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 54/78   EU piles pressure on Brazil over Amazon fires SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union piled pressure on Friday on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro over fires raging in the Amazon basin, with Ireland and France saying they could block a trade deal with South America. Bolsonaro has rejected what he calls foreign interference in domestic affairs in Brazil, where vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest are ablaze in what is known as the burning season. Environmentalists have blamed deforestation for an increase in fires and accuse the right-wing president of relaxing protection of a vast carbon trap and climate driver that is crucial to combating global climate change. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 55/78   Bernie Sanders assures fossil fuel workers his Green New Deal will protect their jobs SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders explains why his $16.3 trillion climate change plan benefits the working class. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 56/78   Sea turtles at risk as Trump weakens protections of animals endangered by climate crisis SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS Administration’s move is a ‘head in the sand approach’ that will further imperil creatures threatened by the climate crisisA loggerhead sea turtle. Rising seas and escalating temperatures threaten to wipe out some of the world’s premier sea turtle nesting habitat. Photograph: Denise Cathey/APLife as a sea turtle is already harrowing. Emerging alone from a shell to crawl through a deadly gauntlet of predatory birds, dogs and ants, all for the goal of reaching the ocean, a place where fish swallow you whole and fragments of discarded plastic slowly suffocate you.Now climate change – in the form of sea level rise, rising temperatures and fiercer storms – is adding further, existential hardships and in the US a recent weakening of endangered species protections by the Trump administration will further imperil sea turtles and other creatures threatened by the climate crisis.So a coalition of environmental groups has launched a federal court lawsuit to halt the Trump administration’s new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, America’s bedrock conservation law. The changes will, among other things, limit consideration of threats to species to the “foreseeable future” and make it harder to place protections on important habitat.Conservationists say this new regime is likely to disregard the looming long-term danger posed by climate change to creatures such as the Canada lynx, which is deemed likely to be largely wiped out by 2100, as well as the Florida key deer, a diminutive endangered deer, and the Florida mole skink, a five-inch-long lizard, both of which reside in Florida Keys, an area acutely vulnerable to sea level rise.The Trump administration’s move is a “head in the sand approach to climate change”, according to Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups suing the federal government.Karimah Schoenhut, a Sierra Club staff attorney, added: “In the face of the climate crisis, the result of this abandonment of responsibility will be extinction.”The Endangered Species Act, which became law in 1973, has been hailed for warding off the extinction of species including the bald eagle, American alligator and the humpback whale.The Trump administration has said its new interpretation will make the act more efficient and business-friendly. “The act’s effectiveness rests on clear, consistent and efficient implementation,” said David Bernhardt, secretary of the interior.But the climate crisis poses a relentless, multifaceted threat to species that 1970s lawmakers could barely conceive. Recent research has found many animals are unlikely to adapt quickly enough to global heating, even species like birds that are considered highly mobile and able to adjust the timing of egg laying.In Florida, the rising seas and escalating temperatures threaten to wipe out some of the world’s premier sea turtle nesting habitat. Eroding beaches are washing away egg-laden nests, while the rising heat is distorting the sex of hatchlings by making many more embryos female than male.Justin Perrault has worked to conserve sea turtles along a nine-mile expanse of Juno Beach, north of Miami. He was previously able to drive a vehicle along the sand in front of a stretch of seawall but that is now impossible as the beach has winnowed away.“Certain parts of the beach get very narrow with the erosion, which seems to be getting worse,” sad Perrault, research director at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center. “We are getting more frequent storms which wipes out nests too. We lost a lot when Hurricane Irma hit.”Juno Beach is one of the most densely nested sites in the world for loggerhead turtles. There are about 21,000 nests on the beach, including loggerheads, leatherback and green turtles, with the animals laying eggs throughout spring and summer. The scale of this nesting would make it a enormous task to relocate the turtles elsewhere as the seas continue to rise along the low-lying Florida coast.A trio of environment groups recently launched a separate lawsuit against the Trump administration to force it to protect green turtle habitat, in an effort to stave off the worst.Similar legal challenges are being waged over other species left alone to cope with climate change, such as California’s fabled Joshua trees, which scientists predict will mostly vanish even if planet-warming emissions are rapidly cut. The federal government recently dismissed a petition to protect the trees under the Endangered Species Act.“It appears that this administration is ignoring the science because they don’t believe in climate change,” said Taylor Jones, endangered species advocate for WildEarth Guardians, one of the groups suing the government. “This is blatant disregard of the climate crisis.”But the overwhelming range of environmental changes triggered by the climate crisis means that many species are still likely to perish even if they are protected under the law. The battle against the Trump administration may ultimately prove futile.“Climate change is basically going to swamp the Endangered Species Act as it’s not equipped to deal with global-scale disruptions,” said JB Ruhl, an environmental law expert at Vanderbilt University. “The act can’t stop that.” Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 57/78   Cheap combo pill cuts heart, stroke risks, study finds SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS A cheap daily pill that combines four drugs cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart failure in a large study, suggesting it could be a good way to help prevent heart problems especially in poor countries. The pills contained two blood pressure drugs, a cholesterol medicine and aspirin. Many people can't afford or don't stick with taking so many medicines separately, so doctors think a polypill might help. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 58/78   Owning a dog can help your heart, study finds SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS According to a new study published by Mayo Clinic, people who own pets, but especially dogs, are more likely to have better heart health. 'It's nice to see that something we enjoy, like having a dog, is related to better heart health,' Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, study author and chair of the Division of Preventative Cardiology at Mayo Clinic, told ABC News in an interview. 'It's very difficult not to increase the level of activity after you get a pet, in particular, a dog … It makes more sense … they move around. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 59/78   Florida scientists induce spawning of Atlantic coral in lab for first time SCIENCE TOPIC NEWS Scientists in Florida have artificially induced reproductive spawning of an endangered Atlantic coral species for the first time in an aquarium setting, a breakthrough they say holds great promise in efforts to restore depleted reefs in the wild. The achievement, announced this week at the Florida Aquarium in Apollo Beach near Tampa, borrowed from lab techniques developed at the London-based Horniman Museum and Gardens and used previously to induce spawning of 18 species of Pacific coral, officials said. Scientists plan to use their newly acquired expertise to breed new coral colonies that can one day repopulate the beleaguered Florida reef system, one of the largest in the world and one decimated by climate change, pollution and disease in recent decades. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 60/78   Putin orders Russia to respond after US missile test WORLD TOPIC NEWS President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military on Friday to work out a quid pro quo response after the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty. In Sunday's test, a modified ground-launched version of a U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missile accurately struck its target more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) away. The test came after Moscow and Washington withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 61/78   Israel blamed for hit on Iran-backed militia depot in Iraq WORLD TOPIC NEWS Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, U.S. officials have confirmed, an attack that would mark a significant escalation in Israel's long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment in the region. The confirmation comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting strongly that his country is behind recent airstrikes that have hit bases and munitions depot belonging to Iran-backed paramilitary forces operating in Iraq. The mystery attacks have not been claimed by any side and have left Iraqi officials scrambling for a response, amid strong speculation that Israel may have been behind them. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 62/78   Israeli teen dies of wounds in West Bank attack, 2 wounded WORLD TOPIC NEWS An explosion Friday near a West Bank settlement that Israel said was a Palestinian attack killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her brother and father, Israeli authorities said. Initially, three Israelis were reported wounded in the blast on Friday near the Dolev settlement, northwest of Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to the family and vowed to pursue the perpetrators and 'strengthen' Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 63/78   Macron Opposes Mercosur Trade, Saying Brazil ‘Lied’ on Climate WORLD TOPIC NEWS (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Outraged over the Amazon fires, Emmanuel Macron branded Brazil’s president a liar and threatened to block the European Union’s trade deal with the Mercosur countries as he prepares to whip the Group of Seven leaders into climate action.The French president’s office said that it has become clear that Jair Bolsonaro wasn’t serious about his commitments on tackling climate change when he spoke to world leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka earlier this year."The president can only conclude that President Bolsonaro lied to him in Osaka," at the G-20, the statement said. "Under these conditions, France is opposed to the Mercosur deal."A day before he’s due to welcome G-7 leaders to Biarritz, Macron said he would make the burning of the Amazon jungle a priority at the summit. That provoked an angry response from Bolsonaro, who accused him of acting like a colonialist.The way that an environmental dispute escalated so quickly into a new front in the global trade tensions shows the growing importance of climate as a fundamental plank of geopolitics. Even before Macron’s announcement, Ireland said it could not vote for the Mercosur agreement and Finland wants the EU to consider a ban on Brazilian beef.The EU has sought to leverage the size of its market to pressure trading partners into doing more to reduce emissions and is also concerned that its companies will be undercut by rivals operating in places with looser restrictions.But the configuration of the G-7 right now will make it difficult for Macron to make a lot headway. Trump famously ripped up last year’s communique and does not want to be cornered. U.K.’s Boris Johnson is eager to tighten his bond with Trump and at odds with European allies over Brexit. Italy is mired in a messy political crisis at home and has no prime minister. Japan is unlikely to stick its neck out -- it is more concerned about the potential fallout from the U.S. trade war with China.In fact, the run-up to the G-7 was overshadowed by China whacking the U.S. with higher tariffs on soybeans, cars and oil in retaliation for Trump’s latest planned levies.The EU wrapped up 20 years of negotiations to seal an accord with South America’s leading customs union just weeks ago, in what was then seen as a major retort to U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the global system of free trade. The deal could affect almost 90 billion euros ($100 billion) of goods and Brazil expects to see its economy increased by about $90 billion over the next 15 years.Officials on both sides are still fine-tuning the agreement and it still needs to be approved by EU governments before it can enter into force. A Brazilian official, with direct knowledge of the government’s position, said that the EU-Mercosur deal is not ready to be signed yet, and that while the deal could be rejected or put to one side, it could not be changed.The official added that France stood to lose a lot if the agreement didn’t go through, citing the presence of supermarket chain Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA and carmakers such as Renault SA and Peugeot SA.Another senior government official however said that France’s position is a cause of concern and that the Bolsonaro administration needed to change the narrative. There are signs that the president is already poised to do that.Speaking on Friday morning in Brasilia, Bolsonaro said the government is considering declaring a state of emergency in the region, allowing the president to deploy armed forces and extra funding to the region: “We discussed a lot of things and whatever is within our reach we will do. The problem is resources.”\--With assistance from Arne Delfs, Alex Morales, Kati Pohjanpalo, Peter Flanagan and Rachel Gamarski.To contact the reporters on this story: Helene Fouquet in Bairritz, France at hfouquet1@bloomberg.net;Simone Iglesias in Brasília at spiglesias@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Flavia Krause-Jackson at fjackson@bloomberg.net, Ben SillsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 64/78   G-7 Is Well Timed to Fight Recession But Leaders Unlikely to Act WORLD TOPIC NEWS (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. It ought to be good news that leaders from the Group of Seven are gathering for a retreat on the Bay of Biscay as the global economy slows, trade wars escalate and major economies like Germany slide toward recession.But the allies are so divided that they may squander the chance to find a solution. Any hope for progress was complicated Friday with China’s new tariffs on U.S. goods, a central banker pushing for a rate cut and France threatening a regional trade deal over climate. At any other time in history, the expectation from such a summit would be for a coordinated response to loosen fiscal purse strings and walk away from protectionism -- an approach that came out of similar meetings called to respond to the far more dire global financial crisis a decade ago. This weekend, as France’s Emmanuel Macron hosts leaders including the U.K.’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, along with U.S. President Donald Trump, disagreements over everything from Brexit to the future of the global trading system likely will stand in the way of unified solutions. China on Friday roiled the summit by imposing additional tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. goods in retaliation for Trump’s planned levies on Chinese imports.The best economic hope for the meetings in the Atlantic port city of Biarritz may be that divisions don’t get any worse, and that central bankers conducting their own retreat some 5,000 miles away in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, save the day.Driving that reality is Trump’s world view, which isn’t showing any signs of changing.Read More: G-7 Wonders Which Boris Johnson Will Show Up: Balance of PowerThe broad consensus from economists and other G-7 leaders is that the global economy would benefit most from an end to Trump’s trade wars. But the U.S. president has dismissed accusations that his tariff assault on China and threats to impose duties on Europe’s auto industry are contributing to any slowdown.Currency WarsMoreover, rather than seeking harmony, Trump is threatening to turn his trade wars into currency wars.“Fight or go home!” Trump told the Federal Reserve in a tweet Thursday bemoaning negative yields on German bonds and a strong dollar that he views increasingly as a threat to U.S. growth.Ahead of this weekend’s meeting, Trump administration officials insisted the U.S. economy and the president’s agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and cracking down on unfair trade ought to be envied rather than scorned, particularly in Europe where growth has slowed.And they are traveling to Biarritz with an ask for Germany’s Angela Merkel: to boost spending to head off a recession. Germany has taken tentative steps toward fiscal stimulus but so far the government is sticking to its zero-deficit principle.Read More: Johnson’s G-7 Goal: Be Serious and Get Something From EveryoneSome Trump aides argue concerns over the global economy are overblown thanks to the policy responses from the European Central Bank and others that are already underway, especially if those are paired with German fiscal action.“A stronger Europe will mean stronger demand for U.S. exports and more rapid U.S. growth,” said Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s closest advisers on trade and economic policy.“Such bullish help appears to be on the way with near certain ECB rate cuts, an increasing likelihood of a German fiscal stimulus, and a possible resolution of Brexit, which will both remove Brexit uncertainty now suppressing some investment and clear the way for a possible U.K.-U.S. trade agreement,” he said.Rate CutBold action by the Federal Reserve, such as a 100-basis-point cut in the target rate sought by Trump, would bolster the U.S. economy and the world’s too, Navarro said. Such a move is intended to shift the U.S. from “good growth in the 2% range to great growth in the 3% range,” he said, rather than reflect any fears of recession.Navarro, who is a longstanding critic of Germany’s economic policies, is far from alone in viewing German fiscal stimulus as one of the keys to a global turnaround. Yet the push also highlights that the biggest division inside the G-7 over how to respond to a slowing world economy lies between Trump and Merkel.Read More: Terms of Trade: Europe’s Shaky Union Faces Trump G-7 Stress TestWhile the Trump administration would like to see a bold German move to abandon its obsession with balanced budgets, in Berlin there isn’t much appetite to cough up cash to help prevent a global slowdown they attribute in part to Trump’s trade wars.The German government isn’t ready to commit to meaningful stimulus at home or at the G-7. Nor is it in much of a hurry. Spending money now when factory utilization is still rather high, would simply stimulate imports or savings rather than domestic output, the argument goes.Contingency plans are being drawn up and Merkel has talked about “clouds” darkening the economic outlook, however. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said in principle Germany could muster some 50 billion euros ($55 billion) in times of a crisis and the German government is aware that the ECB has limited room to respond and that a hard Brexit could tip the balance toward more rather than less action.Recession RiskThe U.K., like Germany, is at risk of slipping into a recession after recent data showed a second-quarter 0.2% decline in gross domestic product. But Johnson’s month-old government echoes the U.S. view that delivering Brexit come Oct. 31 will end the uncertainty that has shadowed the U.K.’s economy and boost growth.In Japan, preparations are underway for an increase in government spending to counteract an October sales tax increase. Finance Minister Taro Aso also signaled Tokyo’s readiness to deploy further fiscal stimulus if it’s warranted after a G-7 ministers meeting in July.“Along with Germany, Japan is likely to add momentum toward fiscal policy in the global economy,” said Kyohei Morita, chief Japan economist at Credit Agricole Securities Asia.But there are still questions over whether Japanese households can withstand the tax hike. A similar increase in 2014 triggered a sharp contraction and this time foreign demand is unlikely to provide a buffer. Japan’s exports have fallen for eight straight months thanks to the Trump trade wars and reduced demand from China.Read More: Donald Trump Is Coming for Europe’s Most Important AllianceThat’s one reason the U.S. position and the damage being done by its trade battles is what worries some economists most. With the International Monetary Fund predicting global growth of 3.2% this year, a downgrade that nonetheless remains broadly in line with trend, and unemployment at record lows in many G-7 economies, there are reasons to be hopeful. That doesn’t reduce the risks, however.‘What’s the Panic?’“You do ask the question, ‘What’s the panic?’ Why are central banks looking to lower interest rates?” said Torsten Slok, chief economist at Deutsche Bank. “The answer to that question is that the trade war continues to linger and continues to be a huge cloud hanging over the global economy.”Years ago, leaders were able to find consensus to boost the economy. As the global financial crisis grew in 2008, then President George W. Bush called an emergency G-20 meeting at which leaders agreed to a roadmap to combat the slowdown.That November 2008 summit was followed by others at which the world’s leading economies agreed to avoid protectionism and to other coordinated actions widely seen as having helped avoid a deeper downturn.Some attending this weekend’s G-7 summit appear determined to press their case for Trump to at least modify his tactics in his bid to rebalance global trade.European Union officials say Donald Tusk, who will be the bloc’s chief representative at the meeting, will argue trade tensions are the single most important factor impeding global growth.So too will Canada’s Justin Trudeau, who is intent on selling himself as a vocal advocate of pluralism and multilateralism, with an election just weeks away.“Our government has responded to this new world by rejecting populism,” Trudeau said in a speech this week. “My message will be clear” at the G-7, he added. “We need to build a future where everyone can benefit from economic growth and where we invest to help the middle class.”(Updates with China tariffs, Fed comments, France threat in second paragraph.)\--With assistance from Theophilos Argitis, Alex Morales and Rich Miller.To contact the reporters on this story: Shawn Donnan in Washington at sdonnan@bloomberg.net;Raymond Colitt in Berlin at rcolitt@bloomberg.net;Toru Fujioka in Tokyo at tfujioka1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Simon Kennedy at skennedy4@bloomberg.net, Justin Blum, Sarah McGregorFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 65/78   Security in Kashmir tightened following call for march WORLD TOPIC NEWS Authorities intensified patrols Friday in Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city after posters appeared calling for a public march to a United Nations office to protest New Delhi's tightened grip on the disputed region. Police and paramilitary soldiers re-imposed restrictions on traffic in areas where they had been eased, putting steel barricades back up and laying razor wire across roads, bridges and intersections. On Aug. 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist-led government revoked Muslim-majority Kashmir's decades-old special status guaranteed under Article 370 of India's Constitution and sent thousands of troops to the region, which is split between archrivals Pakistan and India and claimed by both in its entirety. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 66/78   Syrian TV: Troops in control of northern Hama countryside WORLD TOPIC NEWS Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops seized control of a string of villages in the northern countryside of Hama province, completing their takeover of the formerly rebel-held region just south of Idlib province for the first time since 2012, Syrian state TV and a war monitoring group said Friday. The TV said troops seized the villages of Latamneh, Latmeen, Kfar Zeita and Lahaya, as well as the village of Morek, where Turkey maintains an observation post, on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported Friday that government troops were in control of the entire northern Hama countryside after capturing a series of towns of villages. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 67/78   Bavarian couple sue German government over reunification tax WORLD TOPIC NEWS A couple in Bavaria are suing Angela Merkel’s government over their tax bill — on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. The couple, who have not been named, are challenging a decision by Mrs Merkel’s government to retain a tax that was supposed to be a short-term measure to pay the costs of German reunification. Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans still face a 5.5 per cent surcharge on their annual income tax bills to pay the cost of raising living standards in the former communist East to match the rest of the country. The Solidarity Surcharge, or “Soli” as it is popularly known, amounts to an extra €487 (£441) on the tax bill of some one earning €50,000 (£45,000) a year. It was originally introduced for a year in 1991 to pay the unexpected costs of reunification and the Gulf War, and was reintroduced in 1995 to pay the ongoing costs of reunification. Olaf Scholz, the German finance minister, has announced plans to keep the tax for the top 10 per cent of earners Credit: CLEMENS BILAN/EPA-EFE/REX  The legal challenge is expected to be the first of many after Mrs Merkel’s government dropped plans to scrap the controversial tax next year. Olaf Scholz, the finance minister, announced that the government will instead raise the minimum threshold for the tax so that it only applies to the top 10 per cent of earners from 2021. The Bavarian couple behind the legal challenge argue the move is unconstitutional because the tax was only approved as a temporary measure and its mandate expires this year. They are being represented in court by Michael Sell, a lawyer who was head of the finance ministry’s tax department until last year. The lawsuit is also backed by the the Federation of German Taxpayers (BdST), which says it is ready to take the case to Germany's highest court if necessary. “Because the mandate expires at the end of the year, the Soli no longer has any legitimacy,” Reiner Holznagel, the BdST president said.  “We want the politicians to live up to the promises they have been making for decades and abolish the Soli completely and for everyone by 2020.” Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 68/78   Yemeni government forces rout separatists from southern city WORLD TOPIC NEWS Forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognized government have taken full control of a key southern city after overnight clashes with separatists there, Yemeni security officials said Friday. Clashes over Ataq, the capital of oil-rich Shabwa province erupted late Thursday night and lasted until Friday morning, said the security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because there were not authorized to talk to the media. The city of Ataq was previously divided between the government forces of Saudi-backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and a separatist militia, trained and armed by the United Arab Emirates. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 69/78   Macron Riles Bolsonaro, Setting Up G-7 Fight Over Amazon Fires WORLD TOPIC NEWS (Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.Emmanuel Macron said Group of Seven leaders gathering in Biarritz, France, Saturday must tackle head on the fires in the Amazon jungle, establishing the summit’s first flash point.“Our house is burning. Literally,” the French president wrote in a tweet late Thursday. “It is an international crisis.” He plans to introduce the topic in his opening remarks at the informal dinner on Saturday, and it will be the first topic of discussion on Monday.But by placing the environmental emergency at the top of the G-7 agenda, he risks a geopolitical fight he cannot win if he tries to prise a response to from Donald Trump, who has already pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and is a long-term skeptic on threats to the environment.Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, who has echoed Trump’s approach on environmental issues, has already reacted angrily. He said that discussing the fires without his country’s involvement showed a “colonial mentality that isn’t appropriate for the 21st century.”“I regret that President Macron is seeking to use the internal matters of Brazil and other Amazon countries for political gain,” Bolsonaro said in a tweet.France and Brazil have history when it comes to the Amazon. In the 1980s, Francois Mitterrand provoked outrage in South America when he suggested Brazil cede sovereignty over parts of the rain forest arguing that it was the heritage of all humanity. Brazil’s concerns about its sovereignty over the Amazon were a key turning point in environmental politics ahead of the 1992 Rio environmental summit.Brazilians are, on the whole, more accepting of international concerns these days. But with mounting criticism of the record number of fires this year, the government in Brasilia is getting defensive.While Macron is trying to rally a global response to the climate emergency, Trump has been working to roll back restrictions on CO2 emissions in the U.S. This week he attacked automakers for their opposition to a plan to ease fuel efficiency requirements.The French leader is sure to find an ally in Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Germany’s Angela Merkel. Merkel already had a run-in with Bolsonaro at June’s G-20 in Osaka after she criticized his environmental policy and cut financial aid for the Amazon. Bolsonaro told Merkel that she had an obsession with the environment and she should use the money for reforestation in Germany.German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Friday that Merkel backs Macron’s call because the "alarming and threatening" burning of the Amazon, is an international issue. U.K. Prime minister Boris Johnson’s spokeswoman, Alison Donnelly, told reporters in London said he is "extremely concerned" and would use the G-7 to call for a "renewed focus on protecting nature and tackling climate change.”But the configuration of the G-7 right now will make it difficult for Macron to make headway. Trump famously ripped up last year’s communique and does not want to be cornered. Johnson is eager to tighten his bond with Trump and at odds with European allies over Brexit. Italy is mired in a messy political crisis at home and has no prime minister. Japan is unlikely to stick its neck out -- it is more concerned about the potential fallout from the U.S. trade war with China.All this points to Macron winding up isolated on the issue if he tries to achieve anything meaningful on the fires. A French official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they couldn’t pre-judge what Trump’s position will be -- or indeed what concrete action could be taken by the group.(Updates with Johnson’s spokeswoman.)\--With assistance from Ben Sills, Arne Delfs, Alex Morales and Bill Faries.To contact the reporter on this story: Helene Fouquet in Paris at hfouquet1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Flavia Krause-Jackson at fjackson@bloomberg.net, Ben SillsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P. Click on the image for the web page. Click here for more description. 70/78   The 9 Best Jobs for Teachers To Make Some Cash During the Summer Break HEALTH TOPIC NEWS Make the most of your skills with one of these jobs. Click on the image for the web page. 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