Signed on the UN sidelines, the deal lets Washington expand Pituffik, open bases at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig, and bar non-NATO forces and investors from sensitive sectors. Sovereignty stays with Copenhagen and Nuuk.
Read more →Posts from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage, the New York Times reported Thursday. The September 13 stabbing of Sikh truck driver Gurvinder Singh at a Wyoming rest stop has deepened those fears; the suspect is charged with attempted murder, and police have not given a motive.
Read more →The two sides extended their trade truce by two months to January 10, pushing tariffs, rare earths and chip limits to the next round. No AI hotline was announced and a $14 billion Taiwan arms package stays on hold. Over tea on Friday, Xi said the two will meet twice more this year, at APEC in Shenzhen on November 18-19 and at the G20 in Miami; he also invited 100,000 young Americans to study in China.
Read more →Trump renewed the proclamation through September 21, 2027. A district court order vacated the fee this summer, so employers are not paying it for now.
Read more →The Israeli prime minister called New York's mayor anti-Semitic and rejected the genocide charge as dozens of delegates walked out. Mamdani called the accusations 'baseless lies.'
Read more →A day after Trump called Cuba a 'failed state' and its delegation walked out, Rubio said the US is open to talks on new leadership and an end to the embargo. Havana says there are no negotiations.
Read more →The vote came weeks before the midterms. Separately, an Iranian American group filed a federal suit arguing the seven-month war was never authorized by Congress.
Read more →The Office of the National Cyber Director wants US agencies to review new frontier models before Britain's AI Security Institute sees them. Anthropic has limited its newest model to US organizations.
Read more →Xi announced at the White House that Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, both born in 2020, will arrive at Zoo Atlanta within days, calling them an "envoy of friendship." Atlanta has had no pandas since 2024. Beijing first sent pandas to Washington in 1972, after Nixon's visit. The pandas are a loan, not a gift, and the tariff truce they arrive with runs only to January 10.
Read more →A 24-hour YouTube livestream of Trump speeches and administration events went live Monday at 7 p.m. ET. The three banned outlets are suing on First Amendment grounds, and ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox suspended White House pool coverage in solidarity.
Read more →Speaking at the UN, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Narendra Modi is expected in Canada around December, as the two countries aim to close a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement by year end. The next round of talks runs October 5 to 9. It would be the largest step yet in a thaw after the 2023 rupture over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Read more →The 50-name list includes Rahul Patil (Anthropic), Vijaye Raji (OpenAI), Suresh Kumar (Walmart), Seemantini Godbole (Lowe's), Hari Gopalkrishnan (Bank of America), Amala Duggirala (Delta), Firdaus Bhathena (S&P Global), Naveen Zutshi (Databricks), Charu Jain (Alaska Airlines), Asmita Dubey (L'Oreal), Ekta Chopra (e.l.f. Beauty), Keyur Govande (Depop), Tilak Mandadi (CVS Health), Amit Puntambekar (Reddit), Sagnik Nandy (Docusign) and Suthen Thomas Paradatheth (Grab).
Read more →The Russia and Iran sanctions act Trump signed on September 18 authorizes tariffs of up to 100% on countries buying Russian oil and gas, India and China included. It sets no India-specific rate; the president decides who is hit, how hard, and whether to waive it.
Read more →In the first UN address by a Venezuelan head of state since 2018, Delcy Rodriguez said elections will be held and thanked Trump for restoring ties. Maduro is held a few miles away, awaiting trial.
Read more →Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman urged international oversight of AI; the US representative rejected 'global governance of AI.'
Read more →After meeting Iraq's prime minister in New York, Ahmad al-Sharaa offered 'safe passage' for Iraqi oil through Syria. About 15 million barrels have moved overland by truck to Baniyas since April.
Read more →The station helps provide internet coverage to neighbouring Ukraine, as Denmark warns of a rising Russian hybrid threat.
Read more →Iran says it gave US mediators a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if conditions are met, then restart talks on a wider deal. Al Jazeera reports technical experts have joined the New York talks; US officials have not confirmed that, and Rubio says there has been no breakthrough. Pezeshkian says Iran wants a deal before the US midterms.
Read more →Meeting in New York, the three foreign ministers arranged an urgent meeting of their chiefs of staff to support the kingdom under last month's Makkah defence pact, which treats an attack on one as an attack on all. Neither Pakistan nor Turkey has yet struck back at the Houthis.
Read more →Macron pledged soldiers, radar and air-defence systems for Saudi energy infrastructure under what he called a strictly defensive approach, after Houthi missiles targeted Yanbu. Britain is also sending help.
Read more →Baghdad calls the date final for ending the US-led coalition's mission; the prime minister rejected a US request to keep some forces longer. From October 1, Iraq expects no foreign military presence, though security cooperation will continue under a new framework.
Read more →After reports that two election commissioners broke with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the Congress leader called for his resignation and said Modi and Amit Shah should be investigated over alleged 'vote chori.' The BJP said the allegations lack evidence.
Read more →The external affairs minister met counterparts from France, Ukraine, Switzerland, Moldova, Ecuador, Slovakia and Hungary this week, covering the Ukraine and Gulf crises and the India-EFTA trade pact now in force. He addresses the General Debate on September 26.
Read more →His Netflix special Fool Volume is nominated in Comedy; the ceremony is November 23 in New York. His 'I Say We Run' tour plays Radio City Music Hall on January 30, 2027, with tickets on sale Monday at 10 a.m. ET.
Read more →The Andreessen Horowitz-backed school in San Francisco offers a one-year program in AI and entrepreneurship with no degree, and guest sessions from Sam Altman, Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang. The first 50 students start in 2027.
Read more →The back-to-back champions walked in a Puma collection by designer Dhruv Kapoor, part of his Spring/Summer 2027 show. A wider line is due before the 2027 IPL season.
Read more →The trillion-parameter model, released under an MIT license, scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest for any open-weight model, at a fraction of closed-model prices.
Read more →She wore a black Anamika Khanna gown; Simone Ashley walked in the 'Made in Italy' segment.
Read more →Aditya Sengupta, 18, of Bellevue won the $100,000 Laureate award for improving clear-air turbulence prediction; five others won $25,000 to $50,000 for work on crop disease, nuclear energy, malaria and drug discovery.
Read more →The phrase that launched her Hindi film career in Devdas becomes a new, personal single, out September 25.
Read more →Tesla opened its Semi plant in Nevada on Thursday with a 2,500-truck order from shippers including Microsoft and PepsiCo. Next up: a "Go for launch" teaser dated 10.01 for the second-generation Roadster, first shown in 2017. The teaser hints at SpaceX cold-gas thrusters. The stock is down about 16% this year. $TSLA
Read more →After Vogue World Milan, Vogue grouped six names: Manish Malhotra, who debuted on the Paris Haute Couture calendar this year; Rashmika Mandanna; Simone Ashley; Natasha Poonawalla; Dhruv Kapoor, who designed RCB's Milan collection; and Jaya Raheja.
Read more →Microsoft rolled Copilot into one app with three modes: Home, Code, which builds apps and dashboards from a prompt, and Autopilot, a cloud agent that keeps working while you sleep. Code and Autopilot bill by usage. It follows OpenAI folding Codex into ChatGPT and Anthropic merging Cowork into Claude. $MSFT
Read more →On Saturday, September 26, the YouTuber, with about 518 million subscribers, joins the cast, director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Namit Malhotra at DNEG Mumbai. The film is courting viewers who know MrBeast better than Bollywood. A MrBeast video has not been confirmed.
Read more →On Sept. 29: free coffee at Tim Hortons (app, no purchase needed), and with any purchase at Dunkin' (app), Einstein Bros. and Paris Baguette. Keurig K-Cups drop to $12 a box Sept. 29-30. On Sept. 30, Fresh Roasted Coffee takes 25% off Indian Monsoon Malabar with code COFFEEDAY.
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