Politics & World
Federal Judge Restores White House Press Access
A federal judge on Thursday directed the White House to give back press credentials to CNN, MS NOW and Politico, finding President Trump’s ban on the outlets likely unconstitutional.
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Press Access Restored, US-China Truce, and a Robot Dog Marathon
A federal judge restores White House press access, the US and China extend their trade truce, and a robot dog outruns the average human marathoner.
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Politics & World
U.S., China Extend Trade Truce as Xi Visits
Xi arrived in Washington to a rare tarmac greeting from Trump and the two sides agreed to extend the…
Sources: Reuters, BBC World, CNBC Top News
Business
30-Year Treasury Yield Hits Highest Since 2004
The 30-year Treasury yield climbed Thursday to its highest level since 2004, one day after the…
Sources: CNBC Top News, The Hill, Financial Times
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Roughly a quarter of Cuba’s population has left the island since 2020 in an ongoing mass exodus, according to a new Council on Foreign Relations analysis. The departures have transformed daily life across the island — the full story is in today’s In-Depth reads.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
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Worth a longer read
Where’s the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t
Why the much-hyped lab-grown-meat revolution never arrived, and what happened to the industry that promised it.
Harper's · Erin Somers
This Social Worker Was Supposed to Help Orphans Find Homes. Instead, She Abducted Children Who Already Had Families and Sold Them for Profit
How a social worker entrusted with finding homes for orphans instead abducted children from their families and sold them for profit.
Smithsonian
Inside Cuba’s Mass Exodus: How Losing a Quarter of the Population Has Changed the Island
How losing a quarter of its population to mass emigration has changed Cuba.
CFR
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 130th birthday — the ‘Great Gatsby’ author was born Sept. 24, 1896, and literary retrospectives are marking the date.
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New Yorkers can submit name suggestions for the otter spotted in the Bronx River — the first there in a century.
Etcetera
- Watch a robot dog run a marathon faster than the average human
- The Dunkin’-L.L. Bean sweater for your coffee cup that sparked a frenzy
- America’s 10 best ghost tours, ranked by people who actually took them
- The book Fitzgerald called his masterpiece — his readers strongly disagreed
- Venus may have devoured its own moon
- Stonehenge’s 6-ton altar stone may have hitched a ride on a glacier
- The ancient wall that could finally reveal where Paris was born
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On this day · September 24
The Historybook- 1789President George Washington signs the Judiciary Act, establishing the US Supreme Court
- 1869The ‘Black Friday’ gold panic sends Wall Street into chaos
- 1948Soichiro Honda founds the Honda Motor Company in Japan
- 1957President Eisenhower orders federal troops to Little Rock to enforce school desegregation
- 1960The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched
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Quote of the day
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘The Great Gatsby’ — the author was born on this day in 1896
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