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Asian shares trade mostly lower after AI stocks sink on Wall Street

Asian shares were trading mostly lower Tuesday, after artificial-intelligence stocks slid overnight. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 surged in morning trading but lost some of those earlier gains in afternoon trading, to be up 0.2% at 63,621.08. Softbank Group, the Japanese giant that is a major investor of OpenAI, jumped about 8% in Tokyo afternoon trading, recouping its overnight losses. The decline came after OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Fortune published Saturday that the company behind ChatGPT would likely wait until

Gates Foundation warns AI could widen inequality as foundation pledges $1B to expand access

Federal Reserve is expected to raise its benchmark rate, defying Trump's demands

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Supreme Court lifts a cloud over midterms, letting mail ballots flow as normal to voters

Even with voting already underway, uncertainty about what might come next had been hovering over preparations for this year's midterm elections. The U.S. Supreme Court lifted much of that uncertainty late Monday when it rejected President Donald Trump’s push to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who would be able to receive a mail ballot. The decision is a win for the status quo. The thousands of election offices around the country can send out mail ballots as they had intended without worrying about complying with new Post

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s plan to limit mail-in voting in midterms

Missile shortages, damage to US facilities: Pentagon watchdog issues first review of Iran war

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DHS voter probe may break state laws and wrongly implicate US citizens, whistleblower alleges

A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November's elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Monday. The Department of Homeland Security probe known as the “Unlawful Voter Initiative” also asks employees to create federal law enforcement records about voters based on unreliable data, the account warns. That could potentially wrongly implicate U.S. citizens in official documentation that c

Gavin Newsom tells CNN's Jake Tapper he won't run for president if Kamala Harris runs in 2028

Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate after three-month absence due to health issues

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Why the Supreme Court blocked Trump and the Postal Service from restricting mail-in voting for the midterms

Mail voting in the 2026 midterm elections will go on as usual – now that the Trump administration’s major efforts to disrupt how Americans vote by mail have been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Postal Service had recently implemented new rules placing unprecedented restrictions on the practice of mail voting in federal elections. State officials and voting rights organizations immediately challenged these rules, arguing that the executive agency has no authority under the U.S. Constitution to unilaterally regulate election practices. On Sept. 14, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court

10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, critical threshold for US economy and markets

The rise in bond yields reached a critical threshold on Monday, with the 10-year Treasury yield hitting 5%, a level briefly touched in 2023 and otherwise not seen since 2007.The 10-year yield’s rise to multi-year highs could mean higher costs for Americans who want to buy a home, finance a car or take out other loans.Bond yields have marched higher this year, pushing up borrowing costs for consumers, businesses and the US government. Yields have climbed despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to quell concerns in the bond market.The global bond market, dominated by the almost $32

A Sacramento woman was fatally shot by a longtime stalker. DHS says he was in the country illegally

Can pilots be criminally charged after a plane crash? Here’s what experts say

Man charged in Tasia Fortune’s death pleads not guilty, is denied bond

More than a month after Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi, a man charged with murder in connection with her death appeared in court Monday.Jackson police announced the murder charge against 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff on Friday, after the medical examiner ruled Fortune’s death a homicide.Ratliff pleaded not guilty Monday and was denied bond, his attorney, Toney Baldwin, told CNN. His next court appearance is scheduled for September 25, Baldwin said.Ratliff is accused of using a black cable cord to hang F

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Trump says Iran likely responsible for attack that shut vital Saudi oil pipeline

US President Donald Trump said Iran was “probably” behind the attack launched from Iraq that shut a vital oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia.The East-West Pipeline was attacked by several drones coming from Iraq on Thursday, the Saudi foreign ministry said Friday, resulting in injuries and some damage. The energy ministry added that the pipeline had been shut down as a precautionary measure.The news comes amid turmoil in energy markets and major disruption in shipping with no end in sight to the Iran war and as Tehran’s allies in Yemen, the Houthis, seized a key island and a port in the Red Se

Police say more arrests coming in death of Mississippi woman found hanging from tree

The Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a lifeline for the global economy, is in jeopardy

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New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate

New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting safe

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US wins fifth straight women's FIBA World Cup title, beating France 97-79

Breanna Stewart had an American flag draped around her body as she soaked in the moment. The U.S. captain delivered again and the Americans continued their domination of international play, winning a fifth straight women's FIBA World Cup title with a 97-79 victory over France on Sunday. The Americans have won 36 straight World Cup games, dating to the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup, where they lost to Russia. “We are the standard,” said Stewart, who scored 22 points in the victory and earned MVP honors of the tournament for the second time. “U

After 18 years in Baltimore, John Harbaugh faces his biggest challenge yet: Turning around the New York Giants

Ukraine is fighting Russia anywhere it can – even in the deserts of Africa

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Indonesia continues search for at least 129 missing after ferry capsizes, 6 bodies recovered

The search is continuing for at least 129 people missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in Indonesia 's Java Sea on Sunday. At least 108 people were rescued and the bodies of six passengers were recovered as the search operation expanded around the vessel’s last known position. The ferry, with more than 240 people on board, was traveling from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, on Borneo Island, officials said. The captain had reported rough seas with waves up to 3 meters (10 feet) before issuing a distress call, saying the ship was listing, said I Pu

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up

The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The warning comes as worries about AI grow inside and outside the industry and reports continue to emerge about increasingly powerful systems that solve problems beyond human capacity but could also go rogue and carry out other, more harmful tasks. The worries have

US women in familiar place reaching semifinals of World Cup, joined by Germany, France and Spain

CIA declassifies intel warnings to White House prior to 9/11 attack

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States sue to stop Trump rule that would make it harder for some immigrants to get green cards

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ put detainees in metal cages labeled ‘calming areas,’ watchdog finds

Exclusive: Tense phone call and resignation upend Justice Department probe into Trump’s top foes

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The Latest: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now ahead of midterms

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Get ready for a 30% jump in heating oil costs this winter as Iran war drives up prices

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After a $2.4 billion money laundering bust, Singapore now has hundreds of luxury handbags to shift

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Inside the pipeline enshrining Trump’s conservative legacy on the federal bench

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Trump says Ukraine and Russia agreed to stop targeting energy sites, but Kyiv calls it a ‘proposal for a mutual halt’

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Democrats eye a new tool to hold Trump accountable if they win the House

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Swedish election ends in tight finale. Preliminary results give opposition a 3-seat majority

Sweden’s national election was too close to call early Monday with preliminary results giving the left-wing opposition a narrow three-seat advantage over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-wing coalition

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls