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President Trump said he was “saddened” to see the Emmy’s low ratings in a tweet Tuesday night. “I was saddened to see how bad the ratings were on the Emmys last night - the worst ever. Smartest people of them all are the ‘DEPLORABLES,’” Trump tweeted.  Sunday night's Emmy awards is on track to be the lowest-rated Emmys of all time. Trump was the target of several jokes at the Emmy awards.

A ninth person has died after a Florida nursing home lost air conditioning when a tree knocked out power to the facility during Hurricane Irma, exposing the home's residents to extreme temperatures, ABC News reported on Tuesday.

Former President Obama tweeted a bilingual message of support for Mexico after a massive earthquake struck the country's capital Tuesday. “Thinking about our neighbors in Mexico and all our Mexican-American friends tonight.

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday went off on Sen.

Before the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn pledged to spend $10 billion and create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin, the company made a similar promise in Brazil. At a news conference in Brazil, Foxconn officials unveiled plans to invest billions of dollars and build one of the world’s biggest manufacturing hubs in the state of São Paulo.

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, which the United Nations high commissioner for human rights has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” highlights a problem that the world has not yet figured out how to solve — and that can contribute, in extremes, to the world’s worst atrocities. National self-determination, the idea that a nation should have the right to freely choose its political status, is a central tenet of the international system.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and de facto leader of Myanmar, stood before a room of government officials and foreign dignitaries on Tuesday to at last, after weeks of international urging, address the plight of the country’s Rohingya ethnic minority. But those who expected her to eloquently acknowledge a people’s oppression were disappointed. In her speech, delivered in crisp English and often directly inviting foreign listeners to “join us” in

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and de facto leader of Myanmar, stood before a room of government officials and foreign dignitaries on Tuesday to at last, after weeks of international urging, address the plight of the country’s Rohingya ethnic minority. But those who expected her to eloquently acknowledge a people’s oppression were disappointed. In her speech, delivered in crisp English and often directly inviting foreign listeners to “join us” in

WASHINGTON — I have always thought of overhearing conversations as an underappreciated journalistic tool. When political donors, lobbyists and politicians gather at hotels for meetings and strategy sessions, they often keep out reporters. But they usually can’t keep us out of the lobby bars and restaurants where they gather afterward to gossip. And I’ve picked up all manner of tantalizing nuggets — from U.S.

WASHINGTON — Eleven governors, including five Republicans and a pivotal Alaskan independent, urged the Senate on Tuesday to reject a last-ditch push to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. But Republican leaders pressed toward a showdown vote.