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• US cuts cord on internet oversight

  01-10-2016 13:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US government on Saturday ended its formal oversight role over the internet, handing over management of the online address system to a global non-profit entity. US and ICANN officials have said the contract had given Washington a symbolic role as overseer or the internet's "root zone" where new online domains and addresses are created. Lawrence Strickling, who heads the Commerce Department unit which has managed these functions, issued a brief statement early Saturday confirming the transiti
  
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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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• Sen. Thom Tillis says 'classic Mitch' has returned

  18-09-2026 17:45 via usatoday.com
  
  WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans' three-month headache about Mitch McConnell's health seems to have subsided – at least for now.
  In the days since the Kentucky lawmaker's return to the Capitol, they've defended him in the halls and expressed gratitude that his condition has improved. A fall in June, followed by a bout of pneumonia, kept the 84-year-old off the job for much of the summer and complicated the voting math for Senate Republicans on key legislation.
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• Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chair. His son will replace him.

  18-09-2026 12:34 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  The final change of the guard at the storied Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B).Berkshire Hathaway said Friday that Warren Buffett, 96, will step down as chairman effective immediately. He will move to the chairman emeritus role. In his place as chair will be his son Howard G. Buffett, as has been telegraphed would happen for years.Board life will now look much different for Howard, who has a striking resemblance to his legendary investor dad. And Howard Buffett knows the transition will change his life
  
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• ‘Voters get to choose — just not the result’: Russia’s parliamentary election reaches occupied Ukraine

  18-09-2026 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian State Duma elections began Friday — the first since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Voting is also taking place in the areas annexed from Ukraine in the east as Putin looks to reinforce popular support for the war.OSCE election observers are not invited to monitor the outcome of the elections, a telling signal, critics say, that the Kremlin has no intentions of conducting free and fair elections."Russia’s refusal to invite an election observation mission seriously breaches i
  
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• Trump threatens 'dirty dogs' who keep leaking on Iran war: 'You will pay a big price'

  18-09-2026 11:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has lashed out at leakers in his own administration after a series of behind-the-scenes reports on the Iran war. As the conflict Trump claimed would be over in six weeks drags into its seventh month, insiders have repeatedly claimed the president was warned against taking action by his own advisors. “Keep on leaking you dirty dogs! When we find you, you will pay a big price!!!” declared on his Truth Social Thursday night. The president was responding to an edit
  
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• Democrats see a path to Congress as electoral worries spread into Trump country

  18-09-2026 11:00 via yahoo.com
  Democrats' wary optimism about the midterms gave way to growing confidence this week.The party has seen strong post-Labor Day polls in key battlegrounds - and even in traditionally red areas. Recent escalations in the war in Iran, including an attack on a major pipeline in Saudi Arabia, mean the rising gas prices bedeviling Republicans will not be going down anytime soon. Republicans have not been able to bring prices under control more generally. And President Donald Trump's unpopularity is at
  
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• Shooting at high school in the Philippines leaves 2 students and gunman dead

  18-09-2026 10:57 via yahoo.com
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines on Friday left two 14-year-old students and the teenage gunman dead and wounded at least eight people, local government and police officials said.The shooting at Banga National High School in the South Cotabato town of Banga is under investigation, the Philippine National Police said in a statement. Police officers secured the campus and coordinated with school officials and medical responders, the statement
  
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• Hundreds of thousands rally in Iran in biggest anti-U.S. display since war began

  18-09-2026 10:25 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied Friday in a government-organized show of defiance after months of war, pledging their readiness to take up arms in the biggest such demonstration since the United States and Israel attacked in February.Iran's government has sought to rally the people and stress national unity, even as the economy worsens under a U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and new U.S. sanctions meant to increase Tehran's economic pain.Estimates varied of the
  
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• AI isn't coming to destroy humanity, but experts say the real security threats are here

  18-09-2026 07:19 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) revealed six new examples of its AI models displaying "unexpected or concerning model behavior" during testing and evaluation.The company made the announcement alongside a new framework for "tracking, reporting, and disclosing" instances where AI models take actions they otherwise aren't told to or shouldn't.It follows a number of reports of AI models from companies hacking into third-party networks and services, including an unreleased OpenAI model breaking into
  
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• Trump invokes racially divisive Willy Horton case at rally in N.C.

  18-09-2026 06:04 via yahoo.com
  As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he’s digging into the country’s political past to cite one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes.During a campaign stop Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, Trump resurrected a 1988 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign ad featuring Willie Horton, a Black man convicted of rape and
  
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• Early voting begins in midterm elections that could flip control of Congress

  18-09-2026 06:04 via yahoo.com
  HENRICO, Va. (AP) — In-person voting for this year’s midterm elections begins Friday, ushering in the final six weeks for Americans to decide who they trust to lead Congress through a cost-of-living crisis, a prolonged war in Iran and other pressing issues.Election administrators say they’re prepared and confident the vote will be accurate and secure. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump has continued with efforts to denigrate certain voting methods and reshape how U.S. electio
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws award from Muslim cleric after past Osama bin Laden praise surfaces

  18-09-2026 05:59 via foxnews.com
  
  The Archbishop of Canterbury's office has withdrawn an interfaith award given to a Muslim cleric after past comments surfaced in which he praised Usama bin Laden.Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi received the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation at Lambeth Palace last Friday, during a ceremony that coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Lambeth Palace announced the reversal Thursday after previous comments by Ashrafi had "com
  
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• Farmer who voted for Trump says farmers are 'all just in survival mode'

  18-09-2026 05:45 via cbsnews.com
  
  Matt Bell, 52, has been farming for more than half his life in central North Carolina. He grows soybeans, corn and wheat and raises beef cattle on more than 1,000 acres. But Bell, who voted for President Trump, says soaring prices for fuel, fertilizer, and equipment are hurting his farm and leading some of his fellow farmers to consider calling it quits once this growing season ends.  "I've done this 34 years. I have never worried and stressed like I have the last year," Bell told CBS News
  
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• Lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial says he 'didn't have any doubts'

  18-09-2026 04:58 via cbsnews.com
  
  The lone holdout juror in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial said he "didn't have any doubts" about what he believed was Clancy's criminal responsibility, providing his account of the jury's deliberations. "I didn't have any doubts," juror Michael Desronvil said in a statement obtained by CBS News through his representative, Ray Marcel. "As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present."&
  
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• Pilot ejects safely after Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashes in Michigan

  18-09-2026 04:01 via abcnews.com
  
  A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan during a training mission on Thursday afternoon, sparking an hourslong evacuation near the crash site, according to officials.The incident prompted the evacuation of homes and businesses within 1 mile of the crash site due to a "hazardous chemical spill related to the plane crash," Michigan State Police said.At about 9:45 p.m. Thursday, the evacuation order was lifted, according to state police.Fred Sobeck - PHOTO: A 149th Fighter Wing, Texas A
  
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• Ohio mother of 16 kids found living in squalid home pleads not guilty to child endangerment

  18-09-2026 04:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elizabeth Siders, 34, also pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual battery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in a separate case.
  
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• U.S. is selling F-35s to Saudi Arabia. Some worry the tech may wind up in China's hands.

  18-09-2026 03:31 via bbc.com
  
  President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office [Getty Images]
  President Donald Trump's administration says it has approved the sale of nearly 50 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a policy shift for the US that has raised concerns from some members of Congress.Saudi Arabia has sought for years to buy the world's most advanced warplane, equipped with stealth technology that allows it to evade enemy detection.Washington had resisted, partly because it supplies F-35s to i
  
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• Trump approves $24 billion Saudi F-35 deal. Some fear tech could reach China.

  18-09-2026 03:31 via bbc.com
  
  President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office [Getty Images]
  President Donald Trump's administration says it has approved the sale of nearly 50 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a policy shift for the US that has raised concerns from some members of Congress.Saudi Arabia has sought for years to buy the world's most advanced warplane, equipped with stealth technology that allows it to evade enemy detection.Washington had resisted, partly because it supplies F-35s to i
  
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• Trump approves $24 billion sale of F-35s to Saudis. Some in Congress have concerns.

  18-09-2026 03:31 via bbc.com
  
  President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office [Getty Images]
  President Donald Trump's administration says it has approved the sale of nearly 50 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a policy shift for the US that has raised concerns from some members of Congress.Saudi Arabia has sought for years to buy the world's most advanced warplane, equipped with stealth technology that allows it to evade enemy detection.Washington had resisted, partly because it supplies F-35s to i
  
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• F-16 fighter jet crashes in residential area in northern Michigan

  18-09-2026 03:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  The pilot safely ejected from the Texas Air National Guard jet in Grand Traverse County, and no injuries were reported on the ground.
  
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• Urgent motion filed to stop carving of Trump's name into Institute of Peace building

  18-09-2026 02:56 via politico.com
  Ousted board members of the U.S. Institute of Peace are asking a federal court to block the imminent carving of President Donald Trump’s name on the headquarters of the nonpartisan institution he sought to dismantle shortly after taking office.Members of the board who were removed by the administration filed an emergency motion Thursday in Washington in a dispute that has echoes of Trump’s effort to place his name on the Kennedy Center.The motion was filed as an emergency petition, a
  
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• A Chinese woman crossed the border for a concert. It could cost her family their welfare.

  18-09-2026 02:15 via cnn.com
  
  Illuminated buildings in Central district in Hong Kong, China, on Sunday, Jun. 21, 2026. - Paul Yeung/Bloomberg/Getty Images
  A woman from a low-income family in China crossed over into Hong Kong to get to a concert she had spent months saving up for.
  It was a trip that Beijing’s vast surveillance apparatus didn’t miss. Now her family face the prospect of losing their government benefits for splurging on “high-end consumption.”
  The incident has sparked massive debate acros
  
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• Pentagon to proceed with controversial testosterone testing after pause

  18-09-2026 01:56 via yahoo.com
  By Gram SlatteryWASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is reinstituting a mandatory testing program ‌for testosterone deficiency among US service members ‌age 30 and older, a spokesperson said on Thursday, ​bringing back a program that many medical experts have described as unnecessary and potentially harmful.US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has promoted the use ‌of testosterone to ⁠improve military readiness, first announced the screening mandate in July.U
  
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• Finnish foreign ministry official details how Russia's 'hybrid warfare' reshaped border security

  18-09-2026 01:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian tactics designed to disrupt European nations forced neighboring Finland to fundamentally rethink its border security, culminating in the recent completion of a new border fence along its eastern frontier.Finland constructed roughly 124 miles of fencing along its border with Russia, a secondary security measure intended to stem the flow of unauthorized Russian migrants, Petri Hakkarainen, political director for the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, told Fox News Digital."We have in th
  
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• His wife encouraged his 'American Idol' dream. Now he stands trial for her murder.

  18-09-2026 01:33 via cnn.com
  
  Caleb Flynn appears in court on April 23, 2026, in Miami County, Ohio. - WHIO
  About 13 years ago, “American Idol” contestant Caleb Flynn gushed about his wife Ashley, who he said encouraged him to audition for the 12th season of ABC’s singing competition.
  “I love my wife more than anything,” he said in an interview during his brief stint on the show. “She’s very, very pretty, just – woof, I love her.”
  Now, Flynn stands trial for her murder, a
  
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• Driver charged with 2nd-degree murder in L.A. bus crash that news helicopter was covering

  18-09-2026 01:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Officials say Bailee Lynn Rios was intoxicated and driving against traffic when she slammed into a city bus. A news helicopter covering the deadly incident also crashed, killing three people.
  
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• F-16 jet crash triggers evacuations

  18-09-2026 00:52 via nbcnews.com
  The crash of a Texas Air National Guard F-16 fighter jet triggered evacuations in Michigan. The pilot successfully ejected. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports.
  
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• Bipartisan frustration builds as Senators seek transparency from Pentagon

  18-09-2026 00:34 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military's priorities, with both Democrats and Republicans accusing a Defense Department leader of being frustratingly opaque. Some senators from both parties say they were left deeply unsettled Thursday after the Pentagon's top policy adviser, Defense Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, failed to provide an expected update on the Trump administration's National Def
  
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