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7 months into Iran War, Trump accuses communists of ‘INHUMAN ideology that has led to DEATH and DESTRUCTION around the World!’

“I’m not sure what they’re doing," said Suzan DelBene, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "They don’t have a message."

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Will Weissert

Dell’s latest reinvention is here — and it reveals the AI boom happening ‘on-premise.’ The markets missed it

The latest blowout quarter may be the 12th reinvention for the tech company that began in Michael Dell’s dorm room.

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

American parents join their kids in hating school, with Gallup polling falling to record low

Just 32% of American adults say they are “completely” or “somewhat” satisfied with the U.S. school system, according to Gallup polling.

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Jocelyn Gecker

Climate change pushes thirsty bears into Coloradans’ cars — one honked a horn for hours from 3am onward

Patrick Sullivan was sure it was a “crazy neighbor” honking a car horn nonstop while he was up feeding his infant son at 3 a.m. one night this summer.

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Brittany Peterson

‘Never forget’ turns into ‘remember what?’ Different states’ histories of 9/11 reveal a fractured national memory

In Alabama, Sept. 11 fits into “military involvement in international conflicts since 1980," while Texas teaches an example of “radical Islamic...

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Jennifer Peltz

‘They feel like they’ve been let down’: Republican’s admission about farmers, beef and Trump reveals a nervous Senate race

“Politics is local,” Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota said. Farmers “feel just like the administration pulled the rug right off from underneath."

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Joey Cappelletti

Exclusive: AI startup Sapien raises at $180M valuation to help companies find what’s really driving profit

The startup is betting AI can help CFOs go beyond reporting what happened to uncover why financial performance changed.

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Sheryl Estrada

The world now has more people aged 65 and over than children under 5—but America is actually getting younger relative to the rest of the globe

The Census Bureau found that in 2025, the United States ranked as the 48th-oldest country out of 227 countries. By 2060, the U.S. will fall to 110th...

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Eleanor Pringle

The Boston Dynamics spinout building robots you’ll actually want to hug

Dynamic Creatures, the startup former Boston Dynamics executive Marc Theermann just cofounded with noted AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is out of...

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Allie Garfinkle

Germany’s Merz ‘deeply shocked’ at far-right election win, doubles down on unpopular agenda

After AfD's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt, the chancellor says reform "determination is unbroken," even as his party lost half its support.

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Geir Moulson

Trump telegraphs his weakness on Canada — and Carney doesn’t bite

U.S. refineries rely on 4 million barrels of oil a day from Canada, and American farmers depend heavily on Canadian potash fertilizer.

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Rob Gillies

Meet the middle-aged millennials creating ‘Divorce-tok,’ documenting a social death on social media

“I feel like if I share my pain with you, I don’t feel so alone, because there’s so many other people going through the exact same thing."

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Kaitlyn Huamani

OpenAI details how AI is accelerating its own work—even as its chief scientist lays out growing dangers and says he hopes the industry slows down

OpenAI says AI produces three days-worth of research work for every one its human researchers do. OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachoki says AI should...

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Jeremy Kahn

Out-of-control OpenAI agents hijacked a German site to make a secret message board

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

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Jim Edwards

The real jobs problem CEOs are talking about isn’t hiring

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Diane Brady

Nasty Rhode Island governor rematch raises accusations of opioid peddling, nepotism and who’s the real outsider

Helena Foulkes outraised Gov. Dan McKee and turned his handling of a $571 million bridge into her top attack line. Four years ago, he beat her.

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Kimberlee Kruesi

Trump braces for midterms, crucial union vote as Labor Day shows 75,000 lost manufacturing jobs

Even as tariffs favor domestic producers, automation is limiting hiring gains—testing whether the president's blue-collar coalition holds through...

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The Conversation

Wisconsin cheese, Maine seafood, Kentucky appliances: Trump’s Canada tariffs punch swing states just before the midterms

Section 338 of Smoot-Hawley has sat unused for 96 years; Canada's Mark Carney says the move is designed to "destroy" its auto industry.

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Kent Jones

OpenAI’s AI agents secretly used a German wiki website as a message board. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.

OpenAI acknowledged its AI agents used a German wiki to coordinate, renewing questions about whether the company is transparent about potentially...

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Beatrice Nolan

A $500,000 career, gone at 25: esports’ injury crisis is forcing teams to build sports-medicine staffs

A study found 37% of competitive gamers report anxiety and depression, and repetitive-motion injuries have sidelined stars. Maybe piano training will...

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Erica D. Henn

Canada’s pivot to Asia is finally real. The challenge is that neither side knows much about the other

For four decades, Canadian commercial life has been organized around the belief that access to the U.S. market was a constant, rather than a variable.

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Barrett Bingley

‘The math does not lie’: Why Austin only built 543 low-income homes while delivering 15,000 for the middle class

Austin officials set a goal of building 20,000 units between 2018 and 2027 for extremely low-income people — 17% of the city’s households.

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Claire Rush

‘Oh, my God! Bro, bro, I’m going to spaz out!’ The first Bitcoin RICO case comes for a DOJ that gutted its ability to build it

A 22-year-old dropout from Singapore stole $240 million and blew $569,000 in one night, prosecutors say. A judge called it "Ferris Bueller gone bad."

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Michael Kunzelman

Germany built a ‘firewall’ so the far-right could never take power again. It just failed in Saxony-Anhalt

AfD and its likely partner BSW hold enough seats to govern Saxony-Anhalt. Now they need to figure out who would lead.

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Kirsten Grieshaber

Trump kills $45 million support for Namibia HIV program

The withdrawal of funding was expected, but also follows Namibia’s rejection of proposed provisions for sharing health data and biological specimens.

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Sonja Smith

Dolly Parton’s secret weapon against Nashville: turning men into the punchline

In songs like "Dumb Blonde" and a chaotic 1973 live duet with Porter Wagoner, Parton used self-deprecating wit to flip gendered expectations.

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Stephanie Vander Wel

Spider-Man hits $2.4 billion worldwide to crown Hollywood’s best summer since the pandemic

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” also became just the second film this decade to top the box office for six straight weeks.

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Jake Coyle

Trump sets unwanted Labor Day record with gas price at $4.14 mark

“Yes, they’re higher today, but we’re doing everything we can to push them down," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

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Jeffrey Collins

Meet the charismatic 35-year-old getting Germans to vote for the far-right again

Ulrich Siegmund's face was everywhere in posters for Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in a campaign whose motto was “everything is possible.”

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Geir Moulson

This billionaire founder made his first million at 27—years before Warren Buffett. His advice to Gen Z: Don’t ask for a raise, ask for equity

Voyager Technologies billionaire founder says a bigger paycheck isn’t the way to get rich—Gen Z should negotiate for a piece of the companies they...

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Exclusive: Ineffable Intelligence adds six ‘cofounders,’ hiring veterans from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep and venture firm Flying Fish

The startup, valued at $5 billion, wants to build superintelligence using the same methods that DeepMind used for breakthroughs in games-playing AI.

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Jeremy Kahn

The typical tech leader’s pay rose $810k since 2021—more than COOs, CFOs, and CIOs combined

Median compensation for tech executives rose 45% from 2021 to 2025, faster than it did for CEOs, CFOs, and COOs.

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Amanda Gerut

As Wall Street shifts expectations towards a Fed rate hike, the White House turns up the pressure on Warsh’s central bank

"High interest rates put the U.S.A. at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won’t allow that to happen!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Eleanor Pringle

One in five Americans call sports betting an investment. For Gen Z, it’s twice as many — and they don’t come close to breaking even

People used to place bets periodically, but now it has become a daily habit for nearly a quarter of sports bettors.

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Catherina Gioino

‘Uncharted territory’: The $40 trillion U.S. national debt just got uglier as interest payments rise to $1.25 trillion a year

Last time the net interest payments were this high was 35 years ago. Analysts warn the U.S. is worse off now than it was then.

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Sasha Rogelberg

Asian family philanthropy is ‘a lot more hands-on’—and more corporate—than the West

Over three-quarters of Asian family philanthropies partner with government, a contrast with Western donors who get 'nervous' about the state.

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Nicholas Gordon

Congress created this park in 1897 for the ‘pleasure of the people.’ Trump wants to remake its golf course into an upscale venue for major tournaments

A lawsuit challenging the golf course renovation argues that the Trump administration’s redevelopment would violate the congressional act that...

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Gary Fields

Volcanic island in Indonesia erupts, canceling 1,558 flights and affecting 170,000 passengers

The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau, located in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait between the main Java and Sumatra islands, erupted for 30 seconds at 3:53...

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The Associated Press

U.S. debt is even worse than it seems, and rising Treasury yields are now an ‘all-hands-on-deck situation,’ top economist warns

The anomalous recent behavior of the 10-year yield is actually as sign that "demand for Treasury debt is weaker than first meets the eye."

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Jason Ma

Alternative for Germany party set for regional election triumph and could form the country’s first far-right state government since World War II

AfD's regional branch in Saxony-Anhalt is one of several classified as a proven right-wing extremist group by the domestic intelligence agency.

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Geir Moulson

China’s export shock is pushing the global economy to a breaking point, and the U.S. may have to clean up the mess, former trade official says

"The result is an industrial machine that cannot stop and cannot slow down—but that, owing to the limits of demand, cannot keep going."

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Jason Ma

At least 5 dead after Amazon cargo plane barrels off runway at Miami airport, crashes into vehicles and bursts into flames

The Federal Aviation Administration said the aircraft overran the runway at around 2 p.m. after heading into Florida from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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The Associated Press

Iran plans to announce an ‘exclusion zone’ that runs from the U.S. naval blockade line, through the Strait of Hormuz, and into the Persian Gulf

The comments came a day after the U.S. struck three Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran launching ballistic missiles at Navy warships.

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The Associated Press

Kevin O’Leary says if you earn $68,000 a year and follow this rule, you’ll retire a millionaire

The Shark Tank star’s advice is simple—but does the math actually hold up?

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Sydney Lake

Even Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is worried about Iran’s economy and ‘social cohesion’ as U.S. pressure gets tougher to withstand

"There is the need to seriously address the chain of economic and livelihood challenges, such as inflation, unemployment, management of prices and the...

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Jason Ma

Upcoming inflation data could determine if the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates soon, leaving Wall Street on edge

The producer price index comes out on Thursday, and the consumer price index comes out on Friday.

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The Associated Press

Gavin Newsom admits ‘California derangement syndrome’ is real but won’t hide his interest in a presidential run

"I mean, you already feel it, right? There are folks out here — they’re saying they’re already starting to interview state directors."

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Steve Peoples

As the first mail-in ballots of the midterm election start going out, Trump asks the Supreme Court a third time to limit them

“Once those ballot envelopes enter the mailstream, there is no retrieving them."

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Lindsay Whitehurst

Some Vegas hotels are so desperate for Canadian tourists they’re treating Canada’s dollar as equivalent to the U.S. greenback to offer more value

Relations between the U.S. and Canadian governments have deteriorated sharply since their trade negotiations collapsed last month.

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Rio Yamat

‘It tastes exactly like beef.’ For people with a life-threatening allergy to red meat, an ostrich burger can bring them to the verge of tears

The flightless bird’s meat, red in color and high in iron, has a look and taste similar to beef.

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Dylan Lovan