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For 100 years the National Park Service has kept faith with this saying, preserving our treasured public lands for us and future generations. These stunning natural wonders support countless jobs, inform our national spirit, and provide us all a place of spiritual refuge.
The week in editorial cartoons reflected doings in the presidential campaign, plus Olympics fallout, Louisiana flood mop-up and the EpiPen controversy . Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton continues to be dogged by questions about her private emails, which show how her work as Secretary of State intersected with donors to her husband's foundation.
As Donald Trump surrogates peddle their " Hillary Clinton is dying " narrative, rarely a day passes without doctors offering opinions on Clinton's health despite lacking access to a single medical record. This parade of quackery is led by Dr. Jane Orient , who declares Clinton "medically unfit to serve," even though her judgment is based on photos .
In her Aug. 17 letter "We can't let Clinton appoint judges," Dorothy Hunter pointed out that " Supreme Court justices a are nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, as stated in the U.S. Constitution." A partial solution would be for the Senate to do its duty and take up President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, who holds the record for undergoing the longest refusal of the Senate to act on a Supreme Court nomination.
DONALD TRUMP called Hillary Clinton a bigot. Clinton unveiled a new campaign ad suggesting if Trump is elected, white supremacists might run the White House.
We got revised GDP numbers from the Commerce Department on Friday and the economy actually did slightly WORSE than originally estimated. Growth was 1.1 percent in the second quarter of this year and less than 1 percent for the first six months of 2016.
Some defense analysts have warned the U.S. Navy is not capable of dealing with all the ocean-borne threats in our modern world. This week, North Korea provided a reminder of how the naval power situation is changing.
More than 20 years before he took over Trump's presidential campaign, media executive Stephen K. Bannon was the investment banker hired to rescue Fort Worth philanthropist Ed Bass's Biosphere 2 environmental research project. It was Bannon who ousted the original residents of the 3-acre Arizona laboratory as dysfunctional and reshaped the project from - his words - a "space colonization" test to what is now a University of Arizona science program.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. (Loren Elliott/The Tampa Bay Times via AP)
'CRITICS ARE GOING TO BE CRITICS': Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts as she is introduced at a Pennsylvania Democratic Party voter registration event at West Philadelphia High School in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
With all the attention being paid to the Clinton Foundation, a much bigger and more troubling story about Hillary Clinton is largely being ignored - a dramatic and potentially damaging shift on trade. Last October, when Clinton signaled her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, the Democratic presidential candidate said that while the version of the TPP negotiated by the Obama administration fell short, she still believed "in the goal of a strong and fair trade agreement in the Pacific as part of a broader strategy both at home and abroad."
The late United States President Ronald Reagan articulated the concept of America as the shining city on a hill. The current election campaign is showing America to be anything but that.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to New Delhi to attend the second India-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, the State Department announced on Wednesday. "On August 29-31, Secretary Kerry will travel to New Delhi, India, for meetings with senior Indian officials," the State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau said.
The beauty of sports and politics is that you never really know how things are going to shake out. Sometimes Truman beats Dewey ; sometimes Douglas beats Tyson .