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• Opposition: Leopoldo Lopez denies rumors he's hospitalized

  04-05-2017 12:23 via cnn.com
  
  Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has a message from prison: he is alive and well.
  
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• A rare, high-elevation tornado hits Utah mountainside at nearly 7,500 feet

  19-09-2026 17:34 via theweathernetwork.com
  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 met
  
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• U.S. Central Command says 1 billion barrels of oil have moved through Hormuz

  19-09-2026 16:34 via newsmax.com
  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 commerc
  
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• Smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air raid alerts in the Saudi capital

  19-09-2026 15:36 via bbc.com
  
  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 have since been heard in the capital and major problems reported at King Khalid International Airport, with the tracking website FlightRadar24 reporting
  
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• MS NOW says its journalists were denied access to White House grounds

  19-09-2026 14:33 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — MS NOW said its journalists were denied access to the White House Saturday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said he would ban the network and two other news outlets from the complex. There was no immediate word about access for the other two — Politico and CNN.The action 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.MS N
  
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• MS NOW, CNN and Politico say their journalists were denied White House access

  19-09-2026 14:33 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Reporters from three major news organizations — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — were denied access to the White House on Saturday morning, with reporters from the two cable networks 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 in administrative action — and sometimes in the courts — to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionabl
  
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• MS NOW and CNN say their journalists were denied access to White House grounds

  19-09-2026 14:33 via yahoo.com
  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
  
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• CNN, Politico and MS NOW say journalists weren't allowed at the White House after ban

  19-09-2026 14:33 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Reporters from three major news organizations — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — were denied access to the White House on Saturday morning, with reporters from the two cable networks 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 in administrative action — and sometimes in the courts — to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionabl
  
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• Lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of AI pacing collusion

  19-09-2026 14:16 via thehill.com
  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 whi
  
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• Denmark and Greenland push back on Trump's 'permanent control' claim

  19-09-2026 13:46 via yahoo.com
  By Stine Jacobsen, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Tom LittleCOPENHAGEN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Denmark and Greenland on Saturday said any agreement with the United States would not compromise Greenland's sovereignty, after President Donald Trump said the deal would give Washington "permanent control" over the Arctic island's ‌security, leaving its precise scope unclear.The United States, Denmark and Greenland said late on Friday they had entered into an agreement for ‌the US to develop a sig
  
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• Fundraiser for Lindsay Clancy holdout juror passes $300,000

  19-09-2026 13:23 via newsweek.com
  
  A fundraiser for Michael Desronvil, the lone juror who favored convicting Lindsay Clancy in her closely watched Massachusetts murder trial, has passed $300,000 on crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo.As Newsweek reported previously, Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her children in January 2023: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Her defense attorney argued that postpartum psychosis had left her not criminally responsible for their deaths.
  
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• Millions are without power as Cuba is hit by latest major blackout

  19-09-2026 12:27 via bbc.com
  
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  Millions in Cuba were left without power on Friday as the country was plunged into yet another major blackout.The country's entire electricity grid suffered "total disconnection" that triggered a nationwide outage, Cuba's energy ministry said.Power was restored to some priority areas by late evening, including those near hospitals and water pumping stations in the capital Havana, grid operator UNE said.It is at least the sixth partial or total blackout to hit Cuba this year, w
  
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• Lingering feuds threaten Democrats' bid to reclaim Congress

  19-09-2026 12:04 via yahoo.com
  By Nolan D. McCaskillWASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Democrats are seeking to reclaim Congress, but lingering divisions from a bruising run-up to the November election threaten to imperil the party's attempt to claw back power from President Donald Trump's Republicans.With control of both chambers at stake, Democrats have sought to move past the bad blood of the primaries, but in several competitive states, influential party figures have withheld endorsements or so far declined to campaign with
  
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• Zelensky thanks Trump for signing 'critically important' Russia sanctions bill

  19-09-2026 10:57 via abcnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday thanked President Donald Trump for signing into law a bill championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, which allows for the expansion of sanctions on Russia related to Moscow's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Trump signed the bill on Friday, the White House said in a statement, after the legislation passed both the House and Senate with strong bipartisan backing. The legislation "authorizes and expands statutory sanctions, tariffs and proh
  
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• Trump signs bill authorizing sweeping Russia sanctions

  19-09-2026 09:24 via yahoo.com
  Russia has intensified attacks against Ukraine as its full-scale invasion grinds through its fifth year (Oleksandr GIMANOV)US President Donald Trump signed a bill on Friday authorizing new sanctions designed to pressure Russia over its war in Ukraine, after Congress gave its approval after months of delay.Washington is pushing to revive a mediated path towards ending the conflict as Moscow intensifies attacks against Ukraine, even though much of its attention -- and munitions -- are focused on t
  
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• Aerial threat alert sounds in Saudi capital for 1st time in latest escalation with Houthis

  19-09-2026 09:11 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia warned of a “hostile aerial threat” and issued a string of emergency alerts across the kingdom, including in its capital, late Friday and early Saturday. Also Saturday, Iran’s state TV reported that a man was executed after being convicted on charges of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad.Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Friday. Full coverage is available here.Alerts sound across Saudi Arabia for aerial threatSaudi Arabia warned of a
  
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• Oil prices are high but could be much worse. Trump has China's Xi to thank for that.

  19-09-2026 06:08 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It could be much worse.When President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran in late February, energy analysts issued dire warnings that oil prices could more than double during a protracted conflict and urged investors and motorists to buckle up for a bumpy ride.The war grinds on and oil prices certainly remain volatile. But the most dire projections have not yet come to pass six months into a conflict that has no end in sight.Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is mak
  
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• Google says Gemini hacked real systems after mistaking them for a test

  19-09-2026 03:37 via nbcnews.com
  Google said it did not consider the unauthorized logins to rise to the level of misalignment, the AI industry term for software going rogue or not following instructions. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images file)Google on Friday disclosed the first known instance of its artificial intelligence software, Gemini, carrying out an undirected computer hack, weeks after similar disclosures by AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI raised security alarms about AI models going beyond the instruc
  
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• Someone has poisoned 28 Lake Tahoe trees. Now there's a $147,000 reward.

  19-09-2026 03:23 via yahoo.com
  These three trees, pictured on Aug. 6, are among those recently poisoned at Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, Nev. (Scott Sady / For The Times)A question has bedeviled a wealthy Lake Tahoe enclave for years: Who is poisoning the towering trees that stand sentry on the North Shore?Residents of Incline Village, Nev., hope a $147,000 reward will generate some answers.“It’s the most appalling, selfish thing that anyone could do, especially for trees that are irreplaceable,&rdquo
  
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• Protesters form human chain at Kennedy Center after Trump threatens demolition

  19-09-2026 02:52 via abcnews.com
  
  Hundreds of activists gathered at the Kennedy Center Friday night in opposition to President Donald Trump's attempted takeover of the presidential memorial and threats that he will close and demolish it.Activists linked hands and formed a human chain outside the Washington venue, demanding Trump be removed as its chairman for failing to protect and manage it. Trump installed himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center last year after removing its previous leadership and replacing board members wit
  
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• Is Trump's latest White House media ban legal? Recent history shows mixed signals.

  19-09-2026 02:13 via usatoday.com
  
  WASHINGTON – If recent history is the judge, President Donald Trump faces an uncertain legal landscape after his latest attempt to ban certain media outlets from covering him at the White House.
  Trump announced in a Sept. 18 social media post that he is banning reporters from three major media outlets – CNN, MS NOW, and Politico – from the White House because he views their coverage as "FAKE NEWS."
  Trump later said there wasn't a specific incident or story that prompted him to
  
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• Trump says Donald Jr. repaid Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin for wedding party

  19-09-2026 01:57 via abcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Friday that his son Donald Trump Jr. has paid back a Russian oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin who the Trumps have confirmed hosted two nights of parties after Trump Jr.'s wedding. Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Friday whether it was appropriate for his son to have accepted the gift from Umar Kremlev. "Well, it's totally, it's totally allowed. And a lot of people have parties and all, but it's totally allowed," Trump said. "
  
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• Trump says U.S. has reached a deal to take 'permanent control' of Greenland's security

  19-09-2026 00:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has announced an agreement with Greenland, in which the U.S. will take permanent control of the Arctic island’s security. “I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday evening. The pres
  
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• Trump's Kennedy Center overhaul has reshaped the venue and put its future in doubt

  18-09-2026 23:07 via yahoo.com
  President Trump was photographed this week on board Air Force One examining a large poster with the words "Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED" printed above a rendering of a construction site, heightening concerns that his administration wants to raze Washington, D.C.'s iconic performing arts venue if his name is not added to its facade."I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition," the president told reporters before he boarded the plane Wednesday in North Carolina. "Because
  
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• D.C. official urges Trump to scrap the arch and build 1925 columns instead

  18-09-2026 22:21 via newsmax.com
  A replica of the planned Triumphal Arch. (Jen Golbeck/Associated Press)A District of Columbia preservation official urged the Trump administration to scrap the planned 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery and instead build the two slender columns envisioned in a 1925 congressional plan.
  Andrew Lewis, an official in D.C.'s Historic Preservation Office, made the case for the columns in a Wednesday letter first reported by The Washington Post. The arch would "effectively replace
  
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• 3rd person dies of malaria after mosquito is reportedly trapped on plane to Germany

  18-09-2026 22:21 via foxnews.com
  
  Three people have died from malaria after a mosquito was transported aboard a flight to Germany, according to reports.Several people were rushed to a hospital amid a rare outbreak of the tropical disease following flights to Frankfurt, The Sun reported. It was unclear where the flights departed from.The third person, a resident of Schwanheim, just north of the airport, died recently. In August, an airport worker also died from the disease. Neither had traveled to a malaria-endemic region.Me
  
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• Jeanne Shaheen joins House counterpart in blocking $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel

  18-09-2026 22:19 via thehill.com
  The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has exercised a hold on a $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel, The Hill has learned, allying with her counterpart in the House and underscoring deep mistrust with the Trump administration and Israeli government. 
  Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) has expressed frustration that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done nothing to address concerns from, specifically, Democratic lawmakers over the high civilian death tolls in Gaza
  
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• Trump says he's banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House

  18-09-2026 21:16 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatened that more such media prohibitions could be coming — offering his administration’s latest test of constitutional First Amendment protections guaranteeing the freedom of the press.Trump has long bristled at news coverage he maintains casts him in a negative light, and has a history of filing lawsuits again
  
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• Using food stamps or Medicaid can now put some immigrants' green cards at risk

  18-09-2026 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Immigrants applying to live permanently in the United States can be rejected if they receive public benefits, beginning this week.Use of Medicaid, food stamps, tuition assistance and free school lunch programs, among other government assistance, could all be grounds for denying a green-card application.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.The policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, which took effect Frida
  
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• U.S. military had close call after using AI to generate intelligence report

  18-09-2026 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  US Army soldiers conduct unmanned aerial system training in April 2026. - Spc. Alva Gonzalez/US Army
  The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
  The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed member
  
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