1. Typhoon Lan hits Japan

2. At least two people were killed and many injured as a mammoth typhoon struck Japan, hurling dangerous winds and rain and threatening to cause major flooding and mudslides. Typhoon Lan made landfall early Monday along Japan's southern coast. President Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader in the country's post-war history, has led efforts to evacuate more than 200,000 people, with a further 2.2 million homes under advisory to prepare for evacuation. Typhoon Lan is so enormous that its cloud field is larger than Japan.

3. In Other News
President Trump is pushing hard for tax reform. Over the weekend, the President held a conference call with House GOP members and urged them to pass the Senate's version of the budget this week. In an interview with Fox News, the President claimed the GOP would deliver the biggest tax cuts in the country's history. The president’s daughter, Ivanka, is expected to be in Richboro today and tomorrow to discuss the tax reform issue.
You soon may no longer be able to put your laptop in your checked luggage. An international air safety panel will recommend banning laptops from checked luggage because of fire risks. There are fears that overheated laptop batteries could ignite and start an uncontrollable fire in a cargo hold that could take down a plane. The UN's International Civil Aviation Organization will take up the proposed ban at its meeting this month. If a ban is approved, it would still be up to individual nations to enforce it.
President Trump tweeted over the weekend he'll allow the release of classified documents about the JFK assassination -- including FBI and CIA files. Most historians don't think there are any bombshells in the files, although they do believe it will shed light on assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's mystery trip to Mexico City just weeks before the shooting.
Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks on Saturday night urged the importance of understanding and learning from history, especially for those troubled by the current state of affairs.
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