Ethiopia installs six-month caretaker administration in Tigray after the 2022 peace deal effectively broke down
Ethiopia has set up a six-month caretaker administration in Tigray after renewed fighting effectively shattered the 2022 peace agreement. Addis Ababa also accuses Eritrean troops of occupying its territory, an allegation the AP could not verify, and Eritrea has described Ethiopia's stance as a declaration of war.
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HHS has sent the White House budget office an interim access policy on peptides, according to a posting on a government website. Two people familiar with the plan say it would assure pharmacies they will not be targeted for making certain peptides.
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U.S. retail sales rose 0.8% in September to $745.0 billion, but only 0.2% when gasoline is excluded, AP and Bloomberg reported. The series is not adjusted for prices, so the 0.6-point gap is the part of the gain most exposed to fuel inflation.
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Cologne police seized a robot and are investigating whether two teenagers piloted it in an alleged groping of a 16-year-old girl. They have not yet established whether it was steered live or ran a stored routine, and that finding decides where responsibility starts.
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Egypt lends much of its Fayoum mummy portrait collection abroad for the first time
Egypt will lend a major part of its Fayoum mummy portrait collection to a Rome exhibition, the first time the collection will travel abroad. Egypt's antiquities minister presented the restoration that precedes the loan as a joint Egyptian and Italian project.
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President Trump's Sept. 29 executive order tells federal agencies to say "super intelligence" in public statements, on websites and in reports. The order speaks only to agencies, so companies selling to them decide for themselves whether their proposals and product pages follow.
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Brazilian justice orders Eduardo Bolsonaro's arrest weeks before his brother's runoff
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Eduardo Bolsonaro's arrest less than three weeks before his brother Flávio's runoff against Lula. Two law professors said the US is unlikely to extradite him, so the order lands mainly on Flávio's channel to the Trump administration.
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FDA ties any mifepristone restrictions to a safety report due by March 2027
FDA's court-ordered filing schedules a mifepristone safety report for no later than March 2027, ahead of any decision on new restrictions. Abortion opponents hoping to curtail the pill's use quickly condemned a timeline that keeps the review running into 2027.
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AP-NORC poll ranks human control above innovation in what Americans want from AI policy
AP-NORC polling finds 64% of Americans think AI is developing too fast, against 8% who say too slow. For product teams the more usable result is that about 8 in 10 call keeping AI under human control highly important, while about half say the same of innovation.
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Fairshake backs 32 House incumbents after the CLARITY Act falls 11 votes short of Senate cloture
Fairshake is backing 32 House incumbents who voted for the CLARITY Act after a 49-50 Senate cloture vote left the bill 11 short of the 60 it needed. The money defends votes already cast in a House that passed the bill in July 2025, while the Senate path still needs Democrats.
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Trump said on Truth Social that he would stand up an AI Force modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar soon, while still calling the backlash against data centers a hoax created by the left. Industry figures told Politico they had no advance word.
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Congo's Ebola contact tracing is missing most new cases, Africa CDC chief says
More than 70% of new Ebola cases in Congo arise outside known contact lists, Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya told the AP. With 23% of expected contacts traced, Congo's count of more than 8,500 Bundibugyo cases covers only what surveillance can still reach.
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Sanders and Casar would ban superintelligence in the week Trump hosts AI's chief executives
The bill would stop advanced AI development until a new federal Department of Artificial Intelligence writes guidelines. Both sponsors are progressives, and Congress has so far done little to rein in the industry.
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Hobbs opens Taiwan's 14th US office in Phoenix over two written objections from China's consulate
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs opened Taiwan's 14th US office in Phoenix after two letters from China's consulate asked her to object. Chip suppliers weighing the state now have a host government publicly on Taiwan's side, and Beijing has answered so far only in writing.
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Kyiv's 51% refinery claim runs well ahead of the IEA's 30% diesel decline
Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out 51% of Russia's oil refining capacity, a claim that could not be independently verified. IEA figures point to a smaller loss that Russia covers by postponing maintenance and keeping diesel at home.
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Trump's Head Start rule would hand preschool expulsion decisions to local providers
Trump's Head Start proposal would drop federal rules against suspending and expelling preschoolers, leaving students in 70% of states with fewer guardrails. Each provider would write its own discipline policy under state licensing rules, so local directors would decide when a child can be removed.
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Trump is sending about 9,000 troops and a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East while calling more bombing of Iran after Nov. 3 "possible." For oil and rates, the case for a longer war rests on his refusal of an Iranian truce that offered to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Smithsonian uses AI to trace 10,000 Revolutionary-era objects across catalogs
Smithsonian researchers are using AI to match about 10,000 Revolutionary-era objects with records at the Library of Congress and elsewhere. The project says links that once took long manual searches now come quickly, and it has published one example so far.
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Scientists suspect gull-wound infections in Argentina's unusual whale calf die-off
Marcela Uhart's team says southern right whale calf deaths at Argentina's Peninsula Valdes are unusual against 23 years of monitoring the same population. The leading suspect is bacteria entering through kelp gull wounds, though gulls have pecked these whales for decades and cannot alone explain this season.
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Chile's forestry body says parts of the Atacama took the heaviest seasonal rain in its records. The desert's dormant seed bank has responded with a bloom that is drawing tourists north of Santiago.
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Earlier coverage
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- Washington plans to pull 200,000 visitor visas, and no host company can screen for it
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- Sanders attaches a 20-year prison penalty to his superintelligence ban
Invest · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Secret Service confiscated a Politico reporter's White House pass at the gate
Product · September 22, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Six in ten Americans now back a cap on new data centre builds
Product · September 16, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Amodei's call to pace the frontier drew rejections from Beijing and Trump within two days
Security · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers