Month: September 2026

The Scoop The Trump administration is backing off its initial plan for an executive order that would give the president greater influence over decisionmaking on National Institutes of Health grants, according to three people familiar with the process. The move comes after Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, pressured the ...

A progressive economic group is kicking off an ad and organizing campaign targeting nearly two dozen purple congressional races by going after Trump’s unpopular idea to give voters $5,000. Economic Security Project Action, the political arm of the group that previously backed guaranteed income schemes, is zeroing in on the ...

Yinka’s view For decades, the debate around Africa’s natural resources has largely been over who gets the value from what the continent digs up and ships out. But at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion summit in New York this week, the recurring theme was more nuanced. The question was what ...

South Africa’s post-apartheid Black empowerment rules are holding back billions of dollars in American capital, Washington’s ambassador said. L. Brent Bozell III, reiterating US criticism of measures aimed at redressing inequalities caused by apartheid, singled out mandatory local equity transfers in mining and telecoms as a barrier to investment. Since ...

The Scoop UN agencies are putting a premium on diversifying where they source technology and computing power — away from solely American providers. Last year’s US sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and Anthropic’s Mythos model cutoff earlier this year, provided a “wake-up call” about relying on single — mostly ...

Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran is ready for dialogue and diplomacy ‘but without the language of force’ Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, turned the tables on Donald Trump, describing America as the true bully and terrorist in the Middle East while also insisting that Iran had always shown a commitment to the ...

Scientists have discovered that the removal of Earth’s magnetic field influences the lifespans of fruit flies in complex ways, a finding that sheds light on the aging process as well as the risks of future human space travel, according to a study published in the journal Aging on Wednesday.  All ...

Mia Heider had never attended a public meeting before when she showed up to the city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri. After briefly speaking at a podium during a public comment period, she was arrested and dragged away in handcuffs.  “Hello, my name is Miley Heider. I’m a Springfield, Missouri ...

The head of the RAF says the UK faces “unprecedented threats” from adversaries in space, as a new unit is created to defend Britain’s satellites. ...

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025. ...