Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI 26. September 2026 (00:11) Xi’s state visit to the US emphasized personal rapport with the US president, rather than substantial agreements to pause their respective countries’ AI arms raceDonald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit on Friday, facing criticism that they had squandered an opportunity to pause their countries’ artificial intelligence (AI) arms race.The three-day state visit emphasised pageantry and personal rapport rather than substantial agreements. The US president and Xi discussed the wars in Iran and Ukraine and the status of Taiwan. Their biggest policy announcement was a modest two-month extension of a trade truce. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Turning Point USA knew of security concerns yet insisted Charlie Kirk speak outdoors, report says 25. September 2026 (23:32) According to report, school staff recommended event move to a more secure location weeks before Kirk was fatally shotA new report says that Turning Point USA insisted the conservative political group’s leader Charlie Kirk speak outdoors at Utah Valley University – where he was ultimately assassinated – despite security concerns raised with his team by the school’s leaders and its police chief.The independent report with those findings was commissioned by UVU and released on Friday. The report examined security procedures leading up to the 31-year-old’s fatal shooting on 10 September 2025 during a talk at the university’s campus in Orem, Utah.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens 25. September 2026 (23:10) State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizensThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.In July, Donald Trump gave a speech saying DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters to each of those states weakened the claim, saying there only could be as many as 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls, including up to 15,903 in Nevada. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
New Jersey lieutenant governor resigns after sexual harassment accusation 25. September 2026 (21:52) Investigation determined Dale Caldwell violated state ethics rules and engaged in harassing behaviorDale Caldwell, the lieutenant governor of New Jersey, resigned from his position on Friday, after the release of a report accusing him of sexually harassing a female staffer, among other ethics violations.New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, announced on Friday afternoon that Caldwell had submitted his resignation to her earlier in the day. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Idaho cold case may be tied to unsolved 1982 Tylenol murders, authorities say 25. September 2026 (21:38) Officials say man found dead in a church decades ago may be linked to poisonings in Chicago area in 1982A man found dead in an Idaho church decades ago may be connected to unsolved poisonings in 1982 in the Chicago area that were dubbed the “Tylenol murders” and ushered in child safety caps for medicines, authorities announced recently.Detective Tim Cooper of the Ada county sheriff’s Office reopened a cold case investigation in 2019 that led authorities to identify Dr Mathew Francis Betkouski posthumously. Betkouski fatally poisoned himself with cyanide more than 40 years ago and was buried anonymously. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
In latest blow to Obamacare, Trump is threatening the entire US health system 25. September 2026 (21:34) The Trump administration is removing 760,000 people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act marketplaceReader Q&A: who’s spending big on the US midterms? Our reporters answered your questionsThe Trump administration is removing 760,000 people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace on allegations of fraud, officials said on Tuesday – adding to previous efforts to chip away at federally subsidized insurance programs and likely causing some of the lowest-income Americans to forego healthcare, experts said.The US government is also investigating about 420,000 people whom they suspect of fraud, and they are putting a six-month enrollment moratorium on new agents and brokers selling Obamacare policies, officials said at a press conference. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Alarm at UN over sanctions threatened by US on international criminal court 25. September 2026 (20:33) Group calls for proper enforcement of ICC rulings as Trump administration widens attacks on courtThe US threat to impose sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC) as an institution, not just its leading judges, could fundamentally disrupt its operation and needed to be resisted, a coalition of countries to defend international law heard at the United Nations on Friday.Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s foreign minister, issued the warning at an event during the UN general assembly called to protect the system of international law from a growing array of threats, including open flouting of its tenets and rulings by Israel. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Protests erupt as Netanyahu gives inflammatory UN speech - The Latest 25. September 2026 (20:22) More than 100 people were arrested at large protests against the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN general assembly. Susan Sarandon, Chelsea Manning and Caleb Hearon were among the famous faces arrested. Inside the assembly hall, Netanyahu faced a mass walkout as he took to the stage. Then, in an inflammatory address, he claimed Israel’s war in Gaza was the ‘opposite of a genocide’ and labelled the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, antisemitic. Lucy Hough speaks to UK global editor Devika Bhat – watch on YouTube – Listen to Thursday’s episode of Stateside with Kai and Carter on whether Netanyahu has lost America here Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Overcrowding and racism at Manston asylum centre linked to government decisions, inquiry hears 25. September 2026 (20:15) Kent facility became dangerously overburdened after ministers halted transfers to hotelsA catalogue of failures including racism, use of force and chronic overcrowding at a Home Office processing site for people who arrive on small boat were linked to decisions made at the highest level of government, an independent inquiry has heard.The government commissioned the Manston independent inquiry to look at problems under the Conservative government between 1 June and 22 November 2022 at the facility in Kent. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Partner of woman killed by US hunter who allegedly mistook her for deer says death ‘no accident’ 25. September 2026 (20:00) Walter Moorhead, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, murdered Santos Maria Chilel Soto, partner allegesThe partner of a Delaware woman who was shot dead by a hunter allegedly mistaking her for a deer has said the killing was “senseless” and the hunter had “no excuse”.“I have never seen a deer with only two legs,” Minivaldo Velásquez told the Delaware public news outlet WHYY in an interview published on Thursday about the death six days earlier of Santos Maria Chilel Soto. “It doesn’t make sense – no.” Continue reading...(The Guardian)
