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Trump pledged $5,000 'Trump dividend' checks for every adult if Republicans win the 2026 midterms, offering no funding mechanism or legality details
Trump announces his planned Arlington triumphal arch will double as a drone/sniper military complex, citing an unspecified military request
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
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
United Russia claims record 355-seat Duma supermajority in wartime vote barring anti-war Yabloko; largest Ukrainian drone strike hits Moscow during final-day voting
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
Typhoon Dujuan killed four and injured 22 in Japan, dumping record 832mm rain on Oshima; nearly two million were advised to evacuate
UNGA81 opens in New York as Trump meets Mamdani and Burnham; Abbas is visa-banned while an ATC glitch disrupts leader arrivals
DOJ and Education Department find UC Berkeley Law discriminated against white and Asian applicants, citing admissions data; Berkeley denies wrongdoing
US Senate fails to advance Trump-backed crypto bill as four Republicans defect despite his ethics concessions
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes essay urging AI labs to slow frontier development, with Altman endorsing third-party evaluators and Trump dismissing risks
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
Pennsylvania confirms four measles-associated deaths as CDC's public count shows zero 2026 deaths, amid RFK Jr.-directed reporting changes
Presley Gerber, Cindy Crawford's 27-year-old model son, died at a California rehab facility September 20; police investigate suspected overdose, cause undetermined pending toxicology
Fed raises rates 25bp to 3.75-4% on Sept 16, 2026—first hike since 2023—as Warsh cites sticky inflation; Trump demands cuts
















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