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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband banned all settlement goods on Tuesday, calling the move the beginning of an entirely new British approach to the occupied West Bank. Miliband accused Israel's government of turning a blind eye to what he described as the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by armed settlers.

France and Canada pledged similar bans in a statement, and Paris is now pressing for a restriction covering the entire European Union. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called the ethnic cleansing charge an outrageous lie and moved to shut Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem.

The Justice Department is sending new grand jury subpoenas demanding testimony in Florida, according to people familiar with the year-long inquiry. Prosecutors are pursuing a theory that intelligence officials conspired against Donald Trump across the past decade, including over Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Defense lawyers were contacted in recent days, and the identities of the witnesses were not immediately clear on Tuesday. Sources described the investigation only on condition of anonymity, a measure of how closely the department is holding a politically explosive file.

Meta launched its Muse agent app Tuesday for American users over 18, offering it both as a standalone download and inside WhatsApp. Internally code-named Hatch, the agent runs on the Muse Spark model family that AI chief Alexandr Wang has been shipping since April.

Muse can open a browser and fill forms, negotiate on a user's behalf, book travel and even draft yearlong exercise plans. Meta says the agent and all user data sit together on a dedicated secure virtual machine, a pitch aimed squarely at its own privacy record.

Hungary's new government expelled 10 Russian diplomats on Tuesday, a jolting reversal from the Moscow-friendly posture cultivated for years under Viktor Orban. The move brings Budapest into closer alignment with EU and NATO partners who spent the war urging it to stop playing spoiler.

Thieves broke into a museum in southern France and made off with Renoir paintings valued in the millions, the latest in a string of high-profile European art heists this year. Curators across the continent are once again being asked why priceless canvases hang behind alarms that seem to work only in daylight.

Shares of Canadian jet maker Bombardier dropped sharply on Tuesday as Ottawa and Washington traded threats of steeper import taxes and possible outright bans on select goods. Analysts warned aerospace, dairy and lumber could take the next hits as retaliation loops tighten.

The American Bar Association voted Tuesday to eliminate the rule requiring accredited law schools to demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion, bowing to sustained pressure from the Trump administration. Roughly 200 ABA-accredited schools will now operate without the decades-old standard as the sole gateway to bar eligibility.

The TSA is restoring gate access without tickets for eligible PreCheck members at some US airports, 25 years after September 11 ended the practice. Agency officials called the change an exclusive benefit for the country's most trusted travelers, framing it around welcomes and send-offs.

The Energy Department approved a $1.9 billion loan to restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Iowa, part of a broader push to revive dormant reactors as AI data centers push electricity demand higher. No U.S. operator has ever successfully restarted a reactor once permanently closed, making this one of three live experiments.

Qualcomm granted Amazon warrants to acquire $4 billion worth of its stock as part of a new data center infrastructure partnership aimed at loosening Nvidia's grip on AI chips. It's Qualcomm's boldest push yet beyond phones and into the server rooms where the real AI money now lives.

GE Aerospace said it would acquire Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75 billion, pulling a critical jet-engine parts supplier fully in-house after years of pandemic-era supply headaches. The deal is GE's largest since spinning off from its parent conglomerate and signals a broader vertical-integration trend across aerospace.

EverBank and Pacific Northwest lender WaFd agreed Monday to a $3.9 billion reverse merger, creating a larger regional bank with a combined national footprint. The tie-up adds to a slow-motion wave of mid-sized bank consolidation as smaller lenders struggle with deposit costs and regulatory demands.

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OpenAI announced Tuesday that its models produced a proof for one of mathematics' Millennium Prize Problems, the seven questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered $1 million each to solve. If it survives peer review, it would be the most dramatic evidence yet that AI is reshaping the upper tiers of theoretical math.

Washington-based Stoke Space closed a $1 billion funding round to build the first orbital rocket where both stages return and fly again, targeting an inaugural launch in early 2027. Success would put the startup in direct competition with SpaceX's Starship program.

Researchers observed gravitational effects predicted by general relativity inside a quantum system for the first time, a long-sought bridge between Einstein's theory and quantum mechanics. The result gives theorists a new experimental foothold in the century-long hunt for a unified theory of everything.

Aryna Sabalenka beat Linda Noskova in three sets, 7-6, 3-6, 7-6, closing out a two-and-a-half-hour quarterfinal with a second-serve ace. Down 4-2 in the third set and 2-0 in the deciding tiebreak, Sabalenka reached her sixth consecutive US Open semifinal.

The Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield agreed to a three-year extension worth $165 million, according to reports late Tuesday afternoon. Mayfield, 31, blew past his own end-of-training-camp deadline and now enters a fourth Tampa season after back-to-back Pro Bowl years.

Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher appealed to the NCAA on Tuesday, arguing replay protocol was not properly followed in Michigan's 13-12 escape against Western Michigan. Steinbrecher says the crew used its replay-system clock feed instead of the required program feed when one second went back on the clock.

LIV Golf will file for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey after striking a restructuring agreement with the credit arm of BC Partners. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the league's original backer, was set to pull its funding at the end of the 2026 schedule.

Julia Roberts will headline a Broadway revival of "Small Mouth Sounds" alongside Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, Greta Lee, Martin Freeman and Isaac Powell, in a cast that reads like an awards-season group text. The play, set at a silent retreat, is one of two productions the producers announced for the coming season.

Robert Kirkman and four fellow producers settled with AMC for $120 million, ending a profits lawsuit weeks before a federal trial was set to begin. AMC will pay $85 million this month and $35 million by January, cutting its expected 2026 cash flow to $150 million.

Netflix will disclose grosses for six films, abandoning a long-standing refusal as the streamer escalates its theatrical ambitions. Penélope Cruz drama "La Bola Negra" gets the company's longest window yet, 46 days from October 16 before it streams December 2.

What it is: Two children have died in Chinese gene-editing trials, and researchers, ethicists and legal scholars now question whether oversight kept pace with a field that grew faster in China than anywhere else on earth. Shanghai-based HuidaGene Therapeutics disclosed on August 5 that a young boy died during one of its 2025 trials, and a July investigation by Science and Retraction Watch had already revealed that a six-year-old girl died last March after a different gene-editing treatment.

The detail: Much of that growth ran through investigator-initiated trials, a physician-led route letting hospitals test cell therapies and gene edits without the full regulatory apparatus a corporate filing demands. Registered cell and gene-therapy trials of that kind grew eleven-fold between 2015 and 2023, reaching 207, and one of the trials now under scrutiny was hosted at Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai.

Why it matters: Beijing moved first and moved hard, and a rule known as Order 818 took effect on May 1, confining investigator-initiated trials of gene editing, cell therapy and brain implants to the country's top-tier sanjia hospitals. Penalties arrived alongside it for the first time — fines in the millions of yuan for unauthorized trials, a three-year ban on new-technology trials, and possible revocation of a physician's license — a heavier hand than American regulators have ever applied to comparable research.

What to watch: Whether future deaths surface faster is the immediate test, because the strengthened rules are meant to force disclosure that in both of these cases came from journalists and a company statement rather than any regulator. For American patients and biotech firms, the deeper question is whether China's speed advantage in cell and gene therapy survives its own crackdown, since the trials that made Chinese hospitals attractive to Western partners are precisely the ones Order 818 restricts.

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