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Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' data breach

[Anadolu via Getty Images] Current and former FBI agents have spoken to BBC News of their shock, fear and anger following a hack that appears to have exposed the private and personal information of th...

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OpenAI agents accessed U.S. government sites and leaked 53 ChatGPT user images

By Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter and Jeff Horwitz SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still...

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White House bans CNN from Air Force One for Trump trip to Tennessee

The White House has banned CNN reporters from flying with Donald Trump on Air Force One for his upcoming trip to Tennessee, the network says. Despite a judge’s order restoring CNN’s access to the Whit...

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Trump uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1 billion approved by Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immig...

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ICE wasted millions in rapid push to expand detention capacity, watchdog finds

In a single day in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent more money than it had on any other day in either of President Trump's terms, federal spending records show.The agency advanced bi...

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Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for 3rd time

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump, putting an end to a long-running legal dispute a...

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New Jersey's lieutenant governor steps down after allegations of improper behavior

Dale Caldwell outside his home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on 9 September.Photograph: Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock Dale Caldwell, the lieutenant governor of New Jersey, resigned from his position on Frid...

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New Mexico jury finds Facebook deceived users about privacy protections

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform. It is now up to the judge to determine how much the ...

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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use citizenship database ahead of midterms

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncit...

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Meta’s new AI agent wants to make managing money easier

Meta launched Muse, its new AI agent, earlier this month — and it's already claiming to help some consumers save money.At the 2026 Meta Connect conference, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang spoke ab...

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Trump-focused 'Love Me' ad paid for by taxpayers hits airwaves

A new ad campaign glorifying President Trump is on the air on national cable and national networks including CBS beginning Thursday, and it's being paid for by American taxpayers.The first ad, which h...

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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba, documents suggest

Washington — The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military's Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, accord...

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Trump and Xi toast 'peace' but Taiwan, trade and AI divides remain

Watch: The world’s two most powerful men just met. How did it go? US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping exchanged warm words at a lavish White House state dinner but gave little i...

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Allies back Saudis as Houthi attacks threaten key oil route

By Timour Azhari and Hatem Maher RIYADH/CAIRO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani military chiefs are to meet to discuss how to support Saudi Arabia under a joint defence pact, after Sau...

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Nor’easter could dump a month’s worth of rain from Providence to Boston

A computer model forecast of the storm's location and wind speeds on Saturday evening. - CNN Weather An early fall nor’easter is gathering strength along the central East Coast, pounding beaches in se...

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CNN and MS Now journalists denied access to White House dinner despite court ruling

Journalists for CNN and MS Now were denied access to the White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, China’s president, on Thursday evening, hours after a federal judge ruled the Trump administra...

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Appeals court orders Trump administration to release $239 million to help L.A. homelessness

Los Angeles City Hall serves as a backdrop for a homeless encampment in downtown Los Angeles in August. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)A federal appeals court has rebuffed a Trump administration e...

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Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg join a $2.2 trillion guest list for Trump-Xi dinner

ToplinePresident Donald Trump hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a state dinner Thursday night, where they’ll be joined by billionaire tech moguls collectively worth trillions of dollars amid a b...

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Israel's Netanyahu addresses U.N. as many leaders walk out

Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as his country faces broad condemnation and growing isolation over Israel's actions in th...

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Iran war powers measure falls short in Senate, despite new GOP support

Shahid Beheshti University in the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran, after a US military strike on 6 April.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort t...

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Trump and Xi strike a warm tone as trade, Iran and AI loom over White House talks

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping stand in the Cross Hall of the White House before delivering remarks (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Xi Jinping told Donald Trump on Thursday that Beijin...

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Netanyahu expected to criticize Mamdani in campaign-style U.N. speech

By Antoni Slodkowski and Maria Tsvetkova UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to use his UN address on Thursday to berate New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for calling him a ...

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White House restores access to media outlets banned by Trump after judge's order

CNN White House reporter Betsy Klein was reportedly denied access on Thursday [Reuters] CNN, Politico and MS NOW reporters have been allowed back into the White House after they sought an emergency co...

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U.S. and Iran discuss phased deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, sources say

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish Sept 24 (Reuters) - US and Iranian negotiators in New York are exploring a phased path out of war that would involve Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormu...

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Trump’s FDA pick says all U.S. vaccines are safe as GOP senator presses her

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the embattled US FDA, told senators on Thursday that all vaccines on the US market are safe...

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5th grade teacher and 10-year-old student die during Iowa field trip

A fifth teacher and her student died during a field trip to an Iowa nature reserve this week, investigators and school officials said.Hannah Jorgensen, 24, a fifth-grade teacher at Borlaug Elementary ...

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Media outlets petition for emergency hearing after being denied White House access

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday, ordering the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters who had been banned by President...

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CNN and Politico reportedly barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

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Hawaii braces for up to 35 inches of rain as Tropical Storm Nolo approaches

Hawaii's Big Island was under a hurricane watch late Wednesday night after Tropical Storm Nolo formed in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the day, the National Hurricane Center said.Nolo is expected to be...

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Judge orders White House to restore access to news outlets Trump banned

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge early Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s move to ban three news outlets from the White House grounds and said CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have thei...

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Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

By Renju Jose and Chris Thomas SYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what co...

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Republicans rally around Susan Collins amid pay-to-play allegations

WASHINGTON – Maine Sen. Susan Collins' Republican colleagues swiftly came to her defense the day after the news outlet ProPublica published an investigative story that laid out evidence of alleged inv...

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Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes approved for halfway house move in 2027

Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has been approved for placement in a community correction center, or halfway house, and is scheduled to be placed there next year, according to an...

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8 sailors assigned to U.S. carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy says

Aircraft on the deck of the US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it docks for a rest stop at Laem Chabang Port, Thailand, on September 3, following a long deployment in the Mid...

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AI leaders warn U.N. of risks to humanity from the technology they are building

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save t...

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Iran's president backs diplomacy but rules out surrender after Trump’s threat

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior Ir...

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FBI probes breach of its jobs website as hackers claim to have sensitive data

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating an apparent breach of its jobs website as a criminal hacking group claimed to have accessed "very sensitive data" on nearly all agents and job applicants."Th...

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Iran's president rules out surrender as indirect talks with U.S. resume in New York

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech at the UN on Wednesday that Tehran would never surrende...

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Hegseth impeachment fight could put Democrats in a bind after the midterms

The impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posed a dilemma for Republican leaders ahead of the midterms. In the lame duck, it could be Democrats in the bind. Hegseth is leading an u...

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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety concerns

In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated buil...

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NATO jets scrambled in Poland and Romania as Russia strikes Ukraine

NATO military aircraft were deployed in Polish and Romanian airspace overnight and on Wednesday morning, in response to the latest wave of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, officials in bo...

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Justice Department says Trump can deny journalists White House access

Three leading US news outlets went to court after being banned from the White House by President Donald Trump (Jim WATSON)CNN, MS NOW and Politico can be shut out from areas of the White House at Pres...

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Harvey Weinstein set to be sentenced for sexual assault after 6-year legal odyssey

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to prison, reporters, advocates and the curious public crammed the courtroom to witness the disgraced Hollywood honcho’s #MeToo reckoning....

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Missouri congressional map returns to Supreme Court for a 3rd time

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight over Missouri's congressional map returned to the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time late Tuesday, after an appeals court ordered the revival of new districts backed by Pr...

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Macron says situation in Strait of Hormuz 'was probably underestimated'

In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News' David Muir, French President Emmanuel Macron said the "main objective" of his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday was "to find the right ...

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Trump confronts CNN's Kaitlan Collins over his media ban: ‘You shouldn’t be covering me’

NEW YORK (AP) — On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, “You should not be here.” “It’s an ...

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Agency says it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans last month

By Bo Erickson and Christy Santhosh WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is halting enrollment in Obamacare health plans for more than 760,000 enrollees it believes were fraudulent...

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Trump floats banning U.S. diesel exports as prices hit a record $6.52

President Trump said Tuesday that he would support banning exports of diesel fuel."I've said let's not send out the diesel," the president said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "We make a ...

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