Satellite photos indicate North Korea is building a ballistic missile submarine and may be making preparations to test a submarine-launched missile, according to an analysis of the commercial images by experts at a Washington-based think tank.
The photos of Sinpo South Shipyard taken Monday appear to confirm reports by North Korean state media of a “newly built submarine” inspected by the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, in July, according to Joseph Bermudez and Victor Cha of Beyond Parallel, a research project funded by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Even after it is built, it would take a year or more to test the submarine and render it fully operational, Bermudez and Cha said.

Frontier Airlines will now be offering low-cost flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to 15 domestic cities and two international destinations, officials announced Tuesday.
The airline is providing flights with 15 nonstop routes, including those to Cancun, Mexico and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, starting mid-November. The company is offering $15 flights to the included destinations to celebrate the addition to Newark’s airport, and includes the company’s Kids Fly Free offer.
Nonstop Frontier flights from Newark will include those to: Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Miami, Phoenix, Raleigh, North Carolina, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Frontier is also offering a nonstop option to Ontario, California for a low-cost option to the Los Angeles area.

New Jersey can move ahead with a new law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday, overturning a lower court’s temporary hold on the law.
Judges Carmen Messano and Arnold Natali ruled Tuesday that a state Superior Court “abused its discretion” in blocking the law earlier this month.
“We conclude the court failed to consider adequately the interests of qualified terminally-ill patients, who the Legislature determined have clearly prescribed rights to end their lives consistent with the Act,” the appeals court wrote in its opinion.
Rich Grohmann, an attorney for Dr. Yosef Glassman,an Orthodox Jew from New Jersey who brought the lawsuit, says they’re appealing to the state Supreme Court.

Egypt has warned Hamas not to intervene if conflict erupts between Israel and Hezbollah, while adding that it would no longer attempt to serve as a mediator if it continues the barrage of rocket fire on the Jewish State, Arabic media reported Tuesday evening.
Officials in Egypt are said to be furious over the recent rocket fire as they attempt to broker a ceasefire agreement while a Hamas delegation is being hosted in Cairo.
According to Saudi publication Al Arabiya, Hamas denied being involved in the recent rocket attacks and informed the Egyptians that there are other parties in the Gaza Strip that would like to see hostilities continue against Israel.

“Just text me.”
That’s the pitch Spirit Airlines is making to customers looking to book flights on the go. Starting Sept. 1, customers can message the discount carrier over WhatsApp to start making reservations, ask questions or modify their travel. The service will be available in English and Spanish.
“We launched this service to better connect with our guests, both domestically and abroad, as many have told us that they would rather communicate on a familiar and convenient service like WhatsApp,” said Bobby Schroeter, Spirit’s vice president of sales and marketing.

The big news in Israel is not that Iran attempted to send kamikaze drones into Israeli territory last week or that Israel targeted that terrorist cell in Syria; these are not completely out of the ordinary or even unexpected. Rather, what was quite the unusual occurrence took place in central Israel when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered officials from the security establishment to brief his chief rival, former Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who serves as leader of the Blue and White party.

Deutsche Bank said in a court filing Tuesday that it has tax returns relevant to House Democrats’ subpoenas for financial records of President Trump, his family and his businesses, but the bank didn’t publicly identify whose returns it had.
The name or names of the individuals or entities whose tax returns Deutsche Bank has were redacted in the version of the document posted on the federal courts’ public legal database.
The bank also said in its letter to a federal appeals court in New York that it has tax returns “related to parties not named in the Subpoenas but who may constitute ‘immediate family’ within the definition provided in the Subpoenas.”
Deutsche Bank also filed a nonredacted letter under seal to the court.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday dashed hopes of a potential meeting with his U.S. counterpart in the foreseeable future, saying the United States should lift all sanctions before Iran agrees to talks.
Rouhani’s remarks came just one day after he had signaled an apparent willingness to meet with President Donald Trump, urging Iranians to support diplomacy to resolve their country’s crises.
“We will not witness any positive development unless the United States abandons its sanctions and corrects the wrong path it has chosen,” Rouhani said Tuesday.
The Trump administration reimposed sanctions on Iran in the fall, after withdrawing from the nuclear pact that Iran struck with the United States and other world powers in 2015.

Monday’s $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson may mean one analyst’s “bear case scenario” of $150 billion in opioid damages just got one step closer.
Patrick Trucchio, a Berenberg analyst, on Tuesday renewed his April projection for U.S. liabilities in the opioid crisis. That sum includes federal litigation involving more than 45 states and 2,000 localities, where lawyers have sought a settlement of $100 billion, he said. A worst-case outcome of $150 billion would exceed Ukraine’s gross domestic product.

Jordan and Iraq signed a nuclear-energy cooperation agreement on Saturday, according to reports in Jordanian media.
The protocol was signed by chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission Khaled Toukan and Iraqi Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Qusay al-Suhail.
Suhail stressed the importance of improving cooperation in all fields, including providing Iraq with medical and industrial radioactive isotopes, reported the Petra Jordan News Agency.
Toukan said the Jordan Research and Training Reactor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, which the delegation visited, was key for training nuclear engineers.