Wednesday, August 21

🚨NATION

📌 Long recovery underway after deadly and destructive floods ravage Connecticut, New York (USA TODAY)

📌 Illinois bans corporal punishment in all schools (ABC NEWS)

📌 Democratic delegates approve platform with mistake mentioning Biden's second term (FOX NEWS)

📌 New fencing goes up outside DNC a day after pro-Palestinian protesters breach outer barrier (CNN)

📌 Army and police missed chances to intervene before Maine mass shootings, final report says (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Biden approved secret nuclear strategy refocusing on Chinese threat (NY TIMES)

📌 British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, among six missing after yacht sinks off Italy (REUTERS)

📌 Kenyan man being held over the discovery of dismembered female bodies escapes from police custody (NBC NEWS)

📌 Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, world's oldest living person, dies at 117, her family says (CBS NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Food industry pushes back against Kamala Harris’s ‘price gouging’ plan (WSJ)

📌 Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug slashes the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 94% in long-term trial (CNBC)

📌 Mpox "not the new COVID," World Health Organization says after declaring health emergency over Africa cases (CBS NEWS)

📌 Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be the worst leveraged buyout deal for banks since Lehman, raising risks to Tesla (FORTUNE)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Alicia Silverstone alarms fans by appearing to eat poisonous fruit in TikTok video (NBC NEWS)

📌 World No. 1 Jannik Sinner won’t be suspended after twice testing positive for banned substance (CNN)

📌 ‘Call Her Daddy’ host Alex Cooper inks multiyear deal with SiriusXM worth up to $125 million for exclusive content (VARIETY)

📌 James Taylor addresses scrapped performance at DNC 2024: 'Sorry to disappoint' (USA TODAY)