Veteran guard Wesley Matthews says he is 'ready to go' for Bucks' season opener after ankle injury

AFP
Iran sanctions take centre stage in presidential campaign
Iranians broadly deplore Western sanctions that have battered the economy, but the country's six presidential candidates offer differing solutions -- assuming the winner gets a say on foreign policy.Ultraconservative presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, has called for Tehran to press ahead with its long-running anti-Western policy.
CBS News
Wolves attack, seriously injure woman jogging in zoo
The woman was reportedly rescued after park attendants heard her screams as she was being attacked.
Associated Press
Yellen announces efforts to boost housing supply as high prices create crunch
The Biden administration is announcing new steps to increase access to affordable housing as still-high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates have dramatically pushed up the cost of living in the post-pandemic years. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will promote the new investments on Monday during a visit to Minneapolis. “We face a very significant housing supply shortfall that has been building for a long time,” Yellen says in remarks prepared for delivery Monday afternoon.
Reuters
Netanyahu receives warning from panel probing submarine purchase
An Israeli commission investigating suspected wrongdoing in government purchases of submarines and missile boats from Germany issued a warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The panel notified Netanyahu that based on evidence gathered thus far, it could ultimately determine that he had used his position as prime minister between 2009 and 2016 to greenlight the purchases without due process. Netanyahu in response said that the submarines were central to Israel's security "in ensuring its existence against Iran, which is trying to destroy us".
Associated Press
Planned Parenthood announces that it will spend $40 million ahead of November's election
Planned Parenthood will spend $40 million ahead of November's elections to bolster President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats, betting that voters angry at Republican-led efforts to further restrict access to abortion can be the difference in key races around the country. The political and advocacy arms of the nation's leading reproductive health-care provider and abortion rights advocacy organization shared the announcement with The Associated Press before its wider release Monday. The group will initially target eight states: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Biden is seeking to defend 2020 victories, as well as North Carolina, which the Democratic president's campaign hopes to flip after Republican Donald Trump won it four years ago, and Montana, New Hampshire and New York, which have races that could help determine control of the Senate and House.
AFP
18 Chinese among 22 dead in South Korea battery plant fire
Twenty-two people were killed -- including 18 Chinese nationals -- in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery factory, the fire department said Monday, one of the country's worst factory disasters in years.In the massive blaze that ensued, twenty-two people were killed, including 20 foreign nationals -- 18 Chinese, one from Laos, and one of unknown nationality, he said.
Associated Press
Russian region of Dagestan holds a day of mourning after attacks kill 19 people
Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following a rampage by Islamic militants who killed 19 people, most of them police, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults in two cities. Sunday's violence was the latest that officials blamed on Islamic extremists in the predominantly Muslim region in the North Caucasus, as well as the deadliest in Russia since March, when gunmen opened fire at a concert in suburban Moscow, killing 145 people. The March attack was claimed by an affiliate of the Islamic State group.
Associated Press
Is Trump shielded from criminal charges as an ex-president? A nation awaits word from Supreme Court
In the coming days, the Supreme Court will confront a perfect storm mostly of its own making: a trio of decisions stemming directly from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Within days of each other, if not hours, the justices are expected to rule on whether Donald Trump has immunity from criminal charges over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and whether Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol can be prosecuted for obstructing an official proceeding. The court also will decide whether former Trump adviser Steve Bannon can stay out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack.
Reuters
Abortion rights interests plow money into US election races after Supreme Court reversal
In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned women's constitutional right to abortion, political contributions aimed at protecting abortion rights have far outstripped those to support anti-abortion causes. In the 2023-2024 election cycle leading up to the Nov. 5 vote, pro-abortion rights interests have given $3.37 million to federal candidates, political parties, political action committees (PACs) and outside groups, compared to about $273,000 from anti-abortion interests, according to data from OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.
AFP
Away from home, Israeli evacuees wait as Hezbollah tensions spike
Yarden Gil opens a reinforced metal door to enter the northern Israeli kindergarten where she works, which doubles as an underground shelter against rockets fired by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Gil, the kindergarten teacher, said parents had to set up their own schooling for their children after they fled their kibbutz, which has suffered damage from rockets and in fires caused by the strikes.
Associated Press
Railroads must provide details of hazardous cargo immediately after a derailment under new rule
A new federal rule finalized Monday aims to ensure first responders can find out what hazardous chemicals are on a train almost immediately after a derailment so they can respond appropriately. Too often in past disasters like last year's fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, firefighters risked their lives trying to extinguish a blaze without knowing the right way to respond. The local fire chief in charge of the response said it took him 45 minutes to learn exactly what was in the 11 burning tank cars on the train, but some firefighters from neighboring departments that came to help said they didn't know what they were dealing with until two hours after the Feb. 3, 2023, crash.
USA TODAY
A fight for abortion rights in America's most pro-life state could ripple across the South
National abortion rights organizations are not backing a measure to expand access in Arkansas. But backers say they may have a model for the South.
CNN
Biden campaign blasts Trump over abortion rights in new ad days ahead of debate
The Biden campaign is blasting former President Donald Trump over abortion rights in a new TV ad coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade and days ahead of the first presidential debate.
CNN
First debate of the cycle has a history tripping up former presidents
Joe Biden was on cleanup duty.
Associated Press
Young gay Latinos see a rising share of new HIV cases, leading to a call for targeted funding
Four months after seeking asylum in the U.S., Fernando Hermida began coughing and feeling tired. On New Year’s Day 2022, at age 31, Hermida learned he had HIV. Hermida, who speaks only Spanish, didn’t know where to turn.
Time
Why Cambodia Matters to the U.S.-China Rivalry
A new naval base is symbolic of the power struggle across Southeast Asia.
AFP
Filming TikToks in tear gas: Kenya's Gen-Z protesters
Growing up in a shanty town in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Sarah Njoroge saw her parents ban her older siblings from taking part in anti-government demonstrations, fearing the bloody crackdown that would follow."They instilled a lot of fear in our parents and we don't want to inherit that," 19-year-old international relations student Jeremy Mwangi told AFP. "We want to stand up for ourselves, we want to determine our future."
CNN
Suspected Chinese rocket debris seen falling over village after launch, video shows
Suspected debris from a Chinese rocket was seen plummeting to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN by a local witness.
Reuters
Doctors must keep prescriptions for Ozempic in check, Danish regulator says
Doctors in Denmark should limit how many packs of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic diabetes drug patients can pick up at one time, the Danish Patient Safety Authority said on Monday, amid worries that some acquire a larger supply than needed. Demand for the hugely popular diabetes treatment has spiked as some have started using the drug for weight-loss effects similar to that of Novo's Wegovy obesity treatment, which is built on the same core ingredient. The authority encouraged doctors to be mindful that some patients may accumulate more drugs for Ozempic than would be expected for normal use, possibly to resell excess supplies.
Reuters
Kremlin blames US for 'barbaric' ATACMS missile attack on Crimea
The Kremlin directly blamed the United States on Monday for a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people, including two children, and injured 151 more, and said there would be consequences. Russian officials warn that the Ukraine war is entering the most dangerous phase to date and President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned of the risk of a much broader war involving the world's biggest nuclear powers. But directly blaming the United States for a deadly attack on Crimea - which Russia annexed in 2014 and now considers to be Russian territory although most of the world considers it to be part of Ukraine - is a step further.

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