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U.S. Edition · Morning Edition · Saturday, September 12, 2026

President Trump seated, holding a black folder: the figure in black and white; red leather chair, gold drapes and window in color. Editor’s plate, Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026.

Trade

Trump will not leave USMCA. “A great relationship with Mexico.”

Dublin, after Micheál Martin. Asked if he would withdraw. Canada, he said, wants a deal badly.

The Rocket News · Dublin · September 12, 2026

Desks

Politics More

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.

Video · CNN

Midterms

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

Video · CBS News

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.

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.

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

President Trump walking the South Lawn toward Marine One: the figure in black and white — coat, tie, fist — grass, trees and the olive helicopter in color. Editor’s plate for the Dublin note, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026.

Dublin

Trump would “love” a united Ireland. “It may as well happen now.”

Farmleigh House. Micheál Martin sat next to him. London heard it. Downing Street did not clap.

Video · The White House

Diplomacy

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

Video · LiveNOW from FOX

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

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.

World War More

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

The Red Sea

Houthis hold Bab al-Mandab. Mayyun Island is theirs.

Yemen’s whole Red Sea coast. Traffic halved to 15 crossings. Saudi’s pipeline is shut.

Video · Times Now World

Ukraine

Eleven dead in Ukraine. Putin tells Europe not to send troops.

Video · Euronews

Ukraine

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

Video · Euronews

A burned Ukraine–Moldova border checkpoint at dawn: scorched cars, a gutted inspection canopy, a column of smoke, empty lanes. No figures in the frame.

The Red Sea

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

Video · Firstpost

Economy More

A U.S. gas station price board in color. No figures in the frame.

The Tape

Two straits. Diesel is still a record. Brent held three figures.

Bab al-Mandab halved. Hormuz still thin. The East-West line is shut. Monday is Salalah.

Video · Al Jazeera English

The Tape

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

Video · Al Jazeera English

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

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.

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. News photograph.

Mexico

Mexico wants a USMCA patch before the midterm. Sheinbaum has a line.

54 Washington points. No signature that touches sovereignty. A $102 billion surplus in six months.

Video · GBS

Mexico

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

Video · GBS

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

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

Sports More

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

NFL

49ers 27, Rams 7. First NFL game in Australia. 100,021 at the MCG.

Purdy three scores. Stafford stuffed at the 1. The Rams flew in Thursday. It showed.

Video · NFL on NBC

NFL

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

Video · NFL Highlights

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

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