 | | UK election
The highly anticipated and deeply important UK general election is underway today. Brits must choose between drastically different paths to the Brexit finish line. The "B" word isn't the only issue on the table: Party leaders also laid out plans to tackle health care, climate change and tax reform. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for early elections in hopes his party could win a Parliamentary majority and push his Brexit deal through. Even after elections are over, there's no guaranteed clear path forward. The day could end in a hung Parliament with no majority, which would send parties scrambling to put together coalitions to form a government. And, if Johnson gets his way and a Conservative-led Parliament votes for his Brexit deal, he'd still face thorny trade negotiations with the EU and the US. Follow the latest news here. | |  | | Impeachment
| |  | | Israel
Speaking of elections, majorities and missed deadlines, Israel is officially heading for its third national election in a year. Members of the Knesset, the country's legislative body, failed to agree on a majority leader by yesterday's deadline. This means Benjamin Netanyahu is still Prime Minister, even though he's hanging on to power by a thread. New elections in March could spell more trouble for Netanyahu, who's currently facing indictment in three separate corruption cases. In fact, there's a chance he doesn't even make it that far. His Likud party is about to hold a leadership contest, tentatively set for December 26, during which a new party leader could be chosen. If he makes it through that vote, he'll face longtime political foe Benny Gantz, whose Blue and White party came out on top in the last election but still failed to form a government. | |  | | Immigration
A bipartisan bill that just passed the House would grant legal status to thousands of undocumented farmworkers in the US. Similar measures have failed in the past, and this one still faces challenges in the Senate, but this bill has significant Republican support. If it becomes law, it would also require companies to verify workers are in the US legally using a federal system. The whole package would bring sweeping changes to an industry that has long relied on the work of undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced ICE arrests dropped about 10% in the 2019 fiscal year. The agency said the drop was due to limited resources. Since so many ICE agents were busy attending to the influx of migrants at the southern US border, they said, there were fewer agents free to apprehend undocumented immigrants already in the country. | |  | | Boeing
You won't be flying on a Boeing 737 Max anytime soon. Federal Aviation Administration chief Stephen Dickson said yesterday a House Transportation Committee hearing he couldn't give a time frame for when the controversial model would be back in the air. The planes were grounded worldwide back in March after two crashes killed a combined 346 people. The hearing also revealed that Boeing and the FAA ignored clear signs that the 737 Max planes were dangerous. A government report filed after the first crash, made public during the yesterday's hearing, concluded the jets were at a significant risk for future crashes. Dickson said if he were head of the FAA at the time of the report, he would have grounded the planes immediately. However, it took months -- and another deadly crash -- before any action was taken. | | | Content By: CNN Underscored | | |  |  People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. | |  | Boston Marathon bomber Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 26, are due to argue today before a federal appeals court panel that their client didn't get a fair trial. They hope to overturn his death sentence. | |  It would shame my daughter that someone has to die for her. | | |  | So fresh and minty!
Admit it, you're dying to see how candy canes are made. Maybe you had never considered it before this moment, but now you just NEED to know. (Click here to view.) | | | | |
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