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• Widows sue over troopers' deaths in helicopter crash

  14-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The widows of two Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash the day of a violent white nationalist rally have sued the state and others over their husbands' deaths, alleging the aircraft was not properly maintained or repaired.Amanda Bates and Karen Cullen filed wrongful death lawsuits Monday.H. Jay Cullen and Berke M.M. Bates were aboard the Bell 407 single-engine helicopter on Aug. 12, 2017, to provide video surveillance of public demonstrations in Charlottesville.
  
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• Trump floats banning U.S. diesel exports as prices hit a record $6.52

  22-09-2026 21:01 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said Tuesday that he would support banning exports of diesel fuel."I've said let's not send out the diesel," the president said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "We make a lot of diesel. It could have a little bit of an effect on regular automobile gasoline because when you do that, you know, it's a sort of a flow. It's a balance." Trump added, "But no, I've called for it. I've called for it within my people. I've been talking about it."Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen
  
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• ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man wasn't wearing a body camera, sources say

  22-09-2026 20:52 via cbsnews.com
  
  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, Texas, on Sunday was not wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News.An ICE officer shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old native of Venezuela who federal officials said has a deportation order, in the upper torso on Sunday afternoon while Garces Perez was working for DoorDash, according to local authorities and his attorney.The sho
  
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• U.S., Greenland and Denmark sign deal in bid to end Arctic standoff

  22-09-2026 20:20 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-PedersenUNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island.The agreement, ‌signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's demand that the US adopt Greenland as a US territory ‌to head off t
  
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• Trump says U.S.-Iran ties are 'developing' as Tehran offers path to reopen Hormuz

  22-09-2026 20:00 via yahoo.com
  By Gram Slattery, Parisa Hafezi and Antoni SlodkowskiUNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington and Tehran were moving toward a settlement, while a senior Iranian official said Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within days if the US eased military pressure and lifted its blockade on Iranian ports.Trump's remarks came just hours after ‌he repeated a threat at the UN General Assembly to annihilate Iran if it failed to strike a deal.Speaki
  
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• Trump renames AI 'super intelligence' and dismisses safety warnings in U.N. speech

  22-09-2026 19:30 via yahoo.com
  Trump dismissed warnings from AI safety advocates, comparing them to warnings about climate change (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the US government would rename artificial intelligence "super intelligence" in official communications, as he firmly rejected calls for international supervision of AI, calling them a "globalist scheme" to control the new technology.Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump argued the word "artificial" undersold th
  
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• GOP senator calls for Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden

  22-09-2026 18:29 via abcnews.com
  
  Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as part of an investigation into "the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment or access by domestic and foreign interests" that Curtis is urging the senators to open.Curtis' letter comes after he posted a video on X Friday saying that reports that
  
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• Trump tells U.N. he could 'annihilate' Iran's regime but predicts a deal

  22-09-2026 17:59 via cbsnews.com
  
  Washington — President Trump defended his handling of conflicts around the world in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying he could "annihilate" Iran while predicting that its leaders would make a deal to end the war after the U.S. midterm elections.He framed his approach to foreign policy over his first two years back in office as deploying American power to solve "decades of intractable challenges" that previous U.S. leaders have failed to address."I do no
  
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• Trump, Greenland and Denmark sign deal in bid to end Arctic standoff

  22-09-2026 17:50 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-PedersenUNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of ‌Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that ‌permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a ​standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island.The agreement, signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's demand that the US adopt Greenland as ‌a US territory
  
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• Bill Clinton mocks Trump's planned arch and questions Kennedy Center name fight

  22-09-2026 17:42 via thehill.com
  Former President Clinton is knocking President Trump's plans for a triumphal arch and the efforts to put his name on the Kennedy Center, saying that global challenges would be more easily dealt with if leaders "didn't care as much about who got the credit."
  The 42nd president delivered opening remarks at the opening of the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York on Tuesday. As he took to the lectern, Clinton quickly referenced Trump's recent announcement th
  
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• Rubio says Ukraine strikes on U.S.-linked oil infrastructure were likely unintentional

  22-09-2026 17:39 via abcnews.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio alleged that U.S.-linked oil infrastructure has been targeted in recent weeks by Ukraine amid its war with Russia during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday morning, though he conceded it was "probably not" deliberate.Rubio, who attributed the recent rise in oil prices to conflict in the Black Sea between Russia and Ukraine as well as in Yemen with the Houthis, said in the interview that one of the U.S.'s concerns amid Russia's war was being unintentionally caugh
  
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• Venezuelan man shot by ICE is back in the hospital for paralysis treatment, lawyer says

  22-09-2026 17:28 via ca.news.yahoo.com
  
  Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Venezuelan man who spent Sunday night in an ICE detention center with a bullet lodged in his back after ‌being shot by a federal immigration agent in Austin, Texas, has ‌been taken back to a hospital, according to public statements from his lawyer on Monday night."I have finally ​received notice that Wilber was taken back to another hospital to receive treatment regarding paralysis in his left side," wrote Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, the attorney for Wilb
  
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• Agency says it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans last month

  22-09-2026 17:22 via yahoo.com
  Sept 22 (Reuters) - The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans covering about 760,000 people last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration ‌documentation and suspected improper enrollments.The move, disclosed in rule-making documents published in the US Federal Register, ‌comes as the agency says it will bar some 569 brokers who it says "submitted statistically implausible rates of plan year 2026 application
  
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• U.S. broadcaster boycott against Trump faced 1st test at ribbon cutting ceremony

  22-09-2026 17:01 via yahoo.com
  The fallout from President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House continued on Monday, with the news organizations filing a federal lawsuit, other outlets dropping their coverage in protest and the administration launching a live YouTube stream branded “TRUMP TV.”In responseto the ban, four major TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News — refused to participate in the White House pool, the rotating group of reporters, photogr
  
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• Trump tells CNN reporter ahead of U.N. speech, 'you shouldn't be here' amid media ban

  22-09-2026 16:14 via newsweek.com
  
  President Donald Trump lashed out at CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins before his address the U.N. General Assembly in New York amid the White House ban to deny CNN, MS NOW and Politico access.Those three news outlets are suing the president for violating the First Amendment.Collins asked Trump as he entered the U.N. building, “Two thirds of Americans don’t think the U.S. is winning the war with Iran. When will it end?” Arriving with First Lady Melania Trump, Trump brushed aside the
  
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• U.S. broadcaster boycott against Trump faces 1st test at ribbon cutting ceremony

  22-09-2026 16:01 via yahoo.com
  A network boycott affected live TV coverage of Trump's ribbon-cutting event at the White House[EPA]
  When Donald Trump unveiled a helipad at the White House on Monday, his remarks were barely audible in live footage of the event.This was due to a row over an institution that rarely makes the news – the White House Press pool. Yet it is at the heart of relations between the US president and the media, and this dispute could have constitutional implications.Coverage of upcoming presidential e
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her 2028 plans: ‘Life doesn't wait for you to be ready'

  22-09-2026 15:07 via mediaite.com
  The 36-year-old Congresswoman said she’s not basing her decisions on “deference.” Screenshot
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says any decisions she makes about her political future won’t be decided by “deference” — and called the years ahead a “very unique political window” as she discussed a possible White House run with The New York Times.
  In a wide-ranging interview that dropped on Tuesday, AOC touched on everything from gender in pol
  
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• Trump's plan to militarize proposed arch raises new legal and safety concerns

  22-09-2026 14:43 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump’s push to convert his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery into a military complex has complicated a required federal review process and raised new legal and safety concerns. Trump unveiled his new national security rationale Sunday in a post to Truth Social, saying that the 250-foot arch project - which he has framed for nearly a year as a tourist attraction - will now house drones, snipers and ammunition. The president said he was making the chan
  
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• Trump's plan to militarize proposed arch raises new concerns

  22-09-2026 14:43 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's push to convert his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery into a military complex has complicated a required federal review process and raised new legal and safety concerns.Trump unveiled his new national security rationale Sunday in a post to Truth Social, saying that the 250-foot arch project - which he has framed for nearly a year as a tourist attraction - will now house drones, snipers and ammunition. The president said he was making the change at t
  
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• Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating

  22-09-2026 14:31 via theguardian.com
  The Argiope bruennichi, spotted in Cheshire for first time, part of worrying trend that could threaten native speciesShe is an unlikely harbinger of the climate emergency: a venomous black and yellow spider who spins mysterious patterns in her webs and eats her mates for breakfast.Native to mainland Europe, north Africa and Asia, the Argiope bruennichi – commonly known as a wasp spider – is rarely seen in the north and west of Britain. But a fully grown female has been spotted in Che
  
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• Kansas judge reportedly convicts driver in death of teacher whose husband was killed months prior

  22-09-2026 14:17 via theguardian.com
  Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teacher’s fatal car wreck on Monday reportedly led to a vehicular homicide conviction for the motorist who crashed into her – a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator’s widower while he prepared to cover the 2025 Super Bowl for Telemundo.Todd W Armstr
  
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• Trump's White House reportedly shut down corruption probe into Sen. Susan Collins

  22-09-2026 14:11 via mainemorningstar.com
  Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours the Maine Energy Marketers Association Technical Education Center in Brunswick on Sept. 3, 2026. (Photo by Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)This story was originally published by ProPublicaIn the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.
  For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. Pres
  
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• Trump's White House reportedly shut down a corruption probe into Maine Sen. Susan Collins

  22-09-2026 14:11 via mainemorningstar.com
  Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours the Maine Energy Marketers Association Technical Education Center in Brunswick on Sept. 3, 2026. (Photo by Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)This story was originally published by ProPublicaIn the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.
  For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. Pres
  
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• Houthis accuse Saudis of deadly strikes as thousands flee escalating conflict

  22-09-2026 13:59 via yahoo.com
  Infographic with map showing route of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipelineYemen's Houthis on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out a spate of deadly strikes that killed civilians and prison inmates, as Riyadh seeks to repel an offensive that has seen the Iran-backed group seize strategic territory.The recent Houthi takeover of Yemen's Red Sea coast has left hundreds dead and heightened fears over global trade and shipping through the vital Bab al-Mandab strait.It has also forced thousands to
  
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• EU spends three times more on imports from China than bloc exports there

  22-09-2026 13:54 via theguardian.com
  Study shows trade deficit ran at more than €1bn a day in July, days before Xi Jinping’s summit with Donald TrumpBusiness live – latest updatesConsumers and businesses in the EU are spending three times more on Chinese imports than their counterparts in China are buying from the bloc, a study has shown.Customs data showed the gap between the EU’s imports from China and exports to China, the trade deficit, ran at more than €1bn (£860m) a day in July. Continue read
  
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• OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

  22-09-2026 13:46 via theguardian.com
  Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water- and energy-guzzling structures.The former Tory chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to governments around the world and he also
  
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• George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

  22-09-2026 13:46 via theguardian.com
  Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water-and-energy guzzling structures.The Tory former chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company and the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to gov
  
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• Piers Morgan says he will sue Earl Spencer over ‘fabricated inaccuracies’

  22-09-2026 13:45 via theguardian.com
  Broadcaster refutes memoir claim that he was behind alleged hidden-camera gym photos of Diana, Princess of WalesPiers Morgan has said he will sue Earl Spencer over “fabricated inaccuracies” and “examples of brazen falsity” in his book about the late Diana, Princess of Wales.The earl has made a series of claims in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – including that King Charles said “we’ll forget her soon enough” after she died, which has prompted a war of
  
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• Burnham plays down past critical comments about Trump ahead of UN meeting – UK politics live

  22-09-2026 13:40 via theguardian.com
  Burnham is heading to New York for the United Nations general assemblyIf Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial Times. This front page headline speaks for itself.Mortgages ‘on the front line’ as Iran war deals £840 blow to homeownersBritish homeowners are paying an average of £840 a year more when they refinance their mortgages, as the rising borrowin
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Iran ready to reopen strait of Hormuz within seven days if US lifts blockade, official says

  22-09-2026 13:32 via theguardian.com
  Traffic through the key waterway for energy supplies has dwindled to a trickleTehran appears to have relaxed its preconditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz, saying it is prepared to do so within seven days so long as the US takes reciprocal steps to ease the pressure on Iran.Previously Iran had set seven onerous pre-conditions for lifting the blockade including “an end to war on all fronts” and a commitment by the US to cease all aggressive actions against Iran including sancti
  
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