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Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended in an 11-1 jury mistrial; jurors blame one holdout as prosecutors weigh retrial before a September 29 hearing
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes essay urging AI labs to slow frontier development, with Altman endorsing third-party evaluators and Trump dismissing risks
Rep. Thomas Massie files eight privileged impeachment articles against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the unauthorized Iran war; Speaker Johnson adjourns the House early to avoid a vote
DOJ and Education Department find UC Berkeley Law discriminated against white and Asian applicants, citing admissions data; Berkeley denies wrongdoing
UNGA81 opens in New York as Trump meets Mamdani and Burnham; Abbas is visa-banned while an ATC glitch disrupts leader arrivals
Patrick Clancy's first post-mistrial 60 Minutes interview reveals forgiveness and a new pregnancy; a retrial-or-dismissal decision is due September 29
Hurricane Lowell batters Kauai as Category 2, leaving ~35,000 without power for days to weeks; Governor Green asks Trump for federal aid
Viral video of Mamdani and AOC smiling during Ground Zero's 25th-anniversary name-reading ignites Cruz condemnation amid 100,000-signature petition against his attendance
Typhoon Dujuan killed four and injured 22 in Japan, dumping record 832mm rain on Oshima; nearly two million were advised to evacuate
Drone attack from Iraq forces Saudi Arabia to shut East-West pipeline, risking 4% of global oil supply as Brent hits $108
Trump bans Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motorcycle imports effective Sept. 29 after Carney's $20B retaliatory tariffs, escalating the US-Canada trade war
Death toll in Philippines MV June Aster ferry fire off Coron, Palawan rises to 35 dead with 54 missing; cause under investigation
Pennsylvania confirms four measles-associated deaths as CDC's public count shows zero 2026 deaths, amid RFK Jr.-directed reporting changes
Fed raises rates 25bp to 3.75-4% on Sept 16, 2026—first hike since 2023—as Warsh cites sticky inflation; Trump demands cuts
GOP held its first-ever midterm convention in Dallas Sept 9–10 as Trump promised a $5,000 dividend and vulnerable Republicans skipped the event
Merz's CDU suffers historic double state-election defeat, falling below 5% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the first time, as AfD surges and chancellor resists resignation calls
















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