Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Schumer in talks with McConnell as shutdown fears grow: ‘We may now have to go first’ (www.cnn.com)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN that his chamber might have to take matters in its own hands and push through a must-pass bill to fund the government amid deep divisions in the House and a looming shutdown by next weekend....
McDonald’s once again sued after customer burns herself on hot coffee (www.cnn.com)
McDonald’s is being sued over a hot coffee spill, again....
China #MeToo journalist and labor activist expected to appear in secret trial as crackdown deepens (www.cnn.com)
Two Chinese activists held without trial for the past two years are expected to appear before a judge in a closed doors hearing on Friday as the ruling Communist Party ramps up its effort to dismantle what remains of the country’s civil society....
Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists (www.cnn.com)
A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world’s lingua franca in the country’s education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping....
More military personnel head to the US-Mexico border as officials describe an increase in migrant crossings (www.cnn.com)
The Defense Department is ramping up resources at the US-Mexico border as officials describe a surge in border crossings in places including Eagle Pass, Texas, where the mayor has declared a state of emergency....
Electric vehicle jobs are booming in the anti-union South. UAW is worried (www.cnn.com)
Looming over the United Auto Workers strike: Automakers’ continued migration to the anti-union South....
Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US (www.cnn.com)
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades....
He was investigated for sexting a student at the Coast Guard Academy. He’s now a college president. (www.cnn.com)
A college president, who wants his campus to become the business school “of choice for women,” once exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student he taught at the prestigious Coast Guard Academy, prompting prosecutors to recommend charges against him in military court, according to confidential records...
Studios and striking writers end ‘marathon session’ of negotiating with no deal (www.cnn.com)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/media/writers-strike-negotiations/index.html
India suspends visas for Canadian nationals as diplomatic spat deepens (www.cnn.com)
Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp. chairman (www.cnn.com)
Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp. chairman (www.cnn.com)
Biden administration announces relief for Venezuelans in the US, likely appeasing New York City officials (www.cnn.com)
The Biden administration announced Wednesday the expansion of a form of humanitarian relief to Venezuelans already in the United States, making hundreds of thousands more people eligible for work permits and likely appeasing calls by New York City officials to provide work authorization to certain migrants....
South Korea says it ‘will not stand idly by’ if North Korea receives Russian help on nuclear weapons (www.cnn.com)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol warned on Wednesday that his country and its allies “will not stand idly by” if North Korea receives Russian help to boost its weapons of mass destruction – just days after the leaders of the two nuclear-armed nations held a closely watched summit....
Person in car with license plate allegedly connected to suspect in Illinois killings dies after trying to elude police, authorities say (www.cnn.com)
A person inside a car with a license plate allegedly connected to the shooting deaths of a family of four in their Illinois home last weekend died Wednesday after trying to elude police in Oklahoma, officials said....
Black Texas student given additional suspension for loc hairstyle (www.cnn.com)
A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN....
Attorney for Alabama band director arrested after football game says tasing was unacceptable and left students traumatized (www.cnn.com)
The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized....
Polish President Duda: Defeating Russia in Ukraine war is the only ‘guarantee of peace’ (www.cnn.com)
https://archive.ph/zZXI7...
Azerbaijan launches operation against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh (www.cnn.com)
At least 32 people have been killed and 200 others wounded in a military operation by Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to an official in Armenian-controlled territory there....
Another country has called Xi a ‘dictator’ and China is not happy with that description (www.cnn.com)
China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas....
An anti-affirmative action group is suing the US Military Academy at West Point over race-based admissions policies | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The Republican Party infighting is driving America toward a government shutdown (www.cnn.com)
The Republican Party’s war on itself has turned its inoperative House majority into a “clown show” and a “dysfunction caucus” and is handing wins to the Chinese Communist Party – and that’s just what some of its own members say about it....
Family of four shot dead at home, rattling quiet Illinois neighborhood, ‘not a random incident,’ according to police (www.cnn.com)
Police in a quiet community outside Chicago who are investigating the shooting deaths of a family of four, including two children, in their home Sunday night say it wasn’t a random incident....
Five Americans back on US soil after release from Iranian detention (www.cnn.com)
Five Americans freed from Iranian detention this week returned to US soil early Tuesday following an initial stop in Doha, Qatar, two US officials told CNN....
