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• NASA is working with Tom Cruise to shoot a film in outer space

  05-05-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Tom Cruise wants fly into outer space in the name of filmmaking, and NASA says it's happening.
  
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• Trump's plan to militarize proposed arch raises new legal and safety concerns

  22-09-2026 14:43 via yahoo.com
  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 to Truth Social, saying that the 250-foot 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 chan
  
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• Trump's plan to militarize proposed arch raises new concerns

  22-09-2026 14:43 via yahoo.com
  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 to Truth Social, saying that the 250-foot 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 t
  
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• Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating

  22-09-2026 14:31 via theguardian.com
  The Argiope bruennichi, spotted in Cheshire for first time, part of worrying trend that could threaten native speciesShe is an unlikely harbinger of the climate emergency: a venomous black and yellow spider who spins mysterious patterns in her webs and eats her mates for breakfast.Native to mainland Europe, north Africa and Asia, the Argiope bruennichi – commonly known as a wasp spider – is rarely seen in the north and west of Britain. But a fully grown female has been spotted in Che
  
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• Kansas judge reportedly convicts driver in death of teacher whose husband was killed months prior

  22-09-2026 14:17 via theguardian.com
  Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teacher’s fatal car wreck on Monday reportedly led to a vehicular homicide conviction for the motorist who crashed into her – a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator’s widower while he prepared to cover the 2025 Super Bowl for Telemundo.Todd W Armstr
  
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• Houthis accuse Saudis of deadly strikes as thousands flee escalating conflict

  22-09-2026 13:59 via yahoo.com
  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
  
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• EU spends three times more on imports from China than bloc exports there

  22-09-2026 13:54 via theguardian.com
  Study shows trade deficit ran at more than €1bn a day in July, days before Xi Jinping’s summit with Donald TrumpBusiness live – latest updatesConsumers and businesses in the EU are spending three times more on Chinese imports than their counterparts in China are buying from the bloc, a study has shown.Customs data showed the gap between the EU’s imports from China and exports to China, the trade deficit, ran at more than €1bn (£860m) a day in July. Continue read
  
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• OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

  22-09-2026 13:46 via theguardian.com
  Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water- and energy-guzzling structures.The former Tory chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to governments around the world and he also
  
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• George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

  22-09-2026 13:46 via theguardian.com
  Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water-and-energy guzzling structures.The Tory former chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company and the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to gov
  
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• Piers Morgan says he will sue Earl Spencer over ‘fabricated inaccuracies’

  22-09-2026 13:45 via theguardian.com
  Broadcaster refutes memoir claim that he was behind alleged hidden-camera gym photos of Diana, Princess of WalesPiers Morgan has said he will sue Earl Spencer over “fabricated inaccuracies” and “examples of brazen falsity” in his book about the late Diana, Princess of Wales.The earl has made a series of claims in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – including that King Charles said “we’ll forget her soon enough” after she died, which has prompted a war of
  
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• Burnham plays down past critical comments about Trump ahead of UN meeting – UK politics live

  22-09-2026 13:40 via theguardian.com
  Burnham is heading to New York for the United Nations general assemblyIf Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial Times. This front page headline speaks for itself.Mortgages ‘on the front line’ as Iran war deals £840 blow to homeownersBritish homeowners are paying an average of £840 a year more when they refinance their mortgages, as the rising borrowin
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Iran ready to reopen strait of Hormuz within seven days if US lifts blockade, official says

  22-09-2026 13:32 via theguardian.com
  Traffic through the key waterway for energy supplies has dwindled to a trickleTehran appears to have relaxed its preconditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz, saying it is prepared to do so within seven days so long as the US takes reciprocal steps to ease the pressure on Iran.Previously Iran had set seven onerous pre-conditions for lifting the blockade including “an end to war on all fronts” and a commitment by the US to cease all aggressive actions against Iran including sancti
  
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• Trump set to address UNGA with Middle East and Ukraine on agenda – US politics live

  22-09-2026 13:31 via theguardian.com
  President also due to hold meetings with 11 world leadersSign up for US Breaking News emailsPresident Donald Trump has said he is working on a “massive” deal to buy fertiliser from Belarus, pivoting away from main supplier Canada amid an escalating trade dispute, and moving instead toward an ally of Russia.“The United States is working on a massive deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus,” Trump said on his Truth Social network. “The pricing would b
  
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• EU deadlocked on changes to Russia sanctions ahead of key Ukraine, Greenland talks - Europe live

  22-09-2026 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Without an agreement sanctions on nearly 3,000 entities accused of supporting the war on Ukraine will lapse at the end of the dayBut there are some good news from Lithuania, too: the country’s president Gitanas Nausėda announced that “the new rotation of US troops is already on its way to Lithuania.”The decision comes after prolonged uncertainty about the US military presence in the region amid growing speculations that a posture review could see some of them pulled out fr
  
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• First Thing: News outlets suspend coverage of Trump in escalating media access row

  22-09-2026 13:20 via theguardian.com
  President’s decision to ban three news organisations from White House prompts backlash from major US news outlets. Plus, an incredible new resource to help trace the history of enslaved people in the 19th centuryGood morning. The row over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds.The presiden
  
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• Poorer nations will be among the last to benefit if global emissions cut to net zero

  22-09-2026 13:13 via theguardian.com
  Scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achievedThe unequal impact of the climate crisis on the world’s poorest people, including those in tropical areas, has been highlighted by new research that finds they will be among the last to feel the benefits if global greenhouse gas emissions are cut to net zero.Temperatures have risen more significantly in tropical areas relative to their historic range than
  
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• Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’

  22-09-2026 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of diseaseThe US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday – but it’s still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be accelerating and cases are appearing in ways providers have never seen before.Members of Congress on Monday requested an “immediate br
  
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• ‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin

  22-09-2026 12:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, tell of president capable of ‘limitless cruelty’At 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badanin was woken by a knock on the door of his family’s Moscow apartment. “Come quickly, someone has scratched your car in the courtyard,” a voice shouted from outside. As he opened the door, masked men pushed their way in.Across the city, a similar raid was happening at the home of Badanin&rsq
  
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• Autumnal equinox marks the start of fall, but heat could stick around

  22-09-2026 12:04 via usatoday.com
  
  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 thi
  
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• Democrat says ICE restricted her oversight visit to country’s largest detention camp

  22-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Veronica Escobar tells Guardian she was prevented from speaking to detainees at much-criticized Texas facilityFederal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Veronica Escobar from fully conducting her congressional oversight duties at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, the lawmaker said in an interview with the Guardian.Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso and surrounding areas on the US-Mexico border in west Texas, conducted an o
  
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• Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong

  22-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Disappearance of jet components sparks concern some of the program’s technology secrets could have been exposedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Department of Defence is examining how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for the US from Australia were unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong, the acting prime minister, Richard Marles, has said.Marles said “very much everything that has occurred at the Australian end
  
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• Jacinda Ardern and husband Clarke Gayford buy $5.3m home in Sydney’s northern beaches

  22-09-2026 10:54 via theguardian.com
  Former New Zealand prime minister’s purchase is the highest sale price recorded in suburb of Dee Why this yearGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJacinda Ardern and her husband, Clarke Gayford, have bought a $5.3m home in Sydney’s northern beaches, according to a source with knowledge of the sale.The former New Zealand prime minister settled on a home in Dee Why after looking at properties in the area including in nearby Curl Curl. Continue reading...
  
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• AI could be a bubble and is not yet making Australia more productive, Michele Bullock says

  22-09-2026 10:54 via theguardian.com
  
  RBA governor says AI is ‘great white hope’ but its adoption is so far adding to inflation, rather than economic growthGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank governor said AI could be a bubble and there was no evidence it is making the economy more efficient, as the Albanese government claims the technology will solve Australia’s economic malaise.Ahead of an expected interest rate rise next week Michele Bullock also said the slump in house pr
  
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• Trump, Greenland and Denmark to sign deal in bid to end Arctic standoff

  22-09-2026 10:44 via yahoo.com
  By Jacob Gronholt-PedersenCOPENHAGEN, 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
  
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• Mother charged after allegedly fatally stabbing one child and seriously injuring two others in Blue Mountains

  22-09-2026 10:33 via theguardian.com
  A woman has been accused of murder and two counts of grievous bodily harm with intent to cause murderGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA mother has been charged after allegedly fatally stabbing one child and seriously injuring two others in the Blue Mountains.Emergency services responded to reports on Sunday that three children and a woman had been found in a vehicle in Valley Heights with stab wounds. New South Wales police said bystanders who were first on the scene at
  
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• Terry Denton, beloved Australian illustrator best known for Treehouse series, dies aged 76

  22-09-2026 10:16 via theguardian.com
  The illustrator and author ‘gave joy to millions of children around the world’, his family saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe beloved Australian illustrator and author Terry Denton, most famous for his work on the Treehouse series, has died aged 76.His publisher, Curtis Brown, released a statement on social media saying Denton died surrounded by his family on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Caution versus ambition: strategy debate dominates Lib Dem conference

  22-09-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Party strategists say careful targeting of seats has paid off and should continue, but some say a wider vision is neededOne of the more dramatic moments in a Liberal Democrat conference otherwise short of them came late on Sunday, when the party frontbencher Lisa Smart told the polling veteran John Curtice that, in effect, he no longer understood modern politics.Curtice had warned the Lib Dems they risked being left behind, with the lack of a coherent national message seeing them all but ignored
  
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• Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

  22-09-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der LeyenAndy Burnham has opened the door to fighting the next election on the UK rejoining the EU, but said his immediate priority was continuing to rebuild bridges with European allies.The prime minister, who will hold his first meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on Tuesday, did not rule out including reversing Brexit in Labour’s next manifesto &nda
  
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• White House launches ‘Trump TV’ amid feud with press

  22-09-2026 09:18 via dpa-international.com
  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
  
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• UK borrows £18bn in August, putting pressure on Healey before budget

  22-09-2026 09:16 via theguardian.com
  Higher-than-expected figure will make chancellor’s aim of calming jittery bond markets more difficultBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK government borrowed a higher-than-expected £18.3bn last month, increasing the pressure on John Healey as he attempts to calm jittery bond markets before next month’s budget.Official figures released by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday said public sector net borrowing – the difference between government spending and in
  
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