Month: September 2026

Rates were hiked in a unanimous decision despite fierce opposition from President Donald Trump, who had called for a cut. ...

Pro-Israel Gregory Meeks raises concerns over threat to civilian lives from package of 40,000 one-ton bombs ‘An antidote to Trumpism’: Our politics team answered your questions on Democrats’ midterms hopes The top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee has thrown up a roadblock to one of the largest US ...

A wrecked air force plane and destroyed buildings are among the images obtained by the BBC’s partner CBS News. ...

Police divers discover child’s body in a pond after Noah went missing from a playground on Tuesday. ...

David’s view If you don’t appreciate how quickly Democrats are entering attack mode against AI, just count the groups they’ve started since our last edition alone. There’s Tomorrow Together, the new PAC formed by veterans of the Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris campaigns, working to make theirs “the party that ...

Kenya will host the World Athletics Championships in 2029, in a first for the African continent. Nairobi beat London and Rome for the honor, after what the World Athletics president called a “compelling and emotional bid.” Kenya is the second-most successful nation in the history of the World Championships, and ...

South Africa’s treasury plans a three-year intervention to stabilize Johannesburg’s public finances, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said Monday. Implementation of the plan will continue through local elections, regardless of whether there is a new municipal administration, according to Godongwana. The move follows the treasury’s decision this year to withhold budget ...

The Trump administration imposed new visa restrictions on South African officials that the US accuses of “government-sponsored discrimination” against Afrikaners. The measures target individuals deemed complicit in race-based discrimination and uncompensated land seizures, and may extend to their immediate family members. Washington’s ambassador to South Africa described it as the ...

The News AI makes hacking easier and faster, but human villains are still a large part of the process. Over the summer, a hacker was able to deploy frontier AI models to breach a European IT and software company in less than 10 hours — something that would ordinarily take ...

The extraordinary success of the rebels, and Saudi counterstrikes, threaten economic havoc. But the country’s civilians are paying the highest price Even in a region beset by turmoil and learning to expect the unexpected, the lightning advance of Yemen’s Houthis along the Red Sea coast has shocked observers. More than ...