| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, September 3CALIFORNIA BOAT DISASTER At least 25 people are dead and nine are missing after a fire aboard a 75-foot commercial diving boat off the coast of California’s Santa Cruz Island early Monday. [HuffPost]5 DEAD AFTER DORIAN DEVASTATION Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis says at least five people have died in the Abaco Islands as Hurricane Dorian continues to pound the region as a Category 4 storm. Minnis added that rescue crews will respond to calls for help as soon as weather conditions allow. [AP]TEXAS GOV. SHOCKED SHOOTER GOT RIFLE Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) expressed dismay that the mass shooter who killed seven people in West Texas managed to buy an AR-style weapon in Texas even though he had a criminal history and didn’t register for a background check. [HuffPost]SAUDI AIRSTRIKES KILL AT LEAST 100 IN YEMEN The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen staged multiple airstrikes on a detention center operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Dhamar, killing at least 100 people and wounding dozens more. [AP]GERMAN PRESIDENT ASKS POLAND’S FORGIVENESS German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked Poland to forgive his country for its role in World War II. “I ask for forgiveness for Germany’s historical guilt, and I recognize our enduring responsibility,” Steinmeier said at a ceremony in Pilsudski Square in Warsaw. [HuffPost]SCHOOL BANS HARRY POTTER BOOKS A Tennessee Catholic school is no longer allowing its pre-K through eighth grade students to check out Harry Potter books from the school library. One of the school’s pastors says the spells and curses presented in the fictional children’s series are legit and could present problems for kids who read the books. [HuffPost]ANOTHER NEWSLETTER YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN As the United States and other nations grapple with the rise of far-right movements and white supremacy, HuffPost is relaunching the Fringe newsletter to keep you informed about the latest news on political extremism. Get it here.  DEMS PREPARE TO INVESTIGATE HUSH MONEY LINK Congressional Democrats plan to open an inquiry into claims that President Donald Trump was involved in hush money payments to two women during the 2016 election, according to a report in The Washington Post. [HuffPost]CHASING THE METHANE DRAGON Forty miles off the coast of North Carolina, the 274-foot research vessel Atlantis paced a dark, empty swath of ocean in evenly spaced lines as the crew pinged sound waves into the deep. A quarter-mile below, plumes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose from the seafloor. Scientists are studying these methane seeps amid a recent surge in global emission levels. [HuffPost]ECONOMIST: RECESSION COULD BE TRUMP’S UNDOING Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller has warned that a recession could be “the undoing” of Trump. “And even before economic catastrophe strikes, the public may begin paying more attention to his aberrations ― and to contagious new counter-narratives that crowd out his own,” he said. [HuffPost]BIDEN’S APPEAL WANES Former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, has maintained a comfortable lead over his fellow Democratic presidential candidates. But his campaign has become plagued by doubts over his age, fitness for office and whether, as a moderate, he can be a standard-bearer for a party that has grown increasingly liberal. [Reuters]DEFORESTATION CRISIS: GROUND ZERO Nearly a decade ago, the Brazillian municipality of Altamira sat at the center of another major environmental dispute, over the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Amazon River. The dam led to a boom in construction, but indigenous tribes and scientists warned that Altamira would one day become ground zero in an Amazonian crisis. [HuffPost]SIKH POLITICIAN GOES VIRAL A Canadian politician is winning praise on social media this week for his surprising response to a racist attack at Sunday’s MuslimFest in Mississauga. Gurratan Singh of Ontario went viral for declining to correct a man’s ignorant string of Islamophobic comments directed at him ― despite the fact he is not Muslim. [HuffPost]
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