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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


    The UN General Assembly backed a resolution promoting the Equal Earth map projection, with 164 countries voting in favour. The map gives a more accurate representation of the relative sizes of continents ... read more


    Your LG smart TV may be doing far more than displaying your favorite shows while it sits "off" in the corner of your living room. read more


    Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of drugs charges. read more


    A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy of citizenship records on states' voter rolls. read more


    As it heads into its 29th season this month, South Park announced a change of its name -- to South America. read more


    Tuesday, September 08, 2026

    Oxfam recently released its Best States to Work Index for 2026, a report that analyzed 37 labor policies among all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. read more


    President Donald Trump on Tuesday made another dubious claim about his involvement in the recovery effort following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, leading critics to call him "delusional" and a "despicable liar." read more


     

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