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Thursday, September 10, 2026

If there is a single sandwich associated with childhood and school lunches in the U.S.A, it has to be the PB&J.


Republicans opened their highly unusual midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon ... read more


A lead researcher at Anthropic, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence firms, said Wednesday that he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade. read more


President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration. read more


Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is facing pushback from the challengers to his reelection bid over his immigration stance as a new Flatwater Free Press investigation states his family ag operation has long hired undocumented laborers. read more


The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. read more


Alarming new data shows U.S. students continue to fall behind their peers in reading as the country's achievement gap widens, according to results from the latest globally recognized international exam. read more


Wednesday, September 09, 2026

President Donald Trump will be at the center of this week's GOP midterm convention. Many of his fellow Republicans are hoping he doesn't make it all about him. read more


A heavily armed man attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at a fair in Ohio's MAGA heartland on Sunday afternoon. read more


Bombshell' Report Says UAE Explicitly Warned Netanyahu of October 7 Attack. Haaretz also reported that Hamas immediately offered to release all the Israeli hostages it had taken in the attack, demanding nothing in return, but Israel refused the deal. read more


President Donald Trump's newly proposed Space Force uniform has sparked comparisons to Nazi military attire as the science fiction movie Starship Troopers inspired the design. read more


The auto industry has a new solution to Americans' fear that electric vehicles will run out of juice: a gasoline engine. read more


... but its chilling logs live on. You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets. ... read more


Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans' financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific crime, but which the government thinks may be worth searching, 404 Media has found. read more


  • Star Trek was first broadcast in Canada on 6 Sep 1966 on CTV network, two days ahead of the US premier.
  • Dr Martin Luther King Jr personally requested Nichelle Williams (Lt Nyota Uhura) to remain on Star Trek as he thought it was important for all Americans to see a Woman of Color in a role of responsibility as part of the civil rights movement.
  • Americans witnessed the first kiss on TV between a white and black person: "Plato's Stepchildren."
  • In the US, aircraft registration numbers beginning with "NC" were historically used, just like the NCC-1707.
  • The future that creator Gene Roddenberry envisioned a multi-racial "UN" as the crew; however, there were no visible Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Indians, or LGBTQ aboard the USS Enterprise.
  • Genetically-enginereed villain Khan Noonian Singh -- played by the handsome Ricardo Montalban -- as a Sikh would have adorned a turban for his long uncut hair, a kada on his right wrist, and a beard. read more


    Romanian prosecutors have officially indicted social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate with a range of trafficking and sex offences. read more


     

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