| No Images? Click here  Monday, September 16PURDUE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday night, succumbing to pressure from more than 2,600 lawsuits alleging the company helped fuel the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic. [Reuters]TRUMP ‘LOCKED AND LOADED’; OIL SURGES A weekend drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production threatened to fuel a regional crisis. The U.S. released satellite photos it claims back up its allegation that Iran was responsible for the assault amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s collapsing nuclear deal. President Donald Trump said he was “locked and loaded” for military action and oil prices leaped. [AP]AUTO WORKERS LAUNCH MAJOR STRIKE More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors and set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike. [AP]FORMER LABOR SECRETARY CALLS TRUMP ‘DANGEROUSLY UNSTABLE’ Robert Reich, who was labor secretary during the Clinton administration, warned that Americans are getting so used to Trump’s troubling behavior that they fail to see how truly “dangerously unstable” he is. [HuffPost]BROWN MAKES PATRIOTS DEBUT DAYS AFTER ASSAULT ALLEGATION Freshly minted New England Patriot Antonio Brown took the field in his debut for the team on Sunday, just five days after his former trainer filed a lawsuit accusing him of rape and sexual assault. [HuffPost]EX-PM SLAMS ‘LIAR’ BORIS JOHNSON Boris Johnson is a “liar” who only advocated for leaving the European Union to benefit his own political aspirations, according to David Cameron, the former British prime minister who was responsible for calling the 2016 Brexit referendum. [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. A global HuffPost project on everything you ever wanted to know about therapy, whether you've been once or 100 times. CUOMO TAKES EXECUTIVE ACTION ON E-CIGARETTES New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is taking emergency executive action to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in the state amid a national investigation into hundreds of cases of lung illness and six deaths that may be related to vaping. [HuffPost]IRAN RULES OUT MEETING BETWEEN TRUMP AND ROUHANI Iran has dismissed the possibility of a meeting between the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, and Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week, the country’s state-run news media reported. [New York Times]HK PROTESTERS DEFY POLICE TO MARCH THROUGH DOWNTOWN Thousands of demonstrators chanted slogans and marched through downtown Hong Kong in defiance of a police ban, as shops shuttered amid fears of renewed violence in the semiautonomous Chinese territory that has been unsettled by months of protests. [AP]NETANYAHU IN FIGHT OF HIS POLITICAL LIFE A visibly frantic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his political life as the country heads to national elections for the second time this year. With Netanyahu locked in a razor-tight race and facing the likelihood of criminal corruption charges, a decisive victory in Tuesday’s vote may be the only thing to keep him out of the courtroom. [AP]JOHNSON CHANNELS THE HULK The actual prime minister of the U.K. has invoked a fictional character with anger issues and a habit of destroying all before him in his latest comments on Brexit. Boris Johnson said Britain will break out of the European Union’s “manacles” like The Incredible Hulk if a deal cannot be struck by the end of next month. [HuffPost]PUTIN BUILDS A FINANCIAL FORTRESS In the latest display of deepening cracks in the West's formerly unified economic campaign against Russia, France Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told reporters "the time is right" for reconciliation in EU-Moscow relations. [CNN
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