- French presidential candidate is first to give birth during campaign
on September 23, 2026Greens leader Marine Tondelier gave birth to a baby boy hours after a key meeting with the French president in the Elysée.
- Why your family needs to talk about inheritance tax now
on September 22, 2026More people are set to be dragged into the inheritance tax net, making it all the more important to talk about […]
- ICE “Disappears” Thousands Ordered to Be Deported From Detainee Locator
by Sharon Zhang on September 22, 2026 at 9:04 pmThis could make it “nearly impossible” for some people to challenge their deportation orders, an attorney said.
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U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%. [...]
Gold settled 1.4% lower, down two of the past three sessions, and silver fell 2.5%, down three of the past four sessions. [...]
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown. [...]
Gain insight on Experian, SoFi Technologies and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. [...]
Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia. [...]
The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks. [...]
U.S. natural gas futures fell after weekend updates took some of the chill out of early February weather forecasts. [...]
QXO is taking its offer directly to shareholders after being rebuffed on several occasions. [...]
Sophia Huang Xueqin, a journalist whose reporting on human rights and sexual abuse helped to galvanize China’s #MeToo movement, was scheduled to be released from prison last Friday, after completing a five-year sentence for allegedly “inciting subversion of state power.” Huang and her friend, labor [...]
The following is an introduction to and contextualization of some of the specific entries and broader categories included in CDT’s archived “ByteDance Lexicon of Sensitive Terms.” The lexicon, which contains some 5,241 “sensitive” words and phrases subject to review by ByteDance internal content moderators, derives [...]
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Chinese news media face mounting challenges such as commercial headwinds and pressure to adapt to new technologies like short video. These are compounded in the Chinese context by political content restrictions and the added burdens of other political tasks. In the [...]
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin [...]
On Monday, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism announced the conclusion of its investigation into an operatic performance by comedian Guo Degang back in July, and said that it would levy hefty fines on the organizers and theatrical venue involved. The investigation purportedly [...]
A minimally invasive procedure called genicular artery embolization could offer a new middle ground between conservative treatments and knee replacement for osteoarthritis. By blocking tiny blood vessels associated with inflammation, GAE can significantly reduce pain, with some patients reporting little or no pain afterward. Studies [...]
Caffeine may make sleep less restorative even when you fall asleep normally and stay in bed for eight hours, with EEG recordings revealing fewer of the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep. Individual sensitivity varies dramatically, meaning even caffeine consumed earlier in the day [...]
A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases. In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption [...]
Stem cell transplants helped regenerate stroke-damaged brain tissue in mice, producing new neurons and restoring lost motor function. The treatment also improved blood vessels, inflammation, and the blood-brain barrier, raising hopes that a similar approach could eventually help repair the human brain after stroke. [...]
A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology could eventually enable miniature robots to search earthquake rubble and navigate [...]
Researchers have created a concrete mixture that is both stronger and capable of absorbing carbon dioxide. The best formula, combining zeolite with bamboo biochar, boosted compressive strength by 7.48% and tensile strength by 15% compared with conventional concrete. It also captured about 1.2 grams of [...]
An amateur astronomer searching satellite maps for a Quebec camping spot accidentally discovered a massive ancient impact crater. Scientists later found shatter cones that confirmed the 25-kilometer-wide structure was blasted into Earth roughly 390 million years ago. [...]
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has successfully activated its 300-megapixel infrared camera, which will capture enormous stretches of the cosmos with Hubble-like sharpness. Its planet-hunting coronagraph is also working as expected, putting Roman another major step closer to beginning science operations in 2027. [...]
The UN Population Fund also says there has been a "severe escalation" in the number of early and forced marriages. [...]
The talks are the first since a ceasefire collapsed in June, with the sides exchanging fire intermittently. [...]
The G7 also condemns "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying that the escalation in fighting in Yemen jeopardises global energy security. [...]
The UK says it will provide air-to-air refuelling for "defensive" operations following a request from Saudi Arabia. [...]
The BBC's Frank Gardner speaks to some of those who have fled the war by crossing the Red Sea to Djibouti. [...]
A reported strike on a fuel depot at Riyadh airport caused delays on Saturday, as Saudi Arabia says it shot down a ballistic missile aimed at the capital. [...]
Saudi Arabia has lobbied the US for years to buy F35s, the world's most advanced fighter jet. [...]
The US has not acknowledged carrying out February's deadly strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd. [...]
The U.S. president offers a guide on how to be a very bad prince. [...]
Reformers who had pinned hope on Anwar to clean things up are enraged. [...]
U.S. President Donald Trump made threats, while outgoing U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for peace and multilateralism. [...]
Such warnings—on the U.N. stage, no less—could be considered war crimes. [...]
Trump still doesn’t have an answer to China’s leverage. [...]
Trade, minerals, and AI are on the agenda, but breakthroughs are unlikely. [...]
Like nuclear weapons, AI was born of human ingenuity. But its challenges are unique. [...]
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- South Africa Pushes for Permanent African Seat on UN Security Council [...]
[RFI] Moroccans will on Wednesday elect a new parliament, with the political disengagement of the country's youth among the main issues shaping the vote. [...]
[New Zimbabwe] AMERICA will, at the end of this month, stop funding all health programmes in Zimbabwe it has been involved in for more than 20 years, Ambassador Pamela Tremont has revealed. [...]
[GroundUp] Reports about domestic violence and assault, including images and locations, could be accessed by a tech-savvy computer user [...]
[Dabanga] New York -- Civilian forces opposed to the war in Sudan have called on the UN secretary-general and members of the Security Council to take urgent international action to make an immediate, comprehensive humanitarian truce in Sudan a priority, alongside measures to protect civilians [...]
[HRW] Nairobi -- Latest Crackdown Heightens Rights Concerns Amid Renewed Political Tensions [...]
[Daily Maverick] South African investigative journalist Micah Reddy of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was detained on Saturday, but is now on his way back to South Africa. [...]
[Unicef] New York/Nairobi/Khartoum -- Drone strikes on two warehouses in Shikan locality, North Kordofan, on 20 September destroyed over 292,000 school textbooks, 40,000 Arabic Language and Mathematics Review Books, and other learning materials intended for distribution to children. [...]