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U.S. Edition · LATEST HEADLINES · Thursday, September 17, 2026

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.

USMCA

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

A hangar in North Carolina. Why carry Canada. Why carry Mexico. Sheinbaum has not said. Ebrard: ahí va.

The Rocket News · Gastonia, N.C. · September 17, 2026

Desks

Politics More

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.

Midterms

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

He named Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett. Blanche took the Rose Garden. The USPS screen is still dead.

Video · CNN

The Poll

Times/Siena: Democrats +9. The economy is his, and it is killing him.

Video · The New York Times

A mail ballot envelope in gloved hands, full color. Wire photograph.

Midterms

The Court said no. Mail ballots go out as usual. Trump’s USPS screen is dead.

Video · CNN

President Trump at a White House podium: the figure in black and white; gold curtains and flags in color. Wire photograph. Portada plate, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026.

Ireland

Trump, home from Ireland: Zelensky must stop hitting Russian diesel.

Video · DRM News

President Trump facing Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office: the figures in black and white; gold chairs, red flags and the fireplace in color. Wire photograph. Portada plate, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026.

States More

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

North Carolina

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

Trump for Michael Whatley. Crime 31st in the nation. He called it the worst. Pretend I’m on the ballot.

Video · WBTV News - Charlotte

Florida

DeSantis: slash the property tax. Counties: libraries, parks, the firehouse.

Video · Fox Business

Gov. Ron DeSantis at a wooden podium, full color, Florida flag at his shoulder. Wire photograph.

California

Weber: the cloud is lifted. California mails the ballot. Trump’s screen is dead.

Video · NBC News

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber at a microphone, full color. Wire photograph.

Wisconsin

Tiffany swam. Twelve stitches. “God was watching.” The campaign goes on.

Video · CBS 58

Rep. Tom Tiffany at a podium, full color, blue backdrop. Wire photograph.

World More

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

Hormuz

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

Houthis hit the pipeline that bypassed Hormuz. Loadings cancelled. Wright: days. Goldman: eight weeks.

Video · Times Now

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

Diplomacy

Bahrain will not sit. Iran will show maps. The strait is not open.

Video · Times Now World

World War More

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.

157 Shaheds. Missiles from Kursk, the Caspian, Bryansk. Hits at 36 places. The truce is still a post.

Video · Channel 4 News

Ukraine

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

Video · WION

Ukraine

200 drones overnight. 187 downed. Kyiv gas stations hit. Four hurt.

Video · Kyiv Independent

Ukraine

108 drones overnight. One dead in Zaporizhzhia. An infant hurt in Izyum.

Video · Times of India

Economy More

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

The Tape

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

AAA this morning. Up nine cents from $6.31. Forty-eight days. The hangar did not fill a tank.

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

The Tape

Diesel is $6.23. A new record on a Monday. The gallon is $4.32.

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

Mexico

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

Trump wants a signing before November. Ebrard: that is his view. WSJ: Sept. 28–29.

Video · Los Presidenciables mx

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

Mexico

Sheinbaum’s Monday: 673,000 mortgages. Gasoline under 24 pesos. The cadets got swords.

Video · GBS

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.