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• Trump puts sanctions relief on the table as U.S.-Iran talks continue, U.S. official says

  28-09-2026 19:33 via cnn.com
  
  A satellite view shows an overview of the Natanz nuclear facility near Natanz, Iran, on June 30. - Vantor/Reuters
  President Donald Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds as part of a final deal, but only if Tehran offers “concrete progress” on the nuclear issue, a US official told CNN Monday, as mediators try to bring both countries back to the negotiating table.
  The United States is having “positive and constructive discussions through the medi
  
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• From motorcycles to booze, U.S. ban on $1 billion in Canadian imports goes into effect

  29-09-2026 06:00 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of President Donald Trump’s second-term trade war with America&rs
  
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• Senate passes historic bill to regulate college sports. Its toughest test comes next.

  29-09-2026 04:31 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  The Protect College Sports Act is halfway home.U.S. senators on Monday overwhelmingly voted to pass legislation intended to bring regulation to an unruly industry — a historic moment in NCAA history but one expected after lawmakers advanced the bill through multiple procedural steps over the last week.The bill, mainly authored by Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt and Democrat Sen. Maria Cantwell, garnered 77 supporting votes in the 100-member chamber — a considerable margin
  
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• OpenAI scraps release of its latest AI model over safety concerns

  29-09-2026 02:57 via tech.yahoo.com
  OpenAI is scrapping the planned release of its next-generation AI model after researchers raised safety concerns during internal testing, Newsweek has confirmed.An OpenAI spokesperson told Newsweek Monday evening that safety leaders made the decision not to ship GPT-6.1 Astra, which was set for an October debut. The decision was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.“For anything regarding safety and alignment, there’s a trade off. You really do need to find what’s the righ
  
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• DA defends decision not to prosecute alleged Cornell gang rape case in 2024

  29-09-2026 02:12 via abcnews.com
  
  Prosecutors in upstate New York are defending their decision not to bring charges in 2024 after an alleged "gang rape" at a Cornell University fraternity. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten described the allegations as “morally disturbing” but argued that the facts he knew at the time did not support a prosecution. “If what was said on social media about this case was true, those fraternity members would be in prison right now,” Van Houten told
  
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• Chuck Grassley, oldest sitting senator, laments dying in office under a Democratic governor

  29-09-2026 01:48 via abcnews.com
  
  Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, lamented the possibility that a Democratic governor could appoint his successor if he were to die in office, according to video of remarks he delivered late last week."At 93 years of age, I don't know how many more groups of Republicans like this I’m going to have a chance to talk to," Grassley said on Friday during the GOP's annual Reagan Dinner in West Des Moines. "But I want to take advantage of it. But one of the rea
  
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• Hegseth instructs Pentagon to defend midterms from 'foreign actors'

  29-09-2026 01:26 via thehill.com
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instructed the Pentagon last week to prioritize and deploy “advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities” to track down, disrupt and neutralize “foreign actors to protect the 2026 midterm elections" while “maintaining the fundamental freedoms that characterize our country.” 
  “Commander U.S. Cyber Command and the Directors of the Combat Support Agencies will prioritize the use of DoW [Department of War] intelligence and cybe
  
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• Man who spent decades on Utah death row gets bail after DNA doesn't match him

  29-09-2026 01:11 via yahoo.com
  A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing to be released on bail, despite objections from the victim's family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.Douglas Stewart Carter was sentenced to death that same year after a jury found him guilty of murdering Eva Olesen, an aunt of the Provo police chief at the time.The state Supreme Court ordered a new trial last year, citing misconduct by investigators. Carter has
  
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• Major Pentagon breach exposes sensitive data on nearly 3 million people

  29-09-2026 00:49 via abcnews.com
  
  A breach of the Pentagon’s sprawling personnel database exposed sensitive information belonging to a massive swath of military personnel, including Social Security numbers and details about the jobs they held, according to a U.S. defense official.The breach affected 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased, the official said. The scope and sensitivity of the exposed information could raise national security concerns, particularly because the files included details ab
  
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• 'A visit to another planet': How an article about a niche bar set the internet on fire

  29-09-2026 00:03 via yahoo.com
  Mask policies at a lesbian bar in a small western Massachusetts town don't sound like the kind of topic that would become a viral sensation. But that's exactly what happened when the Boston Globe published a look last week into the uproar that ensued when Last Ditch, a bar in the small LGBTQ-friendly town of Greenfield, Mass., decided to transition to a mask-optional policy for its Saturday night happy hours. "Shocking news … the internet is a strange place, particularly when it come
  
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• CNN, MS Now and Politico ask court to extend block of White House access ban

  28-09-2026 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Three news organizations banished from White House grounds asked a court late Monday to block enforcement of the action until the case is resolved, saying the Trump administration has “persisted in unpredictably and inconsistently implementing its ban” despite a judge’s restraining order -- including by barring CNN from fulfilling its role in the White House television pool over the weekend.“The White House’s words and actions leave little doubt that it will immedia
  
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• U.S. officials deny plans to sell weapons to China after ambassador's remarks

  28-09-2026 22:22 via abcnews.com
  
  Trump administration officials said on Monday that the United States has no plans to sell weapons to China after U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue indicated during a televised interview that President Donald Trump offered a weapons deal to China's Xi Jinping during a high-profile summit last week."President Trump continues to say, 'Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,'" Perdue said Sunday during an appearance on Fox News. "He actually asked President Xi would he like to buy so
  
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• Iran under scrutiny after plot foiled near UK base used by US military

  28-09-2026 20:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Just days after left-wing British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband shook hands with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s top diplomat at the United Nations, U.K. authorities arrested five men with possible links to Tehran who allegedly sought to bomb a military base in Fairford used by American forces.Armed officers arrested the five suspected terrorists who were traveling in three vans reportedly packed with explosive material. The authorities seized the five British nationals and the vans a mere
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Alito recuses himself from climate case involving oil companies

  28-09-2026 20:17 via yahoo.com
  By John KruzelWASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will not participate in an upcoming case involving a bid ‌by oil companies to scuttle a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable ‌for helping fuel climate change, a court official said on Monday.Alito owns stock in several ​oil and gas companies but not Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, the two companies involved in the dispute to be heard by the court on October 5. He had initially declined calls from wa
  
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• Number of measles cases nears 3,700 — with the epicenter in Pennsylvania

  28-09-2026 18:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The growing number of measles cases across the U.S. this year is nearing 3,700, federal data shows, as an outbreak in Pennsylvania continues to surge. There are now 3,659 confirmed cases this year, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That total includes new cases from Pennsylvania, where 129 cases have been reported over the past seven days, a dashboard from Pennsylvania’s health department shows, bringing the total to 890.Possible measles ex
  
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• FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey resigns in latest shake-up at bureau

  28-09-2026 18:34 via yahoo.com
  The conservative firebrand whom the Trump administration installed as a No. 2 at the FBI announced Mondaythat he is resigning from the bureau.Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general who has supported debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen, told bureau employees in an email that he was leavingto spend more time with this family, according to three people familiar with the personnel move who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a matter they were not authorized to
  
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• Stocks fall as surging interest rates add another worry for investors

  28-09-2026 18:23 via nbcnews.com
  By midmorning, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield had risen to 5.27%, its highest level since mid-June 2007. (Samuel Corum / Bloomberg via Getty Images file)Stocks fell Monday alongside a jump in bond yields and erratic oil trading as geopolitical upheaval remained front and center for traders.The S&P 500 ended lower by 0.7% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.9% as oil prices rose, pushing Brent crude oil back above $106 per barrel.Earlier in the day, Brent rose beyond $108, but the jump modera
  
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• GoFundMe that raised nearly $290,000 for Texas couple pulled over 'factual' issues

  28-09-2026 17:51 via nbcnews.com
  Donald and Josephine Johnson have had their GoFundMe campaign shut down, which aimed to raise money for Josephine's cancer treatment, due to a possible violation of GoFundMe's terms of service. (KXAS)GoFundMe pulled the plug Sunday on a campaign to raise money for an elderly Texas couple, saying it had “identified factual misrepresentations.” The account was created after the husband went viral for working a backbreaking job to cover his wife’s mounting bills for cancer treatme
  
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• UK airbase terror suspects being released on bail as Iran denies connection

  28-09-2026 17:46 via foxnews.com
  
  United Kingdom police are releasing five terror suspects on bail Monday after they were arrested on suspicion of a terror plot targeting a U.S. air base in Britain this weekend.Laurence ​Taylor, head of ​Counter Terrorism Policing, confirmed that investigations into the five men are ongoing, "including ⁠that this may be actively committed ​by proxies ​or ⁠individuals either knowingly or unknowingly working on ⁠behalf ​of a ​foreign state." Me
  
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• Russian drones hit science academy in the historic heart of Kyiv

  28-09-2026 17:18 via yahoo.com
  A residential building was hit in the eastern city of Kharkiv (SERGEY BOBOK)Russian drones struck Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in the historic heart of Kyiv on Monday, in the latest deadly daytime attack on the Ukrainian capital.Kyiv has increasingly faced Russian drones and missiles as Europe's worst conflict since World War II grinds through its fifth year.The capital again came under fire after an air force alert warning of approaching drones.Video footage shared online appeared to
  
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• President Trump to announce new $15 billion steel plant to be built in Iowa

  28-09-2026 16:56 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump is unveiling Monday plans for a massive steel plant in Iowa that the White House says will be the largest in American history and promises to bring 1,750 permanent jobs to the state.The roughly $15 billion steel plant is touted as a major new investment and evidence that Trump's economic agenda is bringing heavy manufacturing back to the U.S. with just over a month until the midterms. It will create between 5,000 and 6,000 construction jobs during its first phase.Trump is
  
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• President Trump announces new $15 billion steel plant to be built in Iowa

  28-09-2026 16:56 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump is unveiling Monday plans for a massive steel plant in Iowa that the White House says will be the largest in American history and promises to bring 1,750 permanent jobs to the state.The roughly $15 billion steel plant is touted as a major new investment and evidence that Trump's economic agenda is bringing heavy manufacturing back to the U.S. with just over a month until the midterms. It will create between 5,000 and 6,000 construction jobs during its first phase.Trump is
  
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• Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

  28-09-2026 16:42 via thehill.com
  The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.  
  Schools now must go back to the Title IX code as held under the previous Trump administration in 2020, which the department says will protect women’s sports. 
  “Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflect court or
  
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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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