WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
🌎 WNR — MORNING EDITION
Monday, September 21, 2026
PM EDITION
The world at a glance, the facts in five minutes.
Good morning. Here are the major developments entering the new week, drawing primarily from AP, Reuters and AFP.
🌎 WNR — MORNING EDITION
PM EDITION
Good morning. Here are the major developments entering the new week, drawing primarily from AP, Reuters and AFP.
Rotten to the core means that a group is completely dishonest, immoral, or corrupt at its deepest foundation.
Literal Origin: The phrase comes from a piece of fruit like an apple that is decayed and ruined all the way to its center.
Figurative Use: Applied to people, it means their bad behavior or lack of ethics is not just a surface mistake, but a deep part of who they are.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens in Los Angeles.
On June 27, 1903, in Paris, the 19-year-old de Acosta flew a motorized dirigible (airship) called No. 9 La Baladeuse, which belonged to the famous Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. This historic achievement took place six months before the Wright brothers' famous heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903. This referring to Aida de Acosta, an American socialite of Cuban heritage who became the first woman to solo pilot a powered aircraft.
“Si no fuera por los Cubanos, no estuviéramos pasando tanto Trump chaos“ RS
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AP, Reuters and AFP as the core international news triad:
- Associated Press (AP) — founded 1846
- Reuters — founded 1851
- Agence France-Presse (AFP) — founded 1835
Together, they provide broad global news-gathering from three major journalistic traditions.