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‘I said, if you want to fire me, just fire me. And so he did’: my showdown with Donald Trump
NEWS | 13 September 2026
[Trump told Bolton they would talk about his resignation offer the following morning.] A Democrat, she was appointed to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an independent agency of the US government, by Donald Trump in 2018. Donald Trump doesn’t think about me at all. My assistant and I told Donald this would blow up the project, which it eventually did. As told to Kate LloydTower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him by Barbara Res (Graymalkin Media, £14.99) is available now.

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‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
NEWS | 13 September 2026
The move comes after a former Anthropic researcher warned on Wednesday that AI could precipitate human extinction by 2030. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Delangue said Hugging Face had asked to be part of Anthropic’s “embedded evaluators” program. But he warned that “the measures I propose to advance the frontier at a safe pace will not be easy.

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OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says
NEWS | 13 September 2026
OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence. The warnings follow cases of AI agents going rogue to hack external systems and AI ​safety researchers quitting their companies concerned about the technology’s risks. When asked by Fortune whether 2026 is off the table in favor of 2027, Altman said: “I would say not 2026. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, on Saturday urged AI companies to take a more deliberate approach to development. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Altman wrote in a response to Amodei’s post on the X platform.

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Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians flee as Houthis advance along Red Sea coast
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Nearly 50,000 people have fled a sudden advance by Houthi forces in western Yemen, with entire villages emptied and families trapped near frontline fighting with depleting food supplies, according to aid workers. In a lightning advance this week, the Iran-backed Houthi militants have seized a string of towns along the Red Sea coast from forces aligned with the US- and Saudi-backed Yemeni government. Many fear a return to the full-scale civil war that killed 150,000 and brought many others to the brink of famine. View image in fullscreen A heavily laden vehicle arrives in Sana’a as people flee frontline fighting. “Years of conflict, economic deterioration, displacement, climate-related shocks and regional tensions have steadily weakened livelihoods and household resilience,” the report warned.

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Iran’s Houthi allies capture strategic island on vital oil shipping route
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Yemen’s rampant Houthi forces have captured the strategic island of Perim in the Bab al-Mandab strait, expanding their control of the narrow waterway, one of the ​world’s vital shipping routes. Saudi Arabia, which supports and bankrolls the official Yemen government, mounted air raids on Houthi positions in Mocha on Friday. Saudi Arabia has now said it has shut down a crucial pipeline a day after it was attacked by drones, and Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured Perim. Full Houthi control of shipping in the Bab al-Mandab strait, alongside Iranian control of the strait of Hormuz, would strengthen the chokeholds of anti-western forces over global energy shipments. He accused the Saudis of strategic incompetence and of alienating the southern forces most needed to combat the Houthis.

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Saudi Arabia shuts down key oil pipeline, blaming drones from Iraq
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline, accusing militants in Iraq of launching drone attacks on the export route being used to bypass the lockdown of the strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia has previously accused Tehran-backed Iraqi militias of targeting its oil infrastructure. He added that ​the UK “stands firmly with ⁠Saudi Arabia and the ​internationally ​recognised government ​of ​Yemen against ‌these ​attacks”. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced a maritime blockade in July against Saudi Arabia – which supports the Yemeni government – and attacked its oil tankers in the Red Sea. After taking control of the Yemeni Red Sea coast on Friday, the Houthis said navigation through the Bab al-Mandab strait was “safe” for all but Saudi Arabia.

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Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united Ireland
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see a united Ireland and that it “may as well happen now”. It may as well happen now.”The unification of Northern Ireland with the republic of Ireland would be “fantastic”, Trump said. View image in fullscreen Donald Trump and Catherine Connolly at her presidential residence in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Speakers accused Trump of facilitating genocide in Gaza and led chants of “Donald Trump, can you hear? “Donald Trump is utterly immoral and he’s wrecking the world,” said Anne McGuinness, 70, who held a banner that said “unwelcome”.

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Calls for Democrats to be shot go unchallenged at Republican convention
NEWS | 13 September 2026
The outbursts came repeatedly during Ted Cruz’s Thursday night address at the American Airlines center, when he named a Democrat he accused of holding radical views. Cruz did not pause or respond to the shouting, and it remains unclear whether he heard it from the stage. “Look, I’m a dad with two daughters, and I hope those daughters get to grow up and live with their dad. This is what has become the norm in our politics … literally calls to violence and the inability for anybody to actually call it out,” El-Sayed said. A spokesperson for Mike Rogers, the Republican former congressman challenging El-Sayed for Michigan’s open Senate seat who was in Dallas for the convention, said Rogers condemned the remarks and “all political violence”.

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Trump asks Smithsonian to install ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington with exhibit
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Donald Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution to install a 30ft “Colossus statue” of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History, and a special exhibit honoring the nation’s first president, in a social media post late on Friday. Trump’s latest request underscores a perception that he sees himself as curator-in-chief of the nation’s national museum. In July, Trump ordered the interior department to display signs in front of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that accuse the institution of inaccuracy. The order declared signs outside the National Museum of American History “shall notify visitors that the museum exhibits should be renovated consistent with the findings in the report”. For Constitution Day on 17 September, Trump asked the Smithsonian to install the 11ft statue of Washington featured at the recent Freedom 250 IndyCar race in the museum’s Flag Hall.

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Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?
NEWS | 13 September 2026
So the US president’s decision to close out this week’s first ever Republican midterm convention with a plea – treat November’s congressional elections as a referendum on Trump himself – was received by his Democratic opponents with glee. View image in fullscreen Attendees wave American flag placards on the second day of the midterm convention. Photograph: Jeff Mcwhorter/EPAHolding a convention in a midterm year was an attempt to make history in order to defy history. Attendees wore clothes with phrases such as “Trump tribe”, “Trump has our back” and “Proud deplorable”. Pavel Sokolov, 33, vice-chair of the New Jersey Republican party, drew on his personal background to reinforce the point.

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Taxes wouldn’t fund $5,000 Trump ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 “dividend” to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November’s elections would not be paid out from US tax revenues, according to the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Trump suggested the dividend, which could cost as much as $1tn if paid out to all Americans, could come in part from tariff revenue. “If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000,” he said, adding that it would be called “the Trump dividend”. In his comments, Lutnick joined with other administration officials in floating ideas on where the $5,000 checks might come from. Trump’s $5,000 dividend proposal comes as a recent Associated Press poll found that only about three in 10 US adults, or 32%, approve of how the president is handling the economy, down from 40% at the start of his second term.

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Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize
NEWS | 13 September 2026
May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, at an awards ceremony that also saw the Gaza documentary NAZA win the jury prize. The Guardian’s film critic hailed Woman Unknown as “elegantly appointed” in his review, likening it to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca. Arcel also won the festival’s best actress prize, the Volpi Cup, which puzzled some critics: usually, Venice doesn’t award more than one prize to a film. The special jury prize, Venice’s equivalent of a bronze medal, went to Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s documentary NAZA, about Israel’s AI-powered mass killing of civilians in Gaza. View image in fullscreen NAZA directors Rachel Szor, left, and Yuval Abraham with the special jury award.

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Bold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love – and NAZA
NEWS | 13 September 2026
Did the Venice film festival just redeem itself on the sexism issue? Photograph: Courtesy Venice Film FestivalIt’s a film with an elegant twist of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. View image in fullscreen Director Lee Chang-dong with his grand jury trophy for Possible Love. NAZA won the special jury prize and for some that won’t be enough, considering the ecstatic 24-minute ovation it received. View image in fullscreen Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham with their special jury prize for NAZA.

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IDF soldier filmed shooting Palestinian in leg amid West Bank settler standoff
NEWS | 13 September 2026
One of them shot Qassem Hussam, a Palestinian man in his mid-30s, wounding him in the leg. The IDF added that the military was investigating the soldier who shot the Palestinian man, apparently in breach of army protocol, according to the Times of Israel. Video of the incident shows a group of Israeli soldiers and settlers confronting unarmed Palestinian men before shots are fired. East of Ramallah, Israeli settlers attacked the outskirts of Burqa, throwing stones at homes and vehicles. Three other pupils from their 470-strong school had already been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers this year.