WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday kept his focus on an anonymous whistle-blower, asking why he was not “entitled to interview” the person, a day after he said the White House was trying to find out the person’s identity, despite institutional directives and confidentiality protections. In addition to interviewing the “so-called ‘Whistleblower,’” Mr. Trump said […]
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A surprise contraction in U.S. manufacturing last month knocked the stock market lower Monday morning, erasing an early rally. The report from the Institute for Supply Management heightened concerns that the U.S.-China trade war is slowing down economic growth. The feud has also been sapping business confidence and prompting companies to hold off on investing
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The Drug Enforcement Administration was “slow to respond” as America grappled with a rising opioid epidemic, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Tuesday that faulted the agency for cutting back use of a key enforcement tool and continuing to raise production quotas even as the number of deaths rose. “Unlike past drug
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Image copyright PA Image caption Max Clifford was serving an eight-year prison sentence for historical sex offences when he died Conditions at a prison where disgraced publicist Max Clifford was held did not have any impact on his health or his death, an inquest has heard. Clifford, 74, was serving eight years for sex offences
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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court upheld on Tuesday the repeal of so-called net neutrality rules, but said that the Federal Communications Commission had overstepped in the repeal by broadly blocking state and local governments from writing their own rules. The mixed ruling, by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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The Latest on the track and field world championships (all times local): 5.40 p.m. Compete in the world championship marathon, sit out the next three months. That’s the message from Ethiopian track and field officials concerned about the heat in Qatar. The federation says it “has decided that all Ethiopian athletes who took part in
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Early in Trump’s presidency, Maddow bumped into Carlson at a gala for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, which supports outdoor recreation. Maddow and Carlson are about the same age — she’s 46, he’s 50 — and they each go fly-fishing to wipe the news from their brains. “It turned out we had both thrown our
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Image copyright KGH Image caption Gus (left) and Ned (right) were born in December 2018 but Ned died from complications related to the flu in January A couple whose baby son died of flu said they wanted to “raise people’s awareness that the flu is still dangerous” by telling his story. Nikki Shaw, 32, and
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Gigi Hadid is officially a member of the fashion police. The model showed off her bouncing skills at Chanel’s spring/summer 2020 show on Tuesday after a woman decided to crash the runway at Paris Fashion Week. The woman, clad in a black and white tweed jacket with a matching skirt that looked like Chanel, hopped onto
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Image caption Ex-Thomas Cook branch manager Donna Jones, centre, said customers first concern was for staff Ex-Thomas Cook staff across England are working for free to help holidaymakers to salvage their trips. Employees who lost their jobs when the travel firm collapsed have set up pop-up shops to help customers fill in claim forms or
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