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Mikie Sherrill says Dale Caldwell ‘engaged in serious, repeated violations’ involving staffers and gifts New Jersey’s governor on Thursday called on the state’s lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state’s ethics and discrimination rules. The report published Wednesday found that Caldwell violated the state’s policy prohibiting discrimination in the workplace. It said he made an advance toward a staffer’s friend and when he was rebuffed, he told the staffer: “You young women are looking for young sperm.” Continue reading...

Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are already regulated at the federal level by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

NHS England says test can be done while patient is on operating table and is being piloted in five centres around the country A rapid new test for brain tumours can diagnose patients while they are still on the operating table. Scientists have called the development “gamechanging” and said it could secure early treatment for those who “do not have time on their side”. Continue reading...

The pope is set to deliver a landmark speech on AI development and discuss Europe’s future Later today, Pope Leo will go to the Élysée Palace for (another) formal welcome and a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps, before visiting Unesco and delivering a speech on AI in mid-afternoon. He is then expected to go on a stroll through the streets of Paris, before going to the restored Notre Dame Cathedral. Continue reading...

Xi is expected to depart Washington after touring the nation’s vault of records, where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are held Sign up for US Breaking News emails In our second live discussion ahead of the elections, Joseph Gedeon, Dara Kerr and Chris Stein will join us at 11am EDT (4pm BST) to answer your questions about who is backing candidates in the upcoming midterms. Our reporters will cover who is funding the campaigns, where the money is going and how it’s shaping the election outlook ahead of the votes on 3 November. Continue reading...

Iran's president says Tehran wants a deal with the U.S. before November's midterm elections, as the regime puts an offer on the table.

The Israeli leader labels those who left his speech at the UN General Assembly as "moral cowards".

By Donald Trump’s telling, we’re in a US ‘golden age’. Americans may feel differently. Plus: Anger at the elite and a gunfluencer runs in Texas This was originally published in The Stakes 2026, a newsletter about the midterm elections. Sign up to get it in your inbox One of Donald Trump ’s greatest talents – deployed during his time as a real estate tycoon, source and subject of tabloid gossip, reality TV protagonist, and president of the United States – is his ability to tell stories. With six weeks until the US midterm elections, he is likely to lean on this instinct more than ever. Rarely does the US president appear more comfortable than when behind a microphone, speaking without interruption, sometimes for multiple hours . Long before entering the White House, he wholeheartedly embraced social media as a means of crafting his narrative, going so far as to launch his own social network when booted off others. Continue reading...

From redwood benches to DVDs, gifts are an important part of the art of diplomacy.

Trump and Xi's U.S. summit continues after a state dinner Thursday night. And, Netanyahu returns to Israel after giving a defensive and defiant speech at the U.N. General Assembly.

After years of illegal mass flytipping in Gospić, fed-up residents decided to take matters into their own hands “Gospić is our home,” Željka Šikić shouted to a crowd of 40,000 people outside the Croatian parliament earlier this month. The slogan is the name of a campaign she helped to set up to protest against the illegal dumping of waste in Gospić, a town in the mountainous Lika region of central Croatia. Between 2022 and 2024, waste was illegally abandoned at several sites in the town. At one of the biggest, just 50 metres from Šikić’s home, an estimated 35,000 tonnes of waste, some of it hazardous, was dumped and buried. Continue reading...

Government-backed help to save is aimed at working people on universal credit and pays 50p for every £1 saved over four years Amid claims that millions are missing out, the UK government is encouraging low earners to sign up to a savings scheme that offers free cash. Help to save is a government-backed savings account that lets people earn a bonus of 50p for every £1 they save over four years. Continue reading...

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is demanding the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration reject President Trump's call to convert plans for a massive triumphal arch into a "top grade Military Complex."

Tehran’s offer comes as high fuel prices put pressure on Trump ahead of the US midterm elections.

The US press corps stood up to Donald Trump this week after he banned three organisations he doesn’t like from the White House. But when it came to the leader of one of the US’s oldest adversaries – China – well, Trump literally rolled out a very long red carpet. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Shrai Popat about why Trump seems weaker these days, but why it could be dangerous to underestimate him Continue reading...

Despite diplomatic niceties and gifts, little was shared on substantial issues separating the leaders.

Area’s second-most intense hurricane on record being fuelled by exceptionally warm Pacific waters Hurricane Polo is barreling towards the Baja California region of Mexico, the latest system in a Pacific hurricane season that has been notably active in recent months. On 22 September, a measurement of 892 millibars was registered for Hurricane Polo, making it the second-most intense hurricane on record in the east Pacific. It is fuelled by exceptionally warm waters across the Pacific Ocean, providing favourable conditions for the system to maintain its considerable strength. Polo is expected to turn towards the west-north-west, before taking a more north-westerly trajectory on Saturday. It has maximum sustained winds of around 150mph, with even stronger gusts occurring within the most intense parts of the hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extend outward for approximately 40 miles from the centre, while tropical storm-force winds reach as far as 125 miles. These powerful winds, combined with torrential rainfall and dangerous seas, could have significant impacts. Although some fluctuations in intensity are possible over the coming days, Polo is expected to remain powerful as it tracks north-westwards. Continue reading...

The war on Iran is raising the cost of living in Nigeria.

A group of nations will gather on Friday to address the crisis. The only response to unilateral bullying is collective action The international legal order is in shambles. But from the ruins of impunity and lawbreaking, a group of nations is working to enforce accountability. On Monday, the UN general assembly’s high-level meetings opened to news that Washington had drawn up sanctions against the international criminal court, targeting its bank accounts, software, insurers and staff. Continue reading...

Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.

Tehran seeks rapid implementation failed ceasefire deal, offering to open Hormuz if regional conflicts halted.

Catherine Corless’s exposure of almost 800 infant deaths at a home led by nuns prompted Neeson to bring the story to screen Liam Neeson still remembers his shock and shame when he read a New York Times article about the mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway. It was 2017 and the article chronicled the campaign by Catherine Corless , an amateur local historian, to expose abuse and neglect by Irish nuns that led to hundreds of children being buried in a mass, unmarked grave. Continue reading...

The EU had said X "deceives users" by selling blue ticks without "meaningfully verifying" accounts.

Warmth on display in Washington contrasts significantly with the language Trump has used to characterise Beijing and Xi.

The highpoint of his time in Paris will be a giant Mass attended by more than half a million people.

Jonas Birgersson, a Swedish entrepreneur, wants to use decentralized networks modeled on the internet to transform how electricity is distributed.

Our poll of the best shows of the 21st century explores how TV built on, and moved on from, one of the last great shows of the 20th.

A new study by an independent analyst shows that action films are more likely to end on a sadder note nowadays.

Viewers may find, in the fictions of a TV show, a more realistic portrayal of their world than they are usually offered.

Ed Sheeran and Macklemore have sparked music’s most consequential confrontation over Israel and Palestine.

When a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, a Times photographer leaned far out to get close up.

Kodiak Island in Alaska is famous for its giant brown bears, but human efforts to keep the behemoths out of the landfill have become a struggle.

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said two pandas would arrive soon at Zoo Atlanta. Panda diplomacy has been a cornerstone of U.S.-China relations.

$40,000 in prizes up for grabs in Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston. The post A treasure hunt for rare coins is coming to 4 American cities appeared first on Popular Science .

A video art installation about Hudson Canyon, in the Atlantic Ocean, will be shown on the bridge tonight.

The strike, which began early Friday, is the latest labor action to unsettle classical music at a time of financial turmoil and uncertainty.