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Here's your morning brief for Monday, October 20th. I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall Street Journal.

Hundreds of websites and apps were knocked offline early Monday due to disruptions to Amazon Web Services.

Sites including Facebook, Amazon, Snapchat, and Roblox were down from about 3 a.m. Eastern,

with financial services, Coinbase, Robin Hood,

and Venmo also reporting disruptions. AWS provides cloud computing services to the world's biggest

companies, and any problems with the network can have a major impact on the wider internet and

many mobile apps. In an update around 5.30 a.m., Amazon said its systems are now recovering, and that many

websites and apps are coming back online. President Trump is ramping up pressure on Latin America

as part of the administration's crackdown on drug smuggling from the region. This time, he's taking

aim at Columbia, vowing to halt U.S. aid to

Bogota and to take unilateral action unless the country's president closes what Trump called,

quote, killing fields in a social media post. Columbia's president responded to the post,

calling Trump rude and ignorant. And new data from China shows economic momentum dipped to its

slowest pace in a year, putting Beijing on alert in the midst of hardball trade negotiations

with the U.S. The country is still largely on track to hit its official 5% growth target for the

year, but last quarter's decelerating growth may prompt Beijing to step

up support for its domestic economy. The country's top policymakers are set to kick off a four-day

meeting today to discuss their five-year plan, where leaders are expected to double down on

high-tech industries while weighing initiatives to boost household spending. Asian stocks end of the day broadly higher

and European stocks are mostly gaining in midday trading, though French stocks are lower after

S&P global ratings cut France's credit rating, citing political turmoil and rising debt levels. And

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