By Shane Savitsky @ Axios.com, Sept. 20 with graphics

While current headlines might make you think that geopolitics is going to hell in a handbasket, things right now are better than normal around the world — at least from the market's perspective — according to BlackRock's latest global risk update [....]

US will ‘do what it takes to protect vulnerable workers’ but frames slavery as a matter of trade competition not human rights

By Reuters via TheGuardian. com, Sept. 20

The United States said on Thursday it was boosting its fight against slave-made goods “to safeguard American jobs“, signaling that the Trump administration regards forced labor as a trade, rather than a human rights issue.

The new approach was revealed in the Department of Labor’s biennial list of goods that it “has reason to believe” are produced by child or forced labor, which became a crime to import in 2016 under a law introduced by Barack Obama.

Yet another 'mass shooting' in Maryland, this time. I put the description in quotes because definitions vary as to what is a mass shooting.

Except three (at least) are dead and 'many' wounded.

The only 'twist' on all of this involves the fact that the shooter is female.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/aberdeen-maryland-shooting-woman-opens-fire-at-rite-aid-distribution-center/ar-AAAnAYG?OCID=ansmsnnews11