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Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for AI slowdown. Top lawmakers agree AI’s risks are rising but say they have no quick fix
Financial Times: “Look, we’re leading China in AI . . . and, frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever…
September 13, 2026
Top A.I. leaders call for slowing down A.I. development
New York Times: Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence…
September 12, 2026
Oil routes in peril as attacks shut Saudi pipeline and Houthis threaten key waterway. White House weighs how to use Defense Production Act to expand US oil refining capacity—AND MORE
Washington Post: “This is the first day that Iran really started winning the war,” a Yemeni official said…
September 11, 2026
Behind scenes, Vance gathered unvarnished views of Iran war. Tehran producing ballistic missiles again—AND MORE
New York Times: Mr. Vance came away from some of his conversations with deep concerns about the overall…
September 10, 2026
Trump says Iran war will end after the midterms and gas prices will fall. But Trump’s top advisers confide war could last through end of term—AND MORE
CNN: Speaking to reporters on his way to the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Trump asserted that Iran…
September 9, 2026
Trump announces ban on some Canadian imports
New York Times: President Trump moved on Tuesday to ban a small set of imports from Canada, including…
September 8, 2026
Iran warns US energy assets in Gulf vulnerable after latest clashes. US economic squeeze starting to bite Tehran—AND MORE
Reuters: Iran threatened on Monday to retaliate against any new U.S. attacks on its assets, warning that energy…
September 7, 2026
U.S. strikes three Iranian ‘shadow network’ oil tankers. Billions in Iranian money pass through U.S. banks
New York Times: The U.S. military said it had struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday, in response…
September 5, 2026
Pentagon subjects 50 members of joint staff to polygraph tests in expanded leak hunt
New York Times: U.S. government investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the…
September 4, 2026
Vance says Iran conflict isn’t ‘war,’ even as he refuses to say when it will end. Deadly strike on Iranian wedding likely direct hit by US munition.
CNN: The current hostilities shouldn’t even be called a “war,” Vance argued, since “active combat operations” ended months…
September 3, 2026
Pentagon cuts access to classified information amid Iran war concerns. 60 targets struck, 18M barrels of oil protected: US military’s record day in Hormuz—AND MORE
Washington Post: The Pentagon has pulled decades of classified documents from a secret computer system commonly used by…
September 2, 2026
Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles. U.S. launches intense new wave of attacks in Iran—AND MORE
Financial Times: The multiyear covert programme, codenamed C430L, has enlisted some of Russia’s most experienced missile specialists to…
September 1, 2026
US Army secretary Driscoll resigns after tension with Pete Hegseth
CNN: One source said the decision was unsurprising given tension between Driscoll and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.…
August 31, 2026
US and Iran trade attacks for first time in a month. Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations—AND MORE
CNN: Iran retaliated against US forces on Sunday after the US military struck Iranian rocket launchers, a US…
August 30, 2026
Inside Trump’s plan to give Pentagon a stake in Venezuela’s oil riches. ‘A new form of U.S. colonialism’?
Wall Street Journal: The substance of the agreement appears to be in direct conflict with Venezuela’s 1999 constitution,…
August 29, 2026
Trump says US reaches deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves
CNN: “At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with…
August 28, 2026
C.I.A. Chief delivered bleak assessment of Russia’s war in secretive Moscow visit. Top White House aides kept in dark about Ratcliffe Russia trip.
New York Times: John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, made a secretive visit to Moscow this week to privately…
August 27, 2026
U.S. weapons shortage from Iran war alarms allies confronting China. Iran inflicted billions in damage to U.S. intelligence sites—AND MORE
Washington Post: The massive expenditure of U.S. munitions in the Middle East is increasingly worrying Asian allies and…
August 26, 2026
CIA director John Ratcliffe makes surprise trip to Moscow. Why?
Wall Street Journal: It came as the U.S. struggles to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Iran…
August 25, 2026
US threatens sanctions on countries that don’t cut economic ties to Tehran. Can US strangle Iran’s economy without China’s cooperation?—AND MORE
CNN: The US is threatening damaging new sanctions on countries that refuse to cut economic ties with Iran…
August 24, 2026