10 things to know for today
Here are 10 things to know for today, from the Associated Press:
- WHAT CONSUMER GOODS MAY NOW BE AFFECTED
If Trump’s threat to go ahead with 10% tariffs on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn’t already taxed, products from cellphones to silk scarves could cost more.
- TRUMP DENOUNCES DEMOCRATS AT RALLY, PLAYS DOWN RACE
The president uses a revved-up rally in Cincinnati to tear into the Democrats, attacking four liberal congresswomen of color and their party’s urban leaders.
- NORTH KOREA FIRES WEAPONS AGAIN
Pyongyang launches what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, the third test in just over a week, an activity seen as brinkmanship over stalled nuclear negotiations.
- 1987 ARMS CONTROL TREATY EXPIRES
The U.S. plans to test a new missile in coming weeks that would have been prohibited under a landmark, 32-year-old arms control treaty that the U.S. and Russia ripped up.
- SAUDI ARABIA PERMITS HISTORIC FREEDOMS
The kingdom publishes new laws that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, diminishing male control.
- WHERE MIGRANTS HAVE RETURNED
The U.S. government has sent about 800 mostly Central American and Cuban migrants back to the dangerous northern Mexico border city of Matamoros.
- SYRIANS SAY PLIGHT WORSE THAN EVER
Western sanctions push war-weary Syrians deeper into poverty and many say it’s even harder now to make ends meet than it was at the height of their country’s civil war.
- CONSERVATIVES LOSE KEY SEAT IN BRITAIN
Boris Johnson’s governing party loses a special election to Liberal Democrats, leaving it with a one-vote working majority in Parliament as Brexit looms.
- CITIES NOW SEE MORE OVERDOSE DEATHS THAN RURAL AREAS
After more than a decade with rural areas taking the biggest hits, U.S. drug overdose deaths are most common in big cities again, the federal government says.
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY’S GRANDDAUGHTER DIES AT 22
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s fifth child, Courtney, died at the storied family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.