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MADISON, Wis. — Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, a staunch supporter of President Trump who was on the cast of MTV’s ‘‘The Real World’’ before he went into politics, announced Monday that he is resigning from his Wisconsin congressional seat to spend more time with his family. Duffy, 47, posted on Facebook that he recently learned that his ninth child, who is due in October, has a heart condition and ‘‘will need even more love, time, and attention due to complications.’’ Duffy, who was on ‘‘The Real World: Boston’’ in 1997, plans to resign on Sept. 23.

JACUNDA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil — Brazil insisted on Tuesday that it would set conditions for accepting any aid from the world’s richest nations to help fight Amazon fires, saying France couldn’t protect the Notre Dame Cathedral from fire devastation and should focus on its own problems. The increasingly personal feud between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and French leader Emmanuel Macron threatened to derail a pledge of tens of millions of dollars by the Group of Seven nations for the Amazon region. Brazil has bristled over what it views as neo-colonial in

NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, 16 of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers stood before a judge and poured out their anger toward the financier Tuesday, taking advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to be heard in court after his jailhouse suicide denied them to chance to testify against him at his sex-trafficking trial. ‘‘He robbed me of my dreams, of my chance to pursue a career I adored,’’ said Jennifer Araoz, who has accused Epstein of raping her in his New York mansion when she was a 15-year-old aspiring actress. ‘‘The fact I will never have a chance to face my predat

President Trump on Tuesday blamed ‘‘Radical Left Democrats’’ for spreading a ‘‘false and nasty rumor’’ about a bedbug infestation at his golf resort in Doral, Florida, after he said he would like to hold next year’s Group of Seven summit at the property. ‘‘No bedbugs at Doral,’’ Trump wrote in a midmorning tweet. ‘‘The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor.

Deutsche Bank AG confirmed that it has tax returns requested by US lawmakers seeking financial information for President Trump and his family. Whose returns are those? That’s still a secret. The disclosure was made in a letter filed Tuesday by the bank in response to a question from an appeals court last week. The panel is considering a request from Trump to block access to financial records at Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp. that have been subpoened by House Democrats.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee filed a motion Monday to expedite the panel’s lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against former White House counselor Don McGahn. In the new court filings, Democratic counsels argue their investigation, which they say is a time-sensitive matter because their probe expires in early January, is being severely delayed as a result of the White House blocking McGahn’s testimony.  "McGahn’s refusal to testify harms the Judiciary Committee by depriving it of a witness and information that are essential to its investigation, thereby impeding the Judiciary

MORE stepped into another controversy of his own making Monday by suggesting the U.S. could host world leaders at his golf resort outside Miami for next year's Group of Seven (G-7) summit. If Trump were to make his resort the meeting venue, his critics argue it would be another clear violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting payments from foreign countries, U.S. states or the federal government. “This is a president who has converted the presidency into an instrument of enrichment from day one.

MORE brought his tumultuous style of governing to the world stage over the weekend, offering a steady stream of vacillating statements that kept world leaders on their toes and generally dominated the Group of Seven (G-7) summit. Before he even took off for France, Trump had triggered a stock sell-off on the eve of the summit, set to focus on the global economy, by pledging to impose higher tariffs on China. Two days later, he suggested he regretted escalating trade war. Hours after that, the White House said he regretted not imposing higher tariffs.

MORE's electability argument is increasingly showing signs of weakness. A Monmouth University national poll released Monday found Biden falling by 13 points and in a three-way tie nationally with Sens. MORE (I-Vt.).