Farmers Use Tech To Squeeze Every Drop From Colorado RiverA drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day.
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Facing Pressure, Trump Delays Tariffs On Some Chinese GoodsResponding to pressure from businesses and growing fears that a trade war is threatening the U.S. economy, the Trump administration is delaying most of the import taxes it planned to impose on Chinese goods and is dropping others altogether.
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Verizon Sells Early Social-Media Darling TumblrVerizon is selling Tumblr, a darling of early social media, to the owner of blogging platform WordPress.
The site has been drifting in the face of competition from Facebook and its Instagram service and from Google’s YouTube.
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Unified Dems Press Trump, GOP On Curbing GunsDemocrats were pressing President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on several fronts Tuesday to take action on curbing guns and white supremacists, fueled by public outrage over this month’s mass killings in Texas and Ohio.
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Authorities Plan Update In Probe Of Dayton Mass ShootingAuthorities are working to piece together what led to a mass shooting in Ohio after accusing the gunman’s friend of buying body armor used in the massacre.
Dayton, Ohio, officials plan an update on the investigation at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
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China’s Xi Gets Tougher On Trump After New Tariff ThreatFacing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down.
Beijing fired what economists called a “warning shot” at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to President Donald Trump’s latest threat of more punitive import duties on Sept.

Analysis Shows 12 Percent Could Vote Without Paper Backup In 2020More than one in 10 voters could cast ballots on paperless voting machines in the 2020 general election, according to a new analysis, leaving their ballots more vulnerable to hacking.
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Protesters Cripple Hong Kong Airport For A 2nd DayPro-democracy demonstrators severely crippled operations at Hong Kong’s international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights as the city’s pro-Beijing leader warned that the protesters had pushed events onto a “path of no return.”
After a brief period early in the day when flights were able to take off and land, the airport authority suspended check-in services for departing flights as of 4:30 p.m.

 Missing Dentures Found Stuck In Throat 8 Days After SurgeryHere’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them.
A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72-year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days.

Sen. Rand Paul Easing Back In Public View After Lung SurgeryU.S. Sen. Rand Paul is easing back into public activities after his recent lung surgery sidelined him for part of the August congressional break.
The Kentucky Republican is set to deliver a speech Tuesday at a chamber of commerce luncheon in southern Kentucky.
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