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"Ukraine is increasingly finding itself on the backfoot in many spots along the eastern front line. It’s a major change in fortune compared to the spring, when Kyiv was liberating more land than it was losing." www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/e...

AI researcher Jacob Coxon is using his departure from Anthropic to publicly warn that frontier AI companies are “gambling with our lives” with systems that they “earnestly believe… could kill us all by the end of the decade.” arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/a...

"The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A [Hong Kong-esque] deal with [Red] China is starting to look inevitable." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The good news keeps coming. 😀 ‘Nigel Farage's Reform in crisis as Met Police launch criminal probe into donations’ A police investigation has been launched into allegations that Reform UK breached foreign donation rules. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Iceland’s prime minister called the map, which showed a US flag covering Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Iceland and other nations, 'an insult to Icelanders, Canadians and Greenlanders'. www.ft.com/content/792e...

🚨 Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities.”

Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements

Univision News/YouGov survey of Texas (online, MoE ±3.6%): Senate Talarico 48% Paxton 43% Governor Abbott 47% Hinojosa 47% Fav/unfav Trump 42/52 Hinojosa 42/29 Abbott 44/47 Talarico 44/35 Paxton 36/49 "Roughly one-third of Latino Trump voters express some level of doubt, uncertainty, or regret."

Carney’s admiration for for Sir John A. MacDonald echos Harper: In 2012 Stephen Harper renamed the Ottawa River Parkway to honor Canada's first prime minister John A MacDonald. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The European Central Bank just raised interest rates by 2.50%. This sharp hike makes borrowing costlier and signals an almost certain economic slowdown, favoring banks while tightening the financial squeeze on everyday consumers. 📉💸 #ECB #Economy

Frontline: Putin loses major position in Ukraine’s biggest operation since Kursk | Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Laura Martinez-Williams is joined by Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon 17K Views, 1.3K Likes, 1 Hour Ago (September 9 2026)

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia struck a train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region with a jet-powered drone. Six people are reportedly injured, according to Fedchenko, head of the Izium City Military Administration.

Sindh Assembly invoked Art. 239(4) and rejected every scheme to divide the province or detach a district. That article is the lock. “The people will decide” is not a procedure. A referendum cannot replace a two-thirds provincial vote. By Mohammad Ehsan Leghari www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Sep-2026/...

Hundreds mourn police officer killed in wrong-way A66 crash

Thanks very much to the Sidney Hillman Foundation for the honor of the September Sidney Award. @bymichellersmith.com and I reported on new documents that refute RFK Jr's Senate testimony that a trip he took to Samoa in 2019 had "nothing to do with vaccines." AP's story: apnews.com/article/rfk-...

MPs will investigate how political parties in Scotland are funded following a major scandal that saw Nicola Sturgeon's estranged husband jailed.

As Russia-Ukraine war escalates in the air, what comes next? In this interview, The Kyiv Independent's Francis Farrell speaks with Mykola Bielieskov, senior analyst at Come Back Alive and research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, about why Russian advanc...

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” An AI researcher publicly resigned from Anthropic over concerns that the technology’s “out of control” progression could pose an existential threat to humanity. washingtonsun.com/technology/a...

‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI

"Scientists would find a “target” — usually a specific protein in the body that was causing a disease." — from "Personalized Medicine: How AI-Driven Drug Discovery Cut Time to Market in Half"

This summer, Moscow destroyed more than half of Ukraine's annual book production—approximately 13 million volumes, including over 1 million textbooks. For Ukrainians, the goal is clear: to erase their culture, language, and identity. 📽️ Report for @france24.com 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...

An AI researcher at Anthropic quit his position on Tuesday warning that major AI companies care too much about winning the tech race and not enough about guarding against out-of-control “superhuman systems” that workers inside the industry fear “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

An election-denial group is recruiting and training thousands of poll watchers and poll workers for the midterms. Watching elections is legitimate. Undermining trust in them and then embedding yourself in the process deserves scrutiny. Pay attention. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaig...

Met police launch inquiry into alleged overseas donations to Reform UK