Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI, Retail Sales, Trump-Xi Summit

WNBA Officially Rejects Enes Freedom And Royce White For Being Men WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told House Republicans in a letter last week that Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White cannot play in the league because they are men. Her letter did not include the definition of "women" that lawmakers had requested. "With respect to your questions regarding eligibility, only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men," Engelbert wrote. The America First Policy Institute, which represents Freedom, provided the letter...

Judge In Lindsay Clancy Trial Orders Jurors' Identities To Be Sealed Indefinitely Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The judge in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ordered that the jurors' names be sealed indefinitely due to concerns about their privacy. Judge William Sullivan said on Sept. 14 that the jury list will remain impounded until a new order is issued, citing "a real and present" risk of personal harm to the jurors and to the integrity of their work if the list is made public. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not...

"Pushed Into Poverty": Somalia’s Currency Crisis Leaves Traders Holding Worthless Cash For decades, Muse Omar Jama made a living swapping currencies in Mogadishu’s Bakara market, where customers once lined up to trade Somali shillings for dollars and mobile money. Now his office sits mostly silent, and the safes around him are stuffed with cash no one wants, according to The Guardian. The problem began when traders in Somalia stopped accepting worn-out shilling notes, saying the bills were too damaged to use. The boycott quickly spread to shops, buses, and businesses across the...