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Facebook Tweet Email Link Days after Goldman Sachs’ top economists published research claiming price increases stemming from higher tariffs are poised to soon be borne mostly by consumers, President Donald Trump is urging the bank’s CEO, David Solomon, to get a new economist. “Tariffs have not caused Inflation, or any other problems for America, other than massive amounts of CASH pouring into our Treasury’s coffers,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. “David Solomon and Goldman Sachs refuse to give credit where credit is due.” “I think that David should go out and get himself a new Economist…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Spanish search and rescue teams have found the body of an American hiker who went missing in the Pyrenees last month. The body of Cole Henderson, 27, was located on the north face of Monte Perdido, the third-highest peak in the Pyrenees, Spain’s Guardia Civil confirmed to CNN in an emailed statement on Tuesday. Authorities said the place where Henderson was found on Friday afternoon was a difficult area to access, with the specialist teams using a crane to airlift his body. On July 9, Henderson told friends he was going to hike into the Ordesa…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Europe is on track for its worst wildfire season on record as swaths of the continent — including France, Spain, Albania, Portugal and Greece — battle raging, deadly fires as temperature soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Wildfires are not unusual in Europe but the climate crisis is driving hotter, drier weather, which is setting the stage for fiercer fire seasons. Blazes on the continent have burned through more acres so far this year than any of the last 19 years, according to a CNN analysis of data from the European Forest Fire Information System. Nearly 2.4…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hot summers are nothing new for much of the United States, but the combination of heat and humidity has taken on a truly antagonistic role this year, pushing us closer to our melting points in an already uncomfortable season. Dew point temperatures – a measure of how much moisture is in the air – have soared to sauna-like highs over and over. It’s another way a climate heating up from fossil fuel pollution is changing summer as we know it. A warm atmosphere soaks up water like a sponge, driving both air and dew point temperatures…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The Israeli military says it struck an armed group posing as aid workers and using a vehicle marked with the logo of the World Central Kitchen (WCK), a US-based non-profit. The strike, which took place last week, killed “five armed terrorists,” according to a Tuesday statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). A video released by the IDF shows at least eight men wearing yellow vests and standing around a vehicle with a WCK logo on top. Several of the men in the video appear to be armed, “cynically exploiting the status and trust afforded to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link An American woman who was hired by her British lover as a would-be assassin, but then botched the attack and spent five years on the run, has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Aimee Betro, 44, from Wisconsin, attempted to shoot a man dead outside his home in Birmingham, England, on September 7, 2019, but failed because her gun jammed – leaving her would-be victim to escape unscathed through “sheer luck,” according to prosecutor Hannah Sidaway, from the Crown Prosecution Service in the West Midlands. After a case that spanned continents and involved multiple crime…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The White House is conducting a comprehensive internal review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian Institution – the organization that runs the nation’s major public museums – in an effort to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive about what should and shouldn’t be displayed. The initiative, a trio of top Trump aides wrote in a letter to Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie Bunch III, “aims to ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.” It marks the latest move by the…

Facebook Tweet Email Link GUATEMALA CITY AP  —  A Guatemalan judge convicted six people of various crimes Tuesday in connection with the deaths of 41 girls in a 2017 fire at a facility for at-risk youth that had a history of abuse. They had all declared their innocence Tuesday. Judge Ingrid Cifuentes handed down cumulative sentences of six years to 25 years for charges ranging from manslaughter to abuse of authority. She also ordered the investigation of former President Jimmy Morales for his role in ordering police to work at a facility where minors who had not committed crimes were…

Facebook Tweet Email Link US President Donald Trump has stepped up his criticism of the security situation in Washington, DC, now claiming that the US capital has a homicide rate higher than some Latin American capitals such as Bogotá, Mexico City and Lima. During a press conference on Monday, Trump announced that he would place the Metropolitan Police Department “under direct federal control” and deploy 800 National Guard troops in an effort to “take back the city.” “The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City, or some of the places that you hear…

Facebook Tweet Email Link WASHINGTON AP  —  Mexico has expelled 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks sending drugs across the border, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The cartel leaders and other prominent figures were being flown from Mexico to the US on Tuesday, the person said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation that was still ongoing. Those being handed over to US custody…