 | | Israel
A day after Israel barred two Democratic US congresswomen from entering the country, one of them has been granted entry. Israel this morning granted US Rep. Rashida Tlaib's request to enter Israel on humanitarian grounds. She wants to go to the West Bank to visit her family, including her grandmother who is in her 90s. "This could be my last opportunity to see her," Tlaib, who represents a Michigan district, wrote in a letter to Israel's interior minister. Israel yesterday announced the unprecedented step of denying a visit by Tlaib and US Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota after a tweet from President Trump. Trump said Israel would be showing "great weakness" by allowing them to enter the country. Tlaib and Omar have been critical of Israel's policies and have publicly supported a boycott movement against the country. Many Democrats and some Republicans denounced Israel's decision and the President's involvement in it. CNN political analyst Stephen Collinson said Trump's power play puts his political goals over America's interests. | |  | | North Korea
Talks between North Korea and the US about the North's nuclear ambitions have yet to restart. Now, the North might start freezing out the South, too. North Korea vowed to cut off talks with South Korea, just after the North this morning fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast. The North is upset about joint US-South Korean military drills, among other things. A North Korean spokesman called South Korean President Moon Jae-in "impudent" and said his country has "nothing to talk any more with the South Korean authorities." In a speech yesterday, Moon pledged to try to reunify the Korean Peninsula by 2045. The North called that "foolish." | |  | | Cigarette warning labels
Those warning labels on a pack of cigarettes could become a lot more graphic, if a proposed rule from the FDA goes into effect. The rule would force tobacco companies to place warnings on cigarette packages and ads that would prominently feature color images and contain language describing the health risks of smoking. One warning, paired with a photo of a sick child using an oxygen mask, would stress that tobacco smoke can hurt kids. Another warning, with a picture of a man's surgical scar on his chest, would say smoking can cause heart disease and strokes. If the proposed rule gets final approval, the new warnings would start appearing in 2021. They'd be the most significant change to cigarette labels in the US in 35 years. | |  | | Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife survived a fiery plane crash yesterday in Tennessee. The private plane that the retired NASCAR driver was in ran off the runway after it landed at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in the eastern part of the state. Everyone on the plane survived, but Earnhardt did spend a few hours in the hospital. Earnhardt -- or Junior, as racing fans called him -- is one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR history. He survived a fiery car crash 15 years ago during a practice session in California. His father, the late racing legend Dale Earnhardt, was killed in a crash in 2001 during the Daytona 500. | |  | | Greenland
So, President Trump has brought up buying Greenland from Denmark. But, wait, is Greenland even for sale? Two sources told CNN that Trump repeatedly has talked about buying Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, and the White House counsel's office has looked into it. It's not clear just how serious Trump is or if the Danish government is even interested in selling the territory. The President's aides are divided, with some thinking this is sound economic strategy, while others have dismissed it as a passing fancy. Greenland is home to Thule Air Base, a US radar and listening post located hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle. The US has tried this before, by the way, with alleged attempted purchases of the territory in 1867 and 1946. | |  The assailant's ... blood sample was found to contain cocaine, alprazolam and ethanol. | | |  |  People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. Baby boom Remember those nine nurses in the same labor unit at a Maine hospital who were all pregnant at the same? They've given birth and posed with their babies. Not all heroes wear capes The 30-year-old man with special needs faced an uncertain future, until a teacher from his past took him in. Sweet mystery meat You know it's a sure sign of fall when the pumpkin spice madness starts up. This year, they've come up with pumpkin spice Spam. No, really. No joke Jimmy Kimmel mocked the presidential alert system last year in a sketch. That's going to cost ABC hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. | |  | Quiz time Simone Biles made history by landing this difficult move at the US Gymnastics Championships. A. Beam backflip B. Aerial cartwheel C. Triple double D. Quadruple frontflip Play " Total Recall," CNN's weekly news quiz, to see if your answer is correct. | | 5,000
That's how many feet a woman plunged to the ground after her parachutes failed to open while she was skydiving in Canada. She survived with injuries, including broken vertebrae. | | | You are concerned about saving your economies ... I'm concerned about saving my people. Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a meeting of Pacific Island nations, Australia and New Zealand on the climate crisis. Australia thwarted a push by the Pacific Island nations to do more to combat climate change. | | |  | Here comes the bride
Why walk down the aisle when you can zip-line down it? (Click to view.) | | | | |
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