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Why Did the Senate Vote Twice on the Same Bill in Three Days?
What Happens When the Advertiser's Own Agent Joins the Conversation?
Will the World Agree AI Red Lines Before the Year Runs Out?
Twelve to Nothing. The Fed Raised Rates Into an Oil Shock It Says It Cannot Fix.
Private Credit's Default Rate Hit a Record the Week Before the Fed Raised Rates
The Government Paid $6.7bn Last Year for Work Nobody Did
A Factory in Liuzhou Now Builds a Humanoid Robot Every Ten Minutes
OpenAI Is Sounding Out a $1.5tn Valuation and Putting Off the Listing
The House Voted a Third Time to End the Iran War, and Is Still About Seventy Votes Short
The Doors Closed at Half Past Four, and Two Thousand Performances a Year Closed With Them
The Big Read
The NumbersThree Newsrooms Lost Their White House Passes on Saturday. No One Named a Story.
A 1977 ruling requires notice, a chance to answer, and a written decision before a press pass is taken. None of the three newsrooms has been given any of them.
The East Room podium, empty. Reporters from three outlets were refused entry to the grounds on Saturday morning.
Three reporters were stopped at the gates of the White House on Saturday morning. Betsy Klein of CNN. Akayla Gardner of MS NOW. Cheyenne Haslett of Politico.
They were not late, and they were not unaccredited. They had passes. The passes had been switched off.
"The officer asked me to hand over my badge," Gardner said afterwards. "He said that it was disabled."
The Long View
The EU Cannot Admit Canada, So It Has Invented a Category Instead
A trade agreement is a contract.
The Long View
Kosovo's Former President Was Convicted by a Court Kosovo Agreed to Create
Thousands watched the verdict in Pristina, where the defendants are widely regarded as founders of the state.
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Infrastructure Everybody Depends On Should Not Be Owned by a Competitor
Coverage Should Follow the Approval, Not the Advice
You Cannot Delegate the Thing You Have Never Done
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Fox Won August by One Measure and Lost a Fifth of Its Audience by the Other
The ratings table now produces different champions depending on which column you read.
Saudi Arabia Spends $83 Billion a Year. Its Pipeline Is Burning and It Has Not Answered.
The question is not whether Saudi forces can fight.
The Catch-Up Contribution Changes Hands in 2027, Not 2026
The rule is written about the prior year and about one employer at a time.
Delaware Was Supposed to Be Losing Companies. It Registered 334,461 New Ones.
A count of filings is not a count of consequence.
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A Month Ago a Fed Hike Was a Coin Toss. The Market Now Treats It as Settled.
The Long View
Iran's Nuclear Chief Was Kept Out of the Room Where Its Inspections Are Argued
The Long View
Bangsamoro Voted for Its First Parliament. The Peace Deal Promised It Twelve Years Ago.
The Numbers
Sweden Voted on Whether the Far Right Should Govern, and the Far Right Went Backwards
The Long View
Three First Ministers Signed a Declaration of Self-Determination. None of Them Can Call a Vote.
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Kansas's In-State Tuition Law Was Struck Down in a Case Neither Side Wanted to Win
A lawsuit needs two sides.
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Everything we have published, newest firstThe Former Rebels Are Losing Bangsamoro's First Election to Other Former Rebels
With nearly all votes counted in Bangsamoro's first parliamentary election, the Bangsamoro Federalist Party leads on 35.2 percent against 32.4 percent for the United Bangsamoro Justice Party, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's own party. The leader in front is the region's chief minister, himself a former MILF commander. Turnout passed 82 percent. Proclamations are delayed.
The Kennedy Center Says It Cannot Make Payroll, and Its Board Has Named One Way Out
The Kennedy Center's board has told a federal court the institution cannot meet payroll or routine maintenance "within a matter of weeks" and could close as soon as Tuesday. A 57-page internal report projects $124 million of a budgeted $220 million in revenue. Internal documents describe restoring President Trump's name to the building, the subject of a lawsuit, as the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
National News
Why Did the Senate Vote Twice on the Same Bill in Three Days?
The Senate spent Thursday on two different kinds of majority. A bill rewriting college athletics cleared its procedural hurdle 77 to 22, two days after a 74 to 24 cloture vote on the same motion. A district judgeship cleared cloture 49 to 47 an hour later.
The Hormuz Closure
Staying to Keep the Oil and Ending the War Soon Are Two Different Plans
Speaking at his golf resort in Ireland on Sunday, President Trump said the US would ultimately leave Iran "unless we decide to stay and keep the oil like Venezuela," and that gasoline prices would "drop like a rock" when the war ends. The two statements point in opposite directions. One describes a withdrawal. The other describes an occupation of the world's most contested oil infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia's Way Around Hormuz Is Shut, and Its Way Out of the Red Sea Is Held by the Houthis
Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline after drone attacks last week, closing the main route its oil had used to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. Over the weekend the Houthis took Perim Island and with it control of the Bab al-Mandab, the strait that cargoes loaded at the pipeline's Red Sea terminal must pass to reach Asia. Brent rose toward $108 on Monday.
The Satellite Pictures Were Bought Before the Strike and Again After It
US officials have linked satellite imagery supplied to Iran by Chinese entities to the July strike on a base in Jordan that killed three American soldiers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Iran obtained high-resolution pictures of the base before the attack and after it. The officials did not accuse the Chinese government. The disclosure lands ten days before Xi Jinping is due at the White House.
The Market Read the Essay as a Forecast for Chip Demand
Chip stocks fell before Monday's open after the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI said the industry should slow the rate at which AI models improve. Nvidia was down 3 percent in premarket trading, Marvell and Arm 6 percent, and ASML 9.5 percent. The labs are mostly private. The public way to express a view on slower AI is to sell the companies that supply it.
The Patch Waited Six Weeks on Half the Servers. The Attackers Waited Four Days.
Wiz says attackers exploited three JFrog Artifactory flaws between 15 August and 8 September, chaining two of them to turn an unauthenticated request into an administrator token. All three had patches. Six weeks after one fix shipped, 59 percent of organisations were still vulnerable. Exploitation of the most serious flaw began four days after it was disclosed.
The Numbers
Gaza's Hospitals Run Entirely on Generators. Their Diesel Is Funded Until Saturday.
Gaza's Health Ministry says the World Health Organization will stop supplying diesel to more than 20 hospitals and health centres from 19 September because of a funding shortfall. The WHO has not commented. Gaza's hospitals have run on generators since the power was cut in October 2023, and the generators were already running on oil changed a quarter as often as they should be.
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Iran Says a Faction Ended the Truce. That Account Suits Everyone Telling It.
The Plan to Halve FEMA Lost in Court Because Nobody Wrote Down Why
Ellison's $7.5 Billion Sale Plan Was Private for Eleven Weeks and Public for One Day
A Hundred and Fifty Thousand Marched to Ban a Party That Just Won 44 Percent
Three Rivals Agreed to Slow Down. Only the First Step Needs No One's Permission.
Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday arguing that frontier AI companies must deliberately slow the rate at which their models improve. Within hours Elon Musk wrote "Dario is right" and Sam Altman said OpenAI would not go public this year. Of the essay's three steps, only one can be taken without a government, a waiver or a treaty.
Seventy-Six Dead, and the Count Finally Closes at 132
This desk asked how many people the ship could carry and how many were on it. Both numbers are now known, and together they move the inquiry from the passenger deck down to the cargo deck.
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The Hormuz Closure20 stories
- 19 Sept Saudi Arabia Spends $83 Billion a Year. Its Pipeline Is Burning and It Has Not Answered.
- 17 Sept Yields Touched Five Percent and Then Fell. The Market Read the Hike as a Promise.
- 16 Sept Twelve to Nothing. The Fed Raised Rates Into an Oil Shock It Says It Cannot Fix.
- 16 Sept The House Voted a Third Time to End the Iran War, and Is Still About Seventy Votes Short
- 15 Sept Five Percent. The Monday the Price of Money, Energy and the Future Moved Together.
- 14 Sept Iran's Nuclear Chief Was Kept Out of the Room Where Its Inspections Are Argued
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