| By Jason Fields (@JasonQFields)
China is proclaiming success for the G20 Summit it hosted in Hangzhou, but scratch below the surface and tensions are revealed. The United States and Russia were unable to pull together an agreement on Syria, North Korea launched a new round of ballistic missiles, and, of course, there was some serious back and forth about the way President Barack Obama was greeted. It was hardly the only diplomatic faux pas. The White House canceled a meeting with the newly elected president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, after the often-blunt president said he would call Obama a “son of a bitch,” (or son of a whore, depending on the translation) if the U.S. leader brought up a running government-led battle against drugs that has killed at least 2,400 Filipinos in recent months.
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Andy Murray of Great Britain after beating Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria on day eight of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament in Flushing, NY, USA. (Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY)
Around the country - You could be forgiven for thinking the U.S. presidential election has been going full throttle for at least a year, but now is apparently when things really kick off. National polls haven’t just tightened, the candidates are tied according to last week’s Reuters/Ipsos poll. You can take the results out for a spin here.
Quote of the day "I think we've had a great month." -Donald Trump - Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won’t be taking up Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on his invitation to visit before the U.S. election on Nov. 8. She called Republican nominee Donald Trump’s visit last week a “diplomatic incident.”
- Phyllis Schlafly, who became a "founding mother" of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, died on Monday at the age of 92. As recently as 2014, she was fighting calls for equal wages for women.
Around the world - North Korea fired off three ballistic missiles Monday, as the G20 Summit was going on. President Obama is again calling for sanctions.
- Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko says the world isn’t responding the way it used to as his nation’s economic and military problems continue. He warns that Russia could launch a full-scale invasion of the country. Russia annexed the province of Crimea in 2014 and has aided rebels in Ukraine’s east since then.
- President Obama will be visiting Laos as part of his Asia trip, where he will find a forgotten U.S. legacy: bombs.
Around Wall Street - German pharmaceutical and crop chemicals manufacturer Bayer AG says talks with Monsanto have advanced. It is now willing to offer more than $65 billion, a 2 percent increase on its previous offer for the world's largest seeds company.
- After the 2008 housing crash, 30 percent of construction workers left to find something else to do - permanently. Now companies building houses can’t find all the able bodies they need.
Digit of the day 200,000 The number of unfilled construction jobs across the United States. - Samsung put strain on itself and suppliers to speed up production cycles for its mobile devices. The highly regarded Galaxy Note 7 made it to market a month before Apple unveils its next iPhone. Unfortunately, the batteries on the new phone explode occasionally. Now there are questions about whether Samsung can keep up the pace and build functional devices.
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