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Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a town meeting at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona in 2015.

Artificial intelligence

Sanders and Casar file a bill to outlaw superintelligent AI and pause advanced development

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on Constitution Avenue in Washington, seat of the federal district court that ordered the press passes restored, photographed in July 2026.

Press freedom

Judge orders the White House to return press passes to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

Morocco

Morocco's PAM leads the election with 97 of 395 seats as abstention reaches 62%

The Berlaymont building in Brussels' European quarter, headquarters of the European Commission, in 2019.

European Union

Brussels ties €20 billion for Ukraine to the pace of reform and is already holding back €3.9 billion

An aerial view of part of Kandahar province, in southern Afghanistan, in 2013. The province was one of three hit by Thursday's Pakistani air strikes.

South Asia

Pakistan strikes 10 targets across three Afghan provinces, and the Taliban vows to respond

The Melrose Gate entrance to the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, Los Angeles, photographed in 2014. The settlement bars the company from selling the lot for at least five years.

Media

Paramount settles with 12 states and clears the last obstacle to its Warner takeover

Health workers in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia in 2014.

Ebola outbreak

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat

Courts

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years for the 2006 assault of Miriam Haley

The seat of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, seen from the Maurits Kiekpad, in May 2026.

International justice

ICC convicts Seleka commander of crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic

The Ministério da Fazenda building on the Esplanada dos Ministérios in Brasília, in 2023.

Budget

Brazil trims its 2026 budget freeze to R$16.1 billion — and starts forecasting a primary deficit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the UN General Assembly in New York on 22 September 2026.

War in Ukraine

Ballistic missiles kill two in Kyiv hours after Zelensky offers an energy truce at the UN

NFL

Davante Adams and a returning Aaron Donald carry the Rams past the Giants 28-6

Student visas

Court blocks the rule that would have capped foreign students at four years in the United States

President Donald Trump's official portrait, released by the White House in 2025. His administration's new public charge rule took effect on September 18, 2026.

Immigration

Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C. sue to stop the public charge rule now in force

Climate and technology

Report finds Nvidia's indirect emissions up 725% and accuses the company of greenwashing

Euro area

The ECB switches on Pontes and starts settling tokenised assets in central bank money

Ethiopia

Seven Ethiopian armed groups join forces in an alliance to remove Abiy Ahmed

A screen showing Discord, a platform popular with teenagers, photographed in Brasília in August 2026.

Platforms

Brazil's government rejects Discord's offer and asks court to impose child-protection measures

1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York, home to Fox Corporation and News Corp.

Media

Delaware judge orders Fox to give its own shareholders about 700 documents mentioning "phone hacking"

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers make an arrest during a vehicle stop in Manassas, Virginia, in April 2022. Archive photo; not the Austin incident.

Immigration enforcement

Sanders and Casar file a bill to outlaw superintelligent AI and pause advanced development

Judge orders the White House to return press passes to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

Morocco's PAM leads the election with 97 of 395 seats as abstention reaches 62%

Brussels ties €20 billion for Ukraine to the pace of reform and is already holding back €3.9 billion

Pakistan strikes 10 targets across three Afghan provinces, and the Taliban vows to respond

Paramount settles with 12 states and clears the last obstacle to its Warner takeover

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years for the 2006 assault of Miriam Haley

ICC convicts Seleka commander of crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic

Brazil trims its 2026 budget freeze to R$16.1 billion — and starts forecasting a primary deficit

Ballistic missiles kill two in Kyiv hours after Zelensky offers an energy truce at the UN

Davante Adams and a returning Aaron Donald carry the Rams past the Giants 28-6

Court blocks the rule that would have capped foreign students at four years in the United States

Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C. sue to stop the public charge rule now in force

Report finds Nvidia's indirect emissions up 725% and accuses the company of greenwashing

The ECB switches on Pontes and starts settling tokenised assets in central bank money

Seven Ethiopian armed groups join forces in an alliance to remove Abiy Ahmed

Brazil's government rejects Discord's offer and asks court to impose child-protection measures

Delaware judge orders Fox to give its own shareholders about 700 documents mentioning "phone hacking"

ICE agent shoots Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, and the government's account clashes with his lawyer's