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Melania Trump's night: GOP convention stars first lady" Published on August 26, 2020 at 05:39AM by By STEVE PEOPLES, MICHELLE L. PRICE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The people closest to President Donald Trump — his family — were starring on the second night of the Republican National Convention as the GOP worked to reintroduce the president to American voters in the midst of the campaign and pandemic. First lady Melania Trump was delivering Tuesday evening's keynote address at the White House, while the president's daughter Tiffany and son Eric were to be featured, too. Trump himself played a significant role even before the formal program began. For a second consecutive night, his unscripted remarks threatened to overshadow the convention's carefully crafted message. And there was a separate controversy about one of the speakers, who was pulled from the convention minutes before it began. “The fraud and abuse will be an embarrass

The peak of the California wildfire season is yet to come" Published on August 26, 2020 at 04:54AM by By DON THOMPSON and HAVEN DALEY, Associated Press VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s firefighting agency is in talks with the National Guard and California Conservation Corps about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season threatens to get even worse. Lightning-sparked fires that have grown to some of the largest in state history have pushed firefighters to the breaking point as they also deal with complications from the coronavirus pandemic and depleted inmate crews. “Historically it’s September and October when we experience our largest and our most damaging wildfires. So to be in the middle of August and already have the second- and the third-largest wildfires in our state’s history is very concerning to us,” Daniel Berlant, chief of wildfire planning and engineering at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Tuesday. For

Hawaii, New Jersey and New York are suing the Trump administration over alleged "partisan meddling". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2CZy8d1

Nerve agent was apparently used on Putin critic Alexei Navalny – and Russia has a history of poisonings. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/34F18Su

A farming community in South Africa is reeling after the bodies of five women were recently discovered. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3gvBmCL

The disruption caused by coronavirus means that Brazil's samba schools now face an uncertain future. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3je8fp5

The vice-president has largely stayed out of the limelight. We take a look at the few times he didn't. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3jif6Ox