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U.S. Edition · Morning Edition · Friday, September 11, 2026

The National September 11 Memorial reflecting pools at dawn, One World Trade Center and flags at half-staff in color. Empty plaza. News photograph, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026.

Sept. 11

Trump at the Pentagon. Four presidents at Ground Zero.

Vance stands in. Bush, Obama, Clinton, Biden sit for the names. Speeches are barred in Manhattan.

The Rocket News · New York / Arlington · September 11, 2026

Desks

Politics More

President Trump at a microphone against a blue sky: the figure in black and white — cap, suit, tie, face — the sky in color. Editor’s plate.

Midterms

$5,000 if the GOP holds Congress. Some Republicans flinch.

A “Trump dividend.” About $1.2 trillion. Tariff take this year: $167 billion. The pump is $4.30.

Video · CBS News

Twenty-five years

How 9/11 changed George W. Bush’s presidency and legacy

Video · C-SPAN

Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispers to President George W. Bush in a Sarasota classroom on Sept. 11, 2001: both figures in black and white; children’s mural and chalkboard in color. Editor’s plate.

Midterms

“Trumpapalooza” is on in Dallas. Trump keys night one.

Video · New York Times Podcasts

President Trump at a microphone against a blue sky: the figure in black and white — cap, suit, tie, face — the sky in color. Editor’s plate, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.

Midterms

“Trumpapalooza” opens tonight in Dallas. New Hampshire is now a race.

Video · New York Times Podcasts

The American Airlines Center in Dallas at dusk: brick arches, an empty plaza, no figures in the frame.

U.S.More

Miami

Miami names the five in the van. The tape already had the speed.

Rolando Aleman Leon. Carlos Acosta Fajardo. Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo. Javierkys Reyes Quevedo. Julio Pineda.

Video · NTSBgov

Miami

Miami: one pilot kept saying they were too fast. The other did not answer.

Video · NTSBgov

Miami

Miami: the Amazon jet tried to go around. The boxes say the landing was never clean.

Video · NTSBgov

Miami

NTSB in Miami: five dead in a cleaning van. The recorders are in Washington.

Video · NTSBgov

World More

A products tanker listing and on fire at a Persian Gulf anchorage at dusk. No figures in the frame.

Diplomacy

Gulf ministers will sit with Iran in Salalah. A table, not a strait.

Monday in Oman. Enter Iranian water, exit Omani. Brent slipped, then held $104.

Video · LiveNOW from FOX

Diplomacy

Qatar wants Hormuz opened. Unconditionally. The file went to Beijing.

Video · BBC News

An oil tanker in a narrow dusk strait between arid mountains, a distant column of smoke on the horizon.

Europe

AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt and not a majority. Europe still has to count.

Video · CBS Evening News

An empty carrier flight deck at dusk: ranked jets, a wake, no faces.

Diplomacy

A peace signed in June, already fraying by summer’s end

Video · Kompas.com

An empty diplomatic table after a signing: blotters, fountain pens, water glasses in a marble hall.

World War More

Ukraine

161 drones overnight. Eight wounded in a Kyiv nine-story.

A woman is dead in Vyshhorod. The pause after the American envoys is over.

Video · Euronews

The Red Sea

U.N. warns Yemen is sliding back to war. Houthis hold Mokha.

Video · Firstpost

Black smoke and orange fire at a southern Saudi energy site after Houthi strikes. No figures in the frame.

The Gulf

Iran says it hit 10 ships. A seafarer is dead. Brent closed $101.

Video · ILTV Israel News

A products tanker listing and on fire at a Persian Gulf anchorage at dusk, black smoke and orange flame, arid mountains on the far shore. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.

The Red Sea

Houthis hit three Saudi cities a second day. Yemen counts 55 raids.

Video · Firstpost

Black smoke and orange fire at a southern Saudi energy site after Houthi strikes. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

Economy More

A U.S. gas station price board in color; no figures in the frame. News photograph.

The Tape

Diesel is $6.06. A record. The gallon is $4.30.

Brent near $104 after $108 Thursday. IEA: Saudi supply at a three-decade low.

Video · Al Jazeera English

The Tape

Brent closed $101.21. Diesel is still a record.

Video · LiveNOW from FOX

A suburban gas station at dusk, pump canopy and price board in color, no figures in the frame.

The Border

Washington bans Canadian dairy, liquor and motorcycles. The date is Sept. 29.

Video · BBC News

Freight trucks queued at night under the lights of a snowy northern border crossing. No faces.

The Border

Canada’s 50 percent tariffs take effect. $27.6 billion of American goods.

Video · BBC News

Science More

The Moon

NASA and IBM put a Moon model on Hugging Face.

Two million tiles. Craters 19 percent better. Ice in the dark, 22 percent tighter.

Video · IBM Research

Machines

Anthropic built a model of what A.I. does to the American paycheck. You can push the sliders.

Video · KPIX / CBS News Bay Area

Humanoid robots in Delta Robots livery holding Democratism flags outside a Warsaw ministry. No people in the frame. Photograph, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026.

Machines

Thirty robots marched on Warsaw. They asked Poland to regulate A.I.

Video · KPIX / CBS News Bay Area

Machines

The stock market is closed for Labor Day. The models are not on holiday.

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

A night sky over water, a pale object caught in a grainy frame.

Mexico More

A border crossing under American and Mexican flags, pavement and sky in color. News photograph.

Mexico

A Mexican flag from the towers hangs in New York. Sixteen dead.

Five fully identified. The cloth is at the consulate. Sheinbaum is in Chiapas.

Video · GBS

Mexico City

Sheinbaum: you cannot swear to two flags. She named who voted no.

Video · GBS

A border crossing at dusk, freight lanes and a river, lights coming on in two countries. No faces.

Mexico City

Sheinbaum: one flag. Deputies advance a ban on dual nationality for those who govern.

Video · GBS

Mexico City

Sheinbaum: Mexico is not a colony. Trump posted a flag over the map.

Video · GBS

Sports More

A packed NFL stadium at night, lights and turf in color. News photograph.

NFL

Lock in, Darnold out. Seattle 13, New England 10.

JSN 45 yards on fourth-and-1. Maye three picks. The banner went up. The hip went out.

Video · NFL Highlights

Kickoff

Patriots 7–0 early. Darnold is out with a hip. A rookie scored first.

Video · NFL on NBC

An empty stadium at dusk, floodlights coming on over a vacant field.

Kickoff

The NFL opens tonight: Patriots at Seahawks, a Super Bowl rematch, 8:20 p.m. Eastern.

Video · NFL on NBC

Kickoff

The NFL opens with a Super Bowl rematch. Champions League starts tonight.

Video · NFL on NBC