Hard-Liners in Iran See No Drawback to Bellicose StrategyThe New York Times - David D. Kirkpatrick and Farnaz Fassihi
Trump: Cities ‘destroy themselves’ with homelessness amid protests in CaliforniaLos Angeles Times - Benjamin Oreskes
Edward Snowden says he would like to return to the US if he is guaranteed a fair trialCNN - By Devan Cole, CNN
News (U.S.) Trump immigration officials defend tent courts, saying they’ll speed up asylum processLos Angeles Times - Molly Hennessy-FiskeThe new immigration tent court in this border city feels more like a detention center: barbed wire chain-link fence, metal detectors, security cameras and uniformed guards. Asylum cases can take years,
FBI FBI seeking help identifying a bank robber dressed as a mummyCNN - By Amanda Jackson and Pierre Meilhan, CNN(CNN) — Authorities in Texas are on the search for a bank robber they have dubbed the "Mummy Marauder." The robbery took place on Friday the 13th at the First Convenience Bank in Harris County. The FBI
News Sanders and Biden battle over health care for union workers as UAW strikesCNN - By Ryan Nobles, CNNPHILADELPHIA (CNN) — With United Auto Workers still patrolling the picket lines in their strike against General Motors, presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden spent Tuesday drawing sharp
News Prosecutors Disclose Taped Confession in 9/11 CaseThe New York Times - Carol RosenbergThis article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One of the accused conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was secretly recorded at Guantánamo
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter says he couldn't have managed presidency at 80Associated Press - By BILL BARROW, Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — Weeks shy of his 95th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he doesn't believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world at 80 years old. Carter, who earlier
Greta Thunberg Teen activist to lawmakers: Try harder on climate changeAssociated Press - By MATTHEW DALY, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg offered a blunt message to Congress on Tuesday as she brought her campaign for urgent action on climate change to the U.S. Capitol. "I know you're trying,"
U.S. Politics Pentagon halts 3 planned border projects over lack of fundingAxios - Orion Rummler The Defense Department halted 3 planned "border barrier" construction projects on Sept. 13 after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) determined …
News A father was arrested when his 11-year-old son was killed after falling from a boat in CaliforniaCNN - By Nicole Chavez and Stella Chan, CNN(CNN) — A California father was arrested after his 11-year-old son was killed during a boating trip in the San Francisco Bay, police say. Javier A. Burillo, 57, of Belvedere was booked into the Marin Jail
News Ocean Viking charity vessel rescues 109 migrants in MediterraneanDW News - DW English The charity vessel's mission continued, as a second operation brought the total number of people rescued to more than 100. The boat is one of many …
Myanmar Nobel Peace Laureate Could Face Prosecution Over Myanmar Military’s ActionsThe New York Times - Nick Cumming-BruceGENEVA — Myanmar’s civilian leader, a Nobel laureate once extolled as a champion of democracy, could face prosecution for crimes against humanity because of the military’s attacks on Rohingya Muslims other
Bermuda Hurricane Humberto is a Category 3 storm as it rumbles toward BermudaCNN - By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist(CNN) — Hurricane Humberto continues to strengthen and has become a major hurricane as it moves away from the United States toward Bermuda. With maximum sustained wind speeds of up to 115 mph -- and up
Andrew Yang At Philadelphia rally, Andrew Yang casts himself as underdogAssociated Press - By JUANA SUMMERS, Associated PressPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur-turned-presidential candidate, jogged onto the Philadelphia Art Museum steps made famous by Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky" on Tuesday, fully embracing underdog
Maps In North Carolina, New Political Maps Don’t End Old DisputesThe New York Times - Michael WinesWhen a North Carolina state court struck down the state’s legislative political maps nearly two weeks ago, it said the maps had been drawn “with surgical precision” to keep Republicans in control of both
News Baby in Stroller Killed by Car With ‘Possibly Intoxicated’ DriverThe New York Times - By ED SHANAHAN and SEAN PICCOLIA 1-year-old boy was killed on Tuesday when a driver, “possibly intoxicated,” lost control of his car in the Bronx, jumped a curb and hit the child, who was being pushed in a stroller by his mother, the
Adam Schiff Schiff: Top intel official has refused to turn over 'urgent' whistleblower complaintPOLITICO - By KYLE CHENEYThe nation's top intelligence official has refused to comply with a House Intelligence Committee subpoena to provide the contents of a whistleblower complaint that a government watchdog deemed "urgent"
News Charges Against Another Parent Revealed in the College Admissions ScandalThe New York Times - Kate TaylorCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Prosecutors unsealed charges on Tuesday against a woman who they said had paid a consultant $400,000 to get her son admitted to the University of California, Los Angeles, as a recruit
Obama Foundation Obama meets with teen climate activist Greta Thunberg: 'You and me, we're a team'CNN - By Paul LeBlanc, CNNWashington (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Monday met with Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as part of her visit to Washington, DC, to promote environmental issues. "Just 16, @GretaThunberg
News Explosion rocks Soviet-era laboratory housing smallpox and Ebola samplesABC News - Tanya Stukalova A gas explosion shook a Soviet-era biological weapons lab in Siberia that houses samples of Ebola and smallpox on Monday. At least one employee was …
News US police agencies having trouble hiring, keeping officers, according to a new surveyABC News - Luke Barr Police agencies across the country are having trouble keeping and hiring police officers, according to a new survey obtained by ABC News. Produced by …
News Dutch men who wanted Area 51 video get jail for trespassAssociated Press - By KEN RITTERLAS VEGAS (AP) — Two Dutch tourists who told authorities they wanted to take video of Area 51 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespass and illegal parking following their arrests at a different secure
Elections in IsraelIsraelis voted in the national election for the second time this year after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government in April. This election is seen as a referendum on Israel's youngest and longest-serving leader. Is Bibi's spell broken? What do the exit polls say? What's at stake in these elections? All your questions answered here.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Foundation Says World Not On Track To Meet Goal Of Ending Poverty By 2030NPR - Nurith AizenmanIn 2015 the world's leaders committed to a sweeping set of targets to lift the world's poorest citizens into a decent life by 2030. Four years later, it's clear that the world is nowhere near on track
News Florida Judge Denies Bid by Epstein Victims to Nullify Non-Prosecution DealThe New York Times - Patricia Mazzei and Mike BakerMIAMI — The suicide of Jeffrey E. Epstein in a New York jail last month has rendered moot the attempts by his victims to invalidate a 12-year-old agreement not to prosecute him on federal charges in connection
News Scientists step closer to cure for common cold: What you need to knowABC News - Kelly McCarthy Scientists in California believe they may be on the brink of a medical breakthrough for the common cold. Research teams at Stanford University and the …
News A Nation's Tense Debate Over How To Fight A Culture Of RapeNPR - Mara Kardas-NelsonThe young girl walks so fast that the sleeves of her sparkly black dress and untucked portions of her blue headscarf billow behind her. As she makes her way to the front of the High Court of Kono, an district
News Veteran television newsman Sander Vanocur dies at 91Associated Press - By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) — Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil rights movement, has died, his
Japan South Korea removes Japan from fast-track trade 'white list'Reuters - by Heekyong YangSEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Wednesday it had approved plans to drop Japan from its "white list" of countries with fast track trade status, responding with a tit-for-tat move that intensifies
News Merriam-Webster adds the nonbinary pronoun 'they' to its dictionaryCNN - By Kendall Trammell, CNN(CNN) — Merriam-Webster has officially added the nonbinary pronoun "they" as an entry in its dictionary. Merriam-Webster announced Tuesday that the word "they" can be used to refer to a single person gender
News Judge Resigns After Posting Image of Noose and Trump SloganThe New York Times - By SHARON OTTERMAN[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Kyle R. Canning became a judge in the rural town of Altona, N.Y., in January 2018. Six weeks later, he posted an image of a in
News 'Take care of it': North Carolina sheriff wanted ex-deputy with dirt on him killed, indictment saysCNN - By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Tina Burnside(CNN) — A grand jury has indicted the sitting Granville County, North Carolina, sheriff on two felony obstruction of justice charges, alleging the lawman ignored and encouraged a plot to kill one of deputies,
