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U.S. Edition · LATEST HEADLINES · Friday, September 18, 2026

President Trump at the Resolute desk, grayscale, red necktie in color; Oval Office gold, flags and press in the room. Portada plate, Friday evening, Sept. 18, 2026.

The Press

Trump bans CNN, MS NOW, Politico. Effective immediately. They were still there.

A Truth Social post at 3 p.m. A very simple ban, he said in the Oval. No eviction yet. Other outlets to follow.

The Rocket News · Washington · September 18, 2026

Desks

Politics More

President Trump grayscale with red cap and red necktie; President Sheinbaum in full color; Mexican flag in color. Portada plate, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026.

USMCA

Sheinbaum: a very good call. Twenty-two times. No paper until it is signed.

Wednesday, Independence Day. Ebrard and Velasco on the line. Irapuato this morning. The hangar now has a receipt.

Video · Imagen Noticias

Midterms

“My money.” Trump claims MAGA Inc. A watchdog files. The law says no.

Video · NowThis Impact

President Trump at a North Carolina podium, full color, red cap and red tie. Wire photograph.

USMCA

Trump, in Gastonia: we are very close to a great deal with Mexico.

Video · WCNC

President Trump at the Gastonia rally, arms open: the figure in black and white; red cap and red necktie in color; crowd, flags and hangar in color. Portada plate, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026.

Midterms

Trump on his Court: a shell of their original selves. Mail ballots still go out.

Video · CNN

President Trump, fists raised, in black and white; red necktie in color; the Supreme Court marble and blue sky in color. Portada plate, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.

States More

Gov. Gavin Newsom at a podium, full color, navy suit. Wire photograph.

California

Newsom: an AI kill switch. Independent audits. California, not the White House.

An executive order Friday. Experts in two months. Trump called the fears a hoax. The governor did not wait.

Texas

Texas: the wall is going up in Big Bend. First steel in a country that fought it.

A yellow bulldozer and a sample wall panel in the Big Bend desert, a canoe reading STOP THE STEEL, in color. No figures in the frame.

Texas

Texas: nine in ten of the children. Unlicensed beds. Lawyers at 9 percent.

Video · PBS NewsHour

The Texas Capitol dome in color. No figures in the frame.

North Carolina

Gastonia: a special place, then blood-soaked. Whatley got the hangar. Cooper got the smear.

Video · WBTV News - Charlotte

The hangar at Gastonia Municipal Airport, Making America Safe Again, crowd and stage in color. Wire photograph.

World More

Colorful houses on the Nuuk shore, fjord and mountains in color. No figures in the frame.

The Arctic

Greenland: permanent security. Denmark keeps the island. The text is not out.

Trump: Infinite Life, no cost. Frederiksen: sovereignty, self-determination, sign at the U.N. next week.

Hormuz

The East-West is shut. Four percent of the world’s oil. Yanbu is dark.

Video · Times Now

An oil tanker in a narrow dusk strait between arid mountains, a distant column of smoke on the horizon. No figures in the frame.

Diplomacy

Trump posted a truce. Kyiv said if. Moscow said maybe. Nobody signed.

Video · CNN-News18

Hormuz

Salalah postponed. Saudi asked. The maps stay in the drawer.

Video · LiveNOW from FOX

World War More

A Ukrainian apartment block at night, windows blown, rubble in the yard, in color. No figures in the frame.

Ukraine

Sumy: a glide bomb between the third and fourth floors. Two dead. A child under the rubble.

Zelenskyy: absolutely inhuman. Balakliia two more. Odesa ten hurt. The overnight 93 was the small night.

Ukraine

Ninety-three drones overnight. Seventy-two down. Hits at thirteen places.

Video · ANNnewsCH

A damaged street at dawn, smoke and brick in color. No figures in the frame.

Ukraine

131 downed. Kyiv, Odesa. Sixteen hurt in the capital, two of them children.

Video · Channel 4 News

Ukraine

80 drones overnight. A bus in Nikopol. Five dead on the way to work.

Video · WION

Economy More

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

The Tape

Diesel is $6.45. The highest AAA has ever printed. The gallon is $4.47.

Friday morning. Up a nickel from $6.40. Forty-seven days. A record on the record.

Video · Al Jazeera English

The Tape

Diesel is $6.40. Another record on a Thursday. The gallon is $4.44.

Video · Al Jazeera English

The Tape

Diesel is $6.31. Another record on a Wednesday. The gallon is $4.37.

Video · Al Jazeera English

The Tape

Diesel is $6.27. Another record on a Tuesday. The gallon is $4.33.

Video · Al Jazeera English

Science More

A glass office tower at dusk, a few floors lit, the rest dark. No figures in the frame.

Proof

Claude wrote Fermat in Lean. Eleven days. Thirteen million lines.

Mathematicians had budgeted five years. 29,500 intermediate theorems, checked.

Video · AI news

The Moon

NASA and IBM put a Moon model on Hugging Face.

Video · IBM Research

The Moon from orbit: cratered highlands, a shadowed polar crater with ice glints at the rim, black sky. No figures. Scientific photograph.

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

Technology More

Elon Musk, hands together, on stage, full color. Photograph supplied by the editor. Portada plate, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026.

Technology

Elon Musk warns: AI is like summoning the demon.

At MIT he compared the engineers to the man with the pentagram. Holy water. Until it all goes wrong.

Video · Bloomberg Originals

Technology

“Whoever wins AI, wins.” Trump calls the halt “things that won’t happen.”

Video · Associated Press

Sam Altman, President Trump and Elon Musk at a World Economic Forum wall, full color. Editor’s plate for the Doonbeg AI note, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.

Mexico More

President Claudia Sheinbaum at the podium, full color, Mexican flag at her shoulder. Wire photograph.

Mexico

From Irapuato: the T-MEC is not gone. The tariffs ate the original idea.

Mañanera in Guanajuato. She respects Carney. Security was not on the call. Twenty-two times.

Video · Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Mexico

Ebrard: ahí va. Sheinbaum has not said. The talks slipped a week.

Video · Los Presidenciables mx

President Claudia Sheinbaum, hand on her chest, full color, embroidered jacket. Wire photograph.

Mexico

Sheinbaum: Mexico will not kneel. Three hundred thousand heard the Grito. Then the parade.

Video · Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Mexico

No mañanera. Tonight Sheinbaum shouts Viva México from the balcony.

Video · Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Sports More

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

NFL

Chiefs 31, Broncos 10. Walker 173 yards. Mahomes’ legs, first night back.

Arrowhead. First win in 295 days. Nix sat on the turf. Week 1 is over.

Video · NFL

College

Texas 24, Ohio State 23. Down 20 in the fourth. Manning. Smothers at 0:25.

Video · SEC Network

Arch Manning in a Texas jersey after the game, full color, stadium crowd behind him. Wire photograph.

NFL

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

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.