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Trump Says US Has "Taken Away" Iran's Nuclear Power
US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran will end "very quickly" and claimed that oil prices will "come tumbling down", while asserting that the US has taken away Iran's nuclear power.
Trump repeats his false claim that Iran could destroy Los Angeles or San Diego – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailTonight, we’ll have another set of midterm debates. In Iowa, we’ll see the Republican nominee for US Senate, Ashley Hinson, face off against Democrat Josh Turek, a state representative and Paralympian at 8pm ET.The race has become one of the most competitive of this cycle, despite the fact a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate election in the Hawkeye state since 2008. Turek, however, trails by just a point in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll. And Hinson, who currently serves as a congresswoman, has pushed back on Donald Trump’s agenda of late, as the president’s approval rating sinks to a new low. Hinson has called for an end on the war in Iran, despite consistently voting against House war powers resolutions that would curb military action, and criticizing the president’s recent pause on tariffs for foreign beef imports, which, Hinson argues, will affect the bottom line for the many cattle ranchers in Iowa. Continue reading...
OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites
Exclusive: Revelation comes after company’s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write messageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.On Tuesday, one of the company’s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn’t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this. Continue reading...
Children Among 28 Killed In Ukraine As Russia Intensifies Attacks
President Volodymyr Zelensky said three of the dead were just 12 months old while another was aged eight. Another child's body was pulled from the rubble in the evening, the interior ministry said.
Jurors in Beau Lamarre-Condon murder case shown photos of decomposed bodies
Former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in SydneyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPhotographs of the decomposed bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies have been shown to 15 jurors tasked with deciding whether the two men were murdered.Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Baird, 26, and Davies, 29. Continue reading...
Texas kills man in first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard, 46, executed by fatal dose of pentobarbital after lawyers’ bid for stay had been deniedA Texas man was put to death Wednesday in the first US execution since the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week.Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8.03pm after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital, a sedative, at the state prison in Huntsville. Continue reading...
Satellite Images Show Activity At Iran's Bombed 'Nuclear' Compound
High-resolution satellite images captured by Vantor Technologies in early September show that Iran has begun an extensive clean-up at the Minzadayi compound.
Patricia Krenwinkel, former Manson follower, granted parole for third time
The 78-year-old has spent nearly six decades in prison and California governor has overturned last two parole grantsPatricia Krenwinkel, a former Charles Manson follower, was granted parole on Tuesday after nearly six decades in prison for her role in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles.This is the third time that Krenwinkel, 78, has been approved for release by California’s board of parole hearings. After both of her last two parole grants, Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, reversed the parole board’s decisions and denied her freedom, and Krenwinkel’s attorneys are now urging the Democrat to allow this latest ruling to stand. Continue reading...
Bendy elm still standing against all odds crowned UK tree of the year
Hundred-and-fifty-year-old Wych elm in Newcastle, Co Down has grown sideways owing to strong windsThe “astonishing and bizarre” Bendy Tree in Northern Ireland has been crowned the winner of this year’s tree of the year competition.The wych elm tree, located in Newcastle, County Down, owes its name to its near horizontal trunk, which has grown sideways owing to the strong seaside winds coming off the Irish Sea. Continue reading...
Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach
In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a classically inspired apologia for Donald Trump’s “America first” foreign policy on Wednesday, giving a sweeping speech to the backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens that appeared tailor-made for campaign ads if he runs for president in 2028.In the speech, the top US diplomat drew historical parallels from the founders, philosophers and conquerers of antiquity to the modern American spirit – as well as his family’s own journey to the United States – as he called on Europe to “awaken from its long slumber” and reject a “future of atrophy and servitude and decline”. Continue reading...
Family of student who took his own life say university ‘will be held to account’
Ethan Scott Brown died after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate from the University of Glasgow The family of a student who took his own life after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate have said the University of Glasgow “will be held to account”.Ethan Scott Brown, 23, was due to graduate in December 2024 after studying geography. Continue reading...
Okinawa governor wants discipline for US military in Japan after murder
The governor of Okinawa has demanded the central government do more to ensure discipline among U.S. troops on the southern Japanese island
