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enate Republicans want to overhaul the tax code without Democratic support. "I don’t think this is going to be 1986, when you had a bipartisan effort to scrub the code," Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. Earlier this week, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short said he expected the House to pass a new tax code in October, and the Senate would ratify it in November. President Trump wants to cut corporate taxes to 15 percent from the current 35 percent, but Democratic senators oppose a tax reform that would increase the deficit or cut taxes for the wealthy. They warn that unless the tax reform is the result of a bipartisan effort it would collapse like the Obamacare repeal. – POLITICO

The Senate has confirmed Christopher Wray, a former Justice Department lawyer, as the new head of the FBI. The 50-year-old will replace James Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump in May. Wray was confirmed by a 92-5 vote after the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed him for the job last month. During his confirmation hearing Wray said he would support special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russia’s suspected meddling in the presidential election. – NPR

Around 30 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a suicide attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan. The attack was perpetrated by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives and a second person who threw grenades at worshippers in the Jawadya mosque in Herat, a town near the border with Iran. The Taliban denied being behind the attack and no other group has claimed responsibility. Some 1,700 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan this year. – REUTERS

The first flower that ever existed had petals arranged in concentric cycles and was hermaphrodite, new research indicates. This primal flower probably lived some 140 million years ago and later evolved into at least 300,0000 species. "The petal-like parts and the stamens [male reproductive organs in a flower] were more numerous than in most living species, and were probably organized in multiple sets of three," said the study's lead author, Hervé Sauquet, from the University of Paris-Sud in France. To understand how this ancestral flower may have looked researchers analyzed the features of 792 living species of flowers. – AFP

The White House plans to impose trade measures against China. The U.S. Trade Representative may first launch an investigation into China’s trade practices, which could lead to import tariffs on Chinese products. Other measures could include trade sanctions and restrictions on the use of U.S. intellectual property. President Trump has repeatedly lashed out at China for not being more assertive toward North Korea. "I am very disappointed in China," he tweeted on Sunday. – HILL

New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana at the federal level. The Marijuana Justice Act, as the bill is called, would scrap convictions for marijuana use and possession. The bill will likely be shelved by the Republican controlled Congress, but it has been applauded by legalization advocates. "This is the single most far-reaching marijuana bill that’s ever been filed in either chamber of Congress," Tom Angell, chairman of the group Marijuana Majority, said in a statement. – POLITICO

Jordan is set to repeal a law that allowed rapists to avoid punishment by marrying their victims and staying with them for at least three years. Lawmakers voted to scrap the law on Tuesday, a decision that needs to be ratified by the country’s Senate, so that it can be signed into law by King Abdullah II. Some lawmakers argued that the law should not be scrapped saying that marrying a rapist is a way of protecting the victim’s honor. Similar rape-marriage provisions are in place in Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, and Syria, as well as in several Latin American countries. – ALJAZEERA

Amazon plans to hire people on the spot today in a bid to fill in as many as 50,000 vacancies. The online retailer is hosting career fairs in 12 locations in the U.S., including Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio. The mass hiring is part of Amazon’s efforts to hire 100,000 workers by mid-2018. The starting wages for the jobs at the fulfillment centers range from $11.50 an hour at the Tennessee location to $13.75 an hour at the Washington site, AP reports. – FORTUNE

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was elected by Pakistan’s legislature as the country’s new prime minister, three days after Nawaz Sharif was forced to resign from the post. Abbasi, a former petroleum minister, is expected to hold the post on a temporary basis. Sharif has designated his younger brother Shahbaz as his successor, but he must first win a seat in the National Assembly in order to become prime minister. "Whether it's 45 days or 45 hours, I am the p...