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The massive 27 percent deficit increase from last year is only expected to worsen as Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax plan from a year-and-a-half ago fails to “pay for itself” as the White House previously claimed. Congress also passed another over-budget spending bill earlier this month. The Treasury Department report predicted on Monday a $1 trillion deficit in two months at the end of the fiscal year and analysts noted it’s the most money the federal government has spent in the first 10 months of a fiscal year since 2009 efforts to pull out of the Great Recession....

These investigations come after sanctions against Tencent regarding its multi-purpose messaging app, WeChat, specifically regarding the approach in collecting data from its users. CFIUS, or the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has confirmed that they have inquired with Riot Games and Epic Games to ask the studios about the various procedures the companies have in place in terms of how the companies handle the personal data of American consumers....

Flynn previously served as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army before taking on the role of national security adviser in the early days of the Trump administration. He resigned from the position amid a controversy over his communications with a Russian ambassador and has been generally noted for his strong connections to Russia throughout his various careers. On Saturday, Flynn appeared on the conservative, pro-QAnon web series, “The Mel K Show,” where he discussed the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine....

“Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit!” the former president wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday. “You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election.” The former president said that officials need to act now and conduct a review of the results this week. “Time is running out,” Trump wrote. “Paper ballots in your state are only kept for 22 months after the election....

“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax,” the president tweeted this afternoon. “Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday said Trump had “tasked me with getting some declassification rolling” as the president was recovering from COVID-19 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center....

Footage which spread online over the weekend showed a group, reported to be BLM protesters, shouting at people outside an establishment in the Pennsylvania city. This has since prompted a backlash from the president, who wrote on Twitter: “BLM Protesters horribly harass elderly Pittsburgh diners, scaring them with loud taunts while taking their food right off their plate. These Anarchists, not protesters, are Biden voters, but he has no control and nothing to say....

The 116-second advert titled “Joe Won’t Stand Up for Us” tries to paint the former vice president as the favored candidate of Beijing, further arguing that he stood up for China under the Obama administration. At the time of writing, the video has received almost 1 million views on YouTube since being published on Wednesday night. It has also picked up more than 7,000 likes and a similar number of dislikes....

Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale said the decision was due to the news outlet’s recent announcement that the “tradition” of not investigating the company’s owner, presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, would be extended to his Democratic primary rivals but not to Trump. “The decision by Bloomberg News to formalize preferential reporting policies is troubling and wrong,” said Parscale in a press release. On November 24, the same day Bloomberg announced his presidential campaign, Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait sent a memo to his staff, explaining that the organization would “continue to investigate the Trump administration, as the government of the day,” while laying out how the Democratic primaries would be covered....

“I just ordered two tickets for Trump’s MAGA rally on July 11 in Portsmouth, NH. Too bad I won’t be attending! It took me just 30 seconds to register. It would be a real shame if thousands of other people who didn’t intend to show signed up for tickets,” Jon Cooper, the former chair of the Democratic Coalition, tweeted on Monday, tacitly encouraging his followers to follow his example....

The unforgiving world of social media blasted the president, however, saying he has taken six deaths more importantly than hundreds killed by gun violence this year, and the thousands killed on a yearly basis. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday it could take a few weeks to introduce a policy for pulling vaping products from vendor shelves, but that it’s now a mission for the president....

Trump was appearing in his first rally since being acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday. He at least twice appeared to advocate for “party raiding,” the process of sabotaging an opposing political party by voting for a suitably “weak” candidate in their primary election. “You have crossovers in primaries, don’t you? I hear a lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats,” Trump told the crowd....

While discussing early National Weather Service forecasts of Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump displayed a map that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie marker to include Alabama in the storm’s trajectory. “We got lucky in Florida, very, very lucky indeed,” he told reporters. “We had actually our original chart was that it was going to be hitting Florida directly… And that would have affected a lot of other states....

Rodriguez ruled in July that the Air Force was “60 percent liable” for the attack by Devin Patrick Kelley, who was discharged from the Air Force in 2014 for bad conduct. Kelley exchanged gunfire with an armed resident while exiting First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs and then died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after crashing his vehicle while being chased by two Sutherland Springs residents. The judge found the Air Force partially responsible because it failed to submit Kelley’s assault conviction during his time in the Air Force to a national database, which could have barred him from purchasing firearms he used to kill more than two dozen parishioners....

Cameran Wheatley, a senior who played basketball for Bremen High School in the Chicago suburb of Midlothian, collapsed at around 9:20 p.m. last Tuesday in the middle of a game at Chicago Agricultural High School, the Chicago Tribune reported. Wheatley was rushed to a local hospital where medics performed CPR in an effort to save his life, but they were unable to rescue him. The Cook County medical examiner said the 17-year-old’s cause of death has yet to be determined....

This article explains what triglycerides are, what a normal level is, and how the problem can be prevented. What Are Triglycerides? Triglycerides are a type of fat, or lipid, that accounts for the majority of fat in a diet. Triglycerides are important because they provide the body with the energy it needs to function on a daily basis. If you have an excess of triglycerides, they will usually be stored as fat....

The ad begins with a user logging in as KFLYNN. Suddenly the words “VIRUS DETECTED” flash on the screen and we see some rapid clips of light cycles and programs, none of which are uniquely identifiable. The last shot is of a yellow hooded and caped program holding an identity disc which is clearly of the same design as that shown in the Tron Legacy Trailer. My first reaction is to wonder whether or not you’ll be playing as Kevin Flynn and if that’s the case, when will this story be taking place?...

It may sound like a bad Martha Stewart parody, but, authorities say, the scheme illegally raised some $12 million in cash. “It should have been called ‘Women Using Women’,” says Sacramento District Attorney Jan Scully. Some of the defendants walked away with up to $100,000 in cash, while poorer women borrowed from friends and relatives, or took advances from their credit cards to pay for an “appetizer.” The organizers insist they were doing nothing illegal....

Even though you’re afraid to do it, you do have to pick up the crashed camera at some point. And your natural instinct is to press the power button immediately, checking to see whether the digital camera survived the fall. If the digital camera doesn’t work or if it appears to be working in a manner different than what you’re used to seeing, keep the panic at arm’s length for a few more seconds, and look at these items for potential easy-to-fix problems....

Trout sent an 0-2 pitch from Tony Sipp over the wall in left center field and charged into a celebratory mob at home plate. Teammate Erick Aybar doused Trout with a blue sports drink, staining his white uniform, and fans chanted “MVP! MVP!” It was Trout’s second career walkoff hit, both of them homers. Joe Smith (3-0) got the victory for the Angels, who have won eight in a row at home for the first time in nearly nine years....

Blaney started on the outside of two-time defending series champion Matt Crafton, but was able to blow by on a set of newer tires as Crafton sputtered and quickly dropped to a seventh-place finish. MORE: Looking back at Michigan | What is keeping Danica valuable? “We had a chance and that’s all you can ask for is a chance,” Blaney told reporters after the race. “Obviously, the inside isn’t the preferred line on the restart, but we got a good jump and were able to pull away....