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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 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
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
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
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.
COMPETING CLAIMS
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
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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Qatar Energy Chief Says Bessent ‘Wrong' About Hormuz FutureSaudis Give European Oil Buyers No Supplies for Next MonthQatari Premier Says Gulf States Have to Act Together on IranTrump Drops a Legal Bid to Block Funding of Gateway TunnelMerz Vows to Stay On After Record German Election DefeatThat's according to research group Data Center Watch, which said some 45 data center projects worth $68 billion were blocked or delayed by local pushback between April and June this year.
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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Sep 20, 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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Sep 20, 2026
Flames and large plume of black smoke seen rising near Riyadh airport - Reuters
As world leaders prepare to gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, a growing number of flashpoints across the Middle East are raising concerns about a wider regional escalation, from renewed fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to fresh warnings exchanged between Washington and Tehran.
Why are the Houthis and Saudi Arabia back at the center of regional tensions?
A dramatic Houthi offensive in Yemen has emerged as one of the most significant developments heading into UNGA.
The Iran-backed group has seized key territory in recent weeks, including a strategically important island in the Red Sea and coastal areas overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a crucial maritime chokepoint linking the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. US and Gulf officials have expressed growing concern that the Houthis are seeking to establish greater control over the waterway, which is vital to global trade and energy shipments.
Despite receiving increased US intelligence and targeting support, Saudi Arabia has struggled to halt the Houthi advance. CNN reported Friday that Gulf and American officials are increasingly doubtful Riyadh can reverse the Houthi gains on its own.
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Sep 20, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. has proposed a new "notification mechanism" for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security, part of weekend discussions ahead of talks at the White House this week between President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping.
"We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats," Bessent told reporters after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York. "We think that just like any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important."
Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to U.S. companies.
Standing together in the soaring lobby of the JPMorgan Chase headquarters late Sunday, Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the groundwork had been laid for talks between Xi and Trump set to take place on Thursday. They said the two sides had agreed to operationalize a new "Board of Trade" that the two leaders had discussed when they met in Beijing in May.
"Today those notions have become reality," Greer said.
Greer said the countries were still discussing what "nonsensitive" items could be considered for lower tariffs, but that the list could potentially include consumer and agricultural goods, energy products and medical devices.
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Sep 20, 2026
A 74-year-old hunter has been arrested and charged in a homicide investigation in which police allege he fatally shot a woman in Delaware whom he allegedly mistook for a deer.
Walter Moorhead of Salisbury, Maryland, was charged with manslaughter and related crimes after allegedly shooting the woman while hunting Friday evening in a field near Ellendale, Delaware, according to the Delaware State Police.
"The preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was walking through the field with a man and two children while Moorhead was hunting deer from a ground blind. Moorhead believed he saw a deer and fired his rifle, striking the victim," the Delaware State Police said in a statement.
Delaware State Police - PHOTO: Walter Moorhead, a 74-year-old hunter from Salisbury, Maryland, was charged with felony manslaughter, September 18, 2026, in the fatal shooting in Delaware of a woman he mistook for a deer, according to the Delaware State Police.The victim was identified Sunday as 39-year-old Santos Maria Chilel Soto of Georgetown, Delaware, according to the state police.
The incident unfolded around 7:40 p.m. on Friday, according to the state police, who said troopers who were called to the scene provided lifesaving medical care to the victim, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
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Sep 20, 2026
Patrick Clancy said he felt he had no purpose after his three children were killed.
"There was a time where I didn't think I would live to see my 35th birthday," Clancy, 36, said in an interview with 60 Minutes. "And I was completely fine with it."
His interview with correspondent Ross Douthat comes after his ex-wife's mistrial earlier this month. The court has yet to determine whether Patrick's ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, will be retried for the killings of their children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. It also comes as Patrick and his wife, Rachel Danis, face intense public scrutiny, becoming the subjects of online suspicion and speculation on social media.
What happened after Callan was bornIn October 2022, five months after Callan's birth, Patrick said Lindsay told him she had gone a few nights without sleeping.
Over the next two months, Lindsay made repeated emergency room visits. She admitted herself to a program for patients with postpartum depression and was discharged after a day of treatment. Lindsay was also prescribed an escalating number of prescription drugs.
Patrick said he struggled to help his wife navigate the medical system and did not know how to manage a postpartum illness.
"I think mental illness has this ability to be tragically deceptive," he said.
December was the low point, Patrick said. "It was a big struggle for her — just a huge lack of sleep, deep, deep depression, intrusive thoughts."
Lindsay checked herself into McLean Psychiatric Hospital on New Year's Eve. She was treated for depression and
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Sep 20, 2026
THE TAKEAWAY
Days of dangerous conditions are expected through the workweek for parts of the East Coast as a nor'easter develops.The storm could bring high surf, strong winds, coastal flooding and severe beach erosion this weekend.Some areas expected to see wind gusts up to 60 mph, with offshore waves reaching 15 to 18 feet.Parts of the East Coast will be battered by gusty winds and rain through the workweek as the first nor'easter of fall develops. The storm is expected to emerge off the coast toward the end of the week and could bring high surf, strong winds, coastal flooding and severe beach erosion through the weekend.
Powerful Monsoon To Reignite Over The Southwest, Four Corners Following Day Of Intense Flooding That Killed 3
The system will begin developing Monday and continue through the weekend as a sharp fall cold front pushes off the coast, bringing rain to the Ohio Valley and parts of the Mid-Atlantic while strong high pressure builds to the north.
Strong northeasterly
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Sep 20, 2026
The victim, who was identified as a Venezuelan man, was transported to a local hospital and is in "in serious but stable condition." (Shahrzad Rasekh / Reuters)An ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon as he was delivering food in Austin, Texas, his lawyer said.
The man was taken to a local hospital and was "in serious but stable condition" after being shot in the torso, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said at a news conference earlier.
The White House referred NBC News to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. A spokesperson for the DHS, the federal agency to which Immigration and Customs Enforcement belongs, said in a statement late Sunday that the man was stable and was in federal custody pending removal from the U.S.
Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch identified him as Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28.
He entered the country illegally under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal, the DHS spokesperson said, adding that Homeland Security Investigations, with help from the FBI, will lead an investigation into the shooting.
The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. in North Austin.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sheridan Nolen said the agency received a request for assistance from ICE for a vehicle pursuit involving a blue Toyota Corolla.
A social media video verified by NBC News captures the sound of tires screeching followed by a person exiting a dark-colored SUV as a blue sedan is stopped next to it, both vehicles facing one another.
At least three gunshots are heard as the person
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Sep 20, 2026
The victim, who was identified as a Venezuelan man, was transported to a local hospital and is in "in serious but stable condition." (Shahrzad Rasekh / Reuters)An ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon as he was delivering food in Austin, Texas, his lawyer said.
The man was taken to a local hospital and was "in serious but stable condition" after being shot in the torso, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said at a news conference earlier.
The White House referred NBC News to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. A spokesperson for the DHS, the federal agency to which Immigration and Customs Enforcement belongs, said in a statement late Sunday that the man was stable and was in federal custody pending removal from the U.S.
Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch identified him as Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28.
He entered the country illegally under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal, the DHS spokesperson said, adding that Homeland Security Investigations, with help from the FBI, will lead an investigation into the shooting.
The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. in North Austin.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sheridan Nolen said the agency received a request for assistance from ICE for a vehicle pursuit involving a blue Toyota Corolla.
A social media video verified by NBC News captures the sound of tires screeching followed by a person exiting a dark-colored SUV as a blue sedan is stopped next to it, both vehicles facing one another.
At least three gunshots are heard as the person
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Sep 20, 2026
The victim, who was identified as a Venezuelan man, was transported to a local hospital and is in "in serious but stable condition." (Shahrzad Rasekh / Reuters)An ICE officer shot and seriously wounded a Venezuelan man Sunday afternoon as he was delivering food in Austin, Texas, his lawyer said.
The man was taken to a local hospital and was "in serious but stable condition" after being shot in the torso, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said at a news conference earlier.
The White House referred NBC News to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. A spokesperson for the DHS, the federal agency to which Immigration and Customs Enforcement belongs, said in a statement late Sunday that the man was stable and was in federal custody pending removal from the U.S.
Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch identified him as Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, 28.
He entered the country illegally under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal, the DHS spokesperson said, adding that Homeland Security Investigations, with help from the FBI, will lead an investigation into the shooting.
The shooting occurred around 1 p.m. in North Austin.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sheridan Nolen said the agency received a request for assistance from ICE for a vehicle pursuit involving a blue Toyota Corolla.
A social media video verified by NBC News captures the sound of tires screeching followed by a person exiting a dark-colored SUV as a blue sedan is stopped next to it, both vehicles facing one another.
At least three gunshots are heard as the person
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Sep 20, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man Sunday afternoon in Texas' capital of Austin, local authorities said, and anti-ICE protesters quickly gathered at the scene.
The unnamed man was in serious but stable condition at a hospital after being shot once in the torso on the city's north side, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a news conference with the mayor and other city officials.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not participate in the news conference and didn't immediately respond to requests for details.
Austin police officers were not involved in the operation or the shooting, which occurred after a traffic stop, Davis told reporters.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, a Democrat, said he wants the city's police department to be involved in the investigation so it can provide "clear, third-party eyes" in the process. Watson said he does not think it would be appropriate for ICE to conduct an investigation on its own.
Austin residents have "a right to feel safe in their city," Watson said. A proper investigation will only enhance credibility, he added.
Davis said she did not yet know the nationality of the person who was shot. The chief said there were not many facts she could provide so soon after the incident, but added that her department's special investigation unit was at the scene.
A dark blue Toyota Corolla was parked under an overpass with damage to its passenger-side door and what appeared to be bullet holes, local media reported.
A large law enforcement presence was at the scene, along with a crowd of about a hundred protesters. Some demonstrators cursed at police officers holding riot shields, while others yelled out as passing cars honked in support of the protest. One man held a sign saying, "Nobody i
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Sep 20, 2026
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine - Yaroslav Suzanskyi was 16 when he saw an ad on the Telegram messaging app offering "easy money," about $165, to do an odd job. It turned out to be a want-ad for sabotage: Suzanskyi was paid to set fire to a railway relay cabinet.
Now 18, Suzanskyi is incarcerated at a juvenile correctional colony, both a perpetrator and a victim of a hidden part of Russia's war against Ukraine: recruiting vulnerable young people to attack their own country. He is one of eight inmates at Kremenchuk - in a population of 72 - convicted of national security or public safety offenses linked to Russia.
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Many of the children recruited by Russia are impoverished and are lured into betraying Ukraine with relatively small offers of money, the authorities said.
After torching the railway equipment, Suzanskyi got a bigger offer involving an explosive, for 60,000 hryvnias, or about $1,430. A man Suzanskyi knew as Artem sent him to a hotel in the Kyiv suburbs, where two backpacks were left outside Suzanskyi's room. One contained military clothing, the other a taped box with wires that Suzanskyi thought was a jammer but later learned was an explosive device.
He was then sent by taxi to a library. Ukrainian intelligence officers intercepted him there before he could complete the assignment.
"Those 60,000 turned into five years," Suzanskyi said.
Suzanskyi was 13 when Russia's full-scale invasion began. His father and stepfather were drafted, leaving his mother to support three children. A bureaucratic mistake stopped the family's child-support payments, and they fell behind on bills, he said. He began taking whatever work he could fin
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Sep 20, 2026
Sen. Bill Cassidy (Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images)
Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to provide evidence for his claims about childhood vaccines, warning that discouraging immunization could result in more illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths.
The Louisiana Republican, a physician and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that Trump should explain the basis for his proposal to split some childhood vaccines into multiple doses.
"There needs to be, though, radical honesty," Cassidy said. "Have the president come forward. What is he basing this on? Who's giving him advice?"
Trump said Friday that he would demand that drug companies split up children's vaccines into five doses, saying the change would lead to "a massive reduction in autism."
Cassidy said he did not know which vaccines Trump was referring to or where the proposal originated.
"If you want to be radically honest, the vaccines are safe," Cassidy said. "They've been proven to be safe."
Cassidy warned that Trump's comments could have consequences because Americans listen to the president.
"If he discourages immunization, there'll be fewer people immunized, and if we're speaking of measles, there'll be more people sick, in the hospital or even die," Cassidy said.
Cassidy also said Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, would need to demonstrate at her confirmation hearing that she rejects Trump's characterization of the measles vaccine as lethal.
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Sep 20, 2026
"The meeting will focus on issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers," according to the announcement.
No further details were immediately provided.
Trump and Mamdani have met twice before. The first meeting was in November of last year at the White House, when Mamdani was mayor elect, and the second was in February, also at the White House.
The White House had no immediate public comment on the meeting.
President Trump was already scheduled to be in New York City Monday to address the United Nations General Assembly.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
This article originally appeared on ABC News at https://abcnews.com/Politics/nyc-mayor-mamdani-president-trump-meet-monday-mayors/story?id=136602476
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Sep 20, 2026
By Jana Choukeir and Doina Chiacu
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States exchanged new threats on Sunday, with President Donald Trump warning Iran would fail economically or face its leadership being wiped out if it didn't make a deal, and the Iranian ?military saying it would retaliate harshly to any fresh attack.
The conflict has looked stalemated for months, with no sign either side was ready ?for concessions even as it has deepened a global energy crisis, cratered swathes of Iran's economy and spilled over into new regional escalations.
In a phone call with a Fox News reporter, Trump ?said Iran's leaders should make a deal, rot economically or be wiped out, the reporter said.
However, with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian expected in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, Trump said he would be open to meeting him, the Fox reporter added.
Trump has repeatedly made vague threats of major military escalations during the conflict that began with US and Israeli strikes on February 28, without carrying them out.
Earlier, Iran's military central command said any new attack would trigger sustained ?retaliation against US bases and interests and that Washington's ?regional allies would be considered parties to the conflict.
The Iranian military added that it had information that an attack was being prepared, without elaborating on what that information might be.
HOUTHIS TARGET RIYADH
US Gulf allies have already been badly scarred by a ?war that the US and Israel launched with no warning, bringing their cities under Iranian fire and hammering their economies with the crucial Strait of Hormuz waterway blockaded.
On Saturday their predicament worsened further, with Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi group launching missile and drone strikes at the Saudi capital after having made sudden military gains in Yemen's reignited civil war
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Sep 20, 2026
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News he disagrees with recent warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology could lead to humanity's extinction within a few years, calling such statements overblown "doomsday narratives."
"2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that's going to be the end of the world," Huang told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent ON Friday. "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible."
Huang was responding to claims on social media by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon earlier this month that AI developers "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." Coxon's remarks sparked heated public debate about the risks posed by AI, as well as calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and other leading industry figures to slow development of the technology.
But Huang said he rejects such predictions because they are "not grounded in science."
Nvidia has a substantial stake in the debate, given that its specialized chips power the large language models (or LLMs) by which artificial intelligence agents, created by OpenAI and others, access and synthesize information. Demand for those chips has boosted Nvidia's market value to $5.3 trillion, making it the world's most valuable company.
Asked why Americans should trust him on AI safety, given his company's incentives, Huang told CBS News that it's in Nvidia's best interest to ensure the industry builds its products responsibly.
"Our company's success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and servi
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Sep 20, 2026
Proponents say a candidate's beverage of choice can help showcase their "personality."
In today's brutal job market, Gen Z is bringing their absolute A-game to interviews.
But they're also bringing their emotional support iced lattes.
A generational debate has erupted online over a dead-simple question: Is waltzing into a job interview clutching an iced coffee completely unprofessional, or totally fine?
The clash kicked off when TikTok corporate recruiter @caitlinrecruiter called out Gen Z candidates for arriving to interviews with iced lattes in hand. Drawing on her 16 years of experience placing candidates at Fortune 500 companies, she warned job seekers against the casual habit.
"When you show up with an iced coffee or an iced latte, it is perceived — from my opinion and a hiring standpoint—that this interview is just a stop on your list of errands for the day," she alleged in the viral clip. "It looks like you went to Target, went to Starbucks, and now you're stopping by your interview before moving on to the next thing."
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Sep 20, 2026
Proponents say a candidate's beverage of choice can help showcase their "personality."
In today's brutal job market, Gen Z is bringing their absolute A-game to interviews.
But they're also bringing their emotional support iced lattes.
A generational debate has erupted online over a dead-simple question: Is waltzing into a job interview clutching an iced coffee completely unprofessional, or totally fine?
The clash kicked off when TikTok corporate recruiter @caitlinrecruiter called out Gen Z candidates for arriving to interviews with iced lattes in hand. Drawing on her 16 years of experience placing candidates at Fortune 500 companies, she warned job seekers against the casual habit.
"When you show up with an iced coffee or an iced latte, it is perceived — from my opinion and a hiring standpoint—that this interview is just a stop on your list of errands for the day," she alleged in the viral clip. "It looks like you went to Target, went to Starbucks, and now you're stopping by your interview before moving on to the next thing."
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Sep 20, 2026
Rep. Lauren Boebert is publicly refuting a complaint filed with the House Committee on Ethics on September 17 which alleged that the Colorado congresswoman had sexual relationships with three staffers she supervised, including two women, and paid $200,000 in hush money in an attempt to keep one of the relationships secret.
"Congresswoman Lauren Boebert rejects these allegations as utterly false and there is no truth to them whatsoever," a representative for the lawmaker wrote in a statement to multiple media outlets on Saturday. "This is nothing more than a politically motivated stunt designed to manipulate the ethics process, create headlines, smear her, and generate clickbait."
The sworn ethics complaint, first reported by the Colorado Times Reporter, was filed by David Wheeler of the political action committee American Muckrackers and identified three current and former staffers, claiming that Boebert had relationships with former district director Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, district chief of staff Raven Finegan and former chief of staff Jeffrey Small. The complaint claims that the six-figure hush money payment was issued to Navarro to disincentivize her from filing an ethics complaint.
Related: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert Dates Bar Owner Who's Hosted Drag Shows
Navarro, who worked under Boebert from 2021 to 2025, denied the substance of the complaint to the
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Sep 20, 2026
(NEXSTAR) - The days getting shorter serve as a reminder that we're barreling toward the end of our seasonal observation of daylight saving time, but the wheels may be in motion to stop that - a move more than a dozen states have been waiting to happen.
Earlier this year, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent throughout the U.S., with few exceptions. It's been held up in the Senate since July but, now that the chamber has returned from recess, there's a chance the legislation could be picked up.
If it can pass the Senate, the bill seems to stand a fair chance of becoming law, with President Trump already expressing support.
No more sunsets before 5 p.m.? How permanent daylight saving would change winter
For more than a dozen states, this is the closest they've been in years to seeing some of their own legislation finally take effect. The U.S. hasn't been this close to permanent daylight saving time since a versi
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Sep 20, 2026
Asked directly whether the president had violated the Constitution, Barrasso said, "No, I believe the press has an obligation to report fairly."
Pressed again on whether he agreed with Trump's ban, Barrasso said, "We all respect and value the freedom of the press — it's in the Constitution."
"He was banned from Twitter. He was banned from Facebook, and I didn't see people come to his defense," the Wyoming senator told NBC News' "Meet the Press." "So it goes both ways. The press has an obligation to report fairly, and the president doesn't see it happening that way."
Pressed on whether the president's decision to ban the reporters from White House coverage violated the First Amendment, Barrasso demurred, saying again, "I believe the press has an obligation to report fairly."
He added that he believes Trump's decision to bar those outlets from the White House would not negatively affect Republicans running for office in the upcoming midterm elections.
"The bottom line on all of this is: This is not going to have an impact on an election 44 days from now," Barrasso said. "People are going to go to the voting booth. They're going to make a decision based on their life, their future, what they believe is best for them and their families."
The president announced Friday that he was barring three outlets from the White House, writing in a post on Truth Social that he made the decision "as a result of their constant ‘reporting' FAKE NEWS!" The president also warned that "other outlets" could face similar action but did not name them.
"Media Outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they're covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or t
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Sep 20, 2026
What to know about the Iran war today:The U.S. military has escorted one billion barrels of oil and over 2,000 commercial vessels out of the Persian Gulf in the last couple of months, the leader of U.S. Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, said in a video released Saturday.The Iran-back Houthi militia in Yemen expanded attacks on Saudi Arabia on Saturday, targeting oil storage at the Riyadh international airport and Aramco oil facilities in Yanbu, both deep into Saudi territory. Saudi officials later said that the Houthis had fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh, which they said was successfully intercepted. President Trump said Thursday he is poised to make a "big decision" on whether to launch a major assault to "annihilate" the Iranian regime. "It's a big decision," Mr. Trump told Axios ahead of a planned meeting with Persian Gulf leaders next week. "Anything could happen with me."
Trump says he's in "deciding mode" on Iran
President Trump told Fox News that he's in a "deciding mode" on Iran, forecasting "very big things" to come in the near future as he considers his options in the war.
Fox News' Trey Yingst said he spoke with the president, who said he's considering a handful of choices, including "wiping Iran out," "letting them rot economically," or striking a deal.
"My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave," the president told Yingst.
Yingst said the president also told him he'd probably be open to meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is expected to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week.
The comments come after Mr. Trump told
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Sep 20, 2026
U.S. State Department is seen on Nov. 29, 2010. (Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump cut short a weekend stay at Camp David and returned to the White House on Saturday evening, hours after the State Department issued a security alert warning that escalating hostilities in the Middle East could worsen rapidly.
Trump arrived at the Ellipse aboard Marine One shortly before 8 p.m., according to the White House press pool. His public schedule had called for him to remain at Camp David until Sunday.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who visited Texas A&M University Saturday and attended the Aggies' football game against Kentucky, also returned to Washington early.
The White House did not immediately explain Trump's early return, which came as the State Department renewed a broad travel warning for Americans in or traveling to the Middle East following renewed attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels against Saudi Arabia.
At least 11 U.S. embassies in the region also issued warnings about possible travel disruptions, according to The Associated Press.
"Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation," the State Department said in its statement, posted to X on Saturday.
The department warned Americans in the region to exercise heightened vigilance and prepare for possible flight cancellations, airspace closures, and other travel disruptions. The advisory did not urge Americans to leave the region.
"Iranian-supported Houthis have engaged in hostilities against Saudi Arabia, including civilian ai
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Sep 20, 2026
President Donald Trump dismissed concerns over artificial intelligence this week. Republican donors wish he hadn't.
Some donors, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak candidly without reprisal, told POLITICO that Trump's learn-to-love-it broadsides about AI are the latest example of a president who can at times seem out of touch with voter anxieties, likening it to his glibness around cost of living concerns.
Trump has now called both affordability and fears over AI's disruptive and possibly existentially catastrophic capabilities a "hoax," putting him on the opposite side of many tech leaders and a growing number of state and national Republicans who believe the government needs new regulations. Trump's comments came in the wake of renewed concern this week that tech giants are "gambling with our lives," creating uncontrollable models that could wreak havoc on humanity.
The donor frustration comes amid broader concern that the GOP could lose the House and possibly the Senate in November. Polls look increasingly favorable for Democrats while Trump's approval rating continues to hover around second-term lows.
"He needed to be more empathetic to the issues that were raised, the concerns and anxieties they provoked amongst American people - because you ignore people's concerns at your political peril," a GOP donor said. "If voters feel like you're not responding to their concerns, they often turn to the other party, and so is there a cum
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Sep 20, 2026
(Bloomberg) -- Barely six weeks out from the midterm elections, housing costs that many Americans have long said are too high are looking even more out of reach.
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The outlook for housing remains grim. The 10-year Treasury yield, which mortgage rates closel
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Sep 20, 2026
President Donald Trump's sinking ratings threaten to drag down Republicans in November's midterm elections, as voters blame him for high prices and a shaky economy, according to a new NBC News poll.
The president's approval rating stands at 41% among registered voters, a second-term low in the poll, with a majority (55%) of voters saying they believe Trump's policies have hurt the economy. That's up from 48% in March, before the Iran war pushed up prices on gas and other goods and cemented the rising cost of living as voters' most pressing issue.
NBC NewsDemocrats hold a 5-point edge in the battle for control of Congress, 50%-45% — not nearly as large a lead as the 12-point advantage the party enjoyed at this point before the 2018 election, when Democrats rode an anti-Trump wave to the House majority in his first midterm as president. Despite that lead, the Democratic Party is still viewed more negatively than Trump and the GOP.
That could help Republicans, along with the fact that the fight for control of the House and especially the Senate is playing out in traditionally Republican parts of the country. Democrats would have to flip multiple states Trump carried by double digits in 2024 to win the Senate.
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Sep 20, 2026
President Donald Trump on Sunday said his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will now be a "top grade" military complex that will house drones, snipers and ammunition.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that he has agreed to convert the arch "at the strong request" of the U.S. military, and "for National Security purposes."
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The "Military Complex/Triumphal Arch" near Arlington National Cemetery will "house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage," Trump wrote. "There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World."
Trump's new claims about the triumphal arch, which come as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project, resemble his arguments for the need to build a ballroom at the White House. Trump initially said the ballroom was needed to entertain guests but more recently has said it was a "desperately needed National Security structure."
The Trump administration, which plans to begin construction on the arch as soon as November, has been consulting with D.C.'s and Virginia's historic preservation offices as part of a required federal preservation process. The topic of converting the arch to a military complex has not previously been raised.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the president's post. The Pentagon and the Interior Department, wh
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Sep 20, 2026
Former President Obama on Friday slammed President Trump over his handling of how to approach artificial intelligence amid "doomsday" warnings coming from some in the tech industry about the technology's potential existential threat to humanity.
Obama said during an interview at Colgate University in New York that the federal government must regulate AI, before referring to comments made by one Trump adviser.
"I heard one of Donald Trump's main advisers on this make the argument that, 'The market will take care of AI,'" the former president said. "'These companies will solve the safety issues because they have every incentive to do so — if it turns out to be dangerous, people will just sue them, and they're worried about financial liability.'"
"That's not how we treat airlines," Obama added. "Or drug companies, or food companies."
Obama continued to say that AI could become a threat at a human level if it falls into the clutches of "bad humans" and if self-improving AI models realize they no longer need humans. He referred to Trump again in that his successor has said regulations on AI are "for losers."
"So we've got a gap of at least a couple of years where things are moving really fast and we have an administration that is not capable of or willing to — I would argue both — putting together a serious regulatory framework," Obama said.
He emphasized "encouraging some sort of voluntary industry restraint" as the "best we can do now" until both the legislative and executive branches "start getting serious abou
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Sep 20, 2026
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Quinten Martinez, pumping gas under a hot South Texas sun, remembers a time when fueling up didn't require difficult decisions.
"Is it going to be groceries this week?" asked the 28-year-old Amazon delivery driver as he watched the numbers tick higher. "Is it gonna be getting gas in our tank to go to work?"
He shook his head when asked about President Donald Trump's assertion last week that higher gas prices are a small price to pay for the war with Iran.
"I don't feel like it's a good trade-off," Martinez said. "I don't feel like this is good for anyone."
Voters across the country, and across the political spectrum, tend to agree.
Interviews with voters in several states, along with a fresh round of national polling, reveal an overwhelming sense of frustration that skyrocketing gas prices — a direct result of Trump's war — are creating serious and sustained financial hardships for America's working class.
The acute concerns are adding to a bad political environment that may be worsening for Trump and his Republican Party as early voting gets underway in the November midterm elections.
Historically, the party holding the White House has suffered major losses in midterms. Today, seven weeks before Election Day, Republican candidates at all levels are struggling with the additional burden of Trump's weak approval ratings, an unpopular foreign conflict and an affordability crisis that Trump and his congressional allies h
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Sep 20, 2026
SEOUL, Sept 20 (Reuters) - North Korea launched two missiles off its eastern coast on Sunday, its second set of tests in roughly a week and days after Pyongyang ?accused the US of driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula through a series of military drills.
Just ?three hours after launching a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) toward the East Sea on Sunday afternoon, North Korea fired another unidentified ?projectile, according to South Korea's defence ministry.
If the subsequent launch is confirmed to be a ballistic missile, it will mark two consecutive ballistic missile tests by North Korea within a three-hour window.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the first test firing from the Wonsan area around 3 p.m. (0600 GMT), ?identifying the weapon as a ballistic ?missile. Japan's defence ministry also said it appeared to be a ballistic missile.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK said the projectile had come down outside Japan's exclusive economic ?zone.
The first projectile flew approximately 450 km (280 miles) and is presumed to belong to the Hwasong-11 series, according to South Korea's military. Details of the flight of the second missile were not immediately available.
"South Korean and US intelligence ?authorities ?have been tracking and sharing related developments from the ?initial stage of the launch, and have ?also shared information regarding the 'North Korean ballistic missile' with Japan," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
South Korea's National Security Council condemned the short-range missile launch, which follows a test on September 12. The council urged Pyongyang to immediately cease missile activity, warning the test directly violated UN Security Council resolutions.
Japan also lodged a protest through embassy channels in Beijing, according to a Nikkei report.
"This series of North ?Korean actions threatens the peace and security of Japan, ?the
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Sep 20, 2026
Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections.
Moscow's mayor described the wave of drones as the "largest ever" drone attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.
Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.
Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv had used a range of missiles and drones in the attack — including Ukraine's domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles — to hit oil and logistics facilities.
"These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine," Zelenskyy said, referring to the financial pressure that Kyiv hopes to put on Russia's economy.
Ukraine also continued to fend off Russian attacks, Zelenskyy said. A Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine's Kherson region Saturday, killing a member of the clergy and wounding four people, he said.
A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital also killed two children and their mother on Saturday evening, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional state administration. He later said that another child wounded in the same attack had died in hospital on Sunday.
Russia votes in an election devoid of opposition
The attack took place on the final day of Russia's first wartime parlia
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Sep 20, 2026
Yemen's Houthi armed forces patrol as Yemeni prisoners loyal to the Houthi authorities arrive in the capital Sanaa on September 12 (Mohammed HUWAIS)The United States warned Saturday that hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthis could "escalate rapidly" after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first time since the Yemen conflict resumed.
US President Donald Trump cut short a weekend at Camp David, a secluded presidential complex in rural Maryland, to return unexpectedly to the White House on Saturday.
The White House gave no explanation for the early return, which comes as a new threshold was crossed in the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, who control a large part of Yemen and are fighting government forces backed by a coalition led by Riyadh.
Loud explosions rang out twice on Saturday in the Saudi capital, where AFP journalists saw a fuel tank bearing the logo of oil giant Aramco on fire near the airport.
"This military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly," the US State Department warned, adding American citizens outside the Middle East should "seriously reconsider travel to and through the region".
The Houthis's lightning offensive seizing swathes of Yemeni territory in recent weeks has left hundreds dead and, according to the UN, displaced more than 110,000 people.
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These clashes and the subsequent hostilities with the kingdom have already disrupted Saudi Arabia's exports -- the world's leading supplier of crude oil -- as well as maritime traffic.
The Riyadh-led coalition confirmed Saturday evening on X that a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the capital was "successfully intercepted and destroyed".
The coalition added that the pro-Iranian fighters had tried to
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Sep 19, 2026
The tech industry is struggling to make sense of President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he is creating an artificial intelligence task force and appointing a czar to oversee the administration's approach to the technology.
Trump, in alengthy Truth Social poston Saturday morning, said he was forming the government body and would also soon name an AI czar to lead it. He offered few details, leaving members of the tech world unsure what the task force would do, who would be involved or how it would operate.
Four representatives for the sector, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told POLITICO that the industry was not widely informed of Trump's decision prior to the Truth Social post.
"Nobody knows what the idea even is," one of the people said. Another said that feedback on the idea was not widely solicited within the industry.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Several of those canvassed said they view the move as a response to growing public alarm at the developing technology's potential risks. AI researchers at top AI labs in the past few weeks have issued stark warnings about the technology's power to destroy humanity, whil
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Sep 19, 2026
Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as energy sites on the country's Red Sea coast.
Saudi authorities said they intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired at Riyadh earlier that day, without confirming any further strikes or causalities.
Earlier, a column of black smoke was seen rising from fuel tanks near the Saudi capital's international airport, where flights were disrupted temporarily on Saturday.
Air raid alerts had sounded in the capital for the first time since the Iran-backed Houthis increased their attacks on Saudi Arabia in July.
Air defences also stopped "hostile attempts to target civilians" in the cities of Bish, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu, an official spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition said in a statement.
In a statement posted online, Houthi military spokesman Yahya al-Sarea said a "large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones" had been used to attack "sensitive sites" in Riyadh and Aramco state oil and gas company facilities in Yanbu on the coast.
He added that the attacks were "in response to the Saudi enemy's criminal attempts" to target the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
Earlier, Sarea had accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out 300 strikes across Yemen during the past week.
The Houthis are locked in a civil war with Yemen's internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.
They have attacked targets inside Saudi Arabia on several occasions in recent months, and said this week that they were responsible for downing a Saudi fighter jet over Yemen.
According to an unconfirmed report from AFP news agency, quoting military sources on both sides of Yemen's civil war, fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces claimed 48 lives on Saturday.
The Houthis said 31 of their fighters had been killed while government sources said their side
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Sep 19, 2026
For the record:
1:38 p.m. Sept. 19, 2026: An earlier version of this article stated KCAL's helicopter is owned by Angel City Air. It is owned by Helicopters Inc.
Whether it's a brush fire, a mass shooting, a car chase or the aftermath of a major storm, viewers in Los Angeles are used to getting the news from above.
Television news helicopter coverage has become one of the most important elements of any local newscast, with the high-flying helicopters roaring overhead a common fixture of breaking news scenes.
These images are so ubiquitous, it may have been easy to take them for granted, until Tuesday, when an NBC4 helicopter carrying reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw crashed while covering breaking news in Chatsworth. Both died, along with a bystander on the ground.
The tragedy has prompted soul-searching in the world of TV news helicopter pilots and focused attention on safety issues.
Pilots describe a high-stakes race in the skies of Los Angeles, with the TV stations battling to get breaking news on the air first. The airspace easily becomes crowded, and in the case of moving stories like car chases, a bit unpredictable and chaotic. The crews who take to the air in Los Angeles must not only navigate one another, but air traffic to three regional airports and smaller, local airstrips across the Southland when doing their job.
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Sep 19, 2026
An election worker puts ballots in a counting machine at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 3 in City of Industry. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed bills to protect California's elections process from interference and increase transparency in campaigns. (Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times)Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed legislation to increase security for the state's voting systems and protect Californians' ability to cast ballots in an effort to guard against potential interference in the Nov. 3 election, including by the Trump administration.
Newsom pointed to the Trump administration's recent effort to restrict mail-in voting through the U.S. Postal Service, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the presence of federal monitors at California polls last year as evidence that Trump "will continue his efforts to interfere with the November election."
"Donald Trump won't stop until he can exert dictatorial control over your free vote and disenfranchise millions of people this November. California will stop him at every opportunity," Newsom said in a statement. "We have no bigger task than fighting to protect the right to vote from interference and meddling — the future of democracy is on the line. These bills today build upon the wall California has built to safeguard our electoral process."
The governor signed the package of bills at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, where a year earlier
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Sep 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that he plans to appoint a new artificial intelligence adviser, known as ?an "AI czar," and create an "AI force," though he did not provide details about either ?initiative or how they would be implemented.
Fears are growing in Washington among lawmakers about the risks posed by AI technology on ?humans and property. Earlier this month, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said that "people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." Trump has repeatedly downplayed concerns about AI and argued that additional regulation is unnecessary.
"We will not in any way hinder or stifle ?the Growth of this incredible Industry," ?Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. "Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows! However, we will also ?be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System."
If Trump follows through on the pledge, it would be his second AI czar. Venture ?capitalist David ?Sacks previously served in the role before stepping down ?in the spring and moving into ?an external advisory position.
Sacks has echoed Trump's skepticism of new AI regulation. Speaking at a Politico event on Wednesday, he said AI developers should be responsible for ensuring the safety of their products and could be held liable if problems arise, adding that new federal rules are unnecessary.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump's post.
Trump's post comes ahead ?of his scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on ?Thursday. Washington and Beijing are competing for leadership in ?artificial intelligence, which both governments view as ?vital to their economic and military strength. Trump and technology executives have argued ?that excessive reg
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Sep 19, 2026
Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh and energy sites on the country's Red Sea coast.
A column of black smoke was seen rising from what appeared to be fuel tanks near the Saudi capital's international airport on Saturday, hours after air raid alerts were issued.
It was the first time residents had been given an alert and urged to stay indoors since a recent escalation in the conflict with the Houthis.
There has been no official comment from Saudi authorities.
In a statement posted online, Houthi military spokesman Yahya al-Sarea said a "large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones" had been used to attack "sensitive sites" in Riyadh and Aramco state oil and gas company facilities in Yanbu on the coast.
He added that the attacks were "in response to the Saudi enemy's criminal attempts" to target the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
Earlier, Sarea had accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out 300 strikes across Yemen during the past week.
The Houthis are locked in a civil war with Yemen's internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.
They have attacked targets inside Saudi Arabia on several occasions in recent months, and said this week that they were responsible for downing a Saudi fighter jet over Yemen.
According to an unconfirmed report from AFP news agency, quoting military sources on both sides of Yemen's civil war, fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces claimed 48 lives on Saturday.
The Houthis said 31 of their fighters had been killed while government sources said their side had lost 17 soldiers, according to the news agency.
On Friday, the International Organization for Migration, a UN body, reported that the number of people displaced as a result of recent fighting had pass
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Sep 19, 2026
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2025. - Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
When President Donald Trump's name was ordered removed from the Kennedy Center this spring, it seemed that an opening to move on from his reign over the performing arts center might have emerged.
"I have instructed the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution, giving them the responsibility for its Operation, Maintenance, and Management," the president wrote in a late-May Truth Social post, seemingly relinquishing the control he'd seized a year prior.
Speculation even bubbled up among some of the more than a dozen "ex-officio," board members — who don't get a vote but are not allied with Trump — over whether the former board chairman, billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, could be brought back to help restore the center's fundraising and programming, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. (CNN has asked Rubenstein for comment.)
But after Trump said he would remain chairman, "it kind of all squelched pretty quickly," one of the sources said. The hope that his crusade to rename a monument dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy had ended turned out to be wishful thinking.
Instead, nine months from a cold December day when cranes first placed
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Sep 19, 2026
Farm-state Republicans don't support President Donald Trump's move to import cheap beef — but they're still getting grilled for it.
Trump's plan to combat sky-high beef prices by introducing discounted, tariff-free foreign beef has been widely condemned by ag-state Republicans who are concerned it will undercut the domestic beef industry and hurt ranchers, a normally reliable constituency.
And their opponents see an opening to paint Republicans as unconcerned about voters' pocketbook concerns.
"Our ranchers and our farmers keep getting kicked in the teeth, and we have politicians that keep telling us that everything's great, that we're the hottest country," Dan Osborn, an independent running for Senate in Nebraska, said in an interview. "And to be quite frank, I'm pretty pissed off about it."
Osborn's state is one of the top four top cattle-producing states — along with Texas, Kansas and Iowa — all of which have more-competitive-than-expected Senate races this cycle. And Trump's controversial plan to remove tariffs from 300,000 metric tons of imported beef, sold at 25 percent below current market prices, is doing Republicans no favors.
Osborn's campaign went on air with a pun-filled ad this week in which he says the import plan is "selling out American farmers and ranchers," and blasts Congress for being "too chicken to stand up to the corporations who bought them off." The campaign says it plans to spend at least six figures airing the spot. It's the first major spending from a campaign focused on the beef import plan. But it plays into a larger economic argument Democrats are pushing
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Sep 19, 2026
When you're living near a mountainside, one of the last things you would expect to see moving fast at higher elevations would be a tornado, but that's what happened in Utah on Friday.
According to the Salt Lake City, Utah, branch of the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), a rare, strong twister occurred near Fruit Heights, Utah. The funnel first made contact
with the ground near a summit along the ridgeline extending west from Francis Peak, at an elevation of about 7,500 feet (almost 2,300 metres).
Tornadoes are uncommon at very high elevation due to drier air and less favourable thunderstorm dynamics.
— SLCScanner (@SLCScanner) September 18, 2026
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Sep 19, 2026
Donald Trump reupped his battle with the "FAKE NEWS" media on Truth Social Friday, banning CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO for reporting "LIES when they're covering the President of the United States," with "Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow."
POLITICO called sources in and around the administration to find out why — after months of low approval ratings for the president and his signature issues — now?
Here's what POLITICO learned.
Many senior staff were surprised by the directive, which happened while chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, and weren't aware it was coming until they saw the post, according to three people close to the White House with knowledge of conversations in the West Wing.
One person said Trump previously tried to ban certain media, at one point even trying to put the press in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, but was talked down.
On Friday the press shop was blindsided and unsure of how to respond, with one aide simply pointing back to Trump's Truth Social post.
Even so, they're taking it seriously.
"It's real and permanent as far as POTUS is concerned," the person said.
This morning, MS NOW said their journalists "were denied access to the White House grounds" in a statement.
"MS NOW intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights and the essential role of independent journalism in our democracy," the statement continued.
CNN said its reporters were also denied entry. "CNN's mission to report on the U.S. government will continue regardless of any attempts to restrict physical access to the White House and other government buildings, or any other attempts to impede our journalism," the outlet said in
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Sep 19, 2026
Ed Sheeran will take the stage Saturday night at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field for the first show of his Loop Tour since Macklemore was dropped, likely performing solo after all of his remaining opening acts and his backing band quit in solidarity with the rapper over his removal from the tour for pro-Palestinian comments.
Hours after Sheeran released a statement saying it was the promoter's decision to remove Macklemore from the tour and not his, the rest of his supporting acts — Irish singer Aaron Rowe, Danish pop band Lukas Graham and songwriter Finneas — as well as Sheeran's house band, Beoga, announced that they were pulling out in protest.
"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed," Finneas, the brother of Billie Eilish, wrote in a note posted to Instagram. "I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people."
The Irish artists cited their country's history of oppression in their decisions to drop out.
"I don't take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this," Rowe wrote in his own Instagram post. "But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder o
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Sep 19, 2026
A column of black smoke has been seen near Riyadh's international airport hours after air raid alerts were issued in the Saudi capital.
It was the first time residents had been given an alert and urged to stay indoors since a recent escalation in the conflict with Iran-backed Houthi militants in neighbouring Yemen.
A number of apparent explosions were heard in the capital and major problems were reported at King Khalid International Airport, with the tracking website FlightRadar24 reporting delays and cancellations earlier in the day.
One report suggested a fuel tank had been set on fire near the airport. There has been no official comment from Saudi authorities.
How escalating Saudi oil crisis could drive up prices everywhereSaudi Arabia issues first air raid alerts for Riyadh since Houthis escalated attacks
An AFP news agency journalist reported that firefighters could be seen trying to extinguish the flames of a burnt-out fuel tank belonging to state oil and gas company Aramco.
The Saudi Civil Defence had sent out phone alerts overnight warning of potential danger in Riyadh and other regions, before issuing an all-clear on Saturday morning.
Residents told AFP on condition of anonymity that they had heard what sounded like a round of explosions echoing through the city after the alerts.
"I heard the alarm, then my windows shook," said a resident of northern Riyadh, 27. "It was definitely scary. I was not expecting this."
On Friday, the Houthis announced that they had thwarted Saudi attacks on the Yemeni capital Sanaa which they said bor
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Sep 19, 2026
U.S. CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on April 16. (SAUL LOEB/Getty Images)
U.S. Central Command said Saturday that more than 1 billion barrels of crude oil have moved through the Strait of Hormuz in the past two months while Iran has exported none under a U.S. naval blockade.
Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, announced the milestone in a video posted on social media, saying U.S. forces have helped more than 2,000 commercial vessels transit the strategic waterway by providing coordinated protection.
"CENTCOM forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil leaving the Gulf," Cooper said. "That's one billion barrels of crude oil out through the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of months."
Cooper said the achievement came as commercial traffic through the strait continues to increase.
"We've reached this significant milestone while assisting over 2,000 commercial ship transits through the strait by providing coordinated protection," he said. "Clearly, momentum is building."
The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman, is one of the world's most important energy shipping routes.
Cooper said the primary transit lanes through the strait are clear of mines and that thousands of vessels have passed through the waterway.
"Over one billion barrels of crude have been shipped from Gulf partners through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has exported zero barrels thanks to our ironclad blockade,"
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Sep 19, 2026
A new Texas Pulse poll shows the Democrat widening his lead over the Republican in the Texas Senate race, with Election Day more than a month away.
Published Sept. 17, the ReconMR/Texas Pulse poll showed that Democrat James Talarico's lead has grown to 6 points — outside the poll's margin of error — over Republican Ken Paxton, 49%-43%.
"This movement can also be seen by looking at independent voters who now favor Talarico by 40 points, 64-24%, up from 23 points, 53-30% in July," ReconMR Senior Research Analyst Lindsey Hendren said.
Here's a deeper look at the poll and how it compares to other September polls.
James Talarico widens lead over Ken Paxton in Texas Senate race
The latest Texas Pulse poll was conducted Sept. 8 to 11 among 614 likely Texas voters and has an overall margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
The poll found that Paxton has a negative favorability rating — 38%-55% — down slightly from 40-52% in July. Talarico has a positive favorability rating of 50-39%, up from 46-39% in July.
When asked who they think will win the election, 48% of voters say Talarico while 45% say Paxton.
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Sep 19, 2026
Millions of Americans recently received unwelcome news about their cell phone bills.
In late June, T-Mobile (TMUS) said it was retiring over 1,000 older plans, shifting customers to newer offerings at an added cost of as much as $6 per line per month. And starting in August, AT&T (T) hiked rates on some of its older plans by $10 to $20 and increased a monthly per-line fee by $1.
The changes contributed to a steep 5.9% jump in Americans' wireless bills from July to August alone, according to Consumer Price Index data. It was the largest single-month jump since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the category nearly three decades ago.
In a twist, last month's rising phone bills may have helped convince the Federal Reserve to implement its first interest rate hike in three years. The steep price jump likely contributed about 10 basis points of August's 0.3% month-over-month rise in core consumer prices, according to Wall Street analysts. The hotter-than-expected jump in this category, which strips out price changes in the particularly volatile food and energy sectors, helped cement ex
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Sep 19, 2026
New panels for the border wall are being installed in West Texas, marking the start of visible construction on a 47.3-mile project in the Big Bend region as President Donald Trump's administration expands its barrier network along the southern border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the first panels for the Big Bend 1 project in Hudspeth County went up on September 15, the Associated Press first reported.
Work is beginning amid legal challenges and resistance from landowners concerned about the federal government's plans for the remote region.
The development gives new significance to CBP's Smart Wall map, which records 232.4 miles of various border infrastructure completed since January 20, 2025, and shows hundreds more moving through design or construction.
Newsweek contacted CBP on Saturday morning via email for further comment.
An excavator plows through land during construction for a section of border wall near Santa Elena Canyon on August 14, 2026, in Big Bend National Park, Texas.Why It MattersTru
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Sep 19, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Two major news networks were denied access to the White House on Saturday morning, with reporters from CNN and MS NOW both going live to report they'd been barred following a ban imposed by President Donald Trump.
The actions escalated Trump's long-running efforts to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionable, and is the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States. Trump said Friday he would ban both organizations and also Politico, because of their coverage — which he called "fake news."
CNN issued a statement saying it stood behind its reporters. "We will not be deflected from our duty to hold the government and other public bodies to account," it said. The statement was shown on the air before senior White House reporter Betsy Klein began to report on her ban.
MS NOW also said in a statement that it stands behind its journalists.
"The White House belongs to the American people and the decisions made inside are funded by our tax dollars," the network said in a statement Saturday. "MS NOW intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights and the essential role of independent journalism in our democracy."
CNN and MS NOW correspondents are turned away
Both CNN White House reporter Betsy Klein and MS NOW reporter Akayla Gardner went on the air to report they'd been banned from entering the White House.
Network correspondents are usually present on the weekends when the president is in Washington or at nearby Camp David. Trump is at the presidential retreat in Maryland this weekend. Politico journalists typically are not at the White House on Saturdays.
Gardner was turned away and her entry badge confisc
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Sep 19, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Reporters from three major news organizations — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — were denied access to the White House on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said he was barring them because of reporting he found to be "fake news."
The actions were a clear escalation of Trump's long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionable, and the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States. Trump had said Friday he would ban all three outlets because of coverage he disliked.
White House reporters from the two cable networks — Betsy Klein of CNN and Akayla Gardner of MS NOW — both went live to report they'd been turned away when arriving for their jobs at the White House. Soon after, Politico said its White House reporter Cheyenne Haslett was also denied entry and had her badge confiscated.
Politico Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger said in a statement to the Politico newsroom: "We stand by her and all reporters here covering the White House. … We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights."
CNN and MS NOW issued similar statements. "We will not be deflected from our duty to hold the government and other public bodies to account," CNN said.
"The White House belongs to the American people and the decisions made inside are funded by our tax dollars," MS NOW said in its statement. "MS NOW intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights and the essential role of independent journalism in our democracy."'
In his second term, Trump and his administration have upped the ante and punished certain media outlets, both in the courtroom and through regulatory action. Trump has also lashed
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Sep 19, 2026
AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, Space XAI and Google are being sued over alleged collusion as pressure mounts to slow the rapid development of AI.
The complaint, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, points to a recent proposal from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who called for "industry-wide coordination" to "pace the frontier" as concerns mount over the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI.
"We must slow the space in which we improve the capabilities of AI models," Amodei wrote in a Sept. 12 essay.
The plaintiffs allege that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI founder Elon Musk and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis made an illegal business agreement among competitors by agreeing to slow the development of their AI systems, violating federal antitrust law.
Within hours of Amodei publishing his essay, Musk responded, saying "Dario is right," while Altman also said he agreed with Amodei. Hassabis called the proposal "the right path forward," according to the complaint.
Nick Rowley, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs, said decisions about AI safeguards should be made through government action rather than private agreements among major technology companies.
Rowley said in a statement to Politico that the case was filed to ensure "private self-serving agreements between the world's most powerful ‘for profit' technology companies" don't result in AI "quickly spin[ing] out of human control."
"Humanity deserves iron clad safegua
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