Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including the American economy slowed considerably from April to June but still beat expectations as the Federal Reserve looks ready to slash interest rates next week; Europeans don’t seem worried about recession, with household income and consumption both up in the first quarter of 2019; Democrats and environmentalists vilified a Trump administration plan to open up Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument to development in areas that once enjoyed protection, and more.

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In this photo from Monday, July 22, 2019, the container ship Kota Ekspres is unloaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. On Friday, July 26, the Commerce Department issues the first estimate of how the U.S. economy performed in the April-June quarter. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

1.) The American economy slowed considerably from April to June, but still beat expectations as the Federal Reserve looks ready to slash interest rates next week.

Democratic presidential candidates from left, author Marianne Williamson, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice-President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., wave as they enter the stage for the second night of the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, June 27, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

2.) Most Democrats agree on the big issues that need solving: health care, climate change and defeating President Donald Trump. But they remain divided on progressive policies needed to get there.

3.) Any origin story about South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, from his memoir “The Shortest Way Home” to any number of glossy magazine profiles, will dedicate some time to how Silicon Valley values have shaped his political priorities in Indiana.

FILE - This May 8, 2017, file photo shows an aerial view of Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah's new national monument will face a tougher challenge than anticipated. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

4.) Democrats and environmentalists vilified a Trump administration plan announced Friday to open up Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument to development in areas that once enjoyed protection.

A woman using a cellphone walks past T-Mobile and Sprint stores on April 27, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

5.) Sprint agreed Friday to divest parts of its prepaid wireless business for federal approval of its $26.5 billion merger plans with T-Mobile.

This May 15, 2019 file photo shows a vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at a clinic in Vashon Island, Wash. The World Health Organization says there has been a “dramatic resurgence” of measles in Europe, with nearly 90,000 people sickened by the virus in the first half of 2019. In a new report issued Thursday, Aug. 29 the U.N. health agency said the number of measles cases from January to June this year is double the number reported for the same period in 2018. (AP file photo/Elaine Thompson)

6.) Interlaced with 76 mentions of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee asked a federal judge Friday to let them access secret grand jury material from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

International

7.) For much of the year, experts have been warning a global economic slowdown is on the way – with some even using the R-word. Europeans don’t seem worried about recession, with household income and consumption both up in the first quarter of 2019.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order to increase sanctions on Iran, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, June 24, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

8.) Aiming to calm a situation that has developed into the most dangerous peacekeeping mission in United Nations history, the Trump administration on Friday announced plans to sanction people and groups impeding the peace process in Mali.

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