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Tourists race crabs on Tobago island, Trinidad and Tobago. | (EPA-EFE/Andrea De Silva)

President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered the fourth day of his federal trial Friday, where he faced testimony from Philip Ayliff, his former accountant.

Top Senate Democrats are finally ready to acknowledge the Supreme Court's newest nominee.

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers want his massive, #MeToo-starting sexual assault charges thrown out.

The National Rifle Association says it is facing major financial losses and "irreparable harm" as a result of New York State's crackdown on the gun rights group.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has joined the increasingly political list of cyberattack victims.

They came. They saw. They ate everything in sight.

About 100 goats took over a residential neighborhood in Boise, Idaho, on Friday morning, and they weren't kidding around. The mysterious herd trotted from lawn to lawn for an all-you-can-graze buffet, per local NBC affiliate KTVB's investigation.

Here is a live look at #Boise Goat-a-Paloza 2018 pic.twitter.com/RTZR6bWsRP

— Joe Parris (@KTVBJoe) August 3, 2018

Boise has seen goats on horseback, and this Washington... Читать дальше...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doesn't think North Korea is keeping its promises.

This week's question: A totally naked man who was arrested in a "yoga-like pose" at a New Hampshire gym told police that he had believed the gym's slogan that it's a "Judgment Free Zone." If a fitness company were to launch a chain of gyms where people could exercise freely in the buff, what name could it give the business?

During a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, President Trump took on many different roles.

U.S. employers added 157,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department reported Friday. The total was less than the 194,000 economists polled by MarketWatch expected, but enough to nudge the unemployment rate down to 3.9 percent from 4 percent, near an 18-year low.

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U.S. employers added 157,000 jobs in July, fewer than the 194,000 economists polled by MarketWatch expected but enough to nudge the unemployment rate down to 3.9 percent from 4 percent, near an 18-year low. The July figure was considered solid but it was down from 248,000 added jobs in June, a figure adjusted up from an initial report of 213,000. Strong spending by consumers and businesses is boosting growth and increasing demand for workers across the economy, and the tightening job market has been slowly pushing wages higher... Читать дальше...

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CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Thursday confronted White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over her claim that President Trump is "rightfully frustrated" when he calls the press "the enemy of the people." Sanders refused to reject Trump's allegation, instead criticizing the press for lowering "the level of conversation in this country" and saying the media incited anger against Trump. Acosta pressed Sanders, but she said she and Trump had made their position clear. Читать дальше...

Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), the House Budget Committee chairwoman, gave up her seat to run for governor, a race she was favored to win. She didn't even make it to the finals. On Thursday, Black placed third in the Republican primary, losing badly to a business executive and political novice, Bill Lee. She's got company. Four other House Republicans seeking statewide office have also lost their bids, and their House seats, this year — Reps. Todd Rokita and Luke Messer in Indiana, Rep. Raul Labrador in Idaho, and Rep. Читать дальше...

Becca Kufrin is officially engaged — and the wait to learn to whom is finally almost over.

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A long, long, time ago, when I was in college in Washington, D.C., I dated a guy who lived in New York City. Because I was a college student with little money and no car, I'd take the bus to see him — four hours and 30 minutes, give or take, each way, on a Greyhound. In the course of somewhere between eight months and two years of dating (I've blocked it out, much like those bus trips), I grew to despise not only the guy, but also the bus.

President Trump is incapable of basic human communication.

Maybe that's a counterintuitive statement. After all, there's rarely been a president so in love with talking directly to his fans, whose circumventing of traditional presidential communications have proven so central to his appeal. Trump's rallies allow him to hold forth before thousands of people for an hour or more; his tweets go out to an audience of millions. Much has been written about his staff's attempts to get him to stick to a script... Читать дальше...

Apple is the first U.S. company to reach $1 trillion in market value — arguably the first company ever — and even left-wingers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders should think that's pretty awesome. Yes, it's uber-fashionable to decry corporate power, especially that of America's technology giants whose products and services are such a big part of our everyday lives. And at least for now — here comes Amazon! — Apple is the biggest of big tech.

Climate policy is back in the headlines. This time, it's a Republican proposing a solution to America's problematic greenhouse gas emission levels.

Anti-liberalism has gone global — and that's more than a little paradoxical.

Buoyed by the robotic oarsmanship of thousands of former Princeton rowers and Duke fratbros interning at the Heritage Foundation or working on the staff of minor Tea Party congressmen, the ambitions of David and Charles Koch remain afloat. Without their lunatic efforts — and, of course, the hundreds of millions of dollars in what basically amount to bribes — the project would sink overnight.

Kirsten Gillibrand is running into problems from an unusual source: the Democratic donor class. Amanda Terkel reports at HuffPost that big-time donors are furious at her for saying that Bill Clinton should have resigned, and for pressuring Al Franken to quit the Senate after eight women accused him of groping. The enraged bourgeois include George Soros and, rather oddly, a number of wealthy women.

This summer, forests are bursting into flame all over the world. More than 50 wildfires have scorched a shocked Sweden — some of them north of the Arctic Circle — as temperatures have soared into the 90s amid withering drought. In normally chilly Oslo, the mercury climbed past 86 degrees for 16 consecutive days. The Brits have been gobsmacked by 95-degree weather; it hit 98 in Montreal; and in Japan, 22,000 people were hospitalized when temperatures climbed to a record 106. In Arizona, Southern California... Читать дальше...

President Trump's increasingly frenetic tweets are apparently an accurate reflection of his mental state. "The start of Paul Manafort's federal trial this week has triggered Trump's hottest blast yet, and has renewed the possibility that Trump will fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein," possibly within a few weeks, Gabriel Sherman reports at Vanity Fair. Trump is "increasingly taking his legal defense into his own hands — very much at his own peril," annoyed with lawyer Rudy Giuliani for... Читать дальше...