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U.S. Edition · LATEST HEADLINES · Monday, September 21, 2026

President Trump grayscale, blue necktie in color; convention arena and flags in color. Portada plate, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026.

The Week

Trump: the war is ridiculous. Diesel, diesel, diesel. Zelenskyy tomorrow.

Truth Social. Russia lost the diesel industry. AAA $6.51 a record. They meet at the U.N. Xi later this week.

The Rocket News · Washington · September 21, 2026

Desks

Politics More

President Trump grayscale, red necktie in color; Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Lincoln Memorial in color. Portada plate, Sunday morning, Sept. 20, 2026.

The Mall

Trump’s arch: drones, snipers, ammunition. He called it national security.

Two hundred and fifty feet. Memorial Circle. The military asked, he said. Veterans are in court.

Video · PBS NewsHour

The Press

All three. CNN, Politico, MS NOW. The badges came off.

President Trump at a White House podium, full color, navy suit. Wire photograph.

The Press

MS NOW: Saturday morning. The badge beeped red. The gate said no.

Video · MS NOW

President Trump at the Resolute desk, grayscale, blue necktie in color; Oval Office gold and flags in color. Portada plate, Saturday morning, Sept. 19, 2026.

The Hill

Trump signed Lindsey Graham’s Russia bill. Tariffs up to 100 percent.

States More

Maryland

Wes Moore: an AI force with no job is an AI farce.

The NGA chair, on CNN. Fifty guidelines are not a policy. Pritzker said Illinois cannot do this alone.

California

California: Newsom signed 13 bills. Seizing a ballot is a felony.

Florida

Florida: Amendment 3. A tax cut. The firehouse says it will slow the trucks.

California

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

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

World More

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres at the United Nations podium, flags behind him, in color. Person plate.

The Assembly

The U.N. opens under wars, a runaway model, and a $6 diesel.

Guterres this week. Lula Tuesday. Trump after that. Putin is not coming. Xi is.

The Arctic

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

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

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

World War More

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a microphone, Ukrainian flags behind him, in color. Person plate.

World War

Russia hit Zaporizhzhia. Ten regions. After Kyiv’s 1,000 drones.

Apartment blocks, a university, a mall. Zelenskyy: Russia is ready to expand the war. He meets Trump tomorrow.

Ukraine

Moscow: the largest drone night. The refinery burned. Zelensky confirmed.

Video · FRANCE 24 English

A column of fire and red smoke over Moscow apartment blocks at dusk, in color. Wire photograph.

Ukraine

Ukraine overnight: 174 drones, two Zircons. Eleven dead. Day 1,669.

Ukrainian rescuers hose a burning house after a strike, rubble and smoke, in color. Wire photograph.

Ukraine

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

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

Economy More

An American truck driver at a diesel pump reading $6.510, dawn, in color. Person plate.

The Pump

Diesel is $6.51. AAA dated the record this morning.

Highest recorded national average. Regular $4.48. Great Lakes up more than 30 cents. Trump: inexpensive price to pay.

Treasury

Bessent: a successful engagement. Xi is still coming.

The Tape

Diesel is $6.51. AAA dated another record today.

A U.S. diesel pump reading $6.505 a gallon, green nozzle, in color. No figures in the frame.

The Tape

Diesel is $6.49. AAA dated a new record today.

A U.S. diesel pump, green nozzle in the holster, digital price near $6.49, in color. No figures in the frame.

Science More

A NOAA climate scientist before a Pacific sea-surface temperature map, in color. Person plate.

The Water

El Niño hit a record. A September nor’easter is next.

Pacific surface temperature, Saturday, highest on the books. The Post: major U.S. winter impacts. East Coast rain this week.

The Sky

Roman has fuel for 22 years. NASA budgeted ten.

A studio view of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, gold bay and solar arrays, in color. No figures in the frame.

Proof

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

Video · AI news

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

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.

Technology More

Dario Amodei, Anthropic chief executive, at a microphone, World Economic Forum backdrop, in color. Person plate.

The Labs

They agreed to slow the models. Four subscribers sued the labs.

Buist v. Anthropic. N.D. Cal. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini. Sherman Act. Filed Friday.

The Labs

An AI report said nuclear parts. The ship was Chinese. The raid was called off.

Tankers on a hazy sea in the Middle East, in color. No figures in the frame.

Technology

Elon Musk warns: AI is like summoning the demon.

Video · Bloomberg Originals

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

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 mañanera podium, Mexican flag, in color. Person plate.

Mexico

Sheinbaum: phones out of school on Nov. 3. She has done 23 states.

Mañanera. A Tijuana desalination plant with Marina del Pilar. Coordination with Chihuahua, not a working meeting with Maru Campos.

Video · Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Mexico

Sheinbaum, in Juárez: defend the homeland. A short meeting on the tarmac.

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

Mexico

Mexico: half-mast at 7:19. Eighty million phones at noon.

The Mexican flag at half-mast over an empty Zócalo, cathedral behind, Saturday morning, in color. No figures in the frame.

Mexico

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

Video · Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Sports More

A Chargers quarterback in powder blue on the sideline, helmet in hand, stadium lights, in color. Person plate.

NFL

Chargers are 0-2. The Raiders did it again. Herbert has Buffalo next.

SoFi. 26-14. McConkey played hurt. The Jets blew a 10-point lead in overtime to Green Bay.

College

Ole Miss 32, LSU 24. Kiffin went home. Kentucky took A&M.

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

College

Miami 33, Wake 20. Georgia at Arkansas at noon. The Saturday.

Ohio Stadium, the Horseshoe packed in scarlet and gray, field below, in color. Crowd as texture. No identifiable faces.

NFL

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

Video · NFL