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Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · Evening Edition

New Jersey regulators fined a data center more than $1 million after a state inspection found 62 natural-gas generators operating without required environmental permits — the fossil-fueled underside of an AI buildout…

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · Morning Edition

The FBI's anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way , ProPublica reports.

Monday, September 21, 2026 · Evening Edition

The administration has barred reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, a move the Committee to Protect Journalists' CEO Jodie Ginsberg says echoes rhetoric used by autocrats .

Monday, September 21, 2026 · Morning Edition

The message came on August 7, as Jeanne was finishing a shift at a restaurant in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had terminated her legal status and her work permit,…

Sunday, September 20, 2026 · Evening Edition

A federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas , hitting him at least once in the torso and leaving him in serious but stable condition.

Sunday, September 20, 2026 · Morning Edition

As markets wobble, the president is pouring his family's money into the AI economy while resisting calls to slow it down — and his own decisions on AI policy could affect the value of those holdings.

Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Evening Edition

Trump has barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House grounds over coverage he calls "fake news", and threatens more bans; news outlets have closed ranks in solidarity .

Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Morning Edition

Newly surfaced contracts show the drug-pricing deals the administration sold as wins for patients were written for the companies.

Friday, September 18, 2026 · Evening Edition

Federal immigration authorities have driven arrests to fresh highs by shifting from high-profile raids to quieter collaboration with state and local police , trading spectacle for reach and drawing fewer of the…

Friday, September 18, 2026 · Morning Edition

The heaviest story is the slow collapse of Donald Trump's second administration.

Thursday, September 17, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration is moving to divert military funding from Europe and the Middle East to right-leaning governments in Latin America , redrawing where American arms and money flow to reward friendly regimes.

Thursday, September 17, 2026 · Morning Edition

A U.N.-backed fact-finding mission says a pair of U.S. airstrikes on Iran may amount to war crimes , with the findings centering on strikes that killed at least 178 civilians, including women and children.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Evening Edition

The House passed a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill Wednesday night, named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, and sent it to Trump's desk.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Morning Edition

Hundreds of immigration lawyers exhaled on Friday after the Supreme Court announced it would not hear Genalo v. Black , the case that asked whether certain immigrants could be held in immigration detention facilities.

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from imposing new restrictions on mail ballots, an order that stops the postal system from enforcing the president's rules, and the White House says it will fall…

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · Morning Edition

The war on Iran is bleeding the empire.

Monday, September 14, 2026 · Evening Edition

The heaviest blow landed on the climate.

Monday, September 14, 2026 · Morning Edition

Columbia University handed cash to pro-Israel organizations while it cracked down on its own students.

Sunday, September 13, 2026 · Evening Edition

The presidential pardon now has a price tag.

Sunday, September 13, 2026 · Morning Edition

Start with the man who runs the money and answers to money first.

Saturday, September 12, 2026 · Evening Edition

The heaviest cost of Trump's war on Iran is landing on working people at the pump.

Saturday, September 12, 2026 · Morning Edition

On the first night of the Republicans' midterms convention, Donald Trump pledged $5,000 to every U.S. adult if his party keeps control of both chambers of Congress — the so-called "Trump dividends," a pledge that has…

Friday, September 11, 2026 · Evening Edition

The heaviest development is the escalation toward open war on the Arabian Peninsula.

Friday, September 11, 2026 · Morning Edition

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the ruling class marks the day it built its own power.

Thursday, September 10, 2026 · Evening Edition

President Trump used the opening night of the Republican midterm convention in Dallas to pledge a $5,000 payment to every American adult if the GOP keeps control of the House and Senate — the latest in a string of cash…

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration is moving to rewrite the census itself.

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · Morning Edition

Verified every claim, name, number, date and URL against the source material.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · Evening Edition

Five subcontracted aircraft cleaners were killed on Sunday when a Boeing 767 operated for Amazon overran a runway at Miami International Airport .

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · Morning Edition

Every claim, name, number, date, and link in the draft checks out against the source material, and the only quotation marks fall on the single quoted word ("blue," S2).

Monday, September 7, 2026 · Morning Edition

Germany's political establishment absorbed a shock as the far-right Alternative for Germany claimed a landslide win in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt — a result that could make it the first far-right party to hold…

Sunday, September 6, 2026 · Evening Edition

Germany's nationalist AfD won a landslide victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, scoring its best-ever result in a state election and potentially becoming the first far-right party to gain power since…

Saturday, September 5, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration stripped Temporary Protected Status from Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant in Springfield, Ohio — an honors neuroscience student at Wright State University, an avid soccer…

Friday, September 4, 2026 · Evening Edition

Two hydroelectric workers were pulled alive from mud-filled tunnels in Nepal nine days after a catastrophic flood barreled through Himalayan river valleys.

Friday, September 4, 2026 · Morning Edition

Volkswagen bosses announced plans to slash a further 50,000 jobs under a so-called transformation plan, sending shares higher .

Friday, September 4, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by Donald Trump from being used in the November election, ordering a statewide vote on the maps.

Thursday, September 3, 2026 · Morning Edition

The Trump administration is deporting Haitian immigrants into total chaos after months of demonizing them with accusations of eating cats, Salon reports; the removals send people directly into violence back home .

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · Evening Edition

Multiple people, including two police officers, were injured Wednesday afternoon in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis , prompting the Minneapolis police department to warn the public away from the convention center .

Sunday, August 30, 2026 · Evening Edition

The U.S. military struck Iranian launchers on an island in the Strait of Hormuz , the first publicly acknowledged attack on Tehran's forces in weeks, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new banking…

Saturday, August 29, 2026 · Evening Edition

Devastating flash floods in Nepal killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — and former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested Saturday the death toll might…

Saturday, August 29, 2026 · Morning Edition

Catastrophic flooding in Nepal has killed more than 600 people with around 3,000 still missing CBS News reports .

Friday, August 28, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education is pushing programs to the brink, with Wisconsin a prime example of how federal pressure closes off students’ learning…

Friday, August 28, 2026 · Morning Edition

A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic's AI tools for federal agencies was "illegal and baseless," and ordered it lifted after the administration failed to justify the restriction and the judge found it…

Thursday, August 27, 2026 · Evening Edition

Six months into the war with Iran, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen from hundreds of vessels a day to a handful and sent prices sharply higher S7 ; the threat of sanctions triggered panic buying for food…

Thursday, August 27, 2026 · Morning Edition

The war in Iran is driving diesel to nearly $5.60 a gallon , affecting school districts at the start of the year, while a tanker attack tests Trump's Hormuz claim and Qatar's prime minister arrives in Tehran for…

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · Evening Edition

Torrential rains sent a wall of mud and debris crashing through communities with little warning, leaving a trail of death and destruction .

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · Morning Edition

Organizations counseling service members on conscientious objection report a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats and targets inside Iran, with troops saying they are being asked…

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · Evening Edition

ICE quietly enacted new rules this month that will keep officers involved in deadly-force incidents—such as firing a gun and using a choke hold—off the streets until the completion of an investigation, reversing a…

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration has launched a review that could strip status from as many as 200,000 visa holders and asylum applicants , with cancellations possible in waves .

Monday, August 24, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed Trump a victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting, issuing an unsigned opinion that blocks state challenges for now over the dissents of the three Democratic…

Sunday, August 23, 2026 · Evening Edition

Border Patrol arrested Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, a handyman in Key West with a valid work permit, as he left for a mechanic appointment while waiting for his Navy son to return from the USS Lincoln ; arrests of military…