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• Iraqi forces, backed by US air power and military advisors, have begun the military effort to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, which has controlled the city since early 2014.
• The federal defamation trial against Rolling Stone magazine over a debunked 2014 rape allegation story at the University of Virginia begins today.
• China has launched its longest planned manned space mission to date as the Shenzhou 11 mission is expected to see two astronauts dock with the Tiangong 2 space lab.
• After a series of mechanical issues, the US Navy says its latest Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Coronado, is ready for duty in Southeast Asia.
• The FAA has officially banned all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from all flights after the now discontinued phone was launched with battery charging problems leading to fires.