Sep 29 British police find no explosives in vans linked to 5 men detained near U.S.-run military base The UK's Counter Terrorism Policing said petrol was recovered from three vans near RAF Fairford. Continue reading
Sep 29 Iran's currency hits a new record low as war erodes the country's economic stability By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press The Iranian economy has been under duress for years in the face of international sanctions. A U.S. naval blockade on Iranian oil and new sanctions imposed since the start of the war have sent it into freefall. Continue reading
Sep 29 U.S. ban on $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, from motorcycles to booze, goes into effect By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of President Donald Trump’s second-term trade war with America’s longtime ally and trading partner. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch 6:18 What Trump's rollback of fuel economy standards means for drivers By Amna Nawaz, Courtney Norris, Karina Cuevas The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel economy standards for new vehicles. The move reverses policies meant to increase fuel efficiency to encourage greater use of electric vehicles. The boost for gasoline-powered vehicles comes as the war in Iran… Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch 2:52 Powerful nor'easter batters parts of East Coast By Jeffrey Brown, Kayan Taraporevala Cleanup efforts are underway after a powerful nor’easter battered parts of the East Coast, bringing dangerous waves, flooding and damaging winds from New England to New Jersey. The storm also knocked out power for many. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Sep 28 Watch 5:19 News Wrap: UK police investigating possible plot targeting U.S. base In our news wrap Monday, UK police are investigating five British nationals in connection with a possible plot at an American airbase, prosecutors in New York say they are reopening a criminal investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a… Continue watching
Sep 28 Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled By Garance Burke, Associated Press Experts, analysts and former government evaluators tell The Associated Press that Anthropic and OpenAI appear with their rhetoric to be seeking public favor and to set the terms for their own safety protocols in the unregulated market. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch 7:28 WFP official on addressing global hunger in face of wars and climate disasters By Nick Schifrin The United Nations recently announced a new executive director for the World Food Programme. Luke Lindberg was a Trump administration Agriculture Department official and inherits one of the UN's toughest jobs. Hundreds of millions around the world go hungry every… Continue watching
Sep 28 At UN, Denmark says Greenland pact benefits all parties involved By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press The security agreement signed by the U.S., Denmark and Greenland last week “strengthens the defense of Greenland, the NATO area, and the American continent."… Continue reading
Sep 28 Nvidia announced a software tool to stop rogue AI. How would it work? By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press The chipmaker unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform amid an intensifying debate about AI safety, fueled a string of alarming recent incidents involving AI systems acting on their own to break into other organizations. Continue reading