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WASHINGTON (AP) — A major stalemate has developed between the Trump administration and Congress over access to a whistleblower's reported complaint about incidents including a private conversation between President Donald Trump and a foreign leader. The administration is keeping Congress from even learning what exactly the whistleblower is alleging. The intelligence community's inspector general says the blocked complaint is "serious" and "urgent."
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran says its president and foreign minister have received visas from the United States to attend next week's U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. A spokesman at Iran's mission to the U.N says Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will arrive in New York on Friday, and President Hassan Rouhani on Monday. Their visit comes as tension between the U.S. and Iran has risen following the weekend attack on oil installations in Saudi Arabia, which says Iran is behind it.
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's wary of being definitive about how many times he's worn brown or blackface because he didn't recall the recent pictures that have surfaced. Trudeau at first did not answer questions about how many times he wore blackface or brownface. He later said he didn't recall the pictures that surfaced over the last day. Trudeau's campaign moved to contain a furor after a yearbook photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 "Arabian Nights" costume party.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Thousands of protesters are gathering at rallies around Australia as a day of worldwide demonstrations begins ahead of a U.N. climate summit in New York. Some of the first rallies in what is being billed as a "global climate strike" started Friday in Australia's largest city, Sydney, and the national capital, Canberra. Australian demonstrators are calling for their nation, the world's largest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas, to take more drastic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston officials say floodwaters are receding across most of the city and efforts will continue through the night to clear the city's freeways of hundreds of vehicles stalled by the flooding. The dangerous flooding all but paralyzed the city Thursday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda reversed course and hit Houston and Southeast Texas a second time. Two people died because of the storms Thursday.
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