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Major US TV networks suspended pooled coverage of President Trump on Monday after CNN, Politico and MS NOW were barred from the White House, leaving no network footage of Trump boarding Air Force One for the UN General Assembly. The New York Times and Washington Post also withheld still images from Monday's events, and the White House answered by launching its own 24/7 streaming channel, Trump TV.

The standoff reached the South Lawn, where ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox skipped the ribbon-cutting for Trump's new helipad; he used oversized gold scissors, and his remarks were drowned out by his waiting helicopter. The three banned outlets filed suit Monday in federal court in Washington, while Trump shrugged it off: "they never boycott me."

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in Austin on Sunday when ICE officers in an unmarked truck "sideswiped" his car twice and he was shot, his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, told reporters. He was taken to a hospital but released later Sunday into ICE custody with the bullet still inside him.

Speaking by phone at a news conference, Perez said doctors left the bullet because it sits near his spine and that ICE pressed for his quick release so it could move him to a detention center. He said he slept on the floor there with no pain medication before a nurse gave him a "pill" Monday; by Monday night, his attorney said, he was back in the hospital.

The US has struck a deal Trump says gives it "permanent control over security" in Greenland, reportedly reopening the Cold War-era Narsarsuaq base and stationing forces at Mestersvig, an outpost run by Denmark's Sirius dog-sled patrol. Terms haven't been disclosed, and the pact may not be final until the US, Denmark and Greenland sign it at the UN General Assembly.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says the agreement "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of the kingdom and Greenlanders' right to self-determination. The American footprint was once far larger: during the Cold War the US ran 17 bases with more than 10,000 personnel, compared with about 150 at Pituffik Space Base today.

A 15-year-old boy was arrested after at least 11 people were wounded outside a western Turkish high school, the country's third school shooting this year.

Lithuania's prime minister said his country has evacuation plans ready but "will not surrender" if Russia attacks, days after NATO jets downed a drone in its airspace.

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee had her prison sentence for accepting luxury gifts cut from seven to five years by an appeals court.

Unarmed 911 response has scaled fast, from six US programs in 2020 to nearly 100 cities, with Durham's HEART team alone handling 25,000-plus calls since 2022.

The FAA rolled out SMART, an $875 million AI system meant to cut flight delays at three DC-area airports, though the controllers' union says it wasn't involved.

One of Wendy's largest franchisees, operating 314 restaurants in 15 states, filed for bankruptcy after the chain moved to terminate its deal.

Bitcoin surged to $86,000, its highest since January, as Bitwise's CIO announced that the "crypto winter" is over.

Diesel prices topped $6.51 a gallon, a record driven by Middle East supply disruptions, with farmers calling it a national farm crisis.

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks said 700,000 new seniors have started GLP-1 drugs since Medicare began covering obesity treatment in July, with 70% choosing Lilly's.

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Scientists traced a deadly meningitis outbreak in England to bacteria that swapped genes with throat bugs, creating a more dangerous new strain.

British Columbia is suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT's safety team flagged the Tumbler Ridge shooter months before he killed eight people.

An aquarium breeding program has released more than 1,000 mountain yellow-legged frogs into Southern California streams, reviving a species once down to fewer than 100 adults.

Aaron Donald played his first snaps since 2023 in the Rams' 28-6 rout of the Giants, logging three tackles across 32 snaps as LA's pass-rush win rate hit 66.7%.

Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart is believed to have sprained his left MCL on a first-series hit from Byron Young; X-rays came back negative, with an MRI Tuesday.

A day after elimination, Detroit thumped Washington 9-2, with River Ryan — the Dodgers piece in the Tarik Skubal trade — throwing three scoreless innings in his Tigers debut.

Alabama's offensive coordinator apologized for telling booing fans they quit faster than his team did, after a 50-36 win over Florida State that opened with two three-and-outs.

Apple is opening a 600-capacity venue inside its London headquarters, with a 48-speaker spatial sound system, debuting September 28.

Susan Sarandon will receive Rome Film Festival's Womenlands Excellence Award next month, premiering her new film "The Accompanist."

Princess Diana's brother reignited a royal feud with a memoir alleging King Charles said, "we'll forget her soon enough," after her 1997 death.

What it is: El Niño, the periodic warming of the tropical Pacific that reshuffles weather worldwide, is building toward the strongest event on record. Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather warns that central Pacific sea temperatures hit 2.9°C above baseline in early September.

The detail: That is more than 1°C warmer than the monster 1997 and 2015 events at the same stage, and Hausfather puts the odds that this one surpasses every El Niño since the 1870s at more than 90%.

The past gives a preview. During the four strongest events, southern Africa had roughly an 80% chance of a below-normal December–February rainy season, and South Africa's maize harvest fell by nearly half in 2015–16. Indonesia's 1997 fires released 3 to 9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, and its El Niño-fueled peat fires in 2015 were linked to about 100,000 excess deaths across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Why it matters: The damage won't stay local. Drought across Asia threatens rice and palm oil, which could push up food prices globally. But this one is arriving with months of warning, so how much harm it does depends largely on what governments do with the lead time they already have.

What to watch: Hausfather urges governments to get drought-tolerant and early-maturing seed into high-risk areas, expanding harvest-failure support the way Ethiopia did in 2015–16, and restoring peatlands before fire season. It's already reshaping weather: this year set a record for the latest start to an Atlantic season without a hurricane, as El Niño crushes storms early.

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A Mississippi wildlife rescue runs a "boot camp" for orphaned raccoon kits, training them to swim and flee predators before a graduation ceremony.

In China, a six-year-old broke the women's Rubik's Cube record twice in three days, solving it in 4.27 seconds.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought the pub next to Wrexham AFC's stadium, the very building where the club was founded.

Nathan Hale is executed as a spy in New York (1776) · Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862) · The first issue of National Geographic is published (1888) · Kennedy signs the Peace Corps Act into law (1961) · "Friends" premieres on NBC (1994)

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