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1877 articles shownof 1888 totalLast updated 2026-09-22 21:37 UTC
us politics 7 6m ago 4 min read

Two Days Before Trump-Xi Summit, Pressure Mounts to Free Political Prisoners Held in China

Democrats, human rights groups, and family members of detainees are pushing President Trump to raise specific political prisoner cases when he meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sept. 24 in Washington. The ask is built on one real precedent: Trump raising Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri's case in May led to Jin's release in July. Whether that pattern repeats for the Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and Zion Church pastors still locked up is an open question nobody can answer yet.

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us finance 6 15m ago 4 min read

Copper Nears Record Highs Again as Chinese Warehouses Empty Out and Trump Tariff Plan Stays Unresolved

Copper is back within a stone's throw of its September records on both the London Metal Exchange and Comex, driven by draining Shanghai stockpiles and lingering uncertainty over a possible US tariff on refined metal. The catch: the global refined copper market is technically running a surplus, so the price spike looks more like tariff-driven hoarding and geographic dislocation than an actual global shortage.

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us politics 9 51m ago 4 min read

Trump Tells UN: 'To the Victor Belong the Spoils' on Venezuela Oil, Warns Iran to Deal or Be 'Annihilated'

Trump used his UN General Assembly speech Tuesday to claim credit for the January 2026 operation that toppled Nicolás Maduro, tout a 65-billion-barrel oil deal with Venezuela, and threaten to 'annihilate' Iran if it doesn't make a deal after the midterms. He also signed a Greenland security pact and called for the International Criminal Court to be abandoned entirely.

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us tech 3 1h ago 4 min read

AI-Generated Photo of Trump Kissing Aide Natalie Harp Spreads Online, White House Calls It Fake

An AI-generated image showing President Trump kissing longtime aide Natalie Harp on a golf course spread widely after his September 13 visit to his Doonbeg course in Ireland. Fact-checkers found six-fingered hands and an OpenAI watermark on the clearer version, and a White House official told The Daily Beast it's fake. No real photo exists, but the fabrication took off partly because Harp's actual, well-documented closeness to Trump made it feel plausible.

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us energy 7 1h ago 4 min read

California and New York Sue Trump Administration Over $1.4 Billion Offshore Wind Buyouts

California and New York, joined by seven other states, filed lawsuits Tuesday claiming the Trump administration illegally used taxpayer money, including a fund meant for legal settlements, to pay energy companies to abandon offshore wind projects. Whatever you think of wind power, the government spending billions to un-build what it once subsidized is a legitimate taxpayer question that has nothing to do with which party is in charge.

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us politics 9 2h ago 4 min read

Trump Says Iran Choice Is Deal or 'Annihilate,' Decision Waits Until After Midterms, as Tehran Offers to Reopen Hormuz

At the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump told Iran it faces a deal or destruction, but says he won't decide until after November's midterms. Hours later a senior Iranian official told Reuters Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US eases military pressure, even as new US sanctions grounded Iranian airlines and Iran's parliament approved new Hormuz transit fees.

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us defense 7 2h ago 4 min read

FBI Bribery Probe Tied to a Susan Collins Super PAC Was Dropped After Trump Took Office, ProPublica Reports

ProPublica reports that an FBI investigation into a Hawaii defense contractor's alleged scheme to trade campaign cash for federal contracts, including donations funneled to a super PAC backing Sen. Susan Collins, went cold after Trump's DOJ took over in 2025. Collins' office calls the underlying allegations false and outlandish; no one on her staff was ever charged. The claims are unproven, but the timing lands two months before Collins faces Democrat Troy Jackson in one of the most expensive Senate races in the country.

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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Senate Democrats Demand Trump Draw a Line on China Chip Sales Before Xi Summit, While Congress's Own AI Bills Stall

With Xi Jinping arriving Wednesday for his third Trump summit in a year, eight senior Senate Democrats sent Trump a letter demanding tougher AI export controls on China, and Chuck Schumer made the same demand from the Senate floor. Meanwhile Congress's own AI agenda is going nowhere: a kill-switch bill got blocked by a fellow Republican, and Capitol Hill sources say lawmakers will likely punt AI legislation to 2027.

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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Trump Signs Commission Making Rubio Permanent National Security Adviser While He Keeps Secretary of State Job

Trump has signed a commission formally making Marco Rubio his national security adviser, on top of his job as Secretary of State. He's the first person to hold both jobs at once since Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. The arrangement is efficient on paper, but it also means one man now runs foreign policy with zero Senate check on half his authority.

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us finance 7 4h ago 4 min read

Trump Tells UN He Will Reject International AI Rules, Wants US to Rebrand the Technology 'Super Intelligence'

President Trump used his Tuesday UN General Assembly address to reject calls for international AI oversight and push a government rebrand to 'super intelligence,' while telling the world an Iran deal probably waits until after November's midterms. Markets took it in stride: the Dow slipped, the Nasdaq and S&P drifted, and oil gave back some of its recent slide.

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us politics 7 4h ago 4 min read

Cuban Delegation Walks Out of Trump's UN Speech as White House Press Ban Heads to Federal Court

Trump told the UN General Assembly Tuesday that Cuba's communist government 'will fall,' prompting Cuba's delegation to walk out mid-speech. Hours earlier he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins she 'should not be here covering' him, one day after CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued the administration over last week's White House access ban.

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us politics 7 5h ago 4 min read

Trump Promises $500 ACA Rebate Checks as Vance Prepares to Cut Fraud-Flagged Enrollees From Coverage

The Trump administration says roughly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in 30 states will get $500 rebate checks starting next month, while Vice President JD Vance is set to announce the removal of hundreds of thousands of people from ACA coverage over alleged fraudulent enrollment. Neither the rebate's funding mechanism nor the specific fraud criteria for the coverage cuts has been detailed in public reporting so far.

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us defense 8 5h ago 4 min read

Xi Arrives Wednesday for Third Trump Summit in a Year, as Stanford Data Shows US-China AI Gap Down to 2.7%

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to land in Washington Wednesday, September 23, ahead of Thursday's summit with President Trump, their third in-person meeting in under a year. New details emerging before the sit-down include a Stanford AI Index finding the U.S. lead over China's top AI model has shrunk to 2.7%, a confirmed state dinner guest list of tech CEOs, and a Democratic congressman's list of specific factory layoffs he blames on Trump's trade policy.

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us tech 8 5h ago 4 min read

Trump Tells UN the US Will Rename AI 'Super Intelligence,' Calls Safety Warnings a 'Hoax'

President Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the US government will now use the term 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' rejected any international framework to regulate the technology, and repeated his claim that warnings about catastrophic AI risk are a hoax. He also confirmed plans for a new 'AI Force' and an AI czar, while offering zero details on budget, authority, or legal basis for either.

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us politics 9 5h ago 4 min read

Trump Tells UN He Expects Iran Deal After Midterms, Threatens to 'Annihilate' Regime If Not

Six months after Operation Epic Fury blew past its original six-week timeline, Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday he'll either let Iran rebuild into 'one of the greatest' countries or drive it 'into hell' if no deal comes together after November's midterms. Iran hasn't collapsed, shipping through Hormuz remains depressed, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll puts Trump's approval on the war at just 32%.

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us politics 8 7h ago 3 min read

U.S. Allies Are Hedging Against Washington's Long-Term Reliability, Even As They Line Up To Meet Trump At The UN

Canada, Europe, and Japan are quietly building military and trade capacity that doesn't depend on the United States, telling reporters the shift will outlast Trump's presidency. At the same time, the same allies, including a British prime minister who once called Trump a hateful extremist, are still showing up for bilateral meetings this UN General Assembly week. Both things are true, and they say more about how alliances actually work than either side's spin admits.

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us politics 9 7h ago 4 min read

Xi Jinping Lands in Washington Wednesday as Moolenaar, Khanna and Gingrich Press Trump From Both Flanks

Since Beijing confirmed Monday that Xi Jinping will make his first state visit to the U.S. in over a decade, arriving Wednesday for Thursday's summit with Trump, lawmakers on the right and left have gone public with warnings about what he should demand. House China Committee Chairman John Moolenaar wants a hard line on Iran and Taiwan, Rep. Ro Khanna says Trump has nothing left to bargain with, and Newt Gingrich wants jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai on the plane home.

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us politics 7 9h ago 4 min read

Trump Bars CNN From White House, Networks Boycott Helipad Event, and the President Eyes Midterms With $400 Million

President Trump opened his new White House helipad Monday without network TV cameras present, after ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox News collectively skipped the event to protest his ban on CNN, MS Now and Politico. The three outlets have sued over the ban as Trump heads into a high-stakes UN week, pours $400 million into 35 midterm races, and keeps making comments tying government benefits to political loyalty.

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us tech 6 10h ago 4 min read

Susan Rice Pitches a U.S.-China AI Freeze. Trump's Own Advisers Say China Already Said No.

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice told CNN the U.S. and China should order their AI companies to freeze development until an international expert panel solves the safety risks. Trump's team says Beijing has already rejected the idea, and history with China on trade and military pledges gives plenty of reason for skepticism.

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us finance 7 11h ago 4 min read

Trump's $800 Million WLFI Stake Locked Until 2028 as Warren Renews Push to Investigate the Firm

World Liberty Financial confirmed Donald Trump's roughly $800 million token stake is locked until May 2028 and will roll out a rewards program October 1. The announcement lands the same week the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act despite Trump agreeing to new ethics limits, and as Sen. Elizabeth Warren renews her demand that Treasury and the Justice Department investigate the firm's foreign buyers.

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us tech 8 11h ago 4 min read

UN Security Council Set to Hear AI Warnings Wednesday, One Day Before Trump-Xi Summit

The UN Security Council meets Wednesday to hear AI risk briefings from OpenAI, Anthropic and Chinese firms including DeepSeek, one day before Trump and Xi meet in a summit where AI safety and export controls are on the table. Everyone agrees AI could be dangerous. Nobody agrees on who gets to write the rules, and Washington isn't about to let the UN write them for America.

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us politics 8 13h ago 4 min read

CNN, Politico and MS NOW Sue Over White House Press Ban as Networks Boycott and 'Trump TV' Goes Live

Since President Trump barred CNN, Politico and MS NOW from White House grounds on Friday, September 18, the fallout has spread fast: the outlets sued Monday, all five major networks suspended pool coverage, and the administration launched a 24/7 YouTube stream called Trump TV. Trump told reporters he expects to lose the case, calling the judge assigned to it, a Trump appointee, favorable to the outlets.

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us politics 8 13h ago 4 min read

Trump Opens UN Speech Today as Iran War Enters Its Seventh Month and Houthis Hit Riyadh's Airport

President Trump addresses the UN General Assembly today, Sept. 22, with the US-Iran war nearly seven months old and a Houthi strike on Riyadh's airport still fresh. Officials say he'll push Iran's nuclear ambitions and hold sideline meetings with Macron, Japan's Takaichi, and Venezuela's Rodríguez, while critics like CNN argue US influence is fraying, not growing.

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us defense 7 15h ago 3 min read

Zelensky and CIA Director Ratcliffe Hold Unannounced Meeting at Irish Airport Ahead of Trump Talks

Volodymyr Zelensky and CIA Director John Ratcliffe met informally at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Monday, September 21, while their planes refueled, according to Reuters. Neither side has disclosed what was said, but the meeting fits into a month of overlapping U.S. diplomatic contacts with both Kyiv and Moscow as Zelensky heads into a scheduled meeting with President Trump at the UN.

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gb defense 7 15h ago 4 min read

UK Sends RAF Refueling Jet to Saudi Arabia as Burnham Heads to First Trump Meeting

Andy Burnham approved his first military deployment as prime minister, a single RAF Voyager tanker to refuel Saudi jets fighting off Houthi missile and drone strikes. The move comes right before Burnham's first face-to-face with Trump at the UN, where Ukraine, AI, and the Iran conflict are also on the table.

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us politics 8 16h ago 4 min read

Trump Now Calls a DC Arch, the White House Ballroom, an AI Force, and a Union Ban All 'National Security'

In the span of a week, the Trump administration has invoked national security to justify a militarized triumphal arch, an AI Force modeled on Space Force, and continued construction on the $400 million White House ballroom. The label already covers stripped bargaining rights for 950,000 federal workers, an NIH funding fight with Harvard, and Greenland. Some of these claims rest on real military logistics. Others don't explain themselves at all.

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us defense 9 18h ago 4 min read

UN General Assembly Opens Tuesday: Trump to Press Zelenskyy on Diesel Strikes as U.S. Pump Prices Hit Record $6.50

The 81st UN General Assembly kicks off Tuesday, September 22, with Trump, Iran's Pezeshkian, Zelenskyy and Netanyahu all speaking within days of each other in the same city. Diesel just hit a record $6.50 a gallon, Iran's delegation is barred from luxury shopping, and a UN report just found reasonable grounds that two U.S. strikes in Iran killed civilians. None of it will be settled by a speech.

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us defense 7 19h ago 4 min read

Trump and Xi Set for Sept. 24 White House Summit as Taiwan's Trust in America Hits 24%

Xi Jinping meets Trump at the White House on September 24, and Taiwan is watching nervously. Trump has delayed a $14 billion arms package, called it a bargaining chip, and repeated Chinese talking points about Taiwan's chip industry, while a Brookings poll found only 24% of Taiwanese trust the U.S. as an ally. Beijing is meanwhile courting Taiwan's opposition party directly, betting Trump's unpredictability buys it room to operate.

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us energy 8 21h ago 3 min read

Trump Administration Floats $5 Billion Gulf Rebuild Fund as Oil Prices Fall for Fourth Straight Day

The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration wants to seed a $5 billion fund, matched by Gulf states, to rebuild energy sites hit in the Iran war and cut reliance on the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices dropped for a fourth day as Hormuz flows improve, even as the U.S. Navy keeps a 110-ship blockade running and Britain sends tanker aircraft to back Saudi Arabia against Houthi strikes.

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us defense 8 23h ago 4 min read

Trump Skips Direct Strikes on Houthis After Saudi Request, Approves $24.3 Billion F-35 Sale to Riyadh Instead

Since Houthi forces seized Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on September 11, Reuters reports Trump called off planned strikes on the group despite a Saudi request for military help, while the State Department separately cleared a $24.3 billion F-35 sale to Riyadh. China is also pressing Iran to rein in the Houthis, according to Reuters, though no formal deal or ceasefire has been confirmed by any named U.S., Saudi, or Iranian official.

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ir economy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Iran's GDP Shrank 10.1% This Year as Trump's Approval Rating Hits a Career-Low 32%

Iran's Statistical Center reports the economy contracted 10.1% year-on-year in the quarter spanning late March to June, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll puts Trump's approval at 32%, the lowest of his political career, with Republicans souring on gas prices and the war. Trump says Iran is 'getting weaker by the day' and is urging Iranians to rise up, but Tehran hasn't confirmed any return to negotiations.

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us tech 5 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Says DOJ Will 'Rein In' AI 'If We Have To,' Still Calls Safety Fears a Hoax

Trump posted Monday that the Justice Department could step in on AI risks, hours after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ruled out a federal liability shield for AI labs. No executive order, investigation, or legislation followed the post, and Trump in the same breath called safety concerns a hoax bigger than Russiagate.

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us health 7 1d ago 4 min read

5th Circuit Weighs Restricting Mail-Order Abortion Pills as Trump DOJ Sidesteps Safety Defense

The 5th Circuit heard oral arguments September 9 on whether Louisiana can force the FDA to reinstate in-person dispensing of mifepristone nationwide, with judges focused mostly on whether the state even has standing to sue. A separate Title X family-planning lawsuit against the Trump administration was dismissed September 18. No ruling has come down yet, and everyone involved expects the Supreme Court to have the final word regardless.

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us economy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Trump and Xi Head Into Thursday Summit With Chinese Tariffs Still at 22.8% and No Permanent Deal in Sight

Trump and Xi meet at the White House on Thursday, September 24, with tariffs still running at an average 22.8% on Chinese goods and the trade balance still lopsided in Beijing's favor. Meanwhile the real fight, over who controls critical minerals, is spreading fast, with Washington signing side deals with Italy while China still owns the refining and magnet-making that everyone actually needs.

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us energy 7 1d ago 4 min read

EU Unveils Data Center Energy Labels as GOP Candidates Break With Trump Over AI Power Costs

The European Commission rolled out a labeling system Monday forcing data centers over 500 kW to disclose energy and water use, though it sets no consumption caps and won't bind operators until minimum standards arrive later. Meanwhile in the U.S., House Republicans just passed a bill 417-3 making data centers pay their own grid upgrade costs, and GOP Senate candidates in Michigan and Ohio are distancing themselves from Trump's all-in AI buildout as voters revolt over utility bills.

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us economy 6 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Says US Is Negotiating Belarus Potash Deal to Undercut Canadian Prices

President Trump posted Monday that Washington is working on a 'massive' potash deal with Belarus, claiming it'll beat what the US pays Canada. No contract, price, or volume has been disclosed, and Belarus supplies a fraction of what Canada does, but the announcement lands squarely inside an ongoing US-Canada trade war and a year-long US sanctions-relief campaign tied to Belarusian prisoner releases.

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us economy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Canada Seeks EU 'Associate Membership' and Reopens China Military Talks as Trump Tariff Fight Grinds On

Since trade talks between Washington and Ottawa collapsed August 21, Prime Minister Mark Carney has pivoted to Europe and China while Trump slaps on more tariffs and calls Brussels' offer to Canada 'laughable.' Meanwhile Great Lakes shipping is already eating the cost, and two Canadian premiers just refused to go along with Carney's retaliation.

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us energy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Oil Slides for a Fourth Day as CENTCOM Reports Hormuz Traffic Hits Six-Month High, Trump Says He's in 'Deciding Mode' on Iran

Since Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz began after the February 28 US-Israeli strikes, oil has now fallen four straight days as CENTCOM says Gulf allies moved over 1 billion barrels through the strait in recent weeks. Trump says he's weighing whether to annihilate Iran's regime, cut a deal, or let it rot economically, and might meet Iran's president at the UN this week. Diplomacy in Oman already collapsed once this month, and the Houthis are still hitting Saudi Arabia even as Trump claims they've promised to leave the US alone.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Declines Saudi Plea for Houthi Airstrikes After Reversing Himself Twice in Three Days

Since Houthi fighters seized the island of Mayyun and the town of Dhubab on Friday, September 18, tightening their grip on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has pushed Trump to strike back directly. Trump told the Pentagon to prep airstrikes, then reversed himself again by midday Sunday, choosing intelligence support over bombs for now. The seventh month of the Iran war just got more complicated, and Gulf allies are watching how far US security guarantees actually extend.

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us economy 9 1d ago 4 min read

Trump's New Russia Sanctions Law Puts India and China on the Clock for 100% Oil Tariffs

President Trump has signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law, giving him congressional authority (harder to reverse than an executive order) to slap 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil, squarely aimed at India and China. India's foreign ministry says the move could damage bilateral ties, and with Russia supplying over half its crude, New Delhi has 30 days to find a way out before the tariffs can hit.

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us economy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump Third-Country Deportation Policy Unlawful, DHS Says Flights Continue

A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration's practice of deporting migrants to countries where they hold no citizenship violates due process, but the Department of Homeland Security says removals will keep happening while it appeals. New reporting from a 24-outlet media consortium also details how a former embassy security officer, Christian Ehrhardt, built out the $410 million network across 35 countries, and documents journalists detained in Cameroon for investigating a deportee holding site.

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ir defense 9 1d ago 5 min read

Iran's Military Says It Expects US to Resume Strikes as Trump Calls Himself in a Deciding Mode

Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters says it has intelligence the US decided to resume attacks on Iran, while Trump tells Fox News he's weighing military action, more sanctions, or a deal. A Pentagon inspector general report already puts the cost of Iran's earlier retaliatory strikes at $3.7 billion in damaged US equipment across eight countries, a toll CBS News says wasn't fully disclosed to the public.

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us defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

US Embassy Tells Americans to Leave Iran Now as Trump Weighs Tehran's Terms to End the War

The US Virtual Embassy in Iran issued an emergency alert Sept. 19 telling Americans to get out immediately, citing airspace closures and a rapidly deteriorating security picture across the Middle East. Iran has sent terms through Qatari mediators to end the months-long conflict, and Trump says he's deciding between a deal, more economic pressure, or military action, with an answer expected around his UN address this week.

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us politics 5 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Set to Meet Mamdani at Gracie Mansion Monday, Netanyahu Notably Absent From His UN Week Schedule

President Trump is scheduled to meet NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion Monday, their third sit-down in ten months, plus sessions with Volodymyr Zelensky, Gulf Arab leaders and Venezuela's acting president during UN General Assembly week. Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump's partner in the Iran conflict, isn't on the list, a gap several sources flag as notable given the war's expanding footprint across the Middle East.

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us finance 6 1d ago 4 min read

Dow Notches Third Straight Losing Week as 10-Year Yield Sits Near 5%, Futures Edge Up Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit

The Dow fell more than 1.5% last week, its third losing week in a row, while the Nasdaq eked out a gain on the back of chip stocks. Futures ticked up slightly Sunday night even as Iran-backed Houthis struck Saudi Arabia and the U.S. State Department warned Americans to reconsider Middle East travel. None of the sources link the two directly, but the backdrop is a market pricing in a hawkish Fed, near-$100 oil, and a pivotal Trump-Xi summit this week.

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us economy 7 1d ago 4 min read

Qatar's PM Calls for Gulf-Iran Security Framework as Trump Set to Meet Gulf Leaders at UN Assembly

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told Bloomberg the Gulf can't return to its pre-war status quo without a security framework that includes Iran. He made the pitch in New York as Gulf leaders prepare to meet President Trump at the UN General Assembly, with Washington pushing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the Congressional Budget Office pegging the conflict's cost to US taxpayers at $38 billion and climbing.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

State Department Approves Visas for Iran's UN Delegation as Trump Says He's in 'Deciding Mode' on the War

Iran's president and foreign minister got visas for this week's UN General Assembly, but the State Department is confining them to their hotel, the UN mission, UN headquarters and JFK Airport, with no shopping trips allowed. Trump says he's weighing whether to 'blow the entire nation up' or cut a deal, and floated being 'probably open' to meeting Iran's president face to face.

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us politics 8 1d ago 5 min read

Trump Administration Widens DEI Crackdown: New Tax-Exempt Rule and 100+ College Probes

The Treasury Department has proposed stripping tax-exempt status from private schools that use race in admissions or scholarships, while the Justice Department expands DEI-related probes to more than 100 universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke. Higher ed groups are split, with some schools cooperating and others calling it coercion.

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ir defense 8 2d ago 4 min read

Iran Says It Has Intel of Renewed US Strikes as Trump Cuts Short Camp David Trip and Weighs 'Wiping Iran Out'

Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters claims it has intelligence that Washington decided to resume strikes with a 'green light' from regional states, and Trump abruptly left Camp David with no explanation as a new State Department security alert went out. No US official has confirmed a decision to resume strikes, and Trump himself says he's also weighing a deal, so the loudest claim in this story right now is Iran's own, unverified by Washington.

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us politics 6 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Says His DC Arch Will Now Double as a Sniper and Drone Military Base

Trump announced Sunday that his 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery will also function as a military complex, storing drones, snipers and ammunition. It's the second time he's slapped a national-security label on a personal construction project, and critics say it's a legal end-run around Congress and the courts, not a defense necessity.

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us politics 8 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Prepares to Sanction the ICC Itself as Five Member States Quit the Court

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Trump administration is drafting sanctions that would bar most transactions with the International Criminal Court after a grace period, according to Global Banking and Finance's citation of the report. Five countries, including Chad and Venezuela, have withdrawn from the court's founding treaty in the past year as Secretary of State Marco Rubio's pressure campaign grinds on.

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us tech 8 2d ago 4 min read

Chips, Not Chatbots, Set to Dominate Trump-Xi Summit Agenda September 24

Since Trump and Xi's May summit in Beijing produced a vague pledge on AI safety cooperation, the two sides have hardened into a compute-and-chips arms race ahead of Xi's scheduled September 24 Washington visit. Beijing is racing to build an AI ecosystem that doesn't need American technology, and the Trump administration's own advisers say the answer is tighter export controls, not a slowdown.

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us economy 8 2d ago 4 min read

Fed Hikes Rates Again as Trump Attacks Warsh, Mortgage Rates Hit 6.95%

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate this past Wednesday, September 16, prompting fresh attacks from President Trump. But economists say the bigger driver of high borrowing costs isn't the Fed at all, it's a federal government still running massive deficits and tech giants borrowing heavily to build AI data centers. The Fed doing its job to fight inflation isn't the problem. Washington's spending habit is.

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us politics 8 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Downplays Report Linking Chinese Satellite Imagery to Deadly Iran Strike Ahead of Xi's White House Visit

The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese entities supplied Iran with satellite imagery of a Jordan base before and after a July 17 attack that killed three U.S. troops. Trump has brushed it off, saying China 'behaved reasonably well' and that 'they basically do what we do,' as he prepares to host Xi Jinping for a state dinner on Thursday, Sept. 24. Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants Trump to make it a centerpiece of the summit; China calls the allegations groundless.

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us defense 8 2d ago 4 min read

Houthis Hit Riyadh With Missile for First Time, Trump Cuts Camp David Trip Short as State Department Warns of Rapid Escalation

Saudi Arabia intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh on Saturday, the first strike on the Saudi capital since fighting reignited in July. Trump abruptly left Camp David for the White House with no explanation given, and the State Department is now warning Americans to reconsider travel to the entire region.

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us defense 9 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Says He's in 'Deciding Mode' on Iran, Floats Blowing Up the 'Entire Nation' Days Before Possible Pezeshkian Meeting

Nearly seven months into the Iran war, Trump told Fox News Sunday his options are wiping Iran out, letting it 'rot' economically, or cutting a deal, while separately saying he'd 'probably' meet Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at this week's UN General Assembly. Iran's top negotiator says Tehran has quietly sent conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as gas hits $4.48 a gallon and Senate Republicans like Lisa Murkowski say voters are done waiting.

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us economy 8 2d ago 3 min read

Bessent and China's He Open All-Day Trade Talks in Manhattan Days Before Trump Hosts Xi

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trade Rep Jamieson Greer and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met Sunday at JPMorgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters to prep AI, tariff and rare-earth deals ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit. The real news: China still hasn't delivered on the rare-earth flows it promised in Busan, and Washington is now negotiating AI guardrails with a country whose flagship AI firm the FBI has accused of stealing American tech.

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us economy 7 2d ago 4 min read

India's Exports to China Jump 39% Even as Congress Hands Trump Tariff Leverage Over Russian Oil Buyers

India's shipments to core BRICS nations rose 34% this fiscal year, with China alone up 39%, even as Xi Jinping and Modi held their first bilateral meeting in India in seven years at the BRICS summit. At the same time, Congress just gave President Trump authority to slap 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil, including India, which says it has no plans to stop.

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us energy 7 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Set to Host Xi as US Tries to Close a 15-to-1 Mining Engineer Gap With China

President Trump is preparing to host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit while Washington scrambles on two fronts: rebuilding a gutted domestic mining workforce and figuring out whether Congress can regulate artificial intelligence without handing China the advantage. The numbers are stark and the timelines don't match the urgency.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

Three New Polls Put Trump's Approval at Second-Term Lows as Democrats Lead Midterm Generic Ballot

NBC News, the New York Times/Siena, and Fox News all released polls this week showing Trump's approval stuck in the high 30s to low 40s and voters blaming him for the cost of living. Democrats lead the generic congressional ballot in all three, but Republicans still have a favorable Senate map. Jobs numbers stayed strong even as price anger dominates.

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