Ivanka Trump to promote women’s initiative in South America “Ivanka Trump will travel to South America in September to focus on issues that make it difficult for women in developing countries to prosper financially, including lack of access to credit and limits on employment,” Darlene Superville reports for The Associated Press. Ms. Trump plans to visit Paraguay and Argentina on her trip. The visit is part of an effort to promote the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, or W-GDP, “a program started six months ago, by focusing on three key areas: job training, financial assistance and encouraging legal and regulatory changes.” Her trip will serve as a chance to “advocate for laws and other changes that will allow women to access courts and other institutions, build credit, own and inherit property, travel freely and work the same jobs as men.” Click here to read more.

“When did it become acceptable for politicians, and their media helpers, to target private citizens for their political opinions? A pair of incidents this week revealed just how routine such bullying has become,” Karol Markowicz writes in the New York Post. “In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) released the names of a few dozen San Antonio residents who had donated to President Trump’s re-election campaign . . . Castro was apparently unconcerned by the prospect that these people — retirees and small-business owners — would be inevitably targeted for harassment.”

“Kentucky is receiving more than $9 million from a federal agency to help combat opioid addiction. Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the grant Thursday during a visit to Manchester, Kentucky,” the Courier-Journal reports. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says the money will help expand access to services dealing with substance use disorder and mental health problems . . . It says the awards will support a five-point opioid strategy introduced by President Donald Trump in 2017.”

“While a bilateral trade deal with China remains the ultimate goal, America doesn’t need to rush into an unbalanced agreement just for the sake of ending trade tensions. We’re in a far stronger position to wait out this negotiation than China,” former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder writes in Fox News. “A skilled negotiator like President Trump knows that you should never rush into a deal, even if the political benefits are compelling.”