News Notes:

Thursday, 9/1/22

• Search in Trump’s home

• United States life expectancy dropped to 76 years old

• An endangered power plant in Ukraine

• The last leader of the Soviet Union passed away, Gorbachev

• 25th death anniversary of Princess Diana

• California prepares for a significant heatwave

• Stockmarket in its worst drop in 7 years

• Spain’s annual tomato food fight

• Omicron booster vaccines authorized

Friday, 9/2/22

• Biden addresses attacks from Trump’s followers

• Trump plans to pardon protests from Jan. 6th, if re-elected

• Updated booster shots are now available

• COVID shows dramatic learning losses in 9-year-olds

• The nuclear plant in Ukraine is being investigated

• Taiwan's tensions with China

• Sexual assaults in the military (in the last year) increased by 13%

• New York begins a ban on all guns in specific locations

Monday, 9/5/22

• Canadian manhunt continues after the mass stabbing, their motives are still unknown

• Liz Truss was elected as the new Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson

• Kenya’s Supreme Court upheld Rutos win in the presidential election

• Constitution rejected by voters in Chile

• California’s governor signed a law granting new protections for fast-food workers

• Former New Orleans mayor died, Moon Landrieu

Tuesday, 9/6/22

• One suspect is dead, and another is still not found after a mass stabbing in Canada

• Juul, an electric cigarette company, is paying off settlements and is faced with lawsuits against its products

• Liz Truss appointed the new Prime Minister

• California’s heatwave reached 115 degrees

• Federal funding for COVID vaccines may run out by February of 2023. However, new booster vaccines will be out by next week

• South Korea's most powerful typhoon in years, with winds of 100 miles an hour and three feet of rain, killed six people

Wednesday, 9/7/22

• Utility operators in California issued a statewide alert, urging consumers to conserve electricity due to intense heat

• A suspect was taken into custody for the recent mass stabbing in Canada

• Putin refuses to stop the war with Ukraine and threatened to cut off energy supplies to Europe

• United Nations called for a protection zone around the nuclear power plant in Ukraine

• COVID infections dropped 12% worldwide last week

• The Obamas were back in the White House to unveil their official portraits

• Schools in Seattle canceled their 1st day of school due to teacher strikes

• NPR foreign correspondent died due to lung cancer, Anne Garrels

Thursday, 9/8/22

• Legal fight over the search in Trump’s home

• Shootings in Memphis City, TN. The motive is still unknown, however, 4 deaths are confirmed

• Abortion rulings are decided by voters through their state’s supreme court

• California heatwaves continue

• Steve Bannon arrested for conspiracy and fraud

• Queen Elizabeth ll died at the age of 96 years old

Friday, 9/9/22

• The Memphis mass shooting suspect will remain jailed on first-degree murder charges as investigators try to piece together a motive

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un insists his regime will never give up its nuclear weapons

• U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his appeal to help Pakistan recover from the catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 1,400

• A tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean is expected to break the heat wave in California this weekend

Sunday, 9/11/22

• The hearse carrying Queen Elizabeth II's coffin arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland where she will lie in state through Tuesday

• Two U.S. military planes loaded with about 70 tons of supplies for Pakistan's flood victims landed in the hard-hit Sindh province

Monday, 9/12/22

• Thousands in Scotland turned out for final tributes to Queen Elizabeth

• Former President Trump's lawyers urged a federal judge to continue barring investigators from reviewing White House documents found at his Florida home

• Sweden's elections give a populist party a new voice

• 15,000 nurses in Minnesota launched a three-day strike over issues of pay and understaffing

• The Biden administration today urged railroads and unions to reach an agreement and prevent a nationwide railroad strike this weekend.

Tuesday, 9/13/22

• King Charles III traveled to Northern Ireland where he spoke of the late Queen Elizabeth's hopes for healing the region's Protestant and Catholic divisions

• Alleged security flaws at Twitter were discussed at a U.S. Senate hearing

• Cleanup is underway in Southern California after tropical storm remnants triggered mudslides

• Ken Starr, whose independent counsel investigation led to President Clinton's impeachment, has died in Houston after complications from surgery

• Ukraine’s forces have now pushed within two miles of the Russian border

• The National Basketball Association has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for a year for workplace misconduct

• The legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard died today at his home in Switzerland

Wednesday, 9/14/22

• Unions and some of the largest freight railroads are still negotiating with a strike deadline fast approaching

• The war in Ukraine has energy costs soaring in Europe with leaders calling for a cap on electric utility revenues

• The E.U. Commission estimates that some companies are making five times their usual profits

• World Health Organization says the end of the pandemic is in sight with global deaths at the lowest level since March 2020

• The U.S. Labor Department reports producer prices rose 8.7 percent in August from one year ago (inflation data)

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched as the Ukrainian flag was raised at the burned-out city hall and called the damage done by Russian occupiers

• Queen Elizabeth II was carried from Buckingham Palace to Parliament

• The Justice Department has charged three Iranians with ransomware attacks on power companies

• R. Kelly today of producing child pornography, as well as other crimes

Thursday, 9/15/22

• Mortgage rates in America rose above 6% for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis

• Railroads and labor unions reached a tentative agreement early today, preventing a walkout

• Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a regional summit in Uzbekistan, addressing setbacks in the war

• Mourners in London waited for up to nine hours today to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II

• The boil water notice in Jackson, Mississippi, has finally been lifted

• Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has complied with the Justice Department's subpoena as part of the January 6 investigation

Friday, 9/16/22

• President Biden met with relatives of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, two Americans jailed in Russia

• In Pakistan, floodwaters are now rapidly receding in the hard-hit Sindh province

• Line in London to view Queen Elizabeth's coffin grew so long that the government warned it could take 24 hours to get into Westminster Hall

Sunday, 9/18/22

• The Biden's paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II in London

• Ukraine made strategic gains against Russian forces to the south

• Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Armenia amid a cease-fire with Azerbaijan

• Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico and knocked out power to the whole island

• The remnants of a typhoon caused widespread flooding in Alaska

Monday, 9/19/22

• Taliban today freed American engineer Mark Frerichs in a prisoner swap. He was exchanged for convicted drug lord Bashir Noorzai

• A judge in Maryland has ordered the release of Adnan Syed

• Russian fire hit close to another nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine

• A judge in Pakistan ordered police to drop terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan

• A typhoon smashed ashore overnight in Japan, killing at least two people

• New federal data show more than 20,000 people died in traffic accidents in the first half of this year

• U.S. immigration officials say migrants were stopped at the Southern border more than 200,000 times in August

• The Las Vegas Aces are the new champions of women's professional basketball

• Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral took place today

Tuesday, 9/20/22

• New York City is lifting its vaccine mandate for private-sector workers as of November 1st

• Federal authorities in Minnesota charged 47 people in a fraud scheme taking advantage of pandemic relief funds

• The fight over documents seized from former President Trump went before a special master

• Pro-Russian separatist leaders in Ukraine called for a vote starting Friday on officially becoming part of Russia

• An elected official in Las Vegas, Robert Telles, has been prosecuted for the murder of a journalist

• Los Angeles Dodgers great Maury Wills died last night. He was an All-Star shortstop seven times, and his base-stealing helped L.A. win three World Series

Wednesday, 9/21/22

• The House approved a bill to block future attempts at subverting presidential elections and close loopholes in the law

• Medical workers struggled to contain malaria outbreaks as mosquitoes bred in the wake of flooding in Pakistan

• Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver announced he's selling both teams after allegations of racist and anti-female speech

• New York state sued former President Trump, his three eldest children, and his company, alleging business fraud

• Hurricane Fiona has grown into a Category 4 storm, with winds of 130 miles an hour. Roughly one million homes and businesses in Puerto Rico still have no power and 1.3 million people have no running water

• And a new monument in Missouri now officially marks the center of the country, it signifies the geographic center of how the U.S. population is distributed

Thursday, 9/22/22

• The U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran's morality police as protests continue over the death of a young woman in custody

• Republicans in the Senate blocked action on forcing the disclosure of "dark money" donors to political causes

• Average rates on 30-year mortgage rates have hit their highest level since 2007

• The Security Council held an unusually senior-level meeting about war, in New York

• Leading players on opposite sides of the conflict came face-to-face for the first time since Russia's invasion last February, the war in Ukraine

• British American and more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers, as well as pregnant Ukrainian women, were freed from Russian captivity, in exchange for a well-known politician close to Putin

• Puerto Rico faced an extreme heat alert today, and most of the population still had no power four days after Fiona made landfall

• The House of Representatives approved four bills on public safety and policing

Friday, 9/23/22

• A sell-off swept Wall Street and the world as rising interest rates intensified fears of a recession

• Counter-protesters marched in support of Iran's Islamic regime following growing unrest over a young woman's death in the custody of so-called morality police

• Officials in Lebanon and Syria say at least 77 are dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized

• Voting has begun in the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine on whether to join Russia's proper

• Hurricane Fiona is closing in on Canada tonight after blowing past Bermuda, meanwhile, 60 percent of Puerto Rico's homes and businesses spent another day with no electricity

• Protests in Japan are intensifying against holding a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

• In-person voting for the midterm elections has officially begun

Sunday, 9/25/22

• Tropical Storm Ian is forecast to reach hurricane strength as it approaches Cuba and Florida, President Biden preemptively declared an emergency for the state, making federal government assistance available as the storm draws closer

• Canada mobilized its military to help in the recovery after Fiona

• Italy held an election that could pivot the country's leadership to the far-right, polls suggest that Italy could pick its first-ever female prime minister, Giorgio Meloni

• Violent unrest continues in Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody for wearing her hijab improperly

• Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge broke his own world record in the Berlin Marathon

Monday, 9/26/22

• In Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots is now set to form the country's first far-right government since World War II

• New protests flared in Russia today over military call-ups for the war in Ukraine

• Russia stepped up long-range attacks in Ukraine's Odesa region. An overnight drone strike caused a large explosion there

• President Vladimir Putin granted Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden

• A gunman in Central Russia killed at least 17 people and wounded 24 at a school today; 11 dead were children and nearly all were injured. The gunman ultimately killed himself and the motive is still unknown

• Iran attacked Kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq today and accused them of fomenting protests across Iran

• A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal is now on trial in Hong Kong over anti-government protests there in 2019

• Voters in Cuba have approved a law to let same-sex couples marry and adopt children

• Pfizer is asking the FDA to authorize its updated COVID booster shots for children 5 to 11 years old

Tuesday, 9/27/22

• Voting orchestrated by the Kremlin and rejected by most other countries concluded in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine

• Natural gas leaks along Russian pipelines in the Baltic Sea trigger questions of possible sabotage

• The U.S. Transportation Department gave final approval to build the first nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations

• A state funeral in Tokyo honored former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July

• Jury selection began for Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers, in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

• The U.S. Senate this evening advanced a bill that funds the federal government through mid-December

• The Biden administration today announced a goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030

Wednesday, 9/28/22

• Pro-Russian officials in occupied regions of Ukraine formally asked to become part of Russia after they held illegal referenda

• The U.S. announced another $1.1 billion in assistance to Ukraine

• The European Union is warning it will retaliate against attacks on its energy networks. That is after explosions damaged two pipelines in the Baltic Sea

• Israeli forces killed four Palestinians and wounded more than 40 during a raid in the occupied West Bank today

• Iran carried out new bombing attacks on Iranian Kurdish separatists in Iraq, killing at least nine

• There is word that an experimental drug for Alzheimer's appears to fight the fatal disease that destroys brain function

• Longtime CBS News correspondent Bill Plante died today at his home in Washington, he was 84 years old

Thursday, 9/29/22

• Wall Street came back to earth with a thud after Wednesday's one-day rally

• U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss defended her economic plan that includes billions in tax cuts for high earners without offsetting spending reductions

• A spending bill to keep the U.S. government running past tomorrow is a big step closer to final approval

• Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was questioned today by the Congressional January 6 Committee

• Russia has announced it will formally annex four occupied regions of Ukraine tomorrow

• A fourth leak has been detected in the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea

• The Supreme Court of India ruled today that all women have the right to an abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy

• Six Republican-led states filed suit over President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan

• The rapper known as Coolio, one of hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s, has died, he was 59 years old

Friday, 9/30/22

• The war in Ukraine sent natural gas prices and overall inflation soaring across the European Union

• Rare public protests have broken out in Cuba over lingering power outages from Hurricane Ian

• Congress gave final approval to a short-term spending bill to avoid a partial shutdown this weekend

• Russian fire rained down on Ukrainian cities, killing 30 people in Zaporizhzhia

• A suicide bomber in Afghanistan attacked an educational center in Kabul today, killing 19 people and wounding nearly 30

• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had her ceremonial induction today, as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court