Fighting the Amazon fires, DNC rejects climate change debate, manufacturing is not coming back
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Brazil's president is sending the military to fight fires in the Amazon, as protests grow worldwide
Since his election, Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has worked to loosen environmental regulations and open up vast swaths of the Amazon rainforest to industry. Now, large stretches of the rainforest are on fire.
Bolsonaro, faced with protests at Brazil's embassies around the world and the threat of economic pressure from other nations, pledged to send the military fight the fires that have ravaged the Amazon.
"I have a profound love and respect for the Amazon," Bolsonaro said in a televised address that was light on details. The speech marked a departure — before this, he mostly played down the crisis.
Opening up the rainforest to the mining and logging industries has been one of Bolsonaro's signature policies. This month, he fired the head of an agency which had revealed some 1,330 square miles of forest had been lost since he took office — up 39% over the same period last year.
STAYING ON TOP OF THIS The DNC voted against having a climate debate, despite top candidates supporting the idea
Democratic National Committee members voted 222 to 137 to reject a plan that would've let the party's presidential candidates hold a debate dedicated solely to climate change.
The Democratic presidential field has largely endorsed the climate debate idea, including top polling candidates Joe Biden and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Still, despite candidate support and growing pressure from climate activists nationwide, the DNC rejected the plan.
Sarah Silbiger / Getty Images SNAPSHOTS Billionaire David Koch, who shaped modern conservative politics, has died. The Koch brothers — David and his brother Charlie — have together given hundreds of millions to political candidates and policy-focused groups to advance their libertarian strain of conservatism. Koch was 79. Read about his influence on modern day conservatism.
A North Carolina cop said he was fired for following the "Billy Graham rule." Manuel Torres, 51, is suing Lee County Sheriff Tracy Lynn Carter, claiming he faced religious discrimination. Torres was ordered to train a woman deputy in 2017 but refused, and said his Christian beliefs prohibit him spending time alone with a woman officer because she wasn't his wife.
A Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy will lose his job after faking a sniper attack. Deputy Angel Reynosa reported he'd been shot at by an unseen attacker from a nearby apartment complex — sparking a manhunt in northern Los Angeles. Authorities said Reynosa's story was "completely fabricated" and he will lose his job.
Tom Holland spoke out about the news of Spider-Man leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At Disney's D23 expo, Holland was there to promote an upcoming Pixar film. He addressed the elephant in the room: "Listen, it's been a crazy week," he told the audience, "but I want you to know that I'm grateful from the bottom of my heart, and I love you 3000."
 CAN YOU EVER GO HOME AGAIN Trump ordered US companies to leave China and come back "home." They aren't.
In the latest turn of the escalating trade war with China, President Donald Trump "ordered" American companies to find alternatives to manufacturing in China, including "bring your companies HOME."
In tying his credibility to the return of manufacturing to the US, President Trump has a few problems: companies are not planning on relocating to the US. Nor can the president "order" such a return. Most notably, the US companies that plan on leaving China are headed for countries like Vietnam.
As labor costs rise in China rise, the manufacturing exodus has been a long time coming. Leticia Miranda explains why the escalating tariffs might speed up the process of some companies leaving China — and why those jobs are not coming to the US.
KEEPING TABS ON TRASH This Japanese woman started an Instagram account documenting the trash her husband leaves around the house and it's iconic
Are you a messy person? If so, you're going to both like and absolutely hate this.
A woman in Japan gained more than 450,000 Instagram followers simply for sharing the stuff her husband keeps leaving randomly around the house. The account, @gomi_sutero, which means "throw away your trash" in Japanese, documents the trash with captions telling him to stop leaving messes.
She told us that despite the large following, her husband is not yet aware of the account, and if he finds out, "I think he will laugh a lot." It looks like this:
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