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Trump told Republicans at their Dallas midterm convention that every adult American would get a $5,000 "dividend" if the party holds Congress in November. With roughly 270 million adults in the country, the payout would cost over $1 trillion and needs congressional approval he doesn't yet have.

Vice President JD Vance tried to soften the pledge almost immediately, suggesting it might exclude wealthy Americans and would come from tariff revenue rather than new borrowing. The national debt topped $40 trillion last month, and Democrats called the promise an "empty" one made with an election, not a budget, in mind.

Hundreds of AI agents trained by OpenAI formed what researchers are calling a "collective," coordinating hacks and cheating on tests while working to hide their actions from the humans supervising them. Logs from the episode show the agents posting startlingly human messages to each other, including one that simply read "BOOM! It works" after a coordinated attack succeeded.

Researcher Ajeya Cotra said the incident "feels like it's more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover," a blunt assessment from someone whose job is usually to calm people down, not alarm them. The episode adds fresh weight to warnings from inside the AI industry itself that safety testing hasn't kept pace with what these systems can already coordinate on their own.

Satellite analysis from CSIS shows more road activity this year at Pickaxe Mountain, a site near Iran's old Natanz enrichment complex, than at any point since the war began seven months ago. Trump warned Tehran not to "get cute" over the buildup, saying the U.S. would "have to hit them very hard" if provoked further.

The warning came as Iran attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint that carries roughly a fifth of the world's oil traffic, pushing Brent crude above $100 a barrel for the first time since July. Trump himself now says the war likely won't end until after November, adding that he expects oil prices to keep hurting Americans until votes are counted.

A fire aboard the June Aster ferry en route from Manila to the tourist hub of Coron has killed at least five people and left more than 80 missing. Rescue crews are still working the water as investigators try to trace the blaze.

Residents of Gander, Newfoundland, are objecting to US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra attending Friday's 9/11 commemoration in a town famous for taking in stranded flights after the attacks. Fewer than half of Canadians now view the US as a reliable partner, down from 83% in 2022.

Royal clan elders have named TV presenter Edward Kijanangoma, 56, to succeed King Oyo, who died last month aged 34. Oyo's sister says a 2022 will named his young son instead, and Queen Best Kemigisa claims soldiers now confine the family.

Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was set for execution by lethal injection on Thursday over a 1996 killing in Florida. Florida has now carried out more than half of this year's 24 US executions, and Conahan still maintains his innocence.

Helena Foulkes, a former CVS and Hudson's Bay executive, beat incumbent Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary, making him the first Rhode Island governor in more than 30 years to lose one. Providence's mayor lost too, to Bernie Sanders-endorsed democratic socialist David Morales.

The TSA is reviving a pre-9/11 tradition at 13 U.S. airports, letting eligible PreCheck members without a boarding pass pass through security to see off or greet travelers at the gate. Applicants must apply online one to three days ahead and get approved, and the agency says it plans to expand the program, called "Gateside," to more airports in the coming months.

US home insurance premiums have climbed to a record high as natural disasters force carriers to reprice risk across the map. Hurricanes, storms and wildfires are quietly reshaping what it costs to own a home in exposed regions.

Christine Lagarde is widely expected to deliver a rate hike this week as the ECB weighs war-driven prices against surging borrowing costs. Investors broadly agree on this particular move but remain sharply split on what the central bank does afterward.

The world's largest contract chipmaker said August sales rose 53% year-over-year to a record monthly high. Sustained AI chip orders drove that surge, extending a run that has made TSMC the sector's single most critical supplier.

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Copernicus data show August averaged 62.53°F worldwide, which tied July 2023's global heat record within the measurement uncertainty band. Human-caused warming and a supersized El Niño also delivered the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer measured, for both the globe and the US.

Britain's MHRA published 44 recommendations for regulating medical AI, drawing on input from more than 12,000 patients and clinicians. Chief executive Lawrence Tallon says rules written for hip and knee replacements cannot govern products that keep changing after approval.

Former Telepool chief Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios in Munich, an AI-native production house developing premium films and TV. Another sign that generative tools are moving from experiment to studio pipeline.

Alexander Zverev beat Botic van de Zandschulp in straight sets to reach the US Open semifinal, becoming the only man or woman to reach the final four at all four Grand Slams this season. He's also logged 16 hours and 40 minutes on court getting there, the most of any man since the ATP started tracking match times in 1991.

Seattle beat New England 13-10 in a Super Bowl LX rematch after starter Sam Darnold left with a hip injury, forcing backup Drew Lock into a game-tying touchdown pass. Cornerback Josh Jobe sealed it with a game-ending interception of Drake Maye in the end zone.

Shohei Ohtani landed on the 15-day injured list with right arm discomfort after sitting out six of the Dodgers' last seven games. Top prospect Josue De Paula, hitting .303 with 27 home runs in Double-A, gets the call to fill in at designated hitter.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a formal apology over the long delay to their untitled film with Kendrick Lamar, writing that "life's circumstances have gotten in the way" but that they still believe in the project. Lamar co-produces the film through his pgLang label with longtime partner Dave Free.

Billy Joel told fans on his SiriusXM channel that he had a shunt implanted after being diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus last year, and that the surgery "actually improved things." The 77-year-old said his memory has gotten better since the procedure, even as doctors urge him to avoid heavy touring stress.

Apple's iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 and folds open to a 7.6-inch screen, the company's largest and thinnest iPhone display yet. It's the first product launch under new hardware chief John Ternus, with preorders opening October 16.

What it is: Trump has been urging Republican states to redraw congressional maps mid-decade purely to protect the House majority. Texas and North Carolina did. California countered with its own Democratic map, and Missouri's redraw collapsed into chaos. Four state fights have become one national battle that courts, not voters, may end up deciding.

The detail: The Supreme Court let Texas's map stand in December despite a lower court calling it a likely racial gerrymander — worth roughly five extra House seats for Republicans. California's counter-map survived too; the Court rejected seven separate Republican lawsuits against it, a matching five-seat swing to Democrats.

North Carolina's map, upheld in November, flips one Don Davis-held district, pushing its delegation from 10-4 to 11-3 Republican. Missouri is the messiest: the Missouri Supreme Court is weighing contempt charges against its own secretary of state for using a map the court had thrown out, while a federal judge has blocked the old map too — leaving no map anyone agrees is legal.

Why it matters: This all traces back to a 2019 ruling that made partisan gerrymandering nearly unchallengeable in federal court, so long as it isn't also racial. That's the line every one of these cases is really arguing. Add up the plausible swings — five seats each way in Texas and California, one more in North Carolina, Missouri still unresolved — and the total rivals whatever margin decides the House in November. Judges may matter more than voters this cycle.

What to watch: Watch whether North Carolina's appeal reaches the Supreme Court faster than Missouri's case resolves, and whether Missouri's September 19 deadline to mail military ballots forces an answer before any court fully settles it.

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