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Apps and websites around the world are hit by a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services.

Plus, Trump vows to halt USAID to Colombia as the president turns up the heat on Latin America.

And U.S. stocks might be close to all-time highs, but warning signs are flashing below the surface.

We're seeing investors pulling back from holdings that are more sensitive to a slowing economy in the past months.

And then we're also seeing that investors are turning to industries that sort of reliably

churn out profits no matter how the economy is doing.

It's Monday, October 20th.

I'm Caitlin McKay for the Wall Street Journal.

And here is the AM edition of What's News.

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Internet users around the world are struggling to access their favorite apps and sites this morning

as a result of a major outage at Amazon Web Services.

Sites including Facebook, Amazon, Snapchat, and Roblox appear to be down early Monday,

with financial services, Coinbase, Robin Hood, and Venmo also reporting disruptions.

The AWS infrastructure underpins millions of websites and platforms,

providing cloud computing services to the world's biggest companies.

Any problems with the network can have a

major impact on the wider internet and many mobile apps. AWS said it's investigating and

actively working to mitigate the issue, which seems to stem from a group of data centers in

and around northern Virginia. The Wall Street Journal is among several media organizations affected by the

outage, which began around 3 a.m. Eastern. In an update around 5.30 a.m., Amazon said its systems are

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