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Starbucks to shutter 250 stores in North America this week in 2nd wave of closings

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
Sep 24, 2026 10:01 am - It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe and laid off 900 non-retail employees.
CNN and MS NOW reporters now back at the White House, hours after judge ordered Trump to lift ban

By JOCELYN NOVECK, HALLIE GOLDEN and LAURIE KELLMAN
Sep 24, 2026 8:56 am - Hours after a federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to lift a ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, reporters from two of the outlets had been let in.
Claims for unemployment benefits drop to 197,000, the lowest since mid-July as layoffs remain rare

By PAUL WISEMAN
Sep 24, 2026 8:54 am - Fewer people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, as U.S. jobless claims remain at historically low levels and most Americans enjoy job security.
How rural voters are feeling about Trump as the midterms approach, according to a new AP-KFF poll

By ALI SWENSON, SARAH JANE TRIBBLE and LINLEY SANDERS
Sep 23, 2026 11:22 am - About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new survey that points to economic frustration among a key group that has backed him and other Republicans in recent elections.
In defiant speech, Pezeshkian calls out Trump and says Iran will fight 'until our last breath'

Sep 23, 2026 11:19 am - Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been “victims of terrorism” by the United States, delivering a rare wartime speech at U.N. General Assembly a day after President Donald Trump said he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war.
Trump plans lavish welcome for Xi at summit focused on spectacle over solutions

Cate Cadell, John Hudson, Michael Birnbaum
Sep 23, 2026 7:25 am - President Xi Jinping arrives Wednesday for an abbreviated summit as both sides look to maintain a trade truce.
Russia pounds Kyiv with drones, killing 2 and wounding 23 hours before Zelenskyy’s UN address

By SAMYA KULLAB
Sep 23, 2026 7:22 am - Russia hammered Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, with drones in daylight attacks on Wednesday, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to address world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
Polo off Mexican coast is among 'the strongest storms ever' as Odalys becomes a hurricane

By MEGAN JANETSKY and DESIREE BROOKS
Sep 23, 2026 7:12 am - Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades and was expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a major hurricane, while another Pacific system, Odalys, strengthened Wednesday from a tropical storm to a hurricane without threatening land.
Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Sep 22, 2026 2:02 pm - Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist.
With war, climate change and AI, it's a troubled world as leaders convene at the United Nations

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Sep 22, 2026 7:42 am - With wars raging,temperatures rising and artificial intelligence encroaching, leaders from across the planet converge at the United Nations on Tuesday to address each other and the world, airing their hopes, plans and grievances as the world body’s chief addresses them for the final time.

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