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• Obama, Abu Dhabi crown prince discuss Syria -White House

  17-10-2015 02:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Friday with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and they agreed that Russia's military operations in Syria should focus on Islamic State, not moderate Syrian opposition groups, the White House said. Obama and Al Nahyan, who holds a senior post in the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates, also reaffirmed the importance of establishing the conditions necessary for a political transition in Syria, the White
  
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• Trump rolls back car fuel efficiency standards

  28-09-2026 15:26 via thehill.com
  The Trump administration has rolled back car fuel efficiency standards requiring automakers to ensure their cars and light trucks were using less fuel.
  While the Biden-era standards would have been expected to get the nation’s car fleet to average 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031, the Trump administration on Monday brought that number down to 34.9 miles per gallon. 
  The administration argued that this would make cars cheaper, though opponents of the move point out that car owners could
  
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• SpaceX's Starship rocket reaches orbit for 1st time despite failure of an engine

  28-09-2026 14:50 via tech.yahoo.com
  SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety.The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas. The company had been aiming for a 10-hour flight, spanning six full laps around Earth, to prove its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon program.Starship tipped over and erupted in flames upon splashdown, a
  
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• SpaceX launches Starship rocket to orbit for 1st time

  28-09-2026 14:50 via tech.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday, aiming for six full laps around Earth to prove its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon program.Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → https://t.co/uQKQvgaTmJ— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 27, 2026 The spacecraft almost didn't achieve the long-desired goal after one of its en
  
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• Pope Leo leans into statesman role, urging peace in an era of renewed war

  28-09-2026 14:46 via yahoo.com
  METZ, France - Pope Leo XIV capped a four-day trip to France in the intellectual birthplace of the European Union, heralding its success at “tearing down walls that were dividing it” and leaning into his role not only as spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics but as an increasingly influential statesman. In back-to-back addresses delivered symbolically in a conference center named after Robert Schuman, the late French foreign minister who was a founding father of the European Unio
  
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• SpaceX's massive Starship is finally going to orbit — and the effects could be seismic

  28-09-2026 14:24 via cnn.com
  
  The SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy booster lift off for a 13th test flight from the company's launch complex in Starbase, Texas, on July 24. - Steve Nesius/Reuters
  For live updates on SpaceX Starship’s 14th test flight, follow CNN’s coverage here.
  People near the sandy shores of Texas’ southernmost coastline are accustomed to the earth-shattering roar of the most powerful rocket ever made: Since 2023, various prototypes of SpaceX’s Starship have taken flight from the are
  
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• Nvidia unveils record $150 billion stock buyback plan

  28-09-2026 14:13 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  The valuation on Nvidia (NVDA) is too appetizing for CEO Jensen Huang to ignore any longer. The king of AI chips revealed a stunning new $150 billion stock buyback plan on Monday — the largest share repurchase authorization increase in history. It brings the company's total buyback authorization to $235 billion. "NVIDIA's growth is being driven by a once-in-a-generation platform shift to AI and accelerated computing," Huang said in a statement. "Our cash generation gives us the capacity to
  
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• Republicans join Democrats in questioning Trump's taxpayer-funded TV ads

  28-09-2026 13:45 via time.com
  
  A screenshot of President Donald Trump's 2023 ad for the 2024 presidential elections. —Screenshot from Donald Trump's Truth Social account @realDonaldTrump“This is the final battle,” Donald Trump could be heard saying in one of the taxpayer-funded television ads that aired ahead of the November elections and elicited scrutiny across political parties for potential violations of federal law.The 30-second ad is a black-and-white video of Trump walking down a hall over audio of hi
  
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• Developer offers $10,000 checks to all households in township if data center is built

  28-09-2026 13:40 via tomshardware.com
  
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  NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of $10,000 per household. Despite the Pennsylvania town’s median income of $60,000, the offer isn’t being warmly welcomed by lo
  
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• Iran says it's up to Trump to choose between war and diplomacy

  28-09-2026 13:32 via cbsnews.com
  
  What to know about the Iran war today:Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Tehran is "fully prepared for the war to be resumed," and also for the possibility of renewed diplomacy with the U.S. aimed at ending the seven-month conflict, and it's "up to President Trump to choose."Mr. Trump told Axios on Sunday that he expected talks with Iran to resume this week, insisting again that the Islamic Republic is "losing badly" and eager to strike a peace deal. Last week, Iran pr
  
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• Republicans' frustrations with Hegseth mount as Iran war costs build

  28-09-2026 12:50 via semafor.com
  
  The NewsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is running into a wall of congressional GOP resistance as he tries to secure $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon next year.Lawmakers’ growing reluctance to fulfill Hegseth’s eye-popping budget request reflects real intraparty concerns about his leadership, his relationship with Congress, and the ongoing war with Iran. It also punctuates months of drama at the Pentagon over the ouster and resignation of various top officials, in addition to reports of
  
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• Hurricane Polo takes aim at Mexico as Nolo threatens Hawaii with flooding

  28-09-2026 12:45 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of Mexico's Baja California Sur as Hurricane Polo, a Category 3 storm, heads toward the peninsula. Polo is expected to reach the west coast of Baja California Sur on Monday, cross the peninsula Monday night and move inland over southern Sonora by early Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters said it should still be near major hurricane strength when it hits Baja.In Hawaii, Hurricane Nolo has strengthened into a Category 4 storm
  
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• Cornell rape civil lawsuit prompts prosecutor to reopen criminal investigation

  28-09-2026 12:34 via abcnews.com
  
  Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said in a statement that his office is considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the incident, though he said the allegations in the civil complaint are “dramatically different” than the woman&
  
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• Accused drug lord 'The Spider' extradited to U.S. from Colombia

  28-09-2026 12:21 via cbsnews.com
  
  A Colombian warlord, whose extradition to the United States had been delayed for several months while he was designated a peace negotiator by the country's previous government, was flown to California and placed in custody of federal agents. Geovany Andres Rojas faces drug trafficking and terrorism charges in the United States. For years, he acted as a spokesman and leader of Comandos de la Frontera, a rebel group known for trafficking cocaine in Putumayo, a Colombian province that borders Ecuad
  
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• John Fetterman accidentally calls himself a 'lifelong Republican' during an event

  28-09-2026 12:00 via yahoo.com
  Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, speaks at the Texas Tribune Festival, in Austin, on Saturday. Photograph: Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
  With speculation about whether he may defect from the Democratic party swirling around him, US senator John Fetterman described himself seemingly unintentionally as a “lifelong Republican” during a fireside chat in Texas over the weekend.
  Fetterman made the comment when someone listening to him speak with CBS News politic
  
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• Nvidia debuts system designed to stop AI agents from going awry

  28-09-2026 11:00 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp. introduced a new double-layered artificial intelligence security system that it says would’ve prevented the recent high-profile breach of Hugging Face by OpenAI’s AI models.Most Read from BloombergKroger Sets New Dress Code Rules for Its Grocery-Store WorkersCanadian Oil No Longer Takes Long Road to Asia as Freight SurgesEllison Pledges $9.2 Billion More in Oracle Shares for LoansMcDonald’s Selloff Hits 30% as Big Mac Inflation Spurs PushbackIran Say
  
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• 'Is it really worth it to keep going on?' Economic pain hits America's farm belt.

  28-09-2026 11:00 via cnn.com
  
  John Yeley is the seventh generation to run his family's farm in Illinois. - Courtesy John Yeley
  John Yeley has spent the last 26 years working on his farm, which his family has owned since 1852.
  Yeley is the seventh generation to run his farm in Illinois, just over the state line from Indiana. Although he plans to keep doing so, he’s not sure he wants his 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter to take over because the current economics are so rough.
  “Right now, the way all of this
  
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• At every turn, Trump's ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance

  28-09-2026 11:00 via washingtonpost.com
  First came a proposal to permit tariff-free beef imports, but that immediately angered America’s farmers and ranchers. Then came a plan to ban exports of domestic diesel fuel, but that met with pushback from major oil companies. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.In between, President Donald Trump pitched the idea of simply cutting $5,000 checks to adult Americans frustrated, polls show, by high food and gas prices
  
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• British police investigate possible Iran link after arrests near U.S.-run base

  28-09-2026 10:11 via yahoo.com
  FAIRFORD, England (AP) — Police were holding five men on Monday and examining suspected explosives found near a U.S.-operated air force base in England, as counterterror detectives investigated whether the arrests foiled an attempted attack linked to Iran.The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base operated by the U.S. Air Force that has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East.The five, who have
  
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• State Dept. denies arms sale offer to China amid claim Trump floated idea to Xi

  28-09-2026 10:09 via upi.com
  President Donald Trumps speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a state dinner at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI
  Sept. 28 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump offered to sell U.S. weapons to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to the U.S. ambassador to China, an extraordinary overture that would mark a dramatic departure frp, Washington's longstanding policy toward Beijing.
  "President Trump continues to say, 'Hey, we sell arms to other people aroun
  
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• State Dept. denies arms sale offer to China after report Trump floated idea to Xi

  28-09-2026 10:09 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trumps speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a state dinner at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPISept. 28 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump offered to sell U.S. weapons to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to the U.S. ambassador to China, an extraordinary overture that would mark a dramatic departure from Washington's longstanding policy toward Beijing."President Trump continues to say, 'Hey, we sell arms to other people around
  
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• Seoul demands apology after Zelensky reveals secret North Korean prisoner transfer

  28-09-2026 08:29 via yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul has called for an official apology from Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed what it says was supposed to be a secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea.Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly last week that Ukraine had recently sent the men to South Korea, after capturing them on a Ukraine-Russia battlefield in early 2025. The two are among thousands of North Korean soldiers sent to support Russia’s war again
  
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• Nor'easter winding down after hitting parts of East Coast hard

  28-09-2026 07:54 via cbsnews.com
  
  Remnants of a powerful nor'easter continued to hit parts of the U.S. East Coast early Monday after bringing a fierce combination of heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous waves to multiple states in its path over the weekend. In coastal sections of New York and New Jersey, the storm triggered such intense flooding that residents were seen paddling through their neighborhoods on kayaks and canoes, past parked cars that had become partially or nearly submerged in water.Flood warnings and watc
  
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• ‘Storm fatigue’: Hawaiians reeling from back-to-back hurricanes as Nolo’s threats diminish

  28-09-2026 06:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hawaiians have storm fatigue, Hilo’s mayor said Sunday, as the third hurricane to approach the islands in recent weeks continues to spin offshore.
  
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• White House releases new taxpayer-funded ad describing ‘final battle’

  28-09-2026 05:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The ad is nearly identical to one Trump’s presidential campaign released in 2024.
  
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• Madonna’s big night, Taylor Swift’s record and a Dolly Parton tribute at MTV VMAs

  28-09-2026 05:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The MTV Video Music Awards made their West Coast return Sunday.
  
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• U.K. police arrest 5 men on suspicion of terrorism near air base used by U.S. forces

  28-09-2026 04:39 via cnn.com
  
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  British police on Sunday arrested five men on suspicion of terror and explosives offenses close to an airbase in England that is used by US long-range bombers in the war against Iran.
  Army bomb disposal units are at the scene while dozens of houses nearby have been evacuated as a precaution with the investigation ongoing.
  The arrests were made after information was received from residents in the area soon after midnight, according to Richard Ocone, a senior detective in the co
  
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• Watch highlights from the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards

  28-09-2026 04:26 via nbcnews.com
  Watch highlights from the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, with Queen of Pop Madonna returning to the stage after over two decades and Taylor Swift making history as the first recipient of the Artist Director Honors and winning Video of the Year for “The Fate of Ophelia." Plus heartwarming tributes to Dolly Parton and George Michael.
  
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• Benjamin Satterley, globetrotting wrestler known as Pac, dies at 40

  28-09-2026 04:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Benjamin Satterley, the hard-hitting and high-flying professional wrestler known to fans worldwide simply as Pac, has died, All Elite Wrestling announced Sunday night.
  
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• Taylor Swift surpasses Beyoncé to become most decorated solo artist in MTV VMAs history

  28-09-2026 04:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  The “Life of a Showgirl” singer won the inaugural Artist Director Honors and video of the year awards Sunday.
  
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