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September 25, 2026

85 stories published this day.

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Turning Point USA knew of security concerns yet insisted Charlie Kirk speak outdoors, report says

The Guardian

According to report, school staff recommended event move to a more secure location weeks before Kirk was fatally shotA new report says that Turning Point USA insisted the conservative political group’s leader Charlie Kirk speak outdoors at Utah Valley University – where he was ultimately assassinated – despite security concerns raised with his team by the school’s leaders and its police chief.The independent report with those findings was commissioned by UVU and released on Friday. The report examined security procedures leading up to the 31-year-old’s fatal shooting on 10 September 2025 during a talk at the university’s campus in Orem, Utah.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens

The Guardian

State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizensThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.In July, Donald Trump gave a speech saying DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters to each of those states weakened the claim, saying there only could be as many as 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls, including up to 15,903 in Nevada. Continue reading...

New Jersey lieutenant governor resigns after sexual harassment accusation

The Guardian

Investigation determined Dale Caldwell violated state ethics rules and engaged in harassing behaviorDale Caldwell, the lieutenant governor of New Jersey, resigned from his position on Friday, after the release of a report accusing him of sexually harassing a female staffer, among other ethics violations.New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, announced on Friday afternoon that Caldwell had submitted his resignation to her earlier in the day. Continue reading...

Idaho cold case may be tied to unsolved 1982 Tylenol murders, authorities say

The Guardian

Officials say man found dead in a church decades ago may be linked to poisonings in Chicago area in 1982A man found dead in an Idaho church decades ago may be connected to unsolved poisonings in 1982 in the Chicago area that were dubbed the “Tylenol murders” and ushered in child safety caps for medicines, authorities announced recently.Detective Tim Cooper of the Ada county sheriff’s Office reopened a cold case investigation in 2019 that led authorities to identify Dr Mathew Francis Betkouski posthumously. Betkouski fatally poisoned himself with cyanide more than 40 years ago and was buried anonymously. Continue reading...

In latest blow to Obamacare, Trump is threatening the entire US health system

The Guardian

The Trump administration is removing 760,000 people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act marketplaceReader Q&A: who’s spending big on the US midterms? Our reporters answered your questionsThe Trump administration is removing 760,000 people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace on allegations of fraud, officials said on Tuesday – adding to previous efforts to chip away at federally subsidized insurance programs and likely causing some of the lowest-income Americans to forego healthcare, experts said.The US government is also investigating about 420,000 people whom they suspect of fraud, and they are putting a six-month enrollment moratorium on new agents and brokers selling Obamacare policies, officials said at a press conference. Continue reading...

Trump's plans for massive arch move ahead

BBC World

Opposition to building the 250-foot arch, and using it for military purposes, is growing with one Democrat blasting Trump's plans as "foolhardy".

Protests erupt as Netanyahu gives inflammatory UN speech - The Latest

The Guardian

More than 100 people were arrested at large protests against the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN general assembly. Susan Sarandon, Chelsea Manning and Caleb Hearon were among the famous faces arrested. Inside the assembly hall, Netanyahu faced a mass walkout as he took to the stage. Then, in an inflammatory address, he claimed Israel’s war in Gaza was the ‘opposite of a genocide’ and labelled the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, antisemitic. Lucy Hough speaks to UK global editor Devika Bhat – watch on YouTube – Listen to Thursday’s episode of Stateside with Kai and Carter on whether Netanyahu has lost America here Continue reading...

Overcrowding and racism at Manston asylum centre linked to government decisions, inquiry hears

The Guardian

Kent facility became dangerously overburdened after ministers halted transfers to hotelsA catalogue of failures including racism, use of force and chronic overcrowding at a Home Office processing site for people who arrive on small boat were linked to decisions made at the highest level of government, an independent inquiry has heard.The government commissioned the Manston independent inquiry to look at problems under the Conservative government between 1 June and 22 November 2022 at the facility in Kent. Continue reading...

Burnham pledges extra £210m towards regenerating boarded-up high streets

The Guardian

Funds to help local people turn empty shops, pubs and clubs into community hubs, shared workspaces and cafesThe UK government has pledged £210m to regenerate high streets by taking boarded-up shops, pubs and clubs and turning them into shared workspaces, cafes and community hubs.Andy Burnham said the funds would “help put power back into the hands of locals who know their area best” as part of his effort to “restore pride and bring hope back”. Continue reading...

Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean

The Guardian

Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support lifeFrom the moment scientists spotted plumes of water erupting from Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, it became the most tantalising place in the solar system to search for life beyond Earth.Now the case is even more compelling after researchers found that organisms that live in deep-sea waters off Japan can survive the harsh conditions expected in the briny ocean that lurks beneath Enceladus’s icy crust. Continue reading...

No general election before 2029, Andy Burnham says

The Guardian

Prime minister quashes speculation that Labour’s revival in the polls could prompt early contestAndy Burnham has said he will not call a general election before 2029, after days of speculation that Labour’s revival in the polls could tempt him to call an early contest.The prime minister was repeatedly questioned on the prospect during a round of broadcast interviews to regional media on Friday. Continue reading...

Is Switzerland's neutrality at a crossroads?

NPR World

Switzerland is voting on whether to tighten its famous neutrality — a move that could reshape its response to Russia and future conflicts.

In tech

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

TechCrunch

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.

Roku’s first OLED TVs are up to $400 off, starting at $699

The Verge

Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even lower right now at Amazon when you enter the […]

Phones don’t have lights

The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do […]

These camera apps give you more control over the iPhone 18 Pro’s aperture

The Verge

One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is adjusting the iris itself in […]

Tesla’s Optimus robot is going through growing pains

The Verge

Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year. However, this strategy is reportedly creating manufacturing snags, like issues […]

Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible

The Verge

Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal […]

Leaks reveal a new Apple HomePod mini, iPad mini, and Apple TV 4K

The Verge

Apple is expected to announce more hardware before the end of the year following the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone Duo earlier this month. The updated products will include a new version of the HomePod mini, the iPad mini 8, and the Apple TV 4K, according to details and images discovered […]

Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?

TechCrunch

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and […]

Sony and UMG are suing Suno again

The Verge

Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign […]

One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks

The Verge

In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few […]

Cricut’s new compact crafter prints, cuts, and laminates stickers

The Verge

Cricut announced its first crafting machines with printing capabilities that are primarily designed as all-in-one solutions for turning photos and other images into precut stickers. The Cricut StickerPix Print plus Cut and Cricut StickerPix Print are also two of the smallest machines in the company's current lineup and seem ideal for those whose crafting aspirations […]

Gaming’s biggest horror series are more vital than ever

The Verge

For the third year in a row, I've been scared out of my wits by a new Silent Hill game. First it was the modern remake of Silent Hill 2, then the Japan-set spinoff Silent Hill F. Now I find myself slowly crawling through a quaint Scottish town in Silent Hill: Townfall, trying my best […]

How to Record Your Screen on Any Phone

Wired

The built-in tools on your phone—as well as some inexpensive apps—let you share whatever you’re doing with others.

Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

Wired

A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.