Category: News

Top Stories:
ISIS loses all territory along Syria-Turkey border

More than 100 injured in alleged Aleppo chlorine attack

World News:

• Paris terror arrest after gas tanks found in Notre Dame car
• Floods kill 60, displace 44,000 in North Korea, says UN
• Syrians begin returning home, two weeks into Turkish offensive
• France is getting ready to roll out the big guns against ISIS in Mosul
• Philippines confronting China with photos of Chinese ships in disputed sea
• Mexican finance minister Videgaray stepping down after inviting Trump
• Saudi-Iran war of words escalates over Hajj row
• Prosecutor: ‘I saw no reason to give Assange special treatment’
• Merkel Rejects ‘Easy Answers’ in Slap at Populist Take on Crises
• Britain to build 13ft high wall in Calais to block refugees from entering the UK

United States News:

• 500 homicides. 9 months. 1 American city.
• Industry Insiders Estimate EpiPen Costs No More Than $30
• Minnesotans at the North Dakota pipeline protest faced attack dogs, mace
• U.S. Green Party’s Stein faces probe over North Dakota pipeline protest
• Obama Nominates First Muslim To The Federal Bench
• Phyllis Schlafly’s ironic feminist legacy
• AT&T uses loophole to deny low-income internet discounts
• Bronx man who killed wife’s would-be rapist walks free as DA drops all charges
• Last Orlando Shooting Survivor Discharged From Hospital
• Tesla Autopilot drove a man with a blood clot to the hospital

Top Story:
Islam Karimov: Uzbekistan faces questions after leader’s death

Afghan Forces Kill 3 Gunmen in Deadly Siege

World News:

• Gabon’s Justice Minister Resigns, Says Vote Recount Needed
• Islamic State bans burka in northern Iraq after veiled woman kills 2 jihadists
• Hurricane Newton Smashes Into Mexico’s Luxury Resort Area of Los Cabos
• Black Lives Matter protesters close London City Airport runway
• UK: Anjem Choudary jailed for encouraging ISIL support
• Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world
• Paris to open its first urban refugee camps this year
• Number of migrants claiming benefits in Germany surges by 169 percent
• Japan will lend the Philippines ships and planes for its sea dispute with China
• Obama announces $90 million to clear Laos’ unexploded bombs

United States News:

• Poll: Nine weeks out, a near even race
• Obama cancels meeting with Philippines president after crude comments
• Fox settles with Gretchen Carlson for $20 million, offers apology
• The NSA’s British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing
• Amazon, Google, Apple… Fox News join Microsoft in US gag orders fight
• Congress returns, but Zika funding is still far away
• Video Appears To Show Tourists Destroying Popular Oregon Rock Formation
• Brock Turner registers as sex offender for Stanford assault
• ITT Tech shuts down all its schools
• Nearly 27 Years After Abduction, Jacob Wetterling’s Remains Have Been Found

Top Story:
North Korea fires three ballistic missiles; China opposes THAAD

World News:

• Afghan blasts: Twin Kabul explosions ‘kill 24 people’
• Wave of Bombings in Syria Claimed by IS Kill at Least 48
• Obama: ‘Gaps of trust’ preventing Syria cease-fire
• Philippines president to Obama: ‘I’m no American puppet’
• Isis ‘cut off from rest of world’ as rebels expel Islamists from Turkish border
• 2 Killed, at Least 5 Trapped in Wreckage of Tel Aviv Construction Collapse
• German anti-immigrant party beats Merkel in her home district
• Brexit: Ignoring Leave vote would be outrage MPs told
• Satellite owner says SpaceX owes $50 million or free flight
• Giant pandas rebound off endangered list

United States News:

• US beekeepers fear for livelihoods as anti-Zika toxin kills 2.5m bees
• Poll: Amid Zika fears, support for funding
• Obama: Kaepernick ‘exercising his constitutional right to make a statement’
• Trump cuts into Clinton’s lead as crucial stretch begins
• Donald Trump Will Not Debate Hillary, if Gary Johnson not Allowed to Participate
• EpiPen alternative costs pennies in Mexico
• Family remembers boy killed by alligator at Disney World
• Emergency response triggered at US school after forty students eat one of the world’s hottest peppers
• Arizona joins four other states voting on recreational marijuana in November
• Medical marijuana just became more accessible to US scientists

Top Story:
Samsung Recalling Millions of Note 7 Phones Over Battery Fires

Deadly Hermine Wallops Florida, Knocks Out Power to 250K

United States News:

• Student missing for 12 years was ‘kidnapped to teach English to Kim Jong-un’
• Putin on DNC leak: ‘Does it even matter who hacked this data?’
• Leaked Catalogue Reveals a Vast Array Of Military Spy Gear Offered to U.S. Police
• Moderators Chosen, Presidential Debates Set
• Hacker Guccifer (1.0), who exposed Clinton’s use of private e-mail, gets 52 months
• Chicago official gets 10 years for role in dirty red light camera deal
• Brock Turner leaves jail; early release in Stanford sex case
• Judge Says Tesla Can’t Sell Directly to Missouri Customers
• FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed From Consumer Soaps
• Shirtless man fires corncobs at neighbor’s house using potato gun

World News:

• Turkey pushes west in offensive against Islamic State in Syria
• Gabon Streets Deserted, Tensions High After Election Protests
• Venezuela protests: The ‘Caracas takeover’ explained
• Uzbek President Karimov has died: diplomatic sources
• Canadian women Instagram elaborate trip before Australia drug arrest
• Hanjin ships, cargo and sailors stranded at sea
• Didi-Uber Deal Draws Probe by China’s Antitrust Watchdog
• Poll: British public heavily in favour of burqa ban
• Asia Is a Growth Market for Military Aircraft
• Saudi women launch Twitter campaign demanding end to male guardianship
• G20: Questions for Theresa May over UK’s global role

Top Story:
Bill Clinton aides used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email support

United States News:

• SpaceX explosion occurred during rocket-engine test
• Hermine forecast to hit Florida as a hurricane
• Trump says people in US illegally must leave
• Poll: Clinton ahead of Trump by 7 in Pennsylvania
• John Hinckley to live full-time in Virginia beginning Sept. 10
• Woman sues Albuquerque for seizing car despite ban on civil asset forfeiture
• Arizona Supreme Court says legal marijuana measure on ballot
• Iowa Approves Massive Wind Farm Amid Utility’s Push for 100 Percent Renewable Energy
• Beekeepers devastated on loss of bees after mosquito aerial spray
• ‘Harambe’ swamps Zoo’s gorilla naming competition

World News:

• Jets bomb Syrian rebels as they wage big attack in Hama province
• Turkey’s Jarablus operation scorecard
• Violence Grips Gabon After Closest-Ever Presidential Vote
• Brazil’s Rousseff loses palace, but life goes on
• Ahead of Massive Protest March, Venezuela Opposition Demands Change
• Europe migrant crisis: Italy, Germany signal tougher stance on asylum seekers
• IMF urges G20 leaders to boost demand, make case for trade
• Chinese dissidents urge Obama to press Xi Jinping on human rights at G20
• Medicinal cannabis to be legalised in Australia from November
• ‘I only want to die’: 145-year-old Indonesian may be the oldest person on earth

Top Stories:
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Impeached

Trump to make surprise trip to Mexico after harsh criticism

United States News:

• US, Russia claim credit as IS spokesman killed in Syria
• State of emergency declared in Fla. as depression nears
• Poll: Clinton just as unpopular as Trump with voters
• FBI recovers 30 deleted Clinton emails involving Benghazi attack
• First U.S. commercial flight in 5 decades lands in Cuba
• How Apple—and the Rest of Silicon Valley—Avoids the Tax Man
• Senate Dem PAC delaying Ohio ads
• Aurora massacre survivors end up owing theater $700K after suing
• Ex-FBI agent who stole drug money to buy cars and plastic surgery for his wife is sentenced
• Pa. corrections officer charged in death of K-9 left in hot car

World News:

• At least nine dead as Typhoon Lionrock pummels Japan
• Somalia: Deaths as car bomb explodes in Mogadishu
• Merkel says mistakes made in Germany, EU concerning refugees
• Turkey denies truce with Syrian Kurdish militia
• French PM suggests naked breasts represent France better than a headscarf
• Beijing bans entertainment news that promotes Western lifestyles
• Brazil’s economy shrinks for 6th quarter but signals recovery
• Cocaine ‘worth €50m’ discovered at Coca-Cola plant
• There are far fewer African elephants than we thought, study shows
• Costa Rica celebrates 113 days of 100-percent renewable energy

Top Story:
EU orders Apple to pay up to €13 billion in taxes

United States News

• Storm watch: Florida, South Carolina, Hawaii, Japan
• FBI Chief Responds to Concern Over Cyber Threats to US Election System
• Rich Democrats surge past GOP in political giving
• 225+ heroin overdoses in 4 counties in 4 states in 1 week
• 40 Virginia Cases of Hepatitis A Now Linked to Smoothies
• Woman shoots drone: “It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.”
• McCain, Rubio, Wasserman-Schultz face Tuesday primary test
• LePage says he is considering resignation, apologizes
• Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
• Nearly 10,000 workers sue Chipotle for unpaid wages

World News

• Turkish tank hit near Syria’s Jarablus, three soldiers wounded: military
• One dead, 3 wounded in suicide blast at Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan
• Newborn twins among 6,500 migrants rescued from Mediterranean
• France wants EU-US trade talks stopped
• Rousseff should be judged for crisis in Brazil, accuser says
• Kim Has Officials Killed by Anti-Aircraft Gun, Paper Says
• Australia: Victoria to permanently ban fracking and coal seam gas exploration
• Judge: Kim Dotcom can livestream legal fight against the US
• Europe’s net neutrality guidelines seen as a victory for the open web
• Controversial Saudi school in Bonn to close

Top Stories:
ISIS attack kills dozens in Yemen’s Aden

Active Shooter Report Delays Flights, Spreads Alarm at LAX

United States News

• FBI Investigating Hacking of Election Boards in Two States
• Huma Abedin Announces Separation from Husband Anthony Weiner
• Clinton questions Trump’s doctor letter
• Trump supporters defend candidate over immigration, campaign staff controversy
• Tropical depressions take aim at East, Gulf Coasts; hurricane nears Hawaii
• An Exploding Truck Full of Takata Airbag Parts Killed a Woman in Texas
• NJ Transit Cop Drags Man From Tracks Seconds Before Arriving Train
• Deaths from Fentanyl, Drug That Killed Prince, Rise Sharply
• Mylan to launch generic EpiPen at half the price of original
• Chicago cops arrest suspects in murder of Dwyane Wade’s cousin

World News

• Syrian child ‘treated with mud’ for severe burn wounds
• Turkish forces deepen push into Syria, draw U.S. rebuke over their target
• Russian journalist critical of Vladimir Putin found dead on his birthday with gunshot wound to his head
• UK must pay for Brexit or EU is in ‘deep trouble’, says German minister
• Keep mafia out of Italy earthquake rebuild, warns prosecutor
• ‘I should have used both hands’: German minister defends giving neo-Nazi protesters the finger
• President Dilma Rousseff takes stand in Brazil impeachment trial
• Permanent Cease-Fire Takes Effect in Colombia After 52 Years
• As Beijing aims for blue skies over G20, China’s steel mills get unexpected boost
• 323 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway

Top Stories
Deadly bomb attack hits police HQ in southeast Turkey
Syria Darayya: Evacuation of siege town begins

United States News

• US urges action over ‘Syrian chemical attacks’
• Yellen Says Rate-Hike Case ‘Strengthened in Recent Months’
• Clinton tries to stop Trump, mid-pivot, by tying him to ‘alt-right’
• Donald Trump: The Clintons are the “real predators”
• 20 Parishes, More than 60K Homes Impacted by Louisiana Flooding
• War of words hots up between US and EU over tax avoidance
• All U.S. Blood Donations Should Be Screened For Zika, FDA Says
• EpiPen Maker Also Hiked Prices on a Slew of Other Medications
• Yellowstone tourists see smoke, detour but still the sights
• Dollar stores can’t keep up with Wal-Mart, shares fall

World News

• Death toll in Somalia beach restaurant attack rises to 10
• Italy earthquake: Rescuer describes joy of pulling girl alive from rubble
• In Bolivia, Striking Miners Kidnap And Kill High-Level Minister
• Outrage after fake ‘IS’ attack staged in Prague
• France’s highest court suspends burkini ban in test case
• 3 dead after crossbow attack in Toronto
• Turkey opens bridge between continents in megaproject drive
• N. Korean troops slip into China, butcher donkey, flee with meat
• Hell and High Water: How climate change is forcing a nation to flee
• Finland planning to test the effects of paying a basic income

Top Story
Italy earthquake: Death toll passes 240 as rescue efforts continue

Aftershocks hamper rescue efforts

United States News

• American University of Afghanistan Attack: 14 Killed in Kabul
• The U.S. Wildfire Threatening a State Treasure
• 8 tornadoes carved through Indiana, thousands in Kokomo without power
• Clinton on foundation attacks: ‘I know there’s a lot of smoke, and there’s no fire’
• In Stunning Reversal, Trump Suggests He’d ‘Work With’ Immigrants In U.S. Illegally
• Senator’s daughter who raised price of EpiPen got $19 million salary, perks in 2015
• Usaamah Rahim shooting by police yields no charges
• U.S. prosecutors dealt setback in medical marijuana cases
• After A Hundred Years of the Park Service, What’s Next?
• University of Chicago rejects political correctness and ‘intellectual safe spaces’: report

World News

• Russia to work with US on response to Syria gas attacks probe
• Turkish Tanks Roll into Syria with US Air Support
• Iraq army captures Qayyara oil region from IS, Abadi says
• Without aid, 49,000 children will die this year in northeast Nigeria: U.N.
• Colombians celebrate as peace deal is reached with Farc rebels
• Australia Backpacker Murder: French National Charged With Killing Mia Ayliffe-Chung
• Germany’s anti-immigration AfD party gaining allegiance
• Is the South China Sea fracturing ASEAN?
• Myanmar President Assesses Quake Damage to Bagan Temples
• Driver Playing Pokémon Go Kills Pedestrian In Japan