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Sep 23, 2026
By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir
UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, after Iran's president told the UN General Assembly that Tehran would never surrender to US pressure.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in his speech in ?New York, condemned what he called "signs of a bullying mentality" from US President Donald Trump, who had used the same forum on Tuesday to threaten to "annihilate" Iran.
The duelling speeches at the annual ?UN gathering bookended the first shuttle talks between the US and Iran for months, though they appeared to have yielded no concessions in the public stance of either side towards ending the war.
The senior Iranian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tehran was reviewing Washington's ?response to its peace proposals, which prioritise lifting a US naval blockade on Iranian ports and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
"There are still many differences between the Iranian and US positions, but diplomacy is continuing," the official said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Wednesday that a deal with Iran would involve hard work over a period of time, adding that Trump also had military options.
The US has also said it will impose so-called secondary sanctions against any country that allows Iranian flights after Wednesday. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state TV Iran would ensure neighbouring countries' airports could not function if they stop Iranian flights.
IRAN 'WILL NOT BOW TO PRESSURE', ?PRESIDENT SAYS
In his address to the 193-member General Assembly, Pezeshkian homed in on ?the US blockade of Iranian ports and on the Strait of Hormuz, conduit for a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments
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Sep 23, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating an apparent breach of its jobs website as a criminal hacking group claimed to have accessed "very sensitive data" on nearly all agents and job applicants.
"The FBI is aware of claims regarding unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov and is currently investigating," the bureau said in a statement. The website, the main portal for prospective employees to learn about the FBI and initiate the application process, remained offline Wednesday morning.
A message that circulated online from a hacking group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the hack.
The message, directed to FBI Director Kash Patel as well as the assistant director in the charge of the FBI's cyber division, said the hacking group had "compromised very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI Agents and individuals who filed an application with the FBI for a job."
The claims could not immediately be verified, and an FBI spokesperson declined to comment further. An email to an address associated with the organization was not immediately returned.
In its message, ShinyHunters said it would give the bureau one week to correct or remove what it says are false allegations in an FBI public service announcement from May that described the organization as a "cyber criminal group specializing in large-scale data breaches and extortion."
That announcement characterized ShinyHunters as "threat actors" who often "use their real or exaggerated claims of access to sensitive or personal information to prompt payment from victims," commonly harass or threaten victims and "may falsely claim to have sensitive or compromising information, including embarrassing pho
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Sep 23, 2026
Donald Trump; Melania Trump on ‘Fox & Friends'
Speaking on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, Sept. 23, Melania, 56, praised Trump's speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City the day prior when questioned whether he'd asked for any feedback from his wife.
"I told him he had [a] great delivery, he did very well. And a great speech," the first lady — who was on the show to discuss the launch of Imperia, a network for women CEOs, and her Fostering the Future Together initiative — said.
She added of her husband, "So I tell him the truth. Sometimes he doesn't want to hear it, what I tell him, but that's okay. I always say the truth."
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Sep 23, 2026
By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir
UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech at the UN on Wednesday that Tehran would never surrender to the US but still believes in diplomacy, a day after President Donald Trump used the same forum to threaten to "annihilate" Iran.
The duelling speeches at the ?annual UN General Assembly in New York bookended the first shuttle talks between the United States and Iran for months, which appeared to have yielded no concessions in the public ?stance of either side towards ending the Middle East war.
In his speech, Pezeshkian defended Iran's military actions as defensive, and insisted Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons.
In a potential new flashpoint, Iran also threatened to act against its neighbours if they ?abide by new US sanctions intended to ground Iranian civilian aircraft worldwide.
Washington has said it will impose so-called secondary sanctions against any country that allows Iranian flights after Wednesday. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state TV Iran would ensure neighbouring countries' airports could not function if they stop Iranian flights.
The annual UN gathering in New York provided the occasion on Tuesday for Iranian and U.S. officials to hold their first known indirect talks since a ceasefire collapsed in July, with Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner communicating through mediators on the sidelines.
"Steve and Jared had a ?very productive meeting today with mediators of Iran," Trump said on Tuesday ?after his own speech. "I think there's a lot of momentum for them to make a deal. It's what we're hearing from everybody."
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Sep 23, 2026
Two of the key faces of the left in elected office, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, met at an economic event in Manhattan on Wednesday, as world leaders gather in New York for the U.N. General Assembly.
Their meeting is the latest in a slate of encounters between left-wing U.S. politicians and kindred figures abroad as they seek to forge ties to counter the rise of right-wing populism.
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Organizers behind these formal and informal gatherings say the efforts to bring together U.S. left-leaning Democrats in office and their ideological counterparts aim to contend with the well-organized, growing international movement of populists in step with President Donald Trump's administration, as the anti-immigrant and nationalist Alternative for Germany party gains traction, and France's Marine Le Pen and her party, National Rally, lead in polls ahead of a presidential race next year.
Wednesday's event at Gracie Mansion, Mamdani's residence, was billed as focused on "building an economy for the many." Sánchez touted the success of Spain's minimum-wage increases as "proving that another economic model is possible."
"That is why the powerful fear us. Because day after day, we show that a different path is possible, and it works," Sánchez said at the event, which also included the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, and European Council President António Costa, who is a former socialist prime minister of Portugal.
Mamdani nodded to the
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Sep 23, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris (Getty Images)
Former Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned for Michigan's Democrat Senate nominee this week, one of five Democrats taking visible steps toward possible 2028 presidential campaigns.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, joined Harris at a Detroit event on Black maternal healthcare this week; her fall schedule also includes stops in Nevada and Georgia, the Associated Press reported.
Harris has said she has "not decided if I'm going to run again," even as she works the phones with donors and skips major policy speeches, Fox News reported.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is weighing both a 2028 run and a primary challenge to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate's minority leader, she said in an interview with The New York Times, as Reason reported this week.
"Life doesn't wait for you to be ready for things," she said, adding that deference to Schumer would not drive her decision.
The comments follow a staff shake-up: her longtime campaign manager, Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben, is leaving after running her operations since 2020, he told Axios.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is term-limited and leaves office in January, toured South Carolina, an early presidential primary state, from Sept. 3 to 6, visiting Aiken, Columbia, and other stops while stumping for state Democrats.
He acknowledged that his 2028 ambitions were factored into the trip, but said other goals ranked higher.
Days later, in a CNN intervie
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Sep 23, 2026
(Corrects Trump's approval rating in paragraph three)
By David Hood-Nuño and Evan Garcia
DONNA, Texas, Sept 23 (Reuters) - South Texas unfurls in long stretches of highways across flat landscapes dotted with pump jacks, mesquite trees, and gas stations sporting prices that voters swear should not be this high. This territory swung heavily to Donald Trump in 2024 — but may shift again in 2026.
From the outskirts of San Antonio, through historic, sprawling ranchlands to the border city of McAllen, Reuters traveled more than 360 miles (580 km) and ?spoke to more than 30 Latino voters, who shared a similar refrain: as President, Trump had a chance to lower prices across this expanse, where trucks and beef barbacoa are king, and failed.
Many are no longer convinced the Republican Party is looking out for people like ?them. Frustration over economic pressures and Trump's immigration agenda is rising, exposing cracks in what Republican officials hoped was a durable political realignment among Latino Americans. Trump's approval rating nationwide has fallen to 32%, the lowest since returning to office, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
That uncertainty poses a problem for Texas Republicans, who redrew congressional maps last year betting the Latino ?contingent who helped power Trump's 2024 win would remain in their column.
Now, they're grappling with whether this notoriously swingy voting group may snap back to Democrats in the Lone Star State as they have in other parts of the country in off-year and special elections, said David Wasserman, elections analyst at the nonpartisan forecaster Cook Political Report.
Texas Republicans sought to make several districts more favorable to their candidates ahead of the 2026 elections, basing their changes on Trump's 2024 performance, the strongest showing among Latino voters by a Republican presidential candidate this century. Rather than dilute Latino v
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Sep 23, 2026
Republican Bruce Blakeman has caught up within single digits of Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul's lead in the New York gubernatorial race with six weeks left until the Nov. 3 election, a new poll of likely voters found.
Blakeman is closer to pulling off an upset of Hochul than GOP challenger Lee Zeldin was during the same time period in 2022, a new Siena University survey reveals.
Hochul leads Blakeman by 9 points — 50% to 41%, according to the poll.
Republican Bruce Blakeman is closing in on Gov. Kathy Hochul, now 9 points behind in the New York governor's race. Michael Nagle for NY Post
"At this time four years ago, Hochul led Lee Zeldin by 17 points, 54%-37%, before going on to win by six points," said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg
Last month, Hochul led Blakeman 49% to 39%, so Blakeman picked up a point but still has significant ground to make up.
Hochul is far from beloved, even though voters favor her on some key issues.
Only 48% of voters view her favorably and 48% unfavorably.
Her job approval rating is also under 50% — 48% gave a thumbs up and 47 disapproved.
Hochul i
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Sep 23, 2026
The impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posed a dilemma for Republican leaders ahead of the midterms. In the lame duck, it could be Democrats in the bind.
Hegseth is leading an unpopular war in Iran, and GOP leaders were eager to avoid an impeachment vote this month, which would have put some vulnerable Republicans in a tough spot heading into November's elections. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defused the issue by punting that vote until after the elections.
But the tides are likely to turn after the election, when Republicans will be freed to weigh in on Hegseth's fate without fear of a voter backlash, while Democrats will face a tougher choice.
Do they go charging after Hegseth full bore, to appease a liberal base demanding Pentagon accountability? Or do they tread more cautiously, to allow time for the formal investigations many Democrats say they want to see before backing something as explosive as impeachment?
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over impeachment proceedings, suggested that answering those questions won't be easy.
"I think that all impeachment articles should be sent to the Judiciary Committee, and we should scrutinize them," Raskin, a former professor of constitutional law, said last week as Congress was leaving Washington for the long campaign recess.
"I'm not a huge fan of pop-up impeachments," Raskin continued, "but if that's all Speaker Johnson leaves us, then we will have to take it very seriously."
The issue will be an early, postelection test for House Minority Leader H
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Sep 23, 2026
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
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Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.
That episode, as described by the people familiar with the matter, offers new insight into Trump's priorities for the ballroom at a time when he is flexing executive power to fast-track construction projects across the nation's capital. The interviews and documents obtained by The Post - including early ballroom designs and images Trump appeared to have marked up with his trademark black-ink Sharpie - also show how deeply involved the president has been in the details of the project.
White House renovations and construction are typically handled by federal agencies required by law to comply with nationally recognized building safety standards to the "maximum extent feasible," unless doing so would present a national security risk.
But Trump's White House construction projects are being routed through the Executive Resid
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Sep 23, 2026
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BITaylor Scriber, a millennial living in Texas, is trying to join the growing ranks of his generation and buy his first home. He's been scouring listings with his real estate agent, taking a few tours to see what suits him best, and estimating his potential costs, including property taxes.
The final piece of that homeowning puzzle has been stuck in Scriber's craw lately. After reading recent headlines about property taxes in the Lone Star state being slashed for older residents and those with disabilities, he started to feel that he may end up shouldering the fiscal burden through his own payments with resulting rate hikes — and costing out worst case scenarios for what the cost of his future home might realistically look like, since so many homes have those abatements. After all, since Texas has no income tax, sales and property taxes are key in funding municipal services
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Sep 23, 2026
NATO military aircraft were deployed in Polish and Romanian airspace overnight and on Wednesday morning, in response to the latest wave of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, officials in both allied nations said.
Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 161 drones -- of which 82 were jet-powered -- and an unspecified number of Banderol cruise missiles into the country overnight. Air defenses intercepted or suppressed 119 drones and three cruise missiles, the air force said, with impacts recorded across 18 locations.
Poland's Armed Forces Operational Command said in a post to X that Polish fighter jets were scrambled "to ensure safety" due to Russian "strikes using jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles on targets in western Ukraine."
The alert concluded after approximately an hour. The command said that no violations of Polish airspace were recorded.
Stringer/Reuters - PHOTO: Firefighters work at the site of a shopping centre hit by a Russian drone attack, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sept. 22, 2026.Russia's escalating strikes in Ukraine increasingly spilling into NATO, Romania saysIn Romania, which borders Ukraine to the country's southwest, the Defense Ministry in Bucharest said that two Romanian F-16 fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday night "to respond to an aerial target maneuvering in the northeast of the locality of Valkove, on Ukrainian territory, near the border with Romania."
Around an hour later, the ministry said that the alert had concluded and that "no incursions into national airspace have been reported."
The scrambling of NATO assets in response
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Sep 23, 2026
Three leading US news outlets went to court after being banned from the White House by President Donald Trump (Jim WATSON)CNN, MS NOW and Politico can be shut out from areas of the White House at President Donald Trump's request, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday, a day ahead of a court hearing.
The three leading outlets went to court after Trump ordered on Friday that they be barred from the presidential mansion as punishment for distributing what he calls "fake news."
A US district judge set a hearing on the complaint for Wednesday.
The Department of Justice said in a court filing that Trump can "control reporters' access to restricted presidential areas, such as the Oval Office."
"Access to the White House is a privilege -- not a right," it added.
The court filing said that letters explaining the president's reasons for the ban had been sent to the outlets on Tuesday. They have until Friday to object.
The letters cite numerous "reporting incidents" by the outlets that "threatened national security and spread falsehoods," according to the filing.
The letter to CNN cited a story on Trump's plans to build a bunker below the East Wing ballroom he is constructing, which "disclosed 'top-secret' construction details," and several stories about the Iran war, the network said.
Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied any access to the White House grounds on Saturday and had their passes confiscated.
In their lawsuit, the three outlets asked for a temporary restraining order against the ban on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which upholds the right to a free press.
"This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundam
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Sep 23, 2026
Follow updates on the war in the Middle East for Wednesday, Sept. 23, here. See earlier developments below.
What to know about the Iran war:Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in New York late Tuesday night for the U.N. summit. Pezeshkian said just before leaving for the U.S. that he would "firmly defend" its positions in the war and use the opportunity to "convey Iran's plight." Iranian state media say he will address the world body on Wednesday.President Trump told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday he has a "big decision to make" on whether to make a deal or drive Iran "into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations." American and Iranian envoys held indirect talks on the sidelines of the General Assembly, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said. Mr. Trump told reporters the discussions went well, but did not offer further details.
Iran president vows to "firmly defend" his country's positions at U.N.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed on Tuesday to "firmly defend" his country's positions as he departed for New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly.
"We emerged with our heads held high, and this is a source of dignity and pride for all of us. Therefore, we will firmly defend our positions in international forums," he said before flying out of Iran, according to footage broadcast by state television.
The pre
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Sep 23, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on Wednesday, he's expected to get a rare greeting from President Donald Trump, who will be on the tarmac to welcome his counterpart instead of waiting for him to drive up to the White House.
Trump's decision to greet Xi at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington rather than receiving him at the executive residence shows how far the U.S. president is going to honor China's leader as he makes his first state visit in more than a decade.
First lady Melania Trump said her husband decided to personally greet Xi when he arrives in the Washington region because "they have a great relationship."
"He's coming on our soil, and we need to welcome them with the most respect," she said of Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, during an interview Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."
The White House has not released many details about Wednesday's greeting, but Trump is expected to participate in an arrival ceremony at the base with Xi and his wife. The salutation will kick off a three-day visit that's expected to be saturated with pomp, even by White House standards. The state visit, complete with a formal state dinner at the White House on Thursday, is supposed to reciprocate for the ceremonial grandeur that marked Trump's May visit to China.
But it also is a showy patina at a time when tensions between the two geopolitical rivals are high over trade, artificial intelligence, Trump's
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Sep 23, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.
Weinstein's sentencing for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years. His 2020 conviction was overturned by New York's highest court, citing testimony from other women whose allegations weren't part of the case. A second jury found Weinstein guilty again at a retrial last year.
Once among the most powerful figures in the entertainment industry, Weinstein was an Oscar-winning producer whose hits included "Shakespeare in Love," "Pulp Fiction" and "Chocolat." But his downfall came quickly after sexual assault allegations in 2017 set off the #MeToo movement.
Weinstein, 74, is expected to appeal. He is now likely to remain behind bars until at least his late 80s. He has denied raping or sexually assaulting anyone. Seated in a wheelchair, he was quickly wheeled out of the courtroom after the sentencing, while some of his accusers hugged and brushed away tears.
Weinstein and his victim both spoke in court
Weinstein faced up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. He has already served more than six years as his case has cycled again and again through the criminal justi
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Sep 23, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to prison, reporters, advocates and the curious public crammed the courtroom to witness the disgraced Hollywood honcho's #MeToo reckoning.
Hours later, the world began shutting down as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. Now, after an overturned conviction and two retrials, Weinstein is set to be sentenced again on Wednesday for one of the same crimes — more than six years after his first sentencing in March 2020.
Weinstein, 74, faces up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a one-time TV production assistant, Miriam Haley, at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. He has already served more than six years as his case has cycled again and again through the criminal justice system. Haley gave her account of the assault at two trials.
"The unthinkable was happening," Haley testified last year, dabbing her eyes.
Haley, who has also gone by the name Mimi Haleyi, is planning to speak at Weinstein's sentencing, her lawyer, Gloria Allred, said. Weinstein will also address the court, his spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, said.
The Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" and "Shakespeare in Love" producer was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison after a jury convicted him of assaulting Haley and raping an aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, in 2013.
But New York's highest court erased those guilty verdicts in 2024, ruling that Weinstein was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren't part of the case.
Tried for a second time last year, Weinstein was again
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Sep 22, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight over Missouri's congressional map returned to the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time late Tuesday, after an appeals court ordered the revival of new districts backed by President Donald Trump.
The new map was drawn to help Republicans gain a U.S. House seat in the pivotal midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress. The Supreme Court has twice blocked efforts to use it in November.
The latest emergency appeal comes after an unusual federal appeals court ruling that ordered a last-minute return to a GOP-friendly map even after the Supreme Court halted such a move.
The justices had left in place a Missouri Supreme Court decision requiring the state to use its previous map. The state court ruled that the new districts could not take effect unless voters approved them in a statewide referendum.
The U.S. Supreme Court gave supporters of the new map until midday Wednesday to respond to the latest appeal.
The dispute has caused confusion for over a million potential voters who could be shuffled among districts. Absentee voting already is underway in Missouri using districts adopted in 2022, after the last census.
The new congressional map backed by Trump significantly reshapes a Kansas City-based district held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. Republicans hope the map could help them win seven of the state's eight House seats — one more than they currently hold.
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Sep 22, 2026
BENGALURU, India (AP) — This year's powerful El Nino and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday.
The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate Impact Lab says that as many as 451,000 more heat-related deaths between June and the end of February could be attributed to El Nino, compared with heat deaths expected in a typical year.
The heaviest toll, the group says, is expected in poorer countries, already struggling with food insecurity and high energy costs, partly due to climate change and the fallout of the war in Iran.
Michael Greenstone, a co-founder of the group and the study's co-author, said the heat danger will likely persist beyond February — even though this El Nino is expected to end by then. The fallout of the weather phenomenon could be felt well into next summer, he added.
The research, he said, shows that heat is most dangerous in places that are already hot and relatively poor.
"If you're already in a hot place, the extra couple of degrees are going to be much more dangerous," he said. Wealthier places, he added, generally have greater access to air conditioning, reliable water supplies and functioning health systems.
The study combined seasonal temperature forecasts with locali
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Sep 22, 2026
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News' David Muir, French President Emmanuel Macron said the "main objective" of his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday was "to find the right deal in order to open" the Strait of Hormuz and address the escalating global energy crisis that has caused the price of gas, diesel and jet fuel to spike.
Macron told Muir that when the war started, "the Iranian regime discovered they had this card in their hands," in their ability to close the strait. When asked whether that was a "blind spot" for Trump, Macron responded "I will not here blame anybody. We are where we are. I think the U.S -- I mean, your country -- is the one able to fix this issue, and we need you."
He added that the situation with the strait "was probably underestimated, and today we have to fix this issue."
ABC News - PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with David Muir, anchor for ABC World News Tonight in New York City.Iran live updates: Trump says team met with Iran delegation at UNWhen Muir asked the French president whether he would offer up his nation's military to help reopen the strait, Macron replied, "I don't want to engage in a confrontation with any country, but we are ready to be more engaged in order to protect some capacities in order to make this transit possible, yes."
Macron also criticized the decision to go to war in the first place, saying "Having a regime change by bombing a country is not something I think feasible." He added, "And for me, it's not a good option, because it doesn't work. And we did this mistake
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Sep 22, 2026
Hurricane Polo has exploded into a monstrous Category 5 storm with 180-mph winds, becoming the second-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the eastern Pacific as it threatens Mexico's southwestern coast with life-threatening floods and mudslides.
The National Hurricane Center said Polo was still strengthening after rapidly intensifying on Tuesday. The storm is expected to remain "extremely dangerous" for the next several days as it tracks northwestward over an ocean environment loaded with extremely warm water, abundant moisture and low wind shear.
"Therefore even more strengthening is possible," the hurricane center warned, raising the prospect of an even more powerful storm as Polo continues feeding on the overheated Pacific.
Hurricane Polo threatens flash floods and mudslides. PBS
The fearsome storm churns off Mexico. PBS
Atmospheric scientist Matthew Cappucci offered a jaw-dropping description of the hurricane's explosive development when h
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Sep 22, 2026
(Bloomberg) -- As Donald Trump took an aggressive stance on the global stage at the United Nations on Tuesday, several Senate Republicans were breaking from the president back in Washington.
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Sep 22, 2026
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a custody dispute between a California couple and surrogate who gave birth to a child last month with a rare and serious heart defect.
Justice Elena Kagan rejected the emergency appeal from the woman, McKenna West, who had asked the justices to halt a California court order declaring the couple, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, to be the child's parents.
Kagan handles emergency appeals arising from California and other states in the region.
The legal battle involves a surrogacy contract Gilkar and Ahmed entered into with West, which allowed the couple to demand an abortion for a baby diagnosed with a fetal abnormality, according to court filings.
West, who lives in Alaska, became pregnant with a baby boy in December. But in April, a 20-week anatomy scan showed the baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe, life-threatening heart defect that prevents normal blood flow through the heart, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
After receiving the diagnosis, Gilkar and Ahmed requested West obtain an abortion, according to court filings. West refused and traveled to Texas, where she gave birth last month. She calls the baby Gabriel, and Gilkar and Ahmed named him Rumi. Texas bans abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.
Before the baby was born, the California couple asked a state court to confirm their parentage of the child. The California court
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Sep 22, 2026
More than 100 people say they suffered brain injuries from a Six Flags roller coaster in the last two years alone, following a CNN investigation last month that linked the world-famous ride to life-altering injuries and deaths.
Six Flags "has been willingly gambling with people's lives… No ride like that should be allowed to exist," civil attorney Christopher Bulone said at a news conference Tuesday, announcing the filing of three lawsuits against the amusement company this week.
X2 has long been the marquee attraction at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California, drawing thrill-seekers from around the world with its rotating seats, near-vertical drops and unpredictable movements.
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Allegations that the roller coaster has injured riders date back more than a decade but had been largely kept under wraps until CNN's investigation last month documenting more than a dozen reports of serious injuries and hospitalizations associated with the ride, including at least two deaths. Most recently, two women ended up in the same Santa Clarita emergency room after riding X2 just six days apart in July.
Attorneys said Tuesday that in the wake of CNN's reporting, they now represent more than 100 clients who allege brain injuries of varying severity sustained after riding X2 in the last two years. Attorneys added they heard from hundreds of other riders who were either ineligible to sue due to the statute of limitations, had injuries that were not brain-related or did not have proof of medical treatment. CNN was not able to independently verify the claims of riders who recently came forward.
Two of the lawsuits filed Monday detailed the accounts of riders featured in CNN's investigation. They allege Six Flags officials had ample notice of t
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Sep 22, 2026
President Trump threatened the annihilation of Iran if its leaders refuse to strike a deal and framed the U.S. as conquerors of Venezuela, while promoting himself as a problem solver in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
"To the victor go the spoils," Trump told the crowd, touting an oil deal with Venezuela after he launched a military operation removing its authoritarian leader in January.
The president's remarks at the global summit kicked off a whirlwind day that included a secret meeting between U.S. officials and the Iranian delegation, with the two sides at an impasse nearly seven months into the war.
Trump also signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that ended a standoff over his threats to invade or annex the Arctic island.
Here are five takeaways from Trump's appearance at the U.N.
US, Iran meet on sidelines
U.S. officials met with the Iranian delegation for three hours on Tuesday, Trump told reporters, pointing to his top envoy for negotiations Steve Witkoff. The president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attended the meeting.
"I feel very good right now," Witkoff said, hesitating to answer reporters' questions about the talks.
Iranian officials
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Sep 22, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, "You should not be here."
"It's an honor to be here," Trump said as he entered U.N. doors Tuesday ahead of his speech to the General Assembly and faced Kaitlan Collins of CNN, a frequent target of his ire. "I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me. You should not be here covering me. You said you weren't going to cover me."
As Collins noted later on air, CNN said nothing of the kind. The administration had banned CNN from White House grounds days earlier — along with MS NOW and Politico — and removed the network from pool duty. But CNN had been admitted into the U.N. as regularly credentialed media.
In any case, the tense moment was a stark reminder of how dramatically the bitter conflict between Trump and news outlets whose coverage he objects to as "fake news" has escalated in just a few days.
The current ban was the subject of a joint lawsuit filed Monday by the three outlets, aski
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Sep 22, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country in 2027 to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday, as it continues to transform a program that at one point served as a pathway to safety for people fleeing war and strife from countries around the world.
In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African government has repeatedly rejected the idea that the white South Africans, who are Afrikaners, are a persecuted minority in the home country.
The Trump administration has dramatically altered a refugee program that historically enjoyed strong bipartisan support as it welcomed tens of thousands of refugees from countries around the world to new lives in America, and instead the administration has transformed it into a vehicle to resettle white South Africans in America.
The administration told Congress in the announcement that it intended to spend about $500 million to resettle the new arrivals to the U.S.
Organizations that have historically worked to resettle refugees in new homes in America criticized the administration's decision to once again limit the program to white South Africans.
"For more than four decades, America's refugee program has provided a lifesaving pathway for people fleeing violence and persecution," said Naomi Steinberg, HIAS vice president for refugee and immigration policy and advocacy, in a statement. "But again, this administration
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Sep 22, 2026
President Trump said Tuesday that he would support banning exports of diesel fuel.
"I've said let's not send out the diesel," the president said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "We make a lot of diesel. It could have a little bit of an effect on regular automobile gasoline because when you do that, you know, it's a sort of a flow. It's a balance."
Trump added, "But no, I've called for it. I've called for it within my people. I've been talking about it."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he's examining whether a diesel export ban is feasible, given overall refining capacity and whether a full or partial ban would work.
The national average price of diesel fuel has surged to an all-time record of $6.52 per gallon, according to AAA, a staggering 77% increase compared to this time last year.
Driven primarily by global supply crunches from the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the sudden spike is acting as a massive tax on the US supply chain, which is heavily reliant on diesel to move goods. Because diesel is the economy's primary industrial fuel, its high cost is spilling over into consumer prices nationwide.
Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, posted on X, "this will backfire and is not good."
"U.S. diesel prices are determined not by a U.S. supply and demand bala
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Sep 22, 2026
A U.S. postal worker has been charged with throwing away 300 mail-in ballots in Utah. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images file)WASHINGTON — An overwhelmed U.S. postal worker in Utah threw 300 mail-in ballots into a parking lot dumpster shortly before the state's June 23 primary election in which both Democrats and Republicans were on the ballot, Justice Department officials said Tuesday.
The 34-year-old mail carrier told investigators that he did not have a political agenda and that he tossed other mail when he ditched the ballots, Melissa Holyoak, U.S. attorney for the District of Utah, said. She said roughly 95% of voters do so by mail in the state, and it wasn't clear yet whether they were able to eventually cast ballots.
According to a government memo, Damon Matai Seei told investigators that he wanted to toss out advertisements to "lighten his workload" after feeling overwhelmed.
"He claims he simply made a ‘poor decision' out of ‘frustration' and ‘laziness,'" the memo said. He didn't intend to toss any ballots, they said. Seei is no longer with the U.S. Postal Service. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of destruction and delay of mail.
Justice Department officials held a news conference in Washington to announce the charge as part of its efforts to promote "election integrity." Federal prosecutors have made possible voter fraud —
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Sep 22, 2026
By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to make the case for his war on Iran, arguing he has prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and warning that he could "annihilate the Islamic Republic" if no deal is reached to end the conflict.
While predicting his administration would strike a peace ?deal with Iran following the November 3 US midterm elections, Trump called on other nations to join America in isolating Iran economically to force it to the negotiating table.
"I have a big decision to ?make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before?" Trump said. "Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?"
He ?later told reporters at the United Nations that US officials had held a "very good" three-hour meeting with the Iranian delegation on Tuesday. He subsequently appeared to clarify that special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had met with mediators rather than Iranian officials directly.
"Steve and Jared had a very productive meeting today with mediators of Iran, merely mediators," he told reporters at the start of a meeting with Gulf leaders at the UN. "Let's see what happens with that."
Since returning to office last year for a second term, Trump has sent waves through the global order, joining Israel to attack Iran, ordering a raid on Venezuela that captured the country's leader, and threatening to seize Greenland.
In a 37-minute speech ahead of a whirlwind diplomatic schedule that ?included meetings with the leaders of Britain, Ukraine and Japan, Trump
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Sep 22, 2026
Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as part of an investigation into "the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment or access by domestic and foreign interests" that Curtis is urging the senators to open.
Curtis' letter comes after he posted a video on X Friday saying that reports that Donald Trump Jr.'s two-day wedding afterparty in May had been funded by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin "stink" and are "corruption." He promised further action on the topic.
Brendan Moran/Sportsfile | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images - PHOTO: Donald Trump Jr | Hunter BidenPresident Donald Trump said last week that his son had repaid the oligarch for the afterparty costs, though no evidence of that alleged repayment has been publicly offered.
"As I understand it, he paid them back. He didn't want to have that, so I hear he paid them back. A person that he knows pretty, I guess a friend of his, gave him a wedding party. That's very common," the president said.
"The country should not have to accept one standard for the family of a Republican president and another for the family of a Democratic president. Nor should congressional
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Sep 22, 2026
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Archaeologists have found a fragment of cuneiform recording the Treaty of Kadesh, which was signed by Egypt's Ramesses II and the Hittite king Hattusili III around 1269 B.C. | Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old fragment of the world's oldest known peace treaty, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced.
The agreement, known as the Treaty of Kadesh, was signed around 1269 B.C. by Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II and Hittite king Hattusili III. Other parts of the treaty have already been found, but the new fragment was unearthed during an excavation at Hattusha, in north-central Turkey.
"We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old, in the soil of Anatolia," Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey's minister of culture and tourism, said in a Sept. 21 translated statement. The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the treaty related to the treatment of refugees, according to the statement. "It reminds us of our responsibility to protect human life and dignity," Ersoy said.
Archaeologists unearthed the fragment from a building in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha. The Hittite Empire controlled central Anatolia from about 1650 to 1200 B.C. during the Bronze Age. Archaeologist
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Sep 22, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas — The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin on Sunday, leaving a bullet lodged in his back, was issued a body camera but was not wearing it during the shooting, two officials with the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News.
The officials said it was not clear why the officer was not wearing his body camera. Another ICE officer who was in the same vehicle was wearing a body camera, the officials said. That camera captured partial footage of the incident, but the footage does not include the moment of the shooting, the officials said.
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was shot early Sunday afternoon by an ICE officer while making deliveries as a DoorDash driver. He was taken to a hospital and, four hours after he was shot, was taken into immigration custody at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, his attorney said. The bullet remains in his back.
On Tuesday, a federal judge granted an emergency order temporarily blocking deportation proceedings against Garcés Pérez, according to his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.
The Travis County District Attorney's Office also sent a letter to DHS and ICE leadership requesting that Garcés Pérez be allowed to remain in the country since he is "a material witness" in their criminal investigation into the shooting.
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis shared on Tuesday evening some of the first video footage obtained by the department as part on their probe into the shooting. The videos came from an off-duty officer who captured part of the encounter betw
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Sep 22, 2026
The Paramount logo is displayed on the water tower at Paramount Studios on December 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. - Mario Tama/Getty Images
Paramount has cleared the final hurdle in its year-long race to take over Warner Bros. Discovery. Now comes the really hard part.
In the coming weeks, Paramount will take control of CNN and scores of other Warner assets like HBO, DC Comics, and the Discovery Channel.
Integrating all the channels, studios and streamers will take a while. While Paramount executives have had months to think through the possibilities, the work of turning two sprawling media empires into one company is only beginning.
"There's still work to get this deal across the finish line," Paramount CEO David Ellison told staffers in a memo, "but we're excited to bring these two iconic companies together, as it means more opportunity for our creatives, production crews and employees across the business, and more great entertainment for audiences everywhere."
Ellison sent the memo after a coalition of state attorneys general agreed to drop their antitrust lawsuit in exchange for relatively modest concessions.
David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount P
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Sep 22, 2026
Hundreds of consumers are suing the manufacturers of GLP-1 receptor agonists, alleging the medications may increase the risk of a rare form of vision loss.
The patients behind the lawsuits allege that the medications caused NAION (nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy), according to The Wall Street Journal.
NAION is a rare eye condition in which blood flow to the optic nerve is suddenly reduced, leading to sudden vision loss.
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It is the most common cause of acute optic nerve injury in adults over age 50, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the National Eye Institute, which describes it as an "eye stroke."
"The problem with NAION is there's no treatment," Dr. Douglas Lazzaro, an ophthalmologist at NYU Langone Health, told Fox News Digital. "So it can cause some very profound vision loss."
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Hundreds of consumers are suing the manufacturers of GLP-1 receptor agonists, alleging the medications may increase the risk of a rare form of vision loss.The companies in question, Novo Nordisk (maker of Ozempic and Wegovy) and Eli Lilly (maker of Mounjaro a
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Sep 22, 2026
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President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday to launch a pointed attack on the International Criminal Court, calling it a "rogue institution" and urging every country that belongs to the tribunal to withdraw.
"I call on all nations that are members of the ICC to officially resign from this rogue institution immediately," Trump said during his speech in New York.
Trump called the ICC an "evil group of people" and said the United States would not permit American service members or others to face what he described as "show trials" before an "anti-American tribunal" that he said has no jurisdiction over the United States.
His remarks came as his administration is preparing its most sweeping action yet against the court.
Newsmax reported Sunday, citing The Wall Street Journal, that the Trump administration is preparing sanctions against the ICC itself that could potentially cut the Hague-based institution off from much of the global financial system.
Under the proposal described by the Journal, most transactions involving the ICC could be prohibited following a six- to seven-month grace period, potentially making it difficult for the court to conduct transactions in U.S. dollars.
A final decision had not been made as of Sunday, but U.S. officials told the Journal the sanctions could be finalized as soon as this week, while world leaders are gathered in New York for the General Assembly, or shortly afterward.
The proposed measures would mark an escalation from sanctions already imposed by the Trump administration against individual ICC officials.
According to Newsmax, those previously targeted include former ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, ICC President Tomoko Akane, several ju
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Sep 22, 2026
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, Texas, on Sunday was not wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News.
An ICE officer shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old native of Venezuela who federal officials said has a deportation order, in the upper torso on Sunday afternoon while Garces Perez was working for DoorDash, according to local authorities and his attorney.
The shooting was the latest involving federal agents enforcing President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and has sparked protests in Texas, as well as calls for accountability and a transparent, independent investigation.
The lack of body camera footage from the ICE officer who shot Garces Perez — a detail first reported by The Atlantic — is likely to escalate concerns about the shooting.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had said earlier this month that all ICE officers would be equipped with body cams by the end of September.
"We're getting close," Mullin said at a press conference in New York. "By the end of September, I'm pretty sure we will be there."
Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to inquiries on the ICE officer not wearing a body camera.
Garces Perez's medical condition has also been subject of controversy. Following his hospitaliz
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Sep 22, 2026
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., raised concerns during an interview published Tuesday about how her race and gender could factor into a potential 2028 presidential bid.
"Pretty candidly, I think about my identity," Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with The New York Times. "I'm not naïve to the fact that we are living under a very regressive administration, and I happen to be a woman, and I, you know, happen to be Latina. And I think that there's a lot of conversation about electability, and I don't kind of shy away from those realities."
The progressive congresswoman said of a possible White House run, "I think about it personally."
"I am 36, I'm about to turn 37 years old — and what that means for my life," she added.
Aoc, Asked About Running For President, Says Her Ambition Is 'Way Bigger Than That'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., arrives ahead of the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York on Sept. 11, 2026."This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?" she told the Times. "That doesn't make it impossible, but to act as though it's not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism."
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Ocasio-Cortez said the discussion around race and gender
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Sep 22, 2026
By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island.
The agreement, ?signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's demand that the US adopt Greenland as a US territory ?to head off the growing Arctic presence of Russia and China.
But the deal does permit a greater US military presence on the icy territory, an option that emerged as Greenland leaders argued against a complete US ?takeover.
A text of the deal released after the signing event said the US can establish a "Golden Dome" defense system in Greenland as a shield against ballistic missile threats. The shortest route from Europe to North America runs via the Arctic island, which is the location of the northernmost US military base.
In his speech to the assembled world leaders at the UN before the signing ceremony, Trump said the agreement gives the US "permanent control over security and all other needs on that territory."
"No US adversary will ever be permitted to establish a military ?presence in Greenland any more, or make sensitive investments there ?without our express written approval," Trump said.
Trump signed the agreement along with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen in a trilateral ceremony after Trump gave his UN speech.
Frederiksen described the agreement as a deal that can "last forever" and said it ?underlines the importance of the NATO alliance and respects Greenland's right to self-determination.
A STRONG NATO
Nielsen emphasized the importance of NATO in the Arctic region. "We believe that it is vital to keep NATO strong, also in the
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Sep 22, 2026
By Gram Slattery, Parisa Hafezi and Antoni Slodkowski
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington and Tehran were moving toward a settlement, while a senior Iranian official said Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within days if the US eased military pressure and lifted its blockade on Iranian ports.
Trump's remarks came just hours after ?he repeated a threat at the UN General Assembly to annihilate Iran if it failed to strike a deal.
Speaking after a meeting with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham at the United Nations ?in New York, Trump said: "They want to talk to us. They have been talking to us, even today they've been talking to us, and the relationship is developing.
"But we can't let them - and they understand that - we can't let them have a nuclear weapon."
He gave ?no details on the talks. No face-to-face meetings between Iran and the United States are known to have taken place since July, when an agreement on an interim deal to end the war collapsed weeks after it was signed.
Earlier, in a combative speech to the UN, Trump gave no sign of readiness to compromise. He called for Iran's complete economic isolation and said he believed a deal would be done after November's midterm elections "because it doesn't make sense for them not to. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election."
Trump faces growing domestic discontent over the unpopular Iran war, rising energy costs and stubbornly elevated inflation.
Iran had earlier signalled a willingness to ?revive negotiations to end their almost seven-month-old conflict, with the presidents of both ?countries due at the UN for the annual gathering.
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Sep 22, 2026
By Bo Erickson and Christy Santhosh
WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is halting enrollment in Obamacare health plans for more than 760,000 people it believes were fraudulently signed up, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday, part of an anti-fraud effort he ?estimated would save $2.2 billion in taxpayer money.
The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services canceled about 315,000 plans last month, citing unverified citizenship or ?immigration documentation and suspected improper enrollments.
The agency will bar 569 brokers it accused of submitting "statistically implausible rates of plan year 2026 applications" without necessary applicant information such as a Social Security number.
The ?plans, created by Democratic President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act, offer income-based subsidies. Republican President Donald Trump sought unsuccessfully in his first term to overturn the law and has proposed changes that would make the plans less comprehensive.
Millions dropped coverage this year as rising medical costs and the expiration of extra COVID-era subsidies made monthly premiums unaffordable.
Vance described the canceled group as "a mix of both phantom people, but also real people who just don't meet the eligibility requirements," including some he ?said who were signed up by brokers without their ?knowledge.
Vance said the administration would further verify between 419,000 and 450,000 more people to confirm they are legal US residents meeting income thresholds.
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz said the enrollees were treated as "phantoms" because officials believe most either do not exist or ?were unaware they had coverage, having never filed a claim and being unreachable despite repeated contact attempts.
BROKER REGISTRATION FREEZE
The administration is using an emergency-style rulemaking process to impose an immediate, indus
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Sep 22, 2026
Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as part of an investigation into "the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment or access by domestic and foreign interests" that Curtis is urging the senators to open.
Curtis' letter comes after he posted a video on X Friday saying that reports that Donald Trump Jr.'s two-day wedding afterparty in May had been funded by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin "stink" and are "corruption." He promised further action on the topic.
Brendan Moran/Sportsfile | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images - PHOTO: Donald Trump Jr | Hunter BidenPresident Donald Trump said last week that his son had repaid the oligarch for the afterparty costs, though no evidence of that alleged repayment has been publicly offered.
"As I understand it, he paid them back. He didn't want to have that, so I hear he paid them back. A person that he knows pretty, I guess a friend of his, gave him a wedding party. That's very common," the president said.
"The country should not have to accept one standard for the family of a Republican president and another for the family of a Democratic president. Nor should congressional
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Sep 22, 2026
A man is recovering from injuries he sustained Sunday morning after ICE officers mistakenly targeted him in a Chicago suburb.
In one video verified by NBC News, a Black man is seen sprawled on the street, near a curb, behind a black SUV in Evanston, Illinois. Two agents wearing ICE-style vests are seen standing over him. One of the agents has his face covered and is wearing a vest that reads "POLICE," and the other appears to be pinning the man down to the ground. The man is shouting at them and can be heard saying, "I'm a f------ U.S. citizen."
According to Evanston police, the man reported injuries to his head, neck and teeth, and officers on the scene requested an ambulance.
Police said they are investigating the incident, which was recorded by bystanders and gained attention after being posted on social media.
One bystander in the background of the video is heard saying the ICE officers used force against the man. Other bystanders begin shouting at the man on the ground, asking him if he is OK. The ICE officers eventually get in the black SUV and drive off, leaving the man on the ground. The bystanders begin trying to help the man and call Evanston police.
"I saw two agents pinning down a gentleman. They were using very rough force on him, and it looked like they really did hurt him because we had to call 911," Miguel Angel Olivares, one of the people who witnessed the encounter, told NBC Chicago on Monday.
"When we saw him, he had his jaw swollen and he had a little blood on his shirt. I'm not sure if it was the agent's or it was his blood," Olivares said.
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Sep 22, 2026
The Pentagon is altering the promotion process to get to the rank of general in an effort to "cut bureaucracy and demand true meritocracy" across the senior ranks, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday.
In a video posted to social media, Hegseth declared the Defense Department this year will roll out the Joint Warfighter Evaluation, a new battlefield-style assessment for eligible colonels and Navy captains. The evaluation is intended to screen the officers aimed for one-star general or admiral on "their ability to fight, adapt, and win," according to Hegseth.
"While the backbone of our military is our NCOs [noncommissioned officers] and our petty officers, victory depends on the commanders who lead them," Hegseth said in the video.
"America needs warfighters who can master a chaotic battle space," he added, later noting that commanders should be chosen by "proven competence, not paper credential."
He likened the new evaluation to the Louisiana Maneuvers — a mass series of military exercises done directly before the U.S. entered World War II, during which roughly 400,000 troops conducted a wargame to evaluate America's training, logistics and commanders.
Hegseth said such testing brought out leaders like former President Eisenhower, a five-star Army general who planned and carried out the Allied assault on the coast of Normandy and the liberation of Western Europe; Army Gen. Omar Bradley, the first chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who eventually oversaw the U.S. military's policymaking in the Korean War; and Ad
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By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the ?strategically located and mineral-rich island.
The agreement, signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's ?demand that the US adopt Greenland as a US territory to head off the growing Arctic presence of Russia and China.
But the deal does permit a greater US military presence on ?the icy territory, an option that emerged as Greenland leaders argued against a complete US takeover.
A text of the deal released after the signing event said the US can establish a "Golden Dome" defense system in Greenland as a shield against ballistic missile threats. The shortest route from Europe to North America runs via the Arctic island, which is the location of the northernmost US military base.
In his speech to the assembled world leaders at the UN before the signing ceremony, ?Trump said the agreement gives the US "permanent control over ?security and all other needs on that territory."
"No US adversary will ever be permitted to establish a military presence in Greenland any more, or make sensitive investments there without our express written approval," Trump said.
Trump signed the agreement along with ?Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen in a trilateral ceremony after Trump gave his UN speech.
Frederiksen described the agreement as a deal that can "last forever" and said it underlines the importance of the NATO alliance and respects Greenland's right to self-determination.
A STRONG NATO
Nielsen emphasized the importance of NATO in the ?Arctic ?region. "We believe that it is vital to keep NATO strong, also in th
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Sep 22, 2026
Washington — President Trump defended his handling of conflicts around the world in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying he could "annihilate" Iran while predicting that its leaders would make a deal to end the war after the U.S. midterm elections.
He framed his approach to foreign policy over his first two years back in office as deploying American power to solve "decades of intractable challenges" that previous U.S. leaders have failed to address.
"I do not believe in letting problems fester. They only become harder to solve. So while others have talked, I have acted," he said.
The roughly 35-minute speech came before Mr. Trump is set to meet with other world leaders on the sidelines of the annual U.N. gathering, including the prime minister of the U.K. and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He is navigating several ongoing international conflicts beyond the war with Iran, which will hit its seven-month mark next week. Mr. Trump is also seeking to close a peace plan for the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, and has struggled to bring Russia's invasion of Ukraine to an end.
In his remarks, the president justified his decision to begin the war with Iran, framing it as an effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. After recounting the run-up to the war and the failed negotiations to end the fighting over the past several months, Mr. Trump said he has "a big decision to make."
"Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle Eas
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Sep 22, 2026
Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website that in part removed multiple prominent references to President Donald Trump. ©Douglas R. CliffordFlorida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week, stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump as the president's approval ratings hit new lows.
Donalds' campaign website was previously dominated by references to his Trump endorsement. A button to "Chip in to Support Trump Endorsed Byron Donalds" was at the top of the homepage. "TRUMP-ENDORSED Proven Conservative Fighter. BYRON DONALDS" was the page's main text. A yellow banner reading "ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP!" marked the middle of the homepage and a prominent section quoting Trump's 2025 endorsement said "RUN, BYRON, RUN!"
All of those mentions were stripped away from his updated website. His campaign also removed a photo of Donalds and wife Erika Donalds posing with Trump.
Trump's endorsement is now only listed in a rolling banner of conservative endorsements from others, including Elon Musk, Sen. Rick Scott, Speaker Mike Johnson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Charlie Kirk and others, with no outsize prominence on the website's homepage. Trump's endorsement and Donalds' photo with the president are now featured on a separate endorsements landing page instead.
On a landing page detailing Donalds' agenda, the con
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Sep 22, 2026
Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website that in part removed multiple prominent references to President Donald Trump. ©Douglas R. CliffordFlorida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week, stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump as the president's approval ratings hit new lows.
Donalds' campaign website was previously dominated by references to his Trump endorsement. A button to "Chip in to Support Trump Endorsed Byron Donalds" was at the top of the homepage. "TRUMP-ENDORSED Proven Conservative Fighter. BYRON DONALDS" was the page's main text. A yellow banner reading "ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP!" marked the middle of the homepage and a prominent section quoting Trump's 2025 endorsement said "RUN, BYRON, RUN!"
All of those mentions were stripped away from his updated website. His campaign also removed a photo of Donalds and wife Erika Donalds posing with Trump.
Trump's endorsement is now only listed in a rolling banner of conservative endorsements from others, including Elon Musk, Sen. Rick Scott, Speaker Mike Johnson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Charlie Kirk and others, with no outsize prominence on the website's homepage. Trump's endorsement and Donalds' photo with the president is now featured on a separate endorsements landing page instead.
On a landing page detailing Donalds' agenda, the cong
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Sep 22, 2026
Former President Clinton is knocking President Trump's plans for a triumphal arch and the efforts to put his name on the Kennedy Center, saying that global challenges would be more easily dealt with if leaders "didn't care as much about who got the credit."
The 42nd president delivered opening remarks at the opening of the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York on Tuesday. As he took to the lectern, Clinton quickly referenced Trump's recent announcement that plans for a massive arch bridging Washington and Virginia would incorporate a "top grade military complex" that would be used to store drones.
"I think it's important to take a few minutes to assess where we are now and the environment in which we are meeting," Clinton said.
"I suppose I could take my entire allotted time to discuss the self-evident wisdom of building an Arc de Triomphe in Washington to hold all our drones," the former president said to laughs from the audience.
"Some of this stuff — it's hard to make up," he added.
"Over the course of a lifetime, there are only so many real opportunities to make decisions that we know will shape our personal history and the history of those we live with and care about for a long time to come. This is one of those moments," he said, before mentioning the Kennedy Center board's attempts to inscribe Trump's name on the historic Washington building.
Last week, a federal
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Sep 22, 2026
Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Venezuelan man who spent Sunday night in an ICE detention center with a bullet lodged in his back after ?being shot by a federal immigration agent in Austin, Texas, has ?been taken back to a hospital, according to public statements from his lawyer on Monday night.
"I have finally ?received notice that Wilber was taken back to another hospital to receive treatment regarding paralysis in his left side," wrote Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, the attorney for Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, on her social media accounts.
Lincoln-Goldfinch added that she would visit him first ?thing on Tuesday morning.
During a ?news conference on Monday, Lincoln-Goldfinch introduced a man who phoned in as Perez, who said he had been transferred to an ICE processing ?facility about 130 miles southwest of Austin on Sunday after a few hours in the hospital following the shooting.
On the Monday call, Perez, 28, said that he was still ?bleeding ?and was not receiving adequate medical care.
"I'm ?not doing well because of the ?gunshot I received," he said in Spanish, adding that he had to sleep on the floor at the detention center.
He said he had been out working as a DoorDash food delivery driver on Sunday when his car was sideswiped by the agents, who he said did not identify themselves or turn on any ?sort of lights or siren.
Perez said that an ?agent shot him while he was still in ?his car and that there ?had been no foot chase. Austin police said on Sunday that ?he had run from agents.
The Department ?of Homeland Security did ?not respond to requests for comment on Monday or Tuesday. DHS on Sunday released a written statement saying that Perez was in the US ?illegally and that he ?had a final order of remo
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Sep 22, 2026
The fallout from President Trump's decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House continued on Monday, with the news organizations filing a federal lawsuit, other outlets dropping their coverage in protest and the administration launching a live YouTube stream branded "TRUMP TV."
In response to the ban, four major TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News — refused to participate in the White House pool, the rotating group of reporters, photographers and videographers that document the president's public events. CNN had been scheduled to serve as the television pool on Monday.
As a result, Trump was largely inaudible during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the White House's new helipad on Monday, where he gave a brief speech without the microphone that the pool would typically provide.
On Monday night, the White House launched a Trump TV YouTube stream. Branded "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station," the White House said in its description that it would run videos and highlights of "the Trump Administration's biggest moments all in one place." The first video showed Trump's remarks on July 3 at Mount Rushmore.
The three banned news organizations filed a lawsuit against Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court earlier Monday, dem
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Sep 22, 2026
The fallout from President Trump's decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House continued on Monday, with the news organizations filing a federal lawsuit, other outlets dropping their coverage in protest and the administration launching a live YouTube stream branded "TRUMP TV."
In response to the ban, four major TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News — refused to participate in the White House pool, the rotating group of reporters, photographers and videographers that document the president's public events. CNN had been scheduled to serve as the television pool on Monday.
As a result, Trump was largely inaudible during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the White House's new helipad on Monday, where he gave a brief speech without the microphone that the pool would typically provide.
On Monday night, the White House launched a Trump TV YouTube stream. Branded "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station," the White House said in its description that it would run videos and highlights of "the Trump Administration's biggest moments all in one place." The first video showed Trump's remarks on July 3 at Mount Rushmore.
The three banned news organizations filed a lawsuit against Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court earlier Monday, demanding that access for their reporters be immediately restored.
"This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes," CNN, MS NOW and Politico sa
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Sep 22, 2026
President Donald Trump gave his highly anticipated U.N. General Assembly speech Tuesday morning in front of a standing room only crowd.
However, as Trump spoke about the last six months of Iran military strikes, that country's U.N. delegates walked out of the assembly.
Trump told the gathering of world leaders in New York City that he had a "big decision" coming up on Iran.
"Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before?" Trump asked.
"Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?" The president continued: "Do I drive them into hell?"
Trump said he believes Tehran will "make a deal right after the [midterm] election" in November.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are in New York for the annual meeting but didn't attend Trump's speech. However, their staff and delegates watched the beginning of Trump's speech then exited the General Assembly 10 minutes into his remarks. Only one Iranian delegate remained in the hall to listen to the U.S. president.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2026As Trump spoke about Ir
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Sep 22, 2026
The 36-year-old Congresswoman said she's not basing her decisions on "deference." Screenshot
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says any decisions she makes about her political future won't be decided by "deference" — and called the years ahead a "very unique political window" as she discussed a possible White House run with The New York Times.
In a wide-ranging interview that dropped on Tuesday, AOC touched on everything from gender in politics to her own potential run for the White House to the chance the Democrats could take control of the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.
"There's an argument that some make that this is a very unique political window and, oftentimes in politics, you do only get one shot," she told The Times. "And you don't — and just in life in general — life doesn't wait for you to be ready for things. Sometimes life just makes things ready for you."
"Every element of this is something that's within consideration," she added in a phone interview last week with Times national correspondent Shane Goldmacher, who noted the congresswoman was home recovering from Covid as they spoke.
Ocasio-Cortez, 36, was a political neophyte when she was first elected to Congress eight years ago after she shockingly unseated the incumbent, political veteran Joe Crowley.
She recently made headlines for her very public fertil
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Sep 22, 2026
President Donald Trump's push to convert his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery into a military complex has complicated a required federal review process and raised new legal and safety concerns.
Trump unveiled his new national security rationale Sunday in a post on Truth Social, saying that the 250-foot-tall arch project - which he has framed for nearly a year as a tourist attraction - will now house drones, snipers and ammunition. The president said he was making the change at the request of the U.S. military.
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Critics of the plan saw echoes of Trump's shifting security case for the White House ballroom, which the administration has used to defend that project in court. But while presidents have historically had some leeway to revamp the White House grounds, the arch would stand on federal parkland more than a mile away, where Congress has set stricter rules for construction.
"There is nothing that authorizes or justifies a massive arch, even if Trump tries to disguise it as a military facility," said Rep. Jared Huffman of California, the top Democrat on a House committee that oversees federal parkland. "This is cartoonishly illegal, but he's obviously trying to find a way to do it anyway."
Aviation experts warned Monday that using drones at the planned arch site - Memorial Circle, a roundabout near Reagan National Airport - could pose risks in the airport's crowded airspace.
"Anything you add to the airspace complicates the airspace and increases the operational risk," said Tom Lintner, a former safety official at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Other military and safety experts have ques
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Sep 22, 2026
Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours the Maine Energy Marketers Association Technical Education Center in Brunswick on Sept. 3, 2026. (Photo by Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)
This story was originally published by ProPublica
In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.
For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. President Donald Trump's dismal approval ratings were dragging her down in the polls, and she was falling behind her likely 2020 Democratic challenger in fundraising.
Scott Reed, head of the Collins super PAC, was on a mission to close that gap. Reed was meeting that day with three executives from a Hawaiian defense contractor, Navatek. A year earlier, Collins had helped their company land a multimillion-dollar Navy research contract in Maine. Now, seated at a coffee shop not far from the U.S. Capitol, Reed asked them for a $500,000 donation.
Government contractors are banned from making political contributions. More consequentially, for the company to offer donations to Collins in exchange for an official action, or for Collins to accept, would constitute criminal bribery.
But the company did have such a proposal: Navatek was hungry for more government contracts in Maine. If they cut a big check, the CEO told Reed, Navatek wanted Collins to guarantee te
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Sep 22, 2026
Infographic with map showing route of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipelineYemen's Houthis on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out a spate of deadly strikes that killed civilians and prison inmates, as Riyadh seeks to repel an offensive that has seen the Iran-backed group seize strategic territory.
The recent Houthi takeover of Yemen's Red Sea coast has left hundreds dead and heightened fears over global trade and shipping through the vital Bab al-Mandab strait.
It has also forced thousands to flee, with the United Nations on Tuesday forecasting the number of displaced could swell from more than 130,000 today to over 230,000 in coming months.
The gains made by the Houthis have cemented the hold of Iran and its regional allies over two key waterways in the Middle East -- Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz -- which are major shipping arteries for global flows of energy.
Saudi Arabia, which backs Yemen's internationally recognised government, has sought to contain the Houthi advance with airstrikes on areas under their control.
The Houthis have retaliated with attacks on Saudi territory, including a strike targeting the capital Riyadh for the first time in years.
On Tuesday, the Houthis said a strike by Saudi Arabia on a prison in northwest Yemen killed nine detainees, while they also accused the Saudis of killing six civilians including two children in the port city of Mocha.
Two more civilians were killed by strikes in Yemen's Al-Jawf province, the Houthis added.
"A mother and child were killed, while her husband and two of her other children were wounded in strikes carried out by the Saudi enemy" in the Al-Batin area, Houthi media said, citing the Houthi health ministry.
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As violence has escalated, thousand
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Sep 22, 2026
Our long, hot summer is finally coming to an end this evening with the autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of fall here in the Northern Hemisphere.
At a precise moment each September, usually on the 22nd or 23rd, the sun is directly above the equator, marking the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
(South of the equator in the Southern Hemisphere, it's known as the vernal or spring equinox and marks the beginning of spring.)
But what weather will the U.S. see this fall, given the record hot August and a forecast that calls for El Niño to peak either in late fall or early winter?
Read on for the forecast and also a look back at some of the statistics that made the three-month summer so remarkable.
What time is the autumnal equinox?
The exact time of the equinox is 8:05 p.m. ET. The equinox occurs at the same moment worldwide.
The word equinox comes from the Latin words "aequalis" and "nox," meaning equal night. On the autumnal (and the spring) equinox, day and night are both roughly 12 hours long in most of the world.
This will be true Sept. 22 from as far north as Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska - north of the Arctic Circle - to as far south as Wellington, New Zealand, the world's southernmost capital city.
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Sep 22, 2026
Rev. Vidal Rivas has served at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church for almost two decades. —Dee DwyerWhen a mother returned to Maryland earlier this year after four months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, her children, ages one and four, did not recognize her at first. In her absence, they had lived with Vidal Rivas, an Episcopal priest who had agreed to be their temporary guardian if immigration authorities took her into custody.
Rivas' wife slept beside the children to soothe them while their mother was gone. When his wife became sick, Rivas took on more of the childcare.
The experience was demanding. But Rivas, 62, stands ready to do the same for 29 other children whose immigrant parents have named him as their standby guardian. Two more families are making similar arrangements with him, he says.
"I feel a lot of responsibility, and a very heavy weight," says Rivas, who has served at St. Matthews Episcopal Church in suburban Washington for nearly two decades.
Inside the church hangs a sign bearing the same message in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole: "We love migrants." For Rivas, the words have become a commitment to the families who fear an immigration arrest could suddenly separate them from their children.
Rivas began encouraging families to name him as a standby guardian last year, shortly after President Donald Trump returned to office. Nearly all of the parents are Salvadoran, like him, and have been bracing for the Trump Administration to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for roughly 170,000
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Sep 22, 2026
CANTON, Georgia - A nursing home assistant found Roselin Shankland struggling to breathe as she reached Room 204 on her morning rounds.
Shankland's pulse dropped to 34 beats a minute. Her blood pressure collapsed.
By the time Shankland reached the hospital the day after Christmas 2023, a urinary tract infection had spread to her bloodstream. Her organs were shutting down.
Six hours later, the 78-year-old retired nurse was dead.
Her death was the devastating end of a common - and often preventable - health threat facing older women. It also reflected a broader failure to provide menopausal women with a widely recommended treatment that can prevent recurrent urinary tract infections.
Menopause increases the risk of UTIs because declining estrogen changes the tissue and bacteria of the vagina and urinary tract, making it easier for harmful bacteria to grow. In older women, those infections are also more likely to spread to the bloodstream, causing sepsis, organ failure and death.
Vaginal estrogen, a low-dose treatment applied directly to the vaginal tissue as a cream, tablet or ring, can help restore those protections and prevent recurrent infections. It can cost as little as a few dollars a month. Major medical groups have recommended it for years for menopausal women with recurring UTIs, yet many women are never offered it.
Now, a peer-reviewed study of nearly 2 million women with recurrent UTIs provides striking new evidence of its potential benefits. Researchers reviewing medical records from 2017 through 2025 f
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Sep 22, 2026
Republicans are playing defense deep in their own territory as voter anger over price hikes puts more House and Senate seats in play in the midterms.
New rounds of big spending, visits from Trump administration officials and private conversations among top GOP officials overseeing the battle for control of Congress reveal a party rushing to shore up red seats and states President Donald Trump won handily in 2024.
In the House, the fight has expanded far outside the few-dozen seats considered the most competitive as Republicans start to unleash their massive warchest: Since Aug. 1, more than $110 million in ad bookings have gone toward Republican-held districts so red that Trump won them by double digits.
In the Senate, Republicans are racing to shore up Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted as the Midwest struggles under the weight of Trump's tariffs and high diesel prices. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are both expected to travel to the state before the midterms to boost Husted, according to four people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity to discuss not-yet-public plans.
GOP leaders are also trying to keep a handle on contests in Iowa and Kansas — and they've quietly begun deprioritizing Georgia and even North Carolina, which a growing number of Republicans are privately bracing for Democrats to flip.
"We need to stop the contagion," said one senior GOP official, who, like others, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the midterm landscape.
"The map is hilariously big right now," said one national Republican pollster.
Since Aug. 1, nearly two-thirds of advertising funds in House races have been booked or spent in races with GOP incumbents, according to a POLITICO analysis of data from AdImpact, which tracks political advertising.
That includes nearly $18 million to
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Sep 22, 2026
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
COPENHAGEN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is due to meet with leaders of Greenland and Denmark on Tuesday to sign a deal that will allow a larger ?US military presence on Greenland and could end a standoff over the strategically located and ?mineral-rich island.
The agreement will allow the US to expand its military footprint in Greenland, three people familiar with the matter have told ?Reuters.
In addition to the existing Pituffik Space Base, the deal is expected to open two new military sites: Narsarsuaq, a former Cold War airbase whose population has dwindled to just a few dozen, and Mestersvig, currently used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, an elite Danish special forces unit.
Greenland, a former colony and now a semi-autonomous ?territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, ?sits between the Arctic and North America and holds vast energy resources.
Trump's refusal to rule out military or economic force to acquire it triggered a diplomatic crisis in ?January within NATO and forced Denmark and the island's government into intensive negotiations.
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Trump will meet Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen at 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) at the UN General Assembly in New ?York for ?the trilateral signing ceremony.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen ?has said the agreement will place Arctic ?security under NATO's collective watch rather than leaving it to Washington and Copenhagen alone.
Trump said on Friday that the deal gives the US "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland." Denmark has not responded to Trump's assertion but has said the agreement respects the kingdom's sovereignty and Greenland's right to self-determination.
"The reason why we can conclude this agreement, which is beneficial from Greenlandic, American, and European pers
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Sep 22, 2026
FILE PHOTO - US President Donald Trump delivers a speech during an event at the Pentagon. (is associated with: «White House launches 'Trump TV' stream as media access row escalates») Andrea Hanks/White House/dpaThe White House launched its own online streaming channel, "Trump TV," on Monday as a dispute with major US media outlets escalated after President Donald Trump barred journalists from three organizations from the White House.
The channel went live on Monday evening, initially broadcasting speeches by Trump as well as footage of US military exercises accompanied by commentary praising the armed forces' capabilities.
In a post on X, the White House said the stream would run around the clock, featuring "past moments, announcements, and the latest and greatest from the administration all in one place."
No original productions or journalistic programming were initially aired. The White House has already provided a livestream of Trump's appearances for some time.
The Trump TV launch comes after Trump announced on Friday that he was revoking White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, escalating a long-running dispute with the media.
Trump accused the outlets of spreading fake news. Critics see the move as an attempt at intimidation and an attack on press freedom.
On Monday, the three outlets filed a lawsuit against the administration, saying its actions threaten "press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference."
Other major US broadcasters resp
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Sep 21, 2026
The grand jury reviewing the evidence in the death of Nolan Wells has found that no criminal charges are warranted at this point, according to the Jackson County Grand Jury Report released late Monday night.
The report says that the "position of, condition of, time of discovery, and location" of the 18-year-old's body off the coast of Mississippi this July is "consistent with drowning."
Wells vanished after he and friends had gone out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on barrier islands off the Gulf Coast. His body was recovered in the waters off Horn Island two days later.
Authorities have previously said they believe the college football player drowned, but the final determination would go to a grand jury that would review all the case materials, including the state medical examiner's completed autopsy report, to decide whether Wells' death involved a crime.
Jackson County Sheriff's Department - PHOTO: The Jackson County Sheriff's Department released this photo during the search for Nolan Xavier Wells, 18, in Mississippi.The grand jury of 23 people, convened last week, found "no credible evidence to support the public allegations" that anyone riding to or from the island that day surrounding Wells "engaged in any criminal conduct related to" his death.
The panel was comprised of what the report called a "cross section of citizens" from the area: 13 men and ten women, including "12 Caucasians, five African Americans, one Asian, two Hispanics, two Native Americans, and one individual who preferred 'other.'" Their ages ranged from 27 years old to 68 years old.
The grand jury heard from 43 witnesses and reviewed materials including physical evidence collected at the scene, digital evidence, police reports and interviews, vi
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Sep 21, 2026
The grand jury reviewing the evidence in the death of Nolan Wells has found that no criminal charges are warranted at this point, according to the Jackson County Grand Jury Report released late Monday night.
The report says that the "position of, condition of, time of discovery, and location" of the 18-year-old's body off the coast of Mississippi this July is "consistent with drowning."
Wells vanished after he and friends had gone out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on barrier islands off the Gulf Coast. His body was recovered in the waters off Horn Island two days later.
Authorities have previously said they believe the college football player drowned, but the final determination would go to a grand jury that would review all the case materials, including the state medical examiner's completed autopsy report, to decide whether Wells' death involved a crime.
Jackson County Sheriff's Department - PHOTO: The Jackson County Sheriff's Department released this photo during the search for Nolan Xavier Wells, 18, in Mississippi.The grand jury of 23 people, convened last week, found "no credible evidence to support the public allegations" that anyone riding to or from the island that day surrounding Wells "engaged in any criminal conduct related to" his death.
The panel was comprised of what the report called a "cross section of citizens" from the area: 13 men and ten women, including "12 Caucasians, five African Americans, one Asian, two Hispanics, two Native Americans, and one individual who preferred 'other.'" Their ages ranged from 27 years old to 68 years old.
The grand jury heard from 43 witnesses and reviewed materials including physical evidence collected at the scene, digital evidence, police reports and interviews, vi
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Sep 21, 2026
Last year's speech was characterized by Trump's extraordinary accusations of UN sabotage when an escalator in the New York headquarters briefly stopped working and the teleprompter glitched (TIMOTHY A. CLARY)US President Donald Trump is expected to claim he is winning both on the battlefield and as a peacemaker Tuesday in a speech to the United Nations overshadowed by growing spillover from his stalled war against Iran.
Trump will likely not hold back in renewing his frequent boasts that under him the United States is "the hottest country" in the world.
He is also expected to seek to justify the Iran war, which has so far failed to fulfil White House objectives and provoked widespread economic damage over the Strait of Hormuz's closure.
But the self-styled peacemaker could equally use the UN stage to tout his controversial efforts to end the Gaza conflict and his ongoing effort to bring more Arab countries into the Abraham Accords with Israel.
"No one knows what Trump is going to say, not even Trump's speechwriters," International Crisis Group's Daniel Forti said.
"This year, we expect more of a contrast between Trump, sort of both announcing and celebrating his record as a peacemaker versus defending his ongoing military operations around the world," said Forti.
"It's not entirely clear what reaction Trump's going to get from world leaders."
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The keynote speech at the start of the UN General Assembly High-level week will provide Trump with a big platform to renew his frequent assaults on the global body.
Last year's speech was characterized by Trump's extraordinary accusations of UN sabotage when an escalator in the New York headquarters briefly stopped working and the teleprompter glitched.
Trump has regul
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Sep 21, 2026
Protesters against Missouri's congressional redistricting plan gather outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City on May 12. - David A. Lieb/AP/File
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Missouri must use a GOP-friendly congressional redistricting plan for November's election but put that ruling on hold for a week so the Supreme Court could review the dispute.
The ruling from the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest twist in a whiplash legal wrangling over the map of the state's eight congressional districts, injecting another round of uncertainty, as it does not take effect immediately but rather sets up another round of appeals.
The Missouri Supreme Court previously said the 7-1 Republican-leaning map adopted by the legislature last year could not be used because of a referendum challenge brought against it under the state constitution. Instead, the court ordered election officials to use an older, 6-2 redistricting plan even though the 2025 plan had been used in the state's primary. The US Supreme Court declined to reverse that ruling, and it then paused a federal judge's ruling that sought to revive the 7-1 map.
The new ruling from the 8th Circuit said requiring voters to cast general election ballots on the older plan violates the US Constitution.
It relied on estimates put forward by a conservative group in the case to conclude "that more than 1.4 million Missourians could not vote for the congressional district nominees who will appear on their Nove
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Sep 21, 2026
A Venezuelan man who was shot by an immigration officer while delivering a DoorDash order in Austin, Texas, was transferred from the hospital to a detention center with a bullet still in his back, his lawyer said Monday.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot in the back by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after the officer sideswiped the 28-year-old's car early Sunday afternoon, attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch told reporters at a Monday news conference. Garces Perez was then taken to the hospital, and his family was notified four hours later that he had been taken to the South Texas Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, approximately a two-hour drive away from Austin, Lincoln-Goldfinch said.
Garces Perez spoke by phone during the news conference, saying in Spanish that he was in a lot of pain. He explained that the bullet wasn't removed because it was lodged close to his spine.
"I am not doing well, and I am not receiving the medical attention that I require," Garces Perez said, adding that he's being held in a cold room with no bed.
Lincoln-Goldfinch said her client also doesn't have access to pain medication at the detention center.
Multiple law enforcement sources told CBS News the ICE officer who allegedly opened fire at Garces Perez has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard for officers involved in pending investigations.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement late Sunday that Homeland Security Investigations, which is a part of ICE, is leading the investigation into the shooting with the assistance of the FBI. The spokesperson said Garces Perez illegally entered the United States under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal.
"This is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information becomes available,"
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Sep 21, 2026
By Stine Jacobsen, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery
COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The US plans to re-establish a Cold War-era military base in southern Greenland and set up another ?on the east coast, now used by the Danish dog sled patrol, under a deal ?to be signed with Denmark and Greenland on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The sites are Narsarsuaq, ?whose population has dwindled to a few dozen people since the US closed its Bluie West One military base in the 1950s, and Mestersvig, a military outpost used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, a Danish special forces unit, said two of the people.
Denmark, Greenland and the United States are expected to ?sign their new agreement at the ?United Nations General Assembly in New York City at 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) on Tuesday.
The text of the agreement has not been made public and the ?three people familiar with the deal, speaking on condition of anonymity, said its details will not be finalized until it is signed.
The governments of Denmark and Greenland did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters ?for ?comment.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment on the ?details of the agreement, repeating an earlier ?statement that its signing on Tuesday would "secure and defend the security of Greenland and the United States."
Denmark says the agreement puts Arctic security under the watch of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military defense alliance, rather than leaving it solely to the US and Denmark.
The deal follows months of pressure from US President Donald Trump, who has long said he wants the US to control Greenland ?and has at times refused to rule out military ?or economic force to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory. The ?idea has been rejected by an overwhelming ?majority of Greenlanders, polling shows.
Trump's threats, which peaked in January, triggered a
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Sep 21, 2026
By Stine Jacobsen, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery
COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The US plans to re-establish a Cold War-era military base in southern Greenland and set up another ?on the east coast, now used by the Danish dog sled patrol, under a deal ?to be signed with Denmark and Greenland on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The sites are Narsarsuaq, ?whose population has dwindled to a few dozen people since the US closed its Bluie West One military base in the 1950s, and Mestersvig, a military outpost used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, a Danish special forces unit, said two of the people.
Denmark, Greenland and the United States are expected to ?sign their new agreement at the ?United Nations General Assembly in New York City at 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) on Tuesday.
The text of the agreement has not been made public and the ?three people familiar with the deal, speaking on condition of anonymity, said its details will not be finalized until it is signed.
The governments of Denmark and Greenland did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters ?for ?comment.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment on the ?details of the agreement, repeating an earlier ?statement that its signing on Tuesday would "secure and defend the security of Greenland and the United States."
Denmark says the agreement puts Arctic security under the watch of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military defense alliance, rather than leaving it solely to the US and Denmark.
The deal follows months of pressure from US President Donald Trump, who has long said he wants the US to control Greenland ?and has at times refused to rule out military ?or economic force to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory. The ?idea has been rejected by an overwhelming ?majority of Greenlanders, polling shows.
Trump's threats, which peaked in January, triggered a
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Sep 21, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's trip to New York for a speech at the United Nations started Monday with a detour to Gracie Mansion for an hourlong chat — and a trip down memory lane — with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The president, appearing with Mamdani after their meeting, reminisced about his previous visits to the official residence of the city's mayors and recalled "great ones and some not so great ones" who have led the city in the past.
"Hopefully you're going to be a great one," he said, giving Mamdani a pat on the back. "And you're off to a start."
The meeting was the latest cordial encounter between the Republican president and a democratic socialist mayor, who have struck up a surprisingly warm relationship despite their lack of political overlap, and have tried to find common ground in helping the city they both love.
With scores of world leaders arriving in the city for the United Nations General Assembly, there Trump stood beside Mamdani on the lawn of the custard-yellow mayoral mansion in Manhattan.
"I have a lot of meetings right now, very important meetings with heads of different countries, but this is like a little bit of old home week for me," Trump said, adding "We've done so many things from the beautiful home or house or building standing right behind me."
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Sep 21, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's trip to New York for a speech at the United Nations started Monday with a detour to Gracie Mansion for an hourlong chat — and a trip down memory lane — with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The president, appearing with Mamdani after their meeting, reminisced about his previous visits to the official residence of the city's mayors and recalled "great ones and some not so great ones" who have led the city in the past.
"Hopefully you're going to be a great one," he said, giving Mamdani a pat on the back. "And you're off to a start."
The meeting was the latest cordial encounter between the Republican president and a democratic socialist mayor, who have struck up a surprisingly warm relationship despite their lack of political overlap, and have tried to find common ground in helping the city they both love.
With scores of world leaders arriving in the city for the United Nations General Assembly, there Trump stood beside Mamdani on the lawn of the custard-yellow mayoral mansion in Manhattan.
"I have a lot of meetings right now, very important meetings with heads of different countries, but this is like a little bit of old home week for me," Trump said, adding "We've done so many things from the beautiful home or house or building standing right behind me."
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Sep 21, 2026
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House last week. (Samuel Corum / Bloomberg via Getty Images)WASHINGTON — U.S. military leaders are divided on whether President Donald Trump should get involved with the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to two U.S. officials.
The Saudis have been asking Trump for the U.S. military to take action against the Houthis, a request that grew more urgent in recent days as the rebels claimed they shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet and were quickly advancing on Marib province, which is home to Yemen's largest oil and gas fields.
Some military leaders are making the case within the Pentagon and to Trump administration officials that opening another military front in the region is a bad idea amid concerns about the Pentagon's dwindling supply of defensive and long-range weaponry, while noting that the Houthis are not striking U.S. ships, the U.S. officials said.
Yet other military leaders are arguing in favor of strikes, saying the U.S. should help Riyadh retaliate for Houthi strikes in Saudi Arabia and the claim of downing of the F-15 — a challenge to Saudi air superiority over Yemen, the officials said. They said these military leaders are privately expressing concern that for the U.S. not to act more forcefully is a betrayal of an important regional ally.
Trump had ordered strikes against the Houthis to begin around 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time o
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Sep 21, 2026
Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.
More than 1,000 flights were canceled nationwide and over 6,000 were delayed on Monday, with Newark and Philadelphia hit the hardest.
The issues began when a circuit blew at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility Monday morning, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said. When the backup system went into place, officials discovered the backup line in New Jersey had been cut, Bedford said.
NJ Transit - PHOTO: At approximately 9:45 a.m. a construction crew working for NJ Transit on the Delco Lead project between New Brunswick and North Brunswick accidentally severed a fiber-optic cable while working at the site, September 21, 2026.Helicopter fighting Yosemite National Park fire crashes, killing 2: OfficialsIn order to change the circuit in Philadelphia, Bedford said the airspace in the Northeast would temporarily close. Ground stops were expanded to include New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport as part of the work, though airspace at those locations has since reopened.
Hours after officials said the fix to replace the circuit in Philadelphia had not worked, leaving operations still halted at Philadelphia and Newark's airports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy updated Monday evening that the telecom lines have been repaired and "all airport operations in the Northeast are resuming."
"It will take some time to clear all existi
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Sep 21, 2026
Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.
More than 1,000 flights were canceled nationwide and over 6,000 were delayed on Monday, with Newark and Philadelphia hit the hardest.
The issues began when a circuit blew at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility Monday morning, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said. When the backup system went into place, officials discovered the backup line in New Jersey had been cut, Bedford said.
NJ Transit - PHOTO: At approximately 9:45 a.m. a construction crew working for NJ Transit on the Delco Lead project between New Brunswick and North Brunswick accidentally severed a fiber-optic cable while working at the site, September 21, 2026.Helicopter fighting Yosemite National Park fire crashes, killing 2: OfficialsIn order to change the circuit in Philadelphia, Bedford said the airspace in the Northeast would temporarily close. Ground stops were expanded to include New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport as part of the work, though airspace at those locations has since reopened.
Hours after officials said the fix to replace the circuit in Philadelphia had not worked, leaving operations still halted at Philadelphia and Newark's airports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy updated Monday evening that the telecom lines have been repaired and "all airport operations in the Northeast are resuming."
"It will take some time to clear all existi
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Sep 21, 2026
By Jody Godoy and Chris Sanders
WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Critics swiftly decried a California-driven settlement with Paramount Skydance that cleared the way for its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, saying it will hurt competition in Hollywood, failed to protect jobs and lacks substantial ?concessions from the media conglomerate.
Opponents of the merger accused California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Governor Gavin Newsom of caving to wealthy interests, particularly ?Paramount CEO David Ellison, after Paramount threatened to leave the state if the lawsuit was not dropped.
"Today, billionaires have yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top," said Alvaro Bedoya, ?a former member of the US Federal Trade Commission and adviser at the American Economic Liberties Project. "Layoffs will follow. People from L.A. to Atlanta will lose their jobs, small businesses will lose their contracts, your cable bill and movie ticket will be even more expensive."
Disappointment with the settlement rippled beyond Hollywood, illustrating a growing split in the Democratic Party between moderates, who are more business-friendly, and progressives, who seek a harder line to deliver affordability for US consumers.
US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from ?Massachusetts, criticized the deal, and said Paramount is a "clear candidate ?for antitrust scrutiny in a future pro-competition administration."
"This settlement greenlights an anti-monopoly disaster that will result in higher prices and fewer jobs, and enables a handful of billionaires to call the shots in the American media," she said.
'NOT A VOTE OF ?SUPPORT'
Bonta, in a press conference on Monday, said the settlement is "not a vote of support" of the acquisition, because "it does not serve competition well." But he also argued it would amount to more production in California.
Ellison said on Monday
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Sep 21, 2026
—LAW Ho Ming—Getty ImagesThe U.S. is in the midst of a temperance boom. Drinking rates have been steadily declining nationwide, with an August Gallup poll showing that only 54% of Americans ever consume alcohol—sharply down from 67% as recently as 2010.
Now, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine takes those findings a step further, reporting that younger adults in the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts—people born from 1981 to 2012—are driving that trend. Meanwhile, older Americans, aged 50-64, are actually consuming more alcohol than they used to, with rates increasing by more than one third since 2018.
"It's encouraging to see alcohol use decline for the first time since the start of the pandemic," said lead author Dr. Brian Lee, a hepatologist and liver transplant specialist with Keck Medicine of USC, in a statement that accompanied the release of the report. "However, use remains above pre-pandemic levels and certain groups continue to have concerning trends."
Lee and his collaborators conducted their work by sifting through the responses from more than 114,000 U.S. adults who, from 2018 to 2024, participated in the National Health Interview Survey—an annual study conducted by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. The survey consists of several face-to-face interviews throughout the year. In the curr
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Sep 21, 2026
The Dome fire burning in Yosemite national park on 15 September.Photograph: National Parks Service/AP
Two helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon.
The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres since it ignited last week, when their helicopter crashed around 3pm, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Related: ‘We're near a breaking point:' firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
The pilots were employed by the aerospace company Precision and were working with a wildland firefighting crew that specializes in using ropes to descend from helicopters to reach otherwise inaccessible terrain, known as helitack rappelling.
The helicopter went down southeast of Ostrander Lake, said Benjamin Cossel, a spokesperson with the Federal Complex Incident Management Team overseeing the firefighting response.
Details about the circumstances surrounding the crash were not immediately released. The crash will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
"It is with unimaginable sadness and broken hearts that we share the loss of two beloved members of our team," Precision wrote in a social media post. "We are devastated by this loss and are struggling to find the words. We ask for privacy and compassion for their families and our team as we grieve this tremendous loss."
The names of the pilots were not immediately released.
Roughly 580 people are fighting the Dome Fire, which started on 15 Septem
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Sep 21, 2026
Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, with no estimated time for resuming service.
More than 800 flights have been canceled nationwide and over 5,000 are delayed on Monday, with Newark and Philadelphia hit the hardest.
The issues began when a circuit blew at a Philadelphia air traffic control facility Monday morning, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said. When the backup system went into place, officials discovered the backup line in New Jersey had been cut, Bedford said.
Smith Collection/gado/Gado via Getty Images - PHOTO: Multiple United Airlines jets are visible on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Newark, New Jersey, June 6, 2026.Helicopter fighting Yosemite National Park fire crashes, killing 2: OfficialsIn order to change the circuit in Philadelphia, Bedford said the airspace in the Northeast would be closing for at least 30 minutes, and ground stops were expanded to include New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport as part of the work.
Airspace has since reopened at JFK and LaGuardia, but officials said the fix to replace the circuit in Philadelphia has not worked, leaving operations still halted at Philadelphia and Newark's airports, with no time estimate for when they'll resume.
1 killed after 2 glider planes
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Sep 21, 2026
Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court, demanding that access for their reporters be immediately restored.
"This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes," CNN, MS NOW and Politico said in a joint statement on Monday. "Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference."
CNN had been scheduled to serve as the television pool on Monday. According to Politico, the four other major TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News — are declining to participate in White House pool duties moving forward in response to the ban.
According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the news outlets allege that Trump and the White House are retaliating against them for coverage they dislike.
"President Trump has said in no uncertain terms that he would prefer only to be covered by news organizations and reporters who praise his administration," the complaint states. "But the Constitution doe
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Sep 21, 2026
Burlington, Vt. (AP) — A jury on Monday convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies.
Jason Eaton faces up to life in prison in the November 2023 attack in Burlington, which paralyzed Hisham Awartani from the waist down and wounded his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid.
The men, all 20 at the time, had been visiting Awartani's grandmother for Thanksgiving. They were smoking cigarettes and speaking a mix of English and Arabic as they walked near the University of Vermont campus after dusk. Two of them were wearing traditional Palestinian scarves known as keffiyehs.
The jury deliberated for several hours before reaching its verdict after a weeklong trial that saw testimony from the three men, who recounted how their stroll ended in bloodshed, and defense and prosecution psychiatric experts who offered differing views of Eaton's mental health and criminal culpability.
Eaton, 51, stared ahead blankly as the verdict was read, standing alongside his lawyers — public defenders whom he tried to fire last week over his concerns that his defense hadn't been "adequately presented." Judge John Pacht, who blocked Eaton's midtrial bid to act as his own lawyer, ordered him jailed pending sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.
Awartani and Aliahmad watch
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Sep 21, 2026
The 2026 midterm elections are just 43 days away. All of the key primaries have been decided. With summer officially behind us, the fall campaign is now underway.
So where do things stand — nationwide — in the race to control Congress? Which party has a better chance of, you know, winning? To get a sense of that, it helps to zoom out … and geek out over some cold, hard data.
The usual caveats apply, of course. Polls aren't predictions; they're momentary snapshots of public opinion. Big events can, and often do, change the course of elections. And six weeks can be an eternity in politics.
Yet the stakes in November couldn't be higher, especially for President Trump, who has enjoyed complete Republican control of Congress for the first half of his second term. Flipping the House would give Democrats the power to block the president's agenda, investigate his administration and even impeach him (again); flipping the Senate would allow them to stymie his Supreme Court nominees too.
The state-by-state midterm landscape is finally taking shape — and a few clear polling trends are emerging. Here are the numbers to watch as Election Day nears.
The generic congressional ballot Every pollster asks a version of the same question: If an election for U.S. Congress were held today, which party's candidate would you vote for in your district? In fact, this particular polling prompt is so pervasive, it's known as the "generic ballot" (at least among pol
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Sep 21, 2026
Governor Newsom speaking into a microphone at an event, wearing a white collared shirt
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, declared a state of emergency for the entire state on Monday morning ahead of what is likely to become a historic El Niño.
"I find that conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist due to the developing El Niño event," the declaration states.
This state of emergency is not an announcement that an emergency is already ongoing, but a statement of preparation for the storms that are ahead this winter.
The declaration mobilizes state-level resources to support local mitigation and recovery efforts, while streamlining the procurement of resources needed to prepare for El Niño's impacts.
"We are not waiting for this season's storms to be on our doorstep," said Cal OES Director Caroline Thomas Jacobs in a statement from the governor's office.
(MORE: When Mother Nature strikes, local government goes to work)
"Cal OES is leading California's statewide efforts by bringing state and local partners together, conducting advance planning efforts, and identifying potential ne
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Sep 21, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them, according to current and former officials familiar with the practice.
ICE removed those detainees from its online detainee locator system on Sept. 15, according to three current and former ICE officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the change. Several lawyers contacted by The Associated Press confirmed their clients vanished from the system this week, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association warned its members about the situation Friday.
The move represents a stark departure from previous practice and highlights the hardline nature of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, leaving thousands of detainees exceedingly hard to trace and potentially unable to exercise all of their legal options.
The practice, which applies to detainees who have received final orders of removal from an immigration court, could speed deportations by making last-minute legal challenges harder to pursue, immigration lawyers said. Nearly 16,000 people who were arrested and booked into ICE detention in July were subject to final removal orders, more than a third of the overall bookings, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project based at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.
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Sep 21, 2026
Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court, demanding that access for their reporters be immediately restored.
"This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes," CNN, MS NOW and Politico said in a joint statement on Monday. "Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference."
According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the news outlets allege that Trump and the White House are retaliating against them for coverage they dislike.
"President Trump has said in no uncertain terms that he would prefer only to be covered by news organizations and reporters who praise his administration," the complaint states. "But the Constitution does not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting."
The organizations argue that their reporters were not afforded due process and are asking a federal judge to quickly rule that Trump's ban is unconstitutional.
Trump appeared to res
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Sep 21, 2026
By Mohammed Ghobari and Jana Choukeir
DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Houthi fighters pushed to seize strategic heights in Yemen on Monday to cut off the Red Sea coast from remaining areas held by Saudi-backed forces, after a report that President Donald Trump had called off US strikes on the group at the last minute.
A lightning advance by the Iran-backed ?group this month has extended the wider Middle East conflict to a new theatre and further threatened global energy supplies.
Washington has so far rebuffed repeated pleas from Saudi Arabia's Crown ?Prince Mohammed bin Salman to join the fight in Yemen. The Houthis said on Saturday they had fired on Riyadh, where loud booms were followed by columns of smoke visible near the airport.
Saudi Arabia has not commented on the first apparent strikes on ?the capital since the escalation began.
The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had prepared on Sunday to launch airstrikes against the Houthis after fresh pleas from the Saudi crown prince. But the newspaper said Trump called off the airstrikes at the last minute, even as troops were loading bombs onto aircraft.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The US military's Central Command referred questions to the White House. The White House did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Trump spoke on Sunday to Rashid al-Alimi, president of Yemen's Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government, who asked him for US military help, four sources told Reuters. Two of the sources, one ?Yemeni and one Western, said Trump made no direct pledge of military ?support during the call.
FIGHTING IN HIGHLANDS
The Houthis, who have controlled Yemen's capital since 2014, seized the country's Red Sea coast this month in an advance that routed forces of the Saudi-backed government.
Saudi Arabia has launched hundreds of strikes in recent days on the fig
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Sep 21, 2026
As college costs and student debt have Americans doubting the value of higher education, there's growing interest in high-paying jobs that don't require a degree - and in public policy supporting training for them. But six-figure jobs that skip a bachelor's degree do require more than a high school diploma and remain rare, according to an analysis released Monday by Niche, a higher education platform.
The highest salaries for workers without a bachelor's degree are typically in jobs gated by federal certification or specialized training, including commercial pilots, air traffic controllers, elevator installers and nuclear reactor operators, the study shows.
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The findings counter an emerging narrative about the prevalence of six-figure jobs in the skilled trades that don't require higher education. Politicians and business leaders have touted careers in electrical work, HVAC and plumbing earning more than $100,000, arguing that a four-year degree is unnecessary for financial security.
While those jobs offer healthy salaries, research shows their median earnings are more modest than salaries for less common occupations that don't require a bachelor's degree.
Source: Niche analysis
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Sep 21, 2026
Patrick Clancy shared how he has coped with the deaths of his three children and started rebuilding his life in his first televised interview since his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy's murder trial.
The case has drawn widespread media attention, with the former labor and delivery nurse facing murder charges over the deaths of her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — whom she admitted killing on Jan. 24, 2023.
In an extensive interview with 60 Minutes aired on CBS News Sunday, Clancy said that at one point he "didn't think I would live to see my 35th birthday," as he struggled with grief. He said that he still dreams about his children, telling interviewer Ross Douthat, "it's like I'm lucid in those dreams."
Clancy also discussed how he met his now-wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, who also appeared in the show, and said false online conspiracy theories about his involvement in his children's deaths were "deeply harmful to the legacy of my children."
Here are the key moments from the interview.
1. He and his new wife are starting a familyAsked by correspondent Ross Douthat whether the couple were "starting a family" together, Danis replied, "Yeah," with Clancy adding that he "can't wait" to tell any future children child about their brothers and sister.
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Sep 21, 2026
Iran warned Monday it would use "new weapons with new capabilities" if the U.S. launched a fresh assault after President Donald Trump ramped up the rhetoric against Tehran over the weekend.
"If a new aggression takes place, we will definitely change the weapons and geography of the war," Hossein Mohebbi, a spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Monday, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Mohebbi did not provide details on what the new weapons were or which new locations could be hit.
Earlier, Trump said he would "probably" be open to meeting with his Iranian counterpart, President Masoud Pezeshkian, during the United Nations General Assembly this week, Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reported Sunday.
The possibility of a meeting offered a glimmer of hope for a resolution to the nearly seven-month war with Iran, which has resulted in Iran blocking the key Strait of Hormuz, and its Yemeni allies bombing a crucial east-west oil pipeline and threatening another crucial waterway. Resultant economic shock waves have hit the U.S. and the world economy, driving up oil and diesel prices and fueling inflation.
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Sep 21, 2026
A barrel oozing radioactive waste at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (NODSSUM Campaign, CNRS, French Oceanographic Fleet)
The second half of the 20th century was something of a golden age for nuclear technology.
Following the atomic devastation of WWII, the world found new, more benign uses for radioactive decay. Power plants, medical treatments, scientific research, and industry all blossomed under a benevolent nuclear glow.
But with the nuclear revolution came a significant problem - what to do with all the thousands of tons of radioactive waste generated in the excitement.
For Europe, the solution was relatively simple.
There was a perfectly good seafloor at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that, as far as the authorities were concerned, no one important was using.
So, between 1949 and 1982, that's where it went - more than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste, totaling more than 150,000 tons, mostly dumped at depths between 3,000 and 5,000 meters (9,840 and 16,400 feet).
For decades, no one really knew what had become of them.
Now, scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate - and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor.
A map of oceanic nuclear wa
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Sep 21, 2026
By Daniel Wiessner
Sept 21 (Reuters) - A California agency's lawsuit accusing Tesla of allowing rampant race discrimination at its flagship assembly plant is set to go to trial on Monday, one of a ?series of similar lawsuits being faced by the electric vehicle maker.
Lawyers for Tesla and the California ?Civil Rights Department will square off in Oakland before state Superior Court Judge Peter Borkon, who has scheduled the trial to run until October ?30.
In the lawsuit filed in 2022, the California Civil Rights Department claims Black workers at Tesla's Fremont, California plant were subjected to pervasive harassment by other employees, including racial slurs and graffiti, and Tesla failed to prevent or stop it. Tesla is also accused of paying Black workers less than others and depriving them of opportunities for promotions.
Tesla and ?its lawyers did not respond to requests ?for comment. The company has denied wrongdoing and said that it does not tolerate discrimination and has fired workers found to have engaged in misconduct.
The California Civil Rights Department's director, ?Kevin Kish, in a statement said the agency looked forward to holding Tesla accountable.
Tesla's high profile and the thousands of workers involved in the case make it among the most significant involving employment discrimination claims against a major US company to ?go ?to trial in recent years.
NO CAP ON DAMAGES
Borkon has scheduled ?a bench trial, meaning that he and not ?a jury will decide whether Tesla is liable for violations of California civil rights laws.
Unlike federal law, the California law barring workplace discrimination does not cap the damages a court can award to affected workers, and Tesla could be on the hook for many millions of dollars if it loses the case.
Tesla has for the last decade been dogged by claims that it fostered a climate at the Fremont plant and other fac
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Sep 21, 2026
Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Donald Trump and three top advisers, calling the abrupt lockout a "direct assault on the First Amendment."
POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW said in a joint statement Monday that they are bringing the federal lawsuit in a bid to immediately restore access for their reporters, who were denied entry to the White House complex on Saturday and had their credentials confiscated by the Secret Service.
"This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes," the news organizations said. "Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference."
The organizations are asking a judge on the U.S. District Court in Washington. to quickly rule Trump's ban unconstitutional and prevent his aides from enforcing it.
White House and Department of Justice spokespeople did not immediately return requests seeking comment.
The White House's exclusion of the journalists followed an announcement f
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Sep 21, 2026
President Trump meets later this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and observers are hoping for incremental progress on key issues.
But don't expect major policy breakthroughs.
On trade, there is a hope that the current truce between the US and China could be formally extended and some concessions negotiated, as Trump has delayed making new tariff provocations.
Meanwhile, on artificial intelligence, there is little expectation for any agreement around scaling back the rapid pace of developing frontier AI models but hopes for increased communication. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that preliminary talks had focused on a possible "notification mechanism between the two countries" around AI.
A senior US official confirmed that both AI and trade were on the agenda for the talks but made clear how much is up in the air, suggesting to reporters on Friday that no agreements had been reached in advance.
"We'll know more once the two leaders meet," the official said.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a tour of
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Sep 21, 2026
People wade through a flooded road as heavy rain falls amid weather patterns due to Typhoon Dujuan in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture on September 21, 2026. (STR)Hundreds of flights were cancelled and more than one million people were under evacuation advisories in Japan on Monday as Typhoon Dujuan approached Tokyo, potentially bringing record rainfall.
Japan often sees strong typhoons in the late summer and early autumn, and other storms have already disrupted some events at the Asian Games being hosted in the country.
Dujuan was bringing winds of around 144 kilometres (89 miles) per hour on Monday as it moved to around 130 kilometres south of Katsuura City near Tokyo.
Japan Airlines cancelled 135 flights and All Nippon Airways scrapped 140, while more than 9,000 households near Tokyo were without power.
More than 1.6 million residents in and around the capital were urged to evacuate, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. The evacuations are not mandatory.
Landslide warnings were issued for Tokyo as well as for Chiba, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures. Railway operators in Tokyo and neighbouring regions suspended services on some lines.
In areas where warnings have been issued, "there's a risk the rain will continue as the typhoon moves north", Takuya Hosomi of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) told reporters.
The JMA warned on Sunday that rain and winds were expected to intensify even before the typhoon's arrival.
"The total rainfall through Tuesday could exceed the average monthly rainfall for September, resulting in record-breaking heavy rain," the agency said.
One person has already been mildly injured and nine houses have been damaged due to the typhoon.
Dujuan also forced the early closure of the Tokyo Game Sh
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Sep 21, 2026
Musk has so far stayed out of the spotlight in the Senate race in Texas, even though he lives in the state, has based his companies Tesla and SpaceX there, and employs about 20,000 people. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images file)The last time Elon Musk sank money into an election, he played a starring role in the 2025 state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin. He donned an oversized cheese hat, offered $1 million checks to voters, and he and affiliated groups poured at least $20 million into the contest.
In the end, the conservative candidate lost by 10 points in what was widely viewed as a rebuke of Musk and the Trump administration.
Now, the richest person in the world is back boosting Republican candidates in critical midterm elections, including a bruising Senate race in Texas where Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing Democrat James Talarico, who had initially far outraised him and remains close in polling.
But that financial tide is quickly turning — with Musk's help.
Unlike in Wisconsin, Musk has so far stayed out of the spotlight in Texas, even though he lives in the state, has based his companies Tesla and SpaceX there, and employs about 20,000 people. He hasn't announced plans for any in-per
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Sep 21, 2026
Tyler Hassen's initiation into Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, started as a series of tests.
The Houston oil executive says he was given vague instructions to show up at an unfamiliar D.C. address. He hastily packed three suitcases and flew east, taking an Uber to a building that he soon learned belonged to Elon Musk's SpaceX. He was whisked to a private office, acutely aware that his tailored suit stood out among the hoodie-clad engineers "too locked in" to their laptops to look up. He was ordered to go through the website of the Department of Commerce and, within days, find two to five ideas to present to Musk.
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He checked into a nearby J.W. Marriott and told his wife he didn't know how long he would be gone.
Thus began an 11-month stint at the center of a national firestorm - an exhilarating, chaotic, and sometimes scary experience, Hassen told The Washington Post, in his first major interview detailing his forthcoming memoir and plans. The memoir, "Inside DOGE: The Real Story from a Senior Insider," which recounts his time working for the secretive cost-cutting group, is the first tell-all to emerge from one of the most controversial periods of President Donald Trump's time in office - a moment Hassen said he would gladly live through again.
"There's this misconception that we all just went in there and didn't really think about what we were doing," Hassen said, speaking virtually from a hotel room in San Diego. "I spent 24/7 thinking about it, waking up at three in the morning thinking, ‘Am I doing the right thing?' … And I know I did."
At the heart of the book is a split screen: For many Americans, Musk's
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Sep 21, 2026
Another leg up in gas prices to begin September underscores the political headwind that President Trump and Republicans face on the issue, with less than seven weeks left before the midterm elections.
The average price of US regular gasoline was $4.32 per gallon last Monday, according to the latest weekly data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a nearly $0.25 rise over the last two weeks.
The EIA data, which goes back to 1990, also shows that gas prices are the highest they've ever been at this stage in any recent election cycle, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis.
The second-highest price on record at this point — 49 days from an election — came in 2012 when gas cost $3.88 per gallon. The third-highest price was $3.65 in 2022. Both were election years when a Democratic administration was in power, and Republicans put a heavy focus on the issue of pump prices.
"Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!" then private citizen Donald Trump posted to social media back in 2012.
With Trump now in office, gas prices are being pushed up by a variety of factors, including both the wars in Iran and Ukraine, and they're hitting as Trump has few options to lower them due to widening disruptions in the Middle East and the
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Sep 21, 2026
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met China's Vice Premier He Lifeng [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent/X]
Top US and Chinese officials have discussed creating a new "notification mechanism" for AI incidents that could affect national security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Sunday.
Bessent made the comments after what he called "successful" talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York.
The meeting came as US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are due to hold a summit in Washington later this week.
AI has come under intense scrutiny in recent days after researchers warned of the potential risks posed by the technology and some of the industry's most high profile figures called for developers to take a more cautious approach.
"We think that, just like with any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the number one and the number two AI powers in the world is very important," Bessent told reporters after the talks.
He said the meeting also covered other topics, including plans to "operationalise" a process to identify potential tariff cuts on goods called the Board of Trade.
A truce in the tariffs war between the world's two biggest economies is due to expire on 10 November.
The BBC has contacted the Chinese embassy in the US for comment.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said the two sides had "candid, in-depth and constructive exchanges on key
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Sep 21, 2026
(Bloomberg) -- Opposition to data centers continues to mount in the US.
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Communities across the country are now pushing through moratoriums on new construction, often before developers can apply for permissions. Some 30 statehouses introduced or adopted rules pertaining to issues such as data center siting, electricity and water, the group said in a report Monday provided to Bloomberg News.
The research quantifies growing concern about the rapid pace of expansion of artific
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Sep 21, 2026
The White House grounds are seen behind CNN senior White House reporter Betsy Klein after the network was denied entry on September 19, 2026. - Graeme Sloan/Getty Images
The Trump White House has removed CNN from its Monday assignment as the television pool representative for the entire White House press corps.
The change breaks with decades of precedent and deepens the dispute that began Friday when President Donald Trump said he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Reporters for all three publications were turned away from the White House complex on Saturday morning. The publications are now preparing a First Amendment lawsuit to challenge the restriction.
The White House typically sends out a "daily guidance and press schedule" email with the rotation for the next day, identifying TV, print, radio and new media outlets that will be part of the pool.
As part of the regular pool rotation, CNN was scheduled to act as the TV pool on Monday, and was assigned as the TV pool network that would accompany Trump to New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly this week.
But a Sunday night email from the White House did not list any television network as the primary TV pool for Monday.
Hearst, which owns local TV stations across the country, was li
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