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The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four monthsRecently, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, quit his job over concerns that AI was on a collision course with humanity. A flurry of headlines put the spotlight on the current crisis: unregulated competition between technology companies and between the US and China is putting our global infrastructure at risk at the very least, and threatening human existence at worst.One's mind fills with pictures of robot armies or systematic blackmail. Continue reading...

Chicago were held to three points as Caleb Williams was carted off, while New Orleans fought back to upset BaltimoreBengals 0-0 Texans 13:20, 1st quarterIt is ruled as not a catch so the Bengals punt it away. Cincy bring up a quick 3rd down on the Texans. CJ Stroud backpedals finds his receiver but the ball is juggled and the Texans have a punt of their own.Will Reichard 35 yard field goal Continue reading...

PM hopes to be firmer with US leader than his predecessor without provoking diplomatic warfare, as the Iran war weighs on the UK economyNo international relationship has more power to determine the success of Andy Burnham's premiership. So you might imagine the stakes for the prime minister's first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday would be high.Yet Burnham may prove to be a lucky general. The balance of risk has shifted. Trump is unpopular at home, where inflation remains high, and is mired in an intractable conflict in Iran that has the potential to sink his midterm dreams. Continue reading...

Florida's Maria Elvira Salazar warns Trump that advisers are compromising his legacy' and not showing whole picture'Maria Elvira Salazar, the Republican congresswoman who has accused the president of going too far on immigration enforcement, doubled down on her criticism of the administration on Sunday, warning Donald Trump that some of his advisers were compromising his legacy".In an interview with CBS News's Face the Nation, the Florida representative who is locked in a tight race for re-election pleaded with the US president not to squander" his relationship with Hispanic voters. Though she couched her remarks as criticism of top administration advisers, it was clear that her focus was on Trump's much-vaunted ambition to carry out the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history. Continue reading...

David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI - putting the White House out of step with its own partyAs lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump. He's called the perceived dangers of the technology a hoax" and a scam", arguing that the government already has tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies".It's a starkly different stance from those of his former adviser Steve Bannon, the Republican Texas senator Ted Cruz and even the heads of the world's leading AI companies. But it's directly in line with the opinion of David Sacks - a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and Trump's onetime AI and crypto czar, who has pushed back publicly and forcefully against recent claims of an impending AI apocalypse. Continue reading...

People are increasingly crossing paths with the wild animals as homes ring the outskirts of forests, sparking a new era of coexistenceEvery year, as summer draws to a close and fall begins, California's bears get hungry.Black bears have long roamed the state, hunting for acorns, ants and pine nuts by the bucketload to pack on calories before hibernation. But increasingly, for every berry and root, there's an even greater temptation: our trash and the detritus of human existence. Continue reading...

The senator proposed a federal overtime rule mandate, but incentives can better spur employers to reshape the workweekBernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, recently proposed new legislation that would change federal overtime rules. The new law, if passed, would require employers to pay a minimum 1.5 hours of overtime for each hour worked past 32 hours in a week. Currently, overtime kicks in at 40 hours per week. The requirement would phase in over a few years.Sounds great. Who wouldn't want that? There's just one problem: somebody has to pay for it. For business owners, this isn't an ideological argument. It's math. Continue reading...

As the organisation meets this week, it remains the best hope for restoring order. But it relies on goodwill from the US president - and that is lackingIf all goes to plan, at some stage in the coming weeks 15 diplomats will emerge from a small sound-proofed room deep in the bowels of the United Nations headquarters in New York and announce the organisation's next secretary-general.The person they choose will face a combination of challenges unlike any that their predecessors have had to deal with. Two of the security council's permanent members, the US and Russia, are engaged in wars of choice that have no end in sight. A UN commission of inquiry has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, but the UN has effectively been reduced to the role of bystander, pushed out by Donald Trump's Board of Peace. The climate crisis is creating a cascade of new humanitarian disasters, while every day now seems to bring a new security threat caused by the unregulated rise of AI.Steve Bloomfield is the former international editor of the Observer and a previous winner of the Orwell prize Continue reading...

US president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the strong request' of the US militaryDonald Trump is proffering a new argument for building his triumphal arch in Washington DC: it will be converted into a top grade military complex" replete with drone and ammunition storage space and customised sniper facilities on the roof and plaza.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday morning, Trump claimed that his new plan came at the strong request" of the US military. He said the 250ft structure would be able to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage". Continue reading...

Rabid goats at a North Carolina petting zoo and a diseased beaver attacking a Maryland boy have set the public on edgeRecent unusual incidents involving humans and rabid animals and a subsequent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory have prompted concerns about rabies, but it's not clear if there has actually been an increase in cases of the deadly disease in the United States, experts say.In recent months, rabid beavers have attacked three people in Maryland, and hundreds of people were exposed to goats with rabies at a petting zoo in North Carolina, according to news reports. The CDC issued a health advisory on 10 September in response to recent reports of increases in human exposures to rabid or possibly rabid animals". Continue reading...

Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal ruleThe EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba, newly released internal agency documents show.The documents provide an unusually clear look into the process of developing pesticide regulations, which is typically done out of public view. It shows in detail how the EPA asked Bayer which regulations it wanted, received a response from Bayer, then put Bayer's choices into a proposed federal rule. Continue reading...

Trump says he digs coal - but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delaysFor 38 years, Josh Armes worked as a coal miner in West Virginia and Virginia.After retirement, Armes, 74, of Grundy, Virginia, was diagnosed with black lung disease, medically known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), caused by breathing in coal dust over long periods, which irreversibly damages the lungs. Continue reading...

The US's deployment of weaponry in space marks the latest backward step from the show's optimistic conception of the futureWho among us doesn't dream of space in their youth?OK, maybe some of us. Like the ones with lives. While you were out playing hopscotch with little Jimmy and Susie, I was locked in my room mainlining episodes of Star Trek or the weird, sanitized version of Aliens that aired on broadcast TV. Fantastical science-fiction adventure seemed to offer more than playground games and actual human connection. Spaceships over relationships.Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist Continue reading...

The maverick senator has isolated himself from supporters as he has become a strident supporter of IsraelTwo eras, two videos, shot against the same physical backdrop, convey political messages that seem a world removed from each other.The contrasting films, produced eight years apart, neatly distill the evolution of John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's maverick senator in his journey from progressive icon to a man seemingly more at ease with his nominal Republican opponents than his fellow Democrats. Continue reading...

Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worryWarnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omens of apocalypse, it is still worth asking if the entire AI-industrial complex is sailing towards a financial iceberg.It will hardly be our most pressing concern if the bots are poised to take over the world, but a collapse of the AI bubble would have repercussions far beyond the US. Continue reading...

Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the well-fed versus the fed-up'Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit, had enough. Frustrated by the way the US media covers this febrile political era, from Donald Trump's Washington to political campaigns across the country, he contacted the Guardian.Your decision to frame the race here as a simple progressive versus establishment choice is overly simplistic verging on lazy," he wrote to this reporter, after our coverage of progressive Abdul El-Sayed's campaign in the Democratic US Senate primary in Michigan. As an electorate, we are not binary for the convenience of the media." Continue reading...

Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarmAt the height of the summer, the mood was optimistic in the world's financial capitals. Powered by the AI revolution, the US stock market had rallied to a fresh all-time high, as investors bet the multitrillion-dollar investment spree would overshadow the hit from the Iran war.Now the warning lights are flashing red. As the fighting in the Middle East intensifies without clear sign of a resolution, financial markets have been thrown into renewed turmoil. A slowdown looms in the AI arms race, and tinderbox conditions in the market for government debt are fuelling alarm. Continue reading...

Bills signed by California governor safeguard vote by mail and make seizing ballots or election records a felonyCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a package of bills aimed at bolstering election security, including measures to thwart federal political interference, his office announced on Sunday.The pieces of legislation appear to address hot button national and state electoral issues, including an extension to the hours for mail-in voting drop off locations. Continue reading...

Ruling latest step in legal fight over medically fragile child born after surrogate rejected couple's request for abortionThe Texas supreme court has decided that the month-old infant that surrogate McKenna West gave birth to can be relocated to Los Angeles, a Thursday ruling that came weeks after a California court had recognized the biological parents' custody rights.Sustaining the life of the medically fragile child is the paramount concern in this time-sensitive matter," the court wrote in a Thursday order, referring to the baby's rare severe heart defect. West had attempted to block the biological parents from removing the child from Texas and taking him to a hospital in Los Angeles where the couple live. Continue reading...

The Arizona State Sun Devils cantered to victory in the first ever Union Jack Classic in front of a noisy crowd - despite thousands of empty seatsYou sensed that Britain's first US college football game in nearly 40 years was going to be a very different experience when Wembley Way began to reverberate to the sound of steel, muscle and a few whoops long before kick-off.The noise came from the Arizona State Sun Devils' marching band, who were so energetic their horns and trombones swished from left to right like air raid lights hunting a target as they played. Continue reading...

Health authorities work to notify people who were exposed to person who traveled through at least six countiesCalifornia public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure spanning multiple counties after an infected and unvaccinated passenger traveled through the state via Amtrak trains and thruway buses.The warning comes as the US faces its largest measles resurgence in more than three decades, fueled largely by growing vaccine hesitancy. Continue reading...

Patrick Clancy and wife Rachel Danis to speak publicly on 60 Minutes on Sunday about Massachusetts murder trialPatrick Clancy and his wife Rachel Danis are set to describe their experiences of the Massachusetts triple-murder trial of his former wife Lindsay Clancy, with Clancy telling 60 Minutes: I live with it every day, but I think I did the best I could."The couple will on Sunday night make their first public comments on the case. CBS has been trailing excerpts of the broadcast. Continue reading...

Bert Atienza and teen worker reportedly exchanged words before parents showed up and allegedly attacked shopperA 77-year-old Walmart shopper died after he was allegedly attacked inside a Virginia store by the parents of a teenage employee he had confronted over a shopping cart incident involving his wife, according to US media reports.Bert Atienza died from blunt head trauma on 8 June, one day after the attack at the Walmart in Norfolk, Virginia, WTKR reported on Monday. The shocking incident was captured on surveillance video. Continue reading...

President said he was banning journalists from those organizations, saying of their coverage: You get sick of it.'Journalists from three US outlets were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning a day after Donald Trump said he would ban them from the executive branch complex in a move that has prompted outrage and shock from free-speech advocates.The outlets were television broadcasters MS Now and CNN as well as the political news website Politico. Continue reading...

An on-air helicopter crash killed journalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw, shaking LA's news traditionThe whir of news helicopters flying overhead has long been a familiar soundtrack to life in Los Angeles - and the footage they gather of high-speed chases, wildfires and celebrity sightings a fixture of local television.For nearly 70 years, Angelenos have gotten their news from the eye in the sky" - from scenes of OJ Simpson's fleeing white Bronco, the 1992 LA riots and even Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn. Continue reading...

The president has threatened to block renovations and suggested the landmark could be demolished after courts ruled against his bid to rename itIt was born with the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. Young people will come here and they will see this cultural centre," Rose Kennedy, the mother of slain US president John F Kennedy, said at that opening night gala. They will carry some of these ideas back to their different communities."More than half a century later, the potential death knell came just after 4.30pm on Tuesday with a perfunctory announcement on the public address system: The centre is now closed to the public. Please exit the centre by way of the Hall of States." Soon barricades had been erected and security guards were blocking access. Continue reading...

The report highlights deep divides between low- and middle- income, a disparity that dates back decadesA new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reaffirms that adults are more likely to eat fresh fruits and vegetables as their income increases.The data brief comes as Republican cuts to food assistance programs, colloquially called food stamps", have led enrollment to plummet". Changes to US dietary guidelines, led by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, have also made a government-recommended diet more expensive. A new food pyramid" released in January emphasized animal protein, fresh fruit and vegetables, all of which cost more, according to studies. Continue reading...

Parents of Eleanor, 3, both died within a year. Her dad's killer was just convicted. Now a man faces trial in her mother's car crash deathBrian Hinck followed from a distance the suburban New Orleans trial resulting in the convictions on Thursday of three people charged in the drugging death of his son-in-law, Telemundo sports reporter Adan Manzano.That was because he and his family had simultaneously been girding themselves for another trial scheduled to start four days later: that of the motorist charged in the car crash that killed his daughter, Ashleigh Boyd, in Topeka, Kansas. Continue reading...

Polls show voters who helped elect president unhappy - and may be willing to vote Democrat in midtermsHispanic voters who helped re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 are discontent with his second-term economic and immigration policies, according to recent polling - indicating they may not be willing to support the president's party in the midterm elections.Despite a record number of Hispanic voters casting their ballots for the Republican president, more than 65% said they are displeased with Trump's handling of his job and 78% said they would prefer to see the Democratic party in control of Congress, according to a September poll from the New York Times/Siena University. Continue reading...

Officials lack data on miscarriages after October 2025. Detained women aren't getting the prenatal healthcare they needMaga men have babies on the brain. They may not all be interested in changing diapers or hands-on parenting, but they're very keen on population growth. [W]e want more babies, to put it very nicely," Donald Trump said last year.Trump, who has called himself the father of IVF" and joked that he will be known as the fertilization president", surrounds himself with people who profess a similar fondness for children. Only a few days after being sworn in as vice-president, JD Vance declared he wanted more babies in the United States of America" and went on to make pronatalist policies a theme of his time in office.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class votersThe US labor movement is having a banner election year.More than three dozen nominees for open House and Senate races across the US have backgrounds as labor union representatives or members. Continue reading...

With growing support networks online and in person, these moms say they're changing the narrative around Black single motherhoodWhen Chamise Alston was ready to have a child, she connected her computer to her TV and scrolled through profiles with her best friend, dismissing people who seemed like the wrong fit. Unlike the average millennial on a dating app, Alston was scanning a sperm bank catalogue for potential donors. The Maryland-based therapist hoped to conceive a child through the assisted reproductive technology in vitro-fertilization (IVF).That winter day in 2023, Alston and her friend chose a donor who would help her become pregnant with her now 16-month-old daughter. As a Black woman, she felt empowered taking control of her reproductive destiny. Continue reading...

Demonstrators gathered outside the building in Washington, after the president was spotted holding a placard that read: Kennedy Center DEMOLIS ...'On Friday evening thousands of protesters gathered outside the Kennedy Center in view of the marble facade that remained concealed by scaffolding and tarpaulins, to protest Donald Trump's plans for the facility and express alarm that he might make good on his threat to tear down the institution.Crowding streets in the Foggy Bottom area of Washington and locking down traffic as they walked, many carried signs, as they joined in the Hands Around the Kennedy Center" protest. Some wore costumes and booed when the president was mentioned during the program. Continue reading...

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The FBI says Daejon Love and his alleged accomplice, Taylor Chan, defrauded women they met on dating apps out of $1.3mAt least 35 additional women have come forward with fraud allegations against Daejon Love, the man accused last month of masquerading as a San Francisco 49ers player and wealthy investor, the FBI announced on Friday. Federal authorities had previously said Love conned more than two dozen women, many of whom he met on dating apps, out of $1.3m.Love, 35, and alleged accomplice Taylor Chan, 18, who posed as his financial adviser, were arrested in August and have been charged with wire fraud. Continue reading...

The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determinationDonald Trump announced on Friday that the US had struck an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, after threatening for much of his second term to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory by force.The full scope of the deal Trump described as very important, historic, and special" was not immediately clear. But soon after his announcement in a post on Truth Social, the leaders of Denmark and Greenland issued statements indicating the deal would be signed by the three governments on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York City next week. Continue reading...

Angela Lipps, 50, alleges in suit that Fargo police wrongly relied on AI facial recognition to arrest and charge herA Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her.Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor's four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of five was booked into a county jail and remained there for almost four months without bail while awaiting extradition to North Dakota, where she was held for about two more months. Continue reading...

Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violenceTwo men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were bound, fitted with bags over their heads, beaten and pushed down a flight of stairs, all in plain view of other US deportees, according to witnesses and human rights lawyers.The men - one from Egypt and one from Eritrea - were then taken to a prison. About 30 detainees from the US remain trapped at a hotel in the outskirts of the coastal city of Malabo after being deported from the US. Detainees have said they believe the men were beaten for telling the press and human rights advocates about the poor conditions and violence inside the hotel, and that they are haunted by flashbacks and terrified they will be retaliated against next. Continue reading...

President has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major news media since start of second term

State's department of transportation said freeze does not affect nearly 900 cameras already installed along state rights-of-wayAt Republican governor Greg Abbott's direction, the Texas department of transportation (TxDOT) has stopped issuing permits allowing Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers to be installed along state roads.The pause, confirmed Thursday by an agency spokesperson, does not affect cameras already installed along state rights-of-way, including more than 900 cameras operated by the Texas department of public safety. Continue reading...

Suspect charged with attempted murder as driver, identified by surname Singh, reportedly stabbed 17 timesA Sikh truck driver survived harrowing attack in which he was beaten then stabbed 17 times in a rest stop off a Wyoming highway on Sunday, according to news reports.The suspected assailant, Andrew Kris Bzdak, reportedly fled the scene, before Wyoming highway patrol troopers arrested him, the Sacramento Bee reported. Continue reading...

Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act signed into law two days after House passed it in bipartisan voteDonald Trump on Friday signed legislation enabling sweeping sanctions on Russia aimed at pressing it into ending its war with Ukraine, and also giving him the power to impose additional tariffs on countries breaking the embargo.The US president signed the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law two days after it passed the House of Representatives in a bipartisan 262-159 vote, amid concerns the legislation gives him too much power. Continue reading...

Madison Rebecca Colello, 29, surrenders after 20 other cats in severe distress rescued from business in town of WalkerA Louisiana woman faces dozens of animal cruelty charges after 17 cats were found dead at a local business amid dangerously hot conditions without food or water, with 20 other cats in severe distress being rescued.Madison Rebecca Colello, 29, surrendered on Thursday morning at the Livingston parish detention center in Walker, Louisiana. She faces 17 felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty - in connection with the dead cats - and 37 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. Continue reading...

Civil rights groups say plan will make people afraid to vote' and violates the Voting Rights Act