| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Monday, September 20, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Russia's pro-Putin party wins big, China Evergrande shares dive as default risks grow and the UK meat industry warns of an imminent threat to supplies | | | | | Today's biggest stories  A man wearing a raccoon hat talks about his belief that former President Donald Trump won the election and that it was stolen from him through fraud, during a rally in support of defendants being prosecuted in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in Washington, September 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg U.S. The U.S. Congress returns to session facing a massive agenda and a tight time crunch, with Democrats hoping to pass sweeping domestic programs, fund the government, approve an infrastructure bill and raise the debt ceiling in a matter of weeks. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a fresh plea for Congress to raise the debt ceiling, arguing a default would trigger a historic financial crisis.
U.S. border agents began expelling plane-loads of mostly Haitian migrants from a large makeshift camp they had set up after wading across the Rio Grande separating Mexico and the United States, with repatriation flights arriving in Haiti. We spoke to returned Haitians lamenting their lost American dream, and migrants collecting food trying to evade law enforcement at the border.
Senate Democrats hit a major roadblock in their effort to allow millions of immigrants to legally stay in the United States, after the Senate Parliamentarian ruled against attaching the measure to a $3.5 trillion spending bill.
Police and FBI agents searching a national park in Wyoming have found a body "consistent" with missing Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman whose disappearance has captivated the United States. Members of Petito's family reported her missing on September 11, 10 days after her 23-year-old boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, returned home from a months-long cross-country trip in the van without her.
|  Members of a local election commission count ballots at a polling station inside Kazansky railway terminal in Moscow, Russia, September 19, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina WORLD Russia's ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, retained its parliamentary majority after an election and a sweeping crackdown on its critics, but opponents alleged widespread fraud.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may cling to power in today's election but looks set to lose his bid for a parliamentary majority after a tough campaign that dashed his hopes for a convincing win.
Social Democrat Olaf Scholz brushed off a last-gasp attack from his conservative rival in a televised election debate, cementing his position as front runner to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after Germans go to the polls in a week.
A Rwandan court found Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, guilty of being part of a group responsible for terrorist attacks.
Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago.
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