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But, for many outside observers, the real triumph for Trump’s counterparts—the leaders of France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Italy and the U.K.—will simply be to make it through the summit without inciting an international incident. “This is another G7 summit which will be a difficult test of unity and solidarity of the free world and its leaders,” European Council President Donald Tusk said ahead of the gathering. “This may be the last moment to restore our political community....

That decision, made by the Crown Prince, who overruled his older brother, Riyadh’s energy minister, set off a devastating chain reaction in global markets. At a time of plunging global demand because of the coronavirus, the two producers increased their production: oil prices collapsed, wreaking havoc in the U.S. oil industry. The price war was irrational, economically speaking, given that the Saudis require $70 per barrel to fund their nation’s elaborate social safety net....

The MacLeod course, named after the president’s Scotland-born mother Mary Anne MacLeod, and due to be built to the south and west of the resort’s existing course in Menie, was approved by eight votes to four Tuesday morning, according to BBC News. Plans for the 18-hole course were green-lit by councilors on the Formartine area committee at a meeting in the nearby town of Ellon. President Trump’s original golf course at Menie opened to the public in 2012, with the planning application for the second course received in September 2015, according to filings on the Aberdeenshire Council website....

“I never understood wind,” Trump said while criticizing the Green New Deal. “I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous—if you are into this—tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?” The president then attacked windmills for being “noisy,” before declaring that they also “kill the birds....

It is strange for a Call of Duty weapon to be both overpowered and underpowered at the same time. The biggest issues on both sides of the fence seem to be that the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War developers balanced the snipers’ slow ADS speeds by increasing the aim assist. This has led to players asking for the aim assist to be nerfed while others are asking for the ADS speeds to be increased....

During their days as the tag team, DIY, in WWE’s third brand, NXT, both Ciampa and Johnny Gargano’s creative instructions came from The Game. With Hunter now in charge of the company’s main roster storylines following Vince McMahon’s surprise retirement, fans are hoping for HHH to bring about a reunion with one of NXT’s most iconic duos. During a recent Wrestling Inc interview, Ciampa was asked if Johnny Gargano’s return is likely with The Cerebral Assassin now running the show....

According to the National Hurricane Center, Rene expected to produce tropical storm–force winds and heavy rainfall across the islands on Tuesday. The center names tropical storms using alphabetical order throughout each season. “Rene will continue to bring locally heavy rainfall to portions of the western Cabo Verde Islands today,” the center wrote in an update. In a Facebook post, the center wrote, “At 11 a.m. CVT (8 a.m. EDT), the center of Tropical Storm Rene was located about 55 miles (90 km) southwest of Santo Antao in the Cabo Verde Islands....

Supposed to be. This winter, we are learning that someone's got a case of the sposdas. Tuesday's blockbugger deal sends Mark Trumbo and two players to be named later to the Arizona Diamondbacks, left-handed pitchers Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago to the Los Angeles Angels, and outfielder Adam Eaton to the Chicago White Sox. This is the second time in the week that Arizona general manager Kevin Towers has pulled off a ménage à blah on the trade market....

Biden said he plans to run again, but drops in his polling numbers have raised concerns about whether he’ll be a viable candidate. With the election three years away and voters often having short memories, the administration has time to turn public opinion around, but a new poll shows there’s significant work to be done. Nearly 40 percent of Biden voters hope he doesn’t run for another term, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Monday....

The possibility of a shock Trump victory on election night was floated by Josh Mendelsohn, CEO of Hawkfish, a data and analytics firm funded by former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg which has done work for Democrats. Mendelsohn told Axios on 1 September that Trump could appear to pull off a staggering victory on election night, only to lose days later once mail-in ballots are counted. However, this scenario has been seriously questioned....

Four unnamed administration officials told the New York Times that the plan, which is expected to be introduced in the coming days, aims to stop the spread of COVID-19 through detention centers and to border patrol personnel. The officials say that entry into the U.S. from the Mexico border ports of entry will still be granted to U.S. citizens, individuals with green cards and documented foreigners. Although those entering from blocked countries, such as Europeans, will still be restricted by the temporary coronavirus travel bans....

Beginning on July 29, about 50 or so miners created an encampment on the train tracks in Cumberland, Kentucky, to prevent a train carrying $1 million worth of coal from crossing. Carrying signs that read “no pay, we stay,” the miners, and in some cases their families, were protesting their former employer, Blackjewel LLC. The company declared bankruptcy in early July and then wrote bad paychecks to about 350 employees in Harlan County alone....

According to the news outlet, the network is owned and operated by father-and-son duo Dino Porrazzo Sr. and Dino Porrazzo Jr., who have a California-based company called AFF Media. These pages contain content that praises President Donald Trump and promotes far-right, anti-government militias, such as the Three Percenters. Among the duo’s Facebook pages is one called “Prepare to Take America Back” (PTTAB) that shares conspiracy theories, in addition to supposedly damaging allegations about Democratic politicians, liberal public figures and left-wing protestors....

Trump spoke with Woodward, of Watergate fame, between December and July for the book Rage, due to come out next week. Quotes from these discussions have begun to emerge, with a section in which Woodward claims Trump said he understood COVID-19’s threat earlier in the year but downplayed its seriousness publicly. In audio said to be from March released to CNN, Trump can purportedly be heard saying, he wanted to “always play it down” due to not wanting to “create a panic....

Trump and his allies—such as Bannon and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell—continue to falsely claim that the last presidential election was “rigged” or “stolen” in favor of President Joe Biden. Bannon, as well as a number of other prominent Trump supporters, also claim that those valid election results will be decertified—which would, in their view, allow for the former president to potentially return to the White House. Constitutional experts and many prominent Republicans have consistently disputed this possibility, noting that there is not a legal way to decertify Biden’s victory....

In a statement released by Trump’s Save America PAC ahead of a rally planned for September 18 in support of the hundreds of rioters arrested for allegedly participating in the January 6 Capitol riots, the ex-president expressed solidarity with those criminally charged: “Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election. In addition to everything else, it has proven conclusively that we are a two-tiered system of justice....

Trump on Friday fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, a move that Democrats said was in retaliation for a probe into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The president has now overseen the unprecedented removal of four inspector generals in under two months: Michael Atkinson was removed as the intelligence community’s IG on a Friday in the first week of April; acting Pentagon IG Glenn Fine was fired that same weekend; and Health and Human Services IG Christi Grimm was removed in early May....

The Pittsburgh Public Schools district confirmed that classes will be canceled for a dozen schools to ensure the safety of more than 2,000 students who need to travel through the Downtown area of the city. The announcement arrived after Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich confirmed that several streets around the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, where Trump is due to speak at the natural gas Shale Insight conference, will begin closing from midnight Wednesday....

Trump told disgraced conservative radio host Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday that “I didn’t direct” Giuliani to dig up dirt on his political rivals in Ukraine, “but he is a warrior.” “If Trump is going to try to now put this whole Ukraine matter on him, Giuliani seems to be going along with that so far,” Mimi Rocah, a former assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and a distinguished fellow at Pace University’s law school, told MSNBC....

The first thing you need to know is that Section 230 is old. It was passed in 1996, the year we all learned the Macarena and there were a minuscule 100,000 sites on the entire internet. Today there are 1.5 billion, still growing exponentially. Back in 1996, when the minority who used the internet regularly still suffered the speeds of a dial-up modem, Section 230 was added specifically to protect the “little guys” in the newly burgeoning internet economy....