Tuesday, September 24

🚨NATION

📌 Man suspected in second Trump assassination attempt left a letter detailing his plans, prosecutors say (NPR)

📌 Melania Trump was paid for a rare appearance at a political event. It’s not clear who cut the unusual six-figure check (CNN)

📌 California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores (AP)

📌 Category 3 Hurricane Helene expected to hit Florida's Gulf Coast later this week (USA TODAY)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israel hits 1,300 targets in expanded Lebanon strike campaign against Hezbollah, hundreds killed (ABC NEWS)

📌 Japan scrambles fighter jets that shoot flares to warn Russian spy plane to leave airspace (CBS NEWS)

📌 German voters fend off far-right in latest state vote, early results suggest (NBC NEWS)

📌 Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 California sues ExxonMobil for alleged decades of deception around plastic recycling, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit (CNN)

📌 Boeing sweetens offer to union as strike enters second week (NBC NEWS)

📌 New York reports death from rare mosquito-borne illness Eastern Equine Encephalitis after 1st case diagnosed in nearly a decade (ABC NEWS)

📌 Nasal spray flu vaccine gets FDA approval for home use (FOX NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Levi’s teases Beyoncé collaboration as denim trend takes hold (CNBC)

📌 John Mulaney and Olivia Munn have a second child, a daughter named Méi (AP)

📌 Eric Stonestreet says ‘it felt a little hurtful’ when a Mitch and Cam ‘Modern Family’ spinoff was rejected (CNN)

📌 Diddy’s music streams jump after arrest and indictment (ABC NEWS)