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Valerie Amos says "almost all the buildings had been destroyed and there were hardly any people left" in the hard-hit Baba Amr district of Homs when she visited this week.

The move comes after German investigators discovered a second citizen suspected of spying for the U.S. Renee Montagne talks to James Bamford, who writes about U.N. intelligence agencies and the NSA.

This week, the president will make his debut at an institution he has often criticized for inaction. National security adviser H.R. McMaster says Trump will be pushing for change.

President Trump is meeting with leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, and Tuesday he addresses the body as a whole for the first time as commander in chief.

A civil war that began last year in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has the international community concerned as hundreds of thousands of people in the region now live in famine.

Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom that degraded America's democratic, anti-aristocratic ethic.

The secretary of state goes to the U.N. on Friday, just days after he offered to talk to North Korea with no preconditions. That would represent a change in approach for the Trump administration.

Also: Survivors recall horror of flooding in the Philippines; authorities stage a dawn raid on protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square; Gingrich and Romney are tied in a new poll of Republican voters.

The U.S. has always opposed the annual U.N. resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, but it abstained this time. The White House opposes the embargo and has taken steps to ease it.

The pair led the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 , 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.