The Last 100 Days: Obama in China edition

President Obama attends a press conference in November 2014 in Beijing, China. Ever since the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, presidents have been judged on the successes they notch during their first 100 days. Now, as Barack Obama prepares to end his historic turn on the political stage, Yahoo News is launching The Last 100 Days, a look at what Obama achieved during his consequential presidency, how he navigates the struggles of his final months in office and what lies ahead for him after eight years filled with firsts.

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  Obama plans to call on China to exercise restraint

  CNN
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  Obama urges China's Xi to respect the South China Sea ruling

  Newsweek

Watch These Self-Driving Drone Tractors Redefine Farming

In what could be one of the biggest steps towards once again redefining the nation's farming industry in decades, massive agricultural equipment manufacturing group CNH Industrial showed off a pair of self-driving tractors to the public earlier this week. CNH Industrial brought its self-driving Case IH Magnum and New Holland T8 NHDrive tractors to the 2016 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

• Autonomous tractors could turn farming into a desk job

  ZDNet
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  Tractor for modern farm features everything but the farmer

  Chicago Tribune

Woman Crushed To Death In Horse Show As Mother Watches in Horror

Becca Weissbard, 22, was thrown from her horse and the animal fell on top of her during a show in Saugerties on Wednesday. The crowd, including Weissbard's mother, watched in horror as the young gold medalist was crushed to death.

Dwyane Wade mourns cousin, urges tougher gun laws in Chicago

Dwyane Wade has lashed out against Chicago's gun laws, calling them weak and saying he's urged officials in his hometown to enact changes to make the city safer. The Chicago Bulls star, whose cousin was shot dead last week, also said his children are afraid of police officers in the same way he was growing up and that prisons need to better rehabilitate inmates. Wade added that he was left with "a bad taste" in his mouth when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted about his cousin's murder.

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  Dwyane Wade Remembers ‘Quiet’ Cousin Nykea Aldridge, Aims for Purpose 'Bigger Than Basketball' With Return to Chicago

  Good Morning America
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  Chicago overwhelmed by gun violence, priest says

  CNN

Georgetown University apologizes for slavery past

By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Georgetown University apologized on Thursday for its historical links to slavery and said it would give an admissions edge to descendants of slaves whose sale in the 19th century helped pay off the U.S. school's debts. The Washington-based university, run by the Roman Catholic Jesuit order, will create an institute to study the history of slavery at the school. "This original evil that shaped the early years of the republic was present here," Georgetown President John DeGioia told an audience that included descendants of the slaves.

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  Georgetown University to give slave descendants priority admission

  Fox Business Videos
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  At Georgetown University, a family reunion 178 years after fateful slave sale

  Washington Post

Mexican President Defends Trump Meeting, Accidentally Creates 'Hillary Trump' Trending Topic

Users took to social media to have some fun with a slip of the tongue by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto What if or when that warning to Saddam I was most candied apples and security that the topic not picking don't get the hell hockey. Six and

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  Alejandro Iñárritu Excoriates Mexico’s President Over Trump Visit

  Deadline
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  Donald Trump and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto engage in Twitter war over wall

  International Business Times UK

2.6 billion people in Zika risk areas in Africa, Asia: study

At least 2.6 billion people, over a third of the global population, live in parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific where Zika could gain a new foothold, researchers warned Friday, with 1.2 billion at risk in India alone. "According to our most conservative scenario, populations living within the geographical range for Zika virus were highest in India (1.2 billion people), China (242 million), Indonesia (197 million) Nigeria (179 million), Pakistan (168 million), and Bangladesh (163 million)," said a study. Sporadic cases of Zika have previously been reported in Africa and Asia, but nobody knows whether they were widespread enough for populations to acquire resistance to the virus.

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  Zika outbreaks most likely to hit eight countries in Asia, Africa

  Washington Post
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  Where's Zika Going Next? Maybe China, India, Or Nigeria

  Bloomberg

Airline mixes up 5-year-old boys, flies them to wrong cities

A woman in New York says she hasn't stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez tells New York's Daily News (http://nydn.us/2chzb8W ) she was shocked when JetBlue staffers presented her with another little boy on Aug. 17 at Kennedy Airport. "No, this is not my child," she recalled telling JetBlue employees.

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  Such Airheads! Mom Demands Answers After JetBlue Puts Son, 5, on Wrong Flight

  Inside Edition
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  5-year-old Put on the Wrong Flight, Sent to Boston Instead of New York City

  Travel+Leisure

Rocket explodes on launch pad in blow to Elon Musk's SpaceX

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX and its cargo during preparations for a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, two days before it had been due to blast off and place a satellite in orbit. SpaceX said there were no injuries and that an "anomaly" during the static fire test resulted in the loss of the rocket and a communications satellite owned by Israel-based Space Communication which was going to be used by Facebook to expand internet access in Africa. Video showed a fiery blast ripping through the upper part of the rocket before the vehicle collapsed in flames on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just after 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).

Obama Arrives in Asia, But His Pacific Trade Deal Is Almost Dead

Barack Obama once declared himself the first Pacific president. The president spent five years negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership with 11 other countries in North America, Asia and Latin America covering 40 percent of the global economy, making it potentially the largest trade deal in U.S. history. The White House claims the deal benefits American businesses by eliminating tariffs to every TPP signatory, which would make American exports more competitive across Asia.

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  No, Clinton and Trump are not the same on trade policy, ex-US diplomats say

  CNBC
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  Obama to bid farewell with Asia pivot in flux

  CNN