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VIDEO: Tonight, the National Football League, America’s professional football league, will open its 100th season with a game featuring its oldest rivalry, Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers. The teams that first faced off in 1921. The Packers, based in a Wisconsin city with a population of just over 100,00, are unique from the 31 other teams. For example, they play in the smallest market for any major U.S. sports franchise, and they are publicly owned.

Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive Carrie Lam may hope the withdrawal of a hated extradition bill will help the semi-autonomous Chinese city move forward after three months of major protests. But if the initial reaction from activists, scholars and other Hong Kong residents is any indication, the protests may not go away any time soon.

The 2018 Farm Bill legalized industrial hemp and gave Native American tribes, as sovereign entities, the same rights as states to control and regulate its production.  This month, tribal farmers across the nation will harvest their first legitimate crop, hoping to cash in on a global market worth billions of dollars. But whether their product will make it to market this year is still up in the air.

VIDEO: Illegal drug use is on the rise around the world according to a new U.N. report. How bad is it and what is being done to stop the spread of dangerous and increasingly deadly drugs? Former U.S. “Drug Czar” Gil Kerlikowske and Ben Westhoff, author of “Fentanyl Inc.” weigh in with Greta Van Susteren on this week’s Plugged In.

Tempers flared in Haiti’s parliament Tuesday as lawmakers resorted to pushing and shoving each other and swearing to vent frustrations over an act of vandalism that stunned the nation in the early hours of the morning.