| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, August 27TRUMP TRADE WAR LINKED TO RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION As U.S. soybeans lie unsold, Brazilian farmers and corporations scramble to satisfy the voracious Chinese market. The push to break new ground amid President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is putting increasing pressure on the Amazon rainforest and is likely linked to the region’s devastating fires. [HuffPost]BERNIE: SAVE PRESS FROM ‘OLIGARCHAL POWERS’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unveiled a sweeping plan to protect American journalism, decrying Trump’s attacks on the media, megamergers of media companies and the rise of Silicon Valley behemoths leeching advertising dollars from the news industry. [HuffPost]ANOTHER SUICIDE IN FEDERAL JAIL Just two weeks after billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died of suicide inside a federal jail in New York, another pretrial detainee at a different facility has died in an apparent suicide. Pedro Gonzalez, 43, who had been incarcerated since December, was jailed in a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami. [HuffPost]CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY REP. ‘UNAWARE’ OF CALLS TO U.S. Shortly after Trump said Monday in France that Chinese officials had reached out by phone to restart trade talks, a representative of China’s Foreign Ministry said he was “not aware” of any such calls. [HuffPost]NBA PLAYER SHOWN PULLING WOMAN BACK TO MOTEL A newly released video from 2015 shows former NBA player Mateen Cleaves pulling a naked woman back to his motel room. Cleaves was acquitted last week on four counts of sexual assault after the woman seen in the video accused him of raping her. [HuffPost]MACRON SLAMS BOLSONARO’S REMARKS ABOUT HIS WIFE French President Emmanuel Macron has described his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro as "extremely disrespectful" after the South American leader appeared to mock his wife, Brigitte Macron, in a Facebook post. [CNN]ANOTHER NEWSLETTER YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN As the United States and other nations grapple with the rise of far-right movements and white supremacy, HuffPost is relaunching the Fringe newsletter to keep you informed about the latest news on political extremism. Get it here.  SACRAMENTO’S ‘INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS’ HOMELESSNESS SOLUTION Several members of Sacramento, California’s, local business improvement district ― with the support of Democratic Mayor Darrell Steinberg ― are trying something unprecedented: They have filed a civil injunction against seven supposedly disruptive homeless men, which would bar them from entering the Broadway Corridor altogether. [HuffPost]TRUMP AGAIN BLAMES OBAMA FOR RUSSIA GRAB Trump is repeating his claim that Russia was booted from the G-8 group of major industrial nations because former President Barack Obama was “outsmarted” by Russia when it illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. [HuffPost]INDONESIA IS MOVING ITS CAPITAL FROM SINKING JAKARTA TO BORNEO Facing insurmountable crowding and sinking in its capital city of Jakarta, Indonesia has officially committed to the mammoth endeavor of moving the country’s political center to the jungle island of Borneo. [HuffPost]AUSTRALIA TO BLOCK SITES HOSTING EXTREMIST CONTENT Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that he will block websites circulating extremist content in response to a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques that left 51 people dead. [HuffPost]CARRIE LAM: HK VIOLENCE IS GETTING MORE SERIOUS Violence in Hong Kong’s anti-government protests is becoming more serious, but the government is confident it can handle the crisis itself, the city’s embattled leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday. [Reuters]RBG MAKES FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday made her first public appearance since her treatment this month for pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg, 86, appeared strong in remarks accepting an honorary degree from the University at Buffalo at the upstate New York school’s Center for the Arts. [HuffPost]
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