Global National: Sept. 11

With the race to the White House being too close to call, both Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris have faced off in their first debate of the 2024 U.S. election campaign. The jabs and lies; whether this debate had any effect on undecided voters; how moderators behaved differently than the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden; what pop superstar Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris means for the vote, and why the singer is now speaking up after staying quiet during the 2018 midterms. Hurricane Francine has made landfall on Louisiana’s southern coast as a Category 2 storm. What people there are being told to do. Two years after it was stolen from Ottawa’s Fairmont Château Laurier in 2022, a 1941 portrait of former British prime minister Winston Churchill by famed Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh has neen recovered in Italy. Eric Sorensen looks at how the ‘Roaring Lion’ was stolen, how police tracked it down, and the story behind the famous painting. And Manitobans have gathered to pay their respects to Cathy Merrick, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC), who died suddenly at age 63 after collapsing outside the Winnipeg courthouse. Melissa Ridgen explains how Merrick is being honoured and remembered as a trailblazer.