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The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to the census that would exclude non-citizens without a green card from the 2030 apportionment counts used to divide House seats. Never in American history has the tally left out residents because of their immigration status, and NPR reports the change would shift power toward older, whiter rural areas.

Officials would also retire the race and ethnicity topic that the national count has covered since 1790, reversing standards the Biden administration revised in 2024. Sexual orientation would be barred from the census outright, a subject the government has never actually asked about, and the arithmetic that follows decides House seats and Electoral College votes into the 2030s.

For the first time in twenty years, the IAEA board has reported Iran to the Security Council, voting 23 to 3 with eight abstentions on a resolution tabled by the US, UK, France and Germany. Vienna's decision cites Iran's failure to cooperate with a long-running investigation into uranium traces that inspectors found at undeclared sites.

Referral exposes Iran to possible sanctions and asset freezes, though AP notes such measures are unlikely while Russia and China hold vetoes on the council. Brent crude closed at $101.21 on Wednesday, its highest finish since May 22, and Goldman Sachs now calls a surge past $120 a plausible risk rather than its base case.

Republicans on Wednesday opened the first midterm convention in the party's history, a two-night event in Dallas that RNC Chairman Joe Gruters keeps billing as a "Trumpapalooza." President Trump headlines both nights, betting his personal presence can pull out the voters who stay home when he is not on the ballot.

An NPR analysis using Cook Political Report ratings found that fewer than half the Republicans in competitive House and Senate races are listed as speakers. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent takes a prime-time slot, becoming the first sitting Treasury secretary to address a national political convention since William Simon in 1976.

Norway laid King Harald V to rest on Wednesday after thirteen days of national mourning, with a procession running from the royal palace to Oslo Cathedral and burial at Akershus Fortress. Roughly thirty royal figures attended from Sweden, Denmark, Jordan, Spain and Japan, and Prince William represented King Charles III alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

An Intercity train derailed after striking a concrete mixer at a level crossing in Sokolniki Suche, roughly 60 miles south of Warsaw, shortly after 11:20 local time. One passenger was killed and twenty were injured, four of them seriously, out of about 120 people traveling aboard the train.

Prosecutors have charged Joshua Cammidge with assisting a foreign intelligence service under Britain's National Security Act, alleging he took instructions from a contact tied to the GRU Volunteer Corps. Security Minister Dan Jarvis linked the case to a run of incidents across Europe designed to sow fear and erode public support for Ukraine.

Newly released financial disclosures show Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to close aide Natalie Harp, communications advisor Margo Martin and executive assistant Chamberlain Harris. Walt Nauta, the director of Oval Office operations and a former White House valet, received $22,000, and no other staffer declared any gift from the president.

Flight data indicates the Amazon cargo jet tried aborting an unsteady landing before overrunning the Miami International runway by roughly 1,300 feet on Sunday. Five members of a plane-cleaning crew died in their van and five more people were hurt, and NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the thrust reversers were never used to help stop the plane.

A federal magistrate judge in Miami has denied bail to Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, ruling that their wealth and frequent international travel "constitute quintessential flight risks." Both men face 59 charges in Britain, including rape, sex trafficking and indecent images of a child, and the UK has until September 16 to file a full extradition request.

Stocks fell for a third consecutive session on Wednesday, with the Dow shedding 405.41 points to close at 52,380.66 while the S&P 500 slipped 0.48% and the Nasdaq gave up 0.64%. Rising Treasury yields did much of the damage, and Brent crude closing above $101 a barrel piled on more pressure through the afternoon.

The Treasury Department will buy back up to $6 billion in longer-term debt on Thursday, tripling its normal operation and targeting the thinly traded 10- and 20-year notes. Market reaction was negative because the size undershot expectations, with PGIM's Robert Tipp noting that traders had been looking for six to ten billion.

Signet Jewelers jumped about 20% on Wednesday after the owner of Kay, Zales and Jared raised its annual profit forecast, posting second-quarter earnings of $2.19 a share against the $1.74 analysts expected. Resilient demand for pricier bridal and fashion jewelry drove the beat, and Signet now guides to $10.45 to $12.15 in full-year adjusted earnings, up from a prior range of $9.20 to $11.

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Google DeepMind has released the AlphaGenome Atlas, charting every possible single-letter change in the human genome, roughly nine billion of them, plus more than 100 million insertions and deletions observed in real genomes. Roughly a petabyte of data sits behind the preprint, and researchers get instant access free for non-commercial use without writing a line of code.

Jacob Coxon has resigned after three years researching at Anthropic and OpenAI, writing that both companies are "gambling with our lives" and could lose control of the technology. Evan Hubinger, an alignment lead who still works at Anthropic, publicly backed him and put the odds that AI kills all humans within a decade above 10%.

The General Assembly voted to phase out Mercator on September 4 in favor of the Equal Earth projection, ending roughly 450 years of a map that stretches land masses toward the poles. Proposed by Togo with African Union backing, the resolution drew six abstentions and exactly one vote against, cast by the United States.

Elena Rybakina beat Zheng Qinwen in three sets, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, to reach her first US Open semifinal and end Aryna Sabalenka's 99-week hold on the world No. 1 ranking. Rankings publish Monday, and the 27-year-old from Kazakhstan joins Coco Gauff, Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula in the last four.

LSU president Wade Rousse has told the SEC that LSU complied, locking the Tigers' roster for the season and calling the issue "moot" after the league floated expelling the school outright. SEC presidents and chancellors still meet Thursday, though terminating a membership requires a vote of at least two-thirds of all the conference's presidents.

Kevin O'Connell confirmed that J.J. McCarthy opens the season third on Minnesota's depth chart, behind starter Kyler Murray and backup Carson Wentz, two years after the team drafted him tenth overall. O'Connell cited Wentz's "almost a hundred career starts," and McCarthy ranked 36th of 40 qualified quarterbacks in Total QBR before Sunday's opener against Green Bay.

Anaheim is placing Chris Kreider on waivers to end the final year of his deal, a $6.5 million cap hit that turns him into an unrestricted free agent once he clears. Kreider, 35, enters his fifteenth NHL season having spent fourteen of them with the Rangers, and he put up 22 goals and 28 assists in 75 games for the Ducks.

Variety projects Practical Magic 2 will open between $30 million and $40 million across 4,000 North American theaters, enough to topple "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" after a six-weekend reign. Made for $75 million, the sequel should add another $18 million to $25 million from 77 international territories, though early reviews have been rough.

Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith all join the Emmys presenter lineup, setting up an on-stage reunion on the show's 50th anniversary alongside Zendaya, Jon Hamm and Amy Poehler. Mariska Hargitay hosts Monday on NBC and Peacock, where a win would make Sally Field, at 79, the oldest ever in lead actress for a limited series.

UC Riverside researchers named a new insect genus Swiftiephylus in a paper describing twelve new Australian species, with taylorae honoring Swift herself and amator, intrepidus and poetorum nodding to her albums. Doctoral student Sarah Schroeder called the pale yellow bugs with their red accents "blonde" in the published paper.

What it is: The September 11 attacks turn twenty-five on Friday, and the intelligence apparatus assembled in their aftermath now answers to an administration that spent years campaigning against it. NPR reports that Trump has installed loyalists across national security, with Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, Kash Patel at the FBI and John Ratcliffe at the CIA — a group the author Tim Weiner bluntly calls sycophants.

The detail: The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and produced two enormous institutions: the Department of Homeland Security, now a quarter-million employees and second in size only to the Pentagon, and the Director of National Intelligence, built to coordinate what are now eighteen separate intelligence agencies. Trump has already cut back the DNI office as part of his broader government reductions, and periodic calls to abolish the office outright have never fully gone away in Washington.

Why it matters: Steven Cash, who resigned at the start of Trump's second term and now leads a group of more than 400 former officials, told NPR that "we took a dive off the cliff in 2025" and that the gains of the past quarter-century are gone. Former CIA officer John Sipher, who ran Russia operations across nearly three decades of service, calls the deep-state narrative one of the most damaging ideas in circulation, blaming partisan anger and the Trump administration specifically for manufacturing it.

What to watch: Marc Polymeropoulos, another former CIA officer, warns that counterterrorism has slid down the priority list behind China, Russia and the southern border, which is roughly where it sat before 2001. Watch the departures underneath the headlines too, because Weiner notes the CIA's 20,000 people lean heavily on allied services, and relationships like those take years to rebuild once the officers who hold them walk out the door.

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