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The second-largest gift to a US university will be used to help solve what may be the greatest threat facing humanity today: the climate crisishttps://cnn.it/2nLOcqV 

House Democrats have warned President Donald Trump to stop his "reprehensible witness intimidation" aimed at the whistleblower whose complaint document has triggered the escalating Ukraine scandal.https://cnn.it/2nFnJLj 

A social studies teacher in Long Island, New York, told her students to write captions for images of freed slaves and "make it funny." The teacher, who has been removed from teaching during an investigation, has since apologized.https://cnn.it/2nFgWRP 

A United Airlines flight was diverted to Denver, Colorado, Wednesday night to free a passenger stuck in the bathroom.https://cnn.it/2lxwrut 

Climate activists took to the streets in San Francisco and painted murals directly on two blocks of the city Financial District's main thoroughfare.https://cnn.it/2lBoIvy 

Is Britain being led by political trolls? Anyone looking at the state of the UK political scene these days would be forgiven for asking that question | Analysis by @lukemcgeehttps://cnn.it/2n4gUD1 

About 15,000 personnel, more than 160 aircraft and 580 pieces of weaponry and equipment will be part of China's special National Day military parade in Beijing on Tuesday. Here's what to look out for.https://cnn.it/2n4aAeL 

Major League Soccer is reversing their ban on the Iron Front symbol. The decision follows fans protesting for weeks through walkouts and silent demonstrations during televised soccer games.https://cnn.it/2n6OBUt 

Air pollution may be associated with increased mental health disorders like anxiety and depression in children, a study has found.https://cnn.it/2lA39vp 

More than half the US House of Representatives have now said they support an impeachment investigation into President Trump.https://cnn.it/2n5dEHm 

A man accused of killing six members of his estranged wife's family in Texas has been found guilty of capital murderhttps://cnn.it/2md9BbY 

The question was: "45th Pres; 2017; Republican; Real Estate businessman; Idiot." Possible answers were Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.https://cnn.it/2lwRhKt 

Diplomats are rallying to the support of former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch after the release of a whistleblower complaint shed further light on the circumstances of her unexpected removal.https://cnn.it/2mbRjI4 

Princess Beatrice, ninth in line to the British throne, is getting marriedhttps://cnn.it/2n6EMpp 

Here's a line-by-line analysis of the complaint against President Donald Trump concerning his interactions with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyhttps://cnn.it/2n4n3iw 

Quid pro quo. The term is coming up this week in connection to President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Here's what it means.https://cnn.it/2mcLlXs 

Carson King raised more than $1 million for an Iowa children's hospital, borne out of a request for beer money on national TV. But old racist tweets ended his relationship with the beer company that promised to match his fundraisinghttps://cnn.it/2mb9FsH 

In the wake of Wednesday's release of a rough transcript of a July conversation between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Republicans have rallied around the President with a very strange -- and weak -- defense | Analysis by Chris Cillizzahttps://cnn.it/2n8WbOs 

NASA's TESS satellite stumbled upon a star being shredded by a supermassive black hole. The black hole responsible for the event likely weighs about six million times the mass of our sun.https://cnn.it/2lsqD5o