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• Why all eyes are on Southeast Asia

  08-09-2016 04:28 via cnn.com
  
  Not to be outdone by North Asia, which hosts major events like Art Basel every year, Southeast Asia is rapidly growing its own art fair line-up.
  
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• Trump pitches an AI 'golden age' as safety fears grip Washington

  29-09-2026 15:45 via yahoo.com
  After weeks of Washington being gripped by a new wave of fear about artificial intelligence gone awry, the Trump administration will take a sharply different take Tuesday, seeking to convince a skeptical public that the nation is instead about to embark on a tech-powered “golden age.” President Donald Trump will deliver a speech launching America.gov, a new AI-powered portal for accessing public services, part of a day-long event featuring members of his Cabinet and tech executives.
  
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• DA defends decision not to prosecute Cornell rape case in 2024

  29-09-2026 15:07 via yahoo.com
  A New York state prosecutor has reopened a criminal investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed last week by the alleged victim drew national attention.In a lengthy statement released on Monday, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten announced that he had started pursuing criminal charges against seven fraternity members and would present the case to a grand jury. He also sought to explain why he initially deci
  
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• Iranian spokesman urges Americans to rally against Trump's policies in address

  29-09-2026 12:46 via yahoo.com
  Iran's Revolutionary Guard urged Americans in a message ahead of U.S. midterm elections to take to the streets and rally against Donald Trump, claiming the U.S. president's war in the Middle East has failed. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, settlers rioted, throwing rocks, blocking roads and setting Palestinian property on fire to prevent a Palestinian man escorted by the Israeli military from returning to his home in the village of Jalud.Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tues
  
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• Jack Smith stresses strength of Trump cases, says he will not be ‘silenced’ by threats

  29-09-2026 12:28 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against President Donald Trump, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he “will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from the Trump administration and that he believes the rule of law is being threatened like never before.Smith also told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he stands behind the criminal cases he brought against Trump, a Republican, and that he and
  
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• GOP senators push back on Trump's taxpayer-funded ads

  29-09-2026 12:00 via thehill.com
  President Trump's new government-funded ads pledging to “cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists” are getting strong pushback from Senate Republicans who are warning the president not to use taxpayer money to promote himself in such a brazenly political way.
  While Republicans generally approve of Trump’s political message, they say using taxpayer dollars to fund a series of ads that closely resemble Trump’s past campaign advertising right before the midterm electi
  
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• Rubio says 'hands of a foreign actor' involved in U.K. airbase incident

  29-09-2026 10:31 via yahoo.com
  By Toby Shepheardand Will RussellFAIRFORD, England, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the "hands of a foreign actor" were involved in an incident in which five men were arrested on suspected explosives and terrorism offences near a ‌British airbase used by US forces to strike Iran.British police declared a major incident at the RAF Fairfordbase in western ‌England following the arrests early on Sunday, and the government held a national emergency meeting.Howeve
  
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• Authorities investigating new possible ransom note in Nancy Guthrie case

  29-09-2026 09:27 via cnn.com
  
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  Months into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, with no main suspect or person of interest named, authorities say they are now investigating the credibility of a new possible ransom note tied to the 84-year-old’s disappearance.
  The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said its joint task force, along with the FBI, were “recently made aware of a new possible note,” and they were looking into it.
  The comments were the latest by the sheriff’s department
  
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• Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief as indirect talks continue

  29-09-2026 09:21 via yahoo.com
  What to know about the Iran war today:President Trump denied a report from Axios that he had offered Iran sanctions relief and access to frozen funds in ongoing negotiations. The president confirmed Monday that American and Iranian negotiators are engaged in talks through mediators. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he expected a formal answer from the U.S. on Tuesday regarding Tehran's proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz. Last week, Iran proposed a seven-day ceasefire and the phase
  
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• Trump denies reports he offered Iran sanctions relief to end the war

  29-09-2026 08:53 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  Sept 29 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said he has offered Iran nothing to end the war, rejecting media reports that cited US officials saying he was willing to ease sanctions and release frozen funds for "concrete" steps regarding Iran's nuclear ‌programme."This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.Axios and CNN both reported, citing unidentified US ‌officials, that Trump was willing to give Iran sanctions relief and free Iranian funds as pa
  
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• CNN, MS NOW and Politico warn White House ban could return within days

  29-09-2026 06:24 via deadline.com
  
  CNN, MS NOW and Politico are warning that the Trump administration will reimpose a “complete ban” on their access to the White House without a judge issuing a preliminary injunction. Last week, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a temporary restraining order, forcing the White House to restore access to the White House to the outlets as he more fully considers the legal arguments. The TRO lasts for 14 days.More from DeadlineFederal Film & TV Tax Credit Bill Adds Eight New
  
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• Lindsay Clancy's push to probe holdout juror hits snag before pivotal retrial hearing

  29-09-2026 06:00 via foxnews.com
  
  PLYMOUTH, Mass. — A Massachusetts judge overseeing the Lindsay Clancy case is expected to hear arguments on her double jeopardy motion Tuesday, while another push to investigate the lone holdout juror in her mistrial may be on hold — for now.Clancy is expected in court in person for the first time since her trial ended in a deadlocked jury and the judge declared a mistrial on Sept. 4.In the weeks since her mistrial, Clancy's case has remained a topic of national interest, with fellow
  
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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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• 40 people rescued and several missing after boat capsizes west of Puerto Rico

  29-09-2026 01:12 via yahoo.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it rescued at least 40 people in open waters after their boat capsized several miles from a tiny, uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico.Two people were found dead, with survivors reporting an estimated 60 people aboard, the agency said.Rescue efforts were ongoing as of Monday evening.Survivors spent more than 12 hours in the water before a boat passing near Mona Island spotted them on Monday around noon and called authorit
  
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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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• Christa Pike says she's 'at peace' days before rare Tennessee execution

  28-09-2026 23:30 via nbcnews.com
  With her execution days away, the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row says she is prepared to die but “nervous” about how the state intends to carry it out.Before learning Monday that Gov. Bill Lee would not be intervening in her case, Christa Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser: “Whether my clemency is granted or not, I am at peace.”“I am not afraid to die,” wrote Pike, who has been on death row for over three decades. &l
  
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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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• 3 days of weather chaos bring a nor'easter, major hurricanes and a 'zombie storm'

  28-09-2026 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Flooded neighborhoods, damaged highways and widespread power outages stretched from the East Coast to Hawaii over the weekend. A deadly nor'easter forced water rescues along the Atlantic coast, while Hurricane Nolo brought flooding rain to Hawaii and powerful Hurricane Polo approached Mexico.
  If your weekend weather bingo card had major hurricanes, a wildfire, pending volcanic activity and a nor'easter, you nearly had it covered. Then a "zombie storm" came back to life and Monday brought a new t
  
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• Texas Gov. Abbott declares disaster as diesel prices soar to average $5.86 a gallon

  28-09-2026 20:47 via texastribune.org
  
  Gov. Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster on Monday over soaring diesel prices and a worsening fuel shortage created by wars abroad.The 30-day disaster declaration, which can be extended indefinitely, allowed Abbott to lift some restrictions on commercial transportation, which he said will alleviate some of the elevated costs. Diesel fuel is used in farming and commercial shipping, so elevated fuel prices are passed through to consumers in the form of higher costs for goods at the grocery s
  
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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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• 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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