VIDEO: Smartphones have quickly evolved from being a way to make an untethered phone call to becoming hand-held personal computers. Yet these pros bring along many cons, as conditions like Internet addiction disorder become more widespread. To help people overcome these disorders, special rehab centers are opening around the world.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On September 23, 1949, President Harry S. Truman informs the American people that the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear bomb, ending the U.S. monopoly of the weapons. American officials and scientists almost all felt the USSR was years away from developing a nuclear weapon. The Soviet detonation was detected by seismologists just weeks before Truman’s announcement. In a brief statement to the media, Truman downplayed the significance of the event by saying it “was to be expected.” In response to the development, the U.S. reevaluated its Cold War policies and called for increased defense spending as well as a push to develop the hydrogen bomb, which was successfully tested in 1952.

VIDEO: Five brothers came to the U.S. from Ukraine almost two decades ago in search of the American Dream. During those 20 years, they’ve had all kinds of jobs, from washing floors, to delivering mail to working at construction sites. But they had even bigger dreams.

At least two people were wounded when shots were fired in the yard of the Haitian Senate Monday. Eyewitnesses say a senator wielding the gun shot the victims. The Senate was readying a vote to confirm the prime minister designate, Fritz William Michel.

U.S. President Donald Trump has praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian-American community in the United States. Trump appeared with Modi before a largely Indian audience of some 50,000 people who packed a Houston stadium for the “Howdy Modi” event.

China’s likely acquisition of two new diplomatic allies in the South Pacific advances its growing global economic effort – warily watched by the West – to offer infrastructure aid to other countries in return for natural resources.