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Sep 11, 2026 - Business

Record diesel prices squeeze food, transport

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Updated Sep 11, 2026 - Politics & Policy

9/11 widow blasts Saudi Arabia during annual ceremony

Former President Biden, former first lady Laura Bush, Former President George W. Bush, Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Vice President JD Vance stand in a line in a crowd commemorating the 9/11 attacks. All of the men are wearing suits.
Updated Sep 11, 2026 - Politics & Policy

Afghan woman deported in first-ever "Alien Terrorist" court case, DOJ says

Attorney General Todd Blanche — a man with brown hair wearing a blue suit jacket, a white collared shirt and a red tie — points as he speaks into a microphone attached to a podium outside in the DOJ courtyard in D.C.
Updated Sep 11, 2026 - Politics & Policy

Scoop: Mike Johnson urged to cancel House recess over AI warnings

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Updated Sep 11, 2026 - Politics & Policy

Reflecting Pool contractor admits faulty repairs, not vandalism, caused damage

A portion of fencing at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is knocked over in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 7, 2026.
Updated Sep 11, 2026 - Health

CDC declares cyclospora outbreak over

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Updated Sep 11, 2026 - World

Scoop: MBS urged Trump to strike Houthis amid Red Sea threat

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How AI makes biological research more dangerous

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Inside the RNC's legal fight over "election integrity"

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Sep 11, 2026 - Technology

What's next for the AI safety debate

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Updated Sep 11, 2026 - Energy & Climate

Diesel hits $6 a gallon for the first time, fueling more inflation

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9/11 and "never forget" collide with the meme generation's dark humor

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Congress gripped by AI panic after doomsday warnings

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Vance: MAGA's millennial messenger for the midterms

JD Vance in a spotlight, behind a podium

Axios interview: The 9/11 photographers who ran toward the danger

Spectators look up as the World Trade Center goes up in flames September 11, 2001 in New York City
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