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Wall Street ended a wild August with the Dow up slightly on Friday, capping a tumultuous month for the global economy that spurred a wave of volatility in financial markets and posed a challenge for MORE. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 index and Nasdaq closed the final day of August trading little changed from their Friday opens, with the Dow and S&P up only 0.2 and 0.1 percent, respectively. But the three indices were well below their levels at the start of the month after a notoriously rough stretch for Wall Street.

Hurricane Dorian was upgraded to a Category 4 storm as it makes its way toward Florida, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced Friday evening.  The NHC said the “extremely dangerous” storm has maximum sustained winds near 130 mph. “It could be an absolute monster,” Donald Trump said in a video address, adding the White House would send federal support for local disaster relief efforts. Dorian has already passed through the U.S. Virgin Islands and narrowly avoided Puerto Rico.

MORE on Friday said his personal secretary was ousted after she made remarks about his children during an off the record dinner with reporters. Trump told reporters as he left the White House for Camp David that he'd just spoken with Madeleine Westerhout, who was fired a day earlier. “Tiffany is great.

The Trump administration is poised to impose 15 percent tariffs on roughly $112 billion of Chinese imports on Sunday, the latest escalation in a tit for tat trade war.

“We cannot live in a world that is burning,” one young woman said, “that is melting.” “Climate change is already affecting millions of people,” another young woman claimed. “This could lead to mass extinction.” “We are not here to guilt individuals that forgot to recycle a cup last week,” another young woman said. “We are here to hold cowardice [sic] politicians accountable who have caused this damage by turning their heads in fear.” “Those 12 years left (to stop carbon emissions),” a young woman yelled.

Cortes was seen leaving the White House Friday afternoon, and a source familiar with the situation reported that President Trump met with the CNN contributor in solidarity. A source said that CNN benched him and prevented him from appearing on CNN for disputing the mainstream media “very fine people hoax.” The mainstream media– as well as former Vice President Joe Biden — have continued to insist that Trump referred to Neo-Nazis as “fine people.” Co

Trump told reporters that he found the comments “a little bit hurtful” but also noted that they were “off the record.” “I love Tiffany,” he said to reporters as he left the White House for Camp David. Politico reported that Westerhout made the comments at an off-the-record dinner with reporters during Trump’s vacation at his golf club in New Jersey. Trump said that Westerhout had been drinking during the dinner. She reportedly bragged that she had a better relationship with T

The resolution proclaimed that 70 percent of “religiously unaffiliated” Americans share the values of the Democrat Party. ‘The religiously unaffiliated demographic represents the largest religious group within the Democratic Party, growing from 19% in 2007 to one in three today,” stated the resolution, passed during the DNC’s summer meeting in San Francisco. In a reach for secularists or the nonreligious, the Democrats pointed out “religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share the Democratic Party’s values, with 70% voting for Democrats in 2018, 80% supporting same-sex marriage, and

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mindful of President Donald Trump’s intense interest in space, the Pentagon is declaring U.S. Space Command open for business as part of a broader effort to better defend American interests in space. But there’s still no Space Force. Trump planned to participate in a ceremony Thursday marking Space Command’s official establishment, or to be more precise, it’s re-establishment.