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• Anthony Scaramucci to Newsmax TV: Trump a 'Full-Blown Narcissist'
  
  President Donald Trump is a "full-blown narcissist" who is incapable of being a racist because of his self-centered nature, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told Newsmax TV....
• Psychologist Approved Jeffrey's Epstein's Removal From Suicide Watch
  
  A psychologist at the federal detention center in New York City where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held on sex-trafficking charges approved his removal from suicide watch before he killed himself, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. The disclosure came in a...
• Biden at Campaign Stop: What If Obama Had Been Assassinated?
  
  Joe Biden pondered a most serious, and awkward, question at a campaign stop Friday: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated during his presidential campaign in 2008?Toward the end of an event in Hanover, Biden evoked two of his political heroes, Martin Luther King Jr....
• North Korea Launches Two More Missiles in Latest Provocation
  
  North Korea launched another series of missiles on Saturday, the latest in the most prolific series of tests since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.South Korea's Defense Ministry said two missiles were launched from south Hamkyong. They landed outside Japan's...
• Pelosi Says Public Doesn't Support Impeachment
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn't ready to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.Pelosi told House Democrats on a conference call Friday, "The public isn't there on impeachment."She told them the case needs to be "as strong" as possible."If and...
• Biden Says Trump Making America Less Secure, Less Respected
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is criticizing Donald Trump ahead of the president's visit to the Group of Seven summit in France, saying Trump is engaged in an "irrational and self-defeating campaign to make America less secure and less respected in the world."Biden says...
• Thanks to Trump's China Trade War, Mexico Posts Record Current Account Surplus
  
  Mexico posted its largest current account surplus on record and the first in nine years, lifted by robust foreign trade with the United States as President Donald Trump waged a bitter tariff dispute with China, official data showed on Friday. In the second quarter, Mexico...
• Putin Orders Russia to Respond after US Missile Test
  
  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...
• Dow Drops 600 as Trump Escalates China Trade War
  
  Wall Street plunged in a broad sell-off on Friday as China and the United States traded their latest salvos in a prolonged trade war, spooking investors and erasing slight gains following a generally positive speech by U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.
• Google Doesn't Want Staff Debating Politics at Work
  
  Alphabet Inc.'s Google posted internal rules that discourage employees from debating politics, a shift away from the internet giant's famously open culture.
• Gov't Struggles To Relocate Unaccompanied Migrant Kids in Fla.
  
  The federal government has struggled to find a suitable location to house a permanent shelter for about 500 unaccompanied migrant children in Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
• Bolsonaro Prepares to Send Army to Contain Amazon Fires
  
  Under increasing international pressure to contain record numbers of fires in the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he might send the military to battle the massive blazes."That's the plan," said Bolsonaro. He did not say when the armed forces would get...
• Boris Johnson Prepares to Take His Place on World Stage
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has endeavored to lead his country since he was a boy, will get his first moment on the world stage in his new role at the Group of Seven summit in France this weekend. And he will be at pains to ensure it won't be his last.The man...
• Justice Ginsburg Treated for Tumor on Pancreas
  
  The Supreme Court announced Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for "a localized malignant tumor."
• Mucarsel-Powell: Can't Believe Debate On Imprisoning Kids
  
  Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, whose district in Florida includes the large child detention facility in Homestead, said Friday she can't believe there is a debate in the United States about it being okay to "imprison children."
• Fla. Dem Wilson: Kamala Harris Should Hit Biden on Clarence Thomas
  
  Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., said Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, D-Calif., should attack Vice President Joe Biden on his role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
• Grenell: European Officials Say It Was Mistake to Let China in WTO
  
  U.S. Ambassador to Germany Rick Grenell said Friday he hears often from European officials and others overseas that it was a mistake to allow China to become part of the World Trade Organization, because "they haven't played by the rules."
• Timing of Medicare Plan-Shopping Site Stirs Concerns
  
  Medicare experts often advise enrollees to re-shop their plan coverage during the annual fall open enrollment period.
• DOJ To Change Immigration Court Rules To Clear Backlog
  
  The Department of Justice is reportedly changing the Executive Office of Immigration Review in order to address the large backlog of cases in the immigration court system, the Washington Times reports.
• Nadler Requests Impeachment Docs From House Committees
  
  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. wants four House panels investigating President Donald Trump to share documents and other information with his committee, Politico is reporting.
• Cuccinelli: New Border Rules Will Deter Illegals
  
  Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, defended Friday the Trump administration's decision to change the rules concerning how long migrant families can be detained.
• Tulsi Gabbard Hits DNC on Debate Polling Criteria
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, on Friday asked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to "ensure transparency and fairness" in the polling criteria used for future debates.
• Tom Brady's 'Tom Terrific' Trademark Application Fails
  
  New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s trademark application for “Tom Terrific,” the nickname more associated with former MLB pitcher Tom Seaver, has been rejected, The Washington Post reports.
• McCabe Talks Overstock CEO, Shootings on CNN
  
  Former FBI Acting Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is in the process of suing the FBI and Department of Justice after being fired by the Trump administration, spent the first morning at CNN discussing mass shootings and ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne.
• House Dem: Illegals, Not 'Elitists,' Mow Lawns
  
  Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., told local residents during a reelection campaign stop this week that the United States needed illegal immigrants to mow "our beautiful lawns" because those are jobs "Americans are not willing to take."

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