Morning News Brief
The U.S. and Mexico reach an understanding to renegotiate NAFTA. There are primary elections in Arizona and Florida. And, a federal school safety commission holds its final public listening session.
Canadians Say Trade Fight Has Changed Their View Of The U.S.
After reaching a handshake agreement with Mexico to redo NAFTA, President Trump immediately sought to exert pressure on Canada to make concessions in any revised trade deal.
More Afghans Are Calling For Peace, Gen. John Nicholson Says
The war in Afghanistan is America’s longest. Rachel Martin talks to Gen. John Nicholson about his outlook for Afghanistan. Until Sept. 2, he is the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in the country.
Anti-Immigrant Protest Turns Violent In Eastern German City Of Chemnitz
The incident, with right-wing protesters, some thrusting Nazi salutes, as well as leftist counterprotesters, was triggered by the arrest of a Syrian and Iraqi man in connection with a fatal stabbing.
U.N. Human Rights Investigators Say Top Generals In Myanmar Should Be Tried For Genocide
A United Nations-mandated Fact-Finding Mission issued a scathing report documenting Myanmar security forces’ violence against the country’s ethnic Rohingya Muslim population last year.
Who made you an expert? Is America’s distrust of ‘elites’ becoming more toxic?
It often stands hand-in-hand with a reciprocal tradition of heroism for the self-made man who, armed with instinct, self-reliance, and force of will, forgoes the Ivy towers and makes a fortune through a more native creativity, unrestrained and unadulte…
McCain’s mutiny against war bitterness
To those who spent time with John McCain, his qualities of character are what will be remembered most. For his military service and as a prisoner of war from 1967 to 1973, he will always be viewed by Americans as heroic. Despite the years of torture …
The Kremlin pushes pension reform, but the Russian public pushes back
It is potentially the biggest political challenge for the Kremlin since 2005. It is probably the memory of those protests that has kept Russia from considering raising its pension ages for more than a dozen years. A law working its way through the St…
More Than 130 Guns Go Missing, Paraguay Police Say; Toy Replicas Left Behind
A cache of automatic rifles that were kept at a police station were found to have been replaced by replicas made of plastic and wood.
Pope Ends Visit To A Disillusioned Ireland, Where Church Authority Has Declined
As the pope departed for Rome Sunday night, his visit to Ireland only seemed to reinforce the decline of Roman Catholic authority in a country that was once synonymous with the faith.
Trump Announces Tentative Deal With Mexico On Revised NAFTA
President Trump says the U.S. has reached a tentative deal with Mexico on an updated version NAFTA. Negotiators from the two countries have been holed up for weeks.
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