Day: September 7, 2026

Women accounted for 98% of the 162,000 jobs the US added in August, an unprecedented figure that could point to broader labor market shifts. The figure reflects growth in health and caregiving, but also in local government and education, which “roared back to life,” CNBC noted. Because women tend to ...

A dossier made public Saturday shed light on allegations that Sudan’s military developed and used chemical weapons in the country’s devastating civil war. Documents, videos, and text messages reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and provided by Middle Eastern security officials from an unnamed country, appear ...

A swarm of OpenAI agents hacked a German website this spring, Reuters reported, in the latest incident of advanced AI violating laws and norms. Already grappling with the fallout of the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI reportedly declined to disclose the May event, raising new questions about transparency and oversight of ...

Germany’s nationalist AfD won a landslide victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, potentially making it the first far-right party to gain power since the end of World War II. The record result came largely at the expense of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU, possibly marking a death knell ...

US envoys held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday after meeting Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow, though analysts cast doubt on a reinvigorated peace initiative that appeared to offer little movement. Putin told Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that ending the war is “not simple” and ...

Germany’s AfD has hailed a “historic result” and is projected to win 44% of the vote, far ahead of the conservatives on 17%. ...