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Sep 29, 2026 - World

This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailWhile the lawmakers in the US House have already left Washington to get a head start on midterm campaigning, the Senate is hoping to wrap up its legislative agenda this week. Today, we can expect a vote at 5.30pm ET on the Protect College Sports act, which attempts to provide greater protections for university athletes in the US.The bill includes provisions for players to earn compensation from their name, image and likeness – known as NIL payments, and allow them to transfer schools (and teams) without being penalized or forced to sit out for a defined period of time. If the legislation clears the Senate it will still need to head back to the lower chamber before it can head to Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's war in Iran has cost Americans in a number of obvious ways, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow said on Monday — but it is costing them in a number of subtler and more insidious ways too.Nothing demonstrates this better, she explained, than a possible terror threat that didn't even affect the United States — a set of five men in suspicious vans who were arrested in the U.K., which raised immediate alarms there.In July, Maddow explained, "Iran told the U.K. explicitly that if any British base was used by the U.S. military for this war against iran, that would make that base in the U.K. a legitimate military target for Iran," said Maddow. Now, she said, when today we learn "that five young men had been arrested and those vans were seized outside the gates of this rural air base, well, there was, for obvious reasons, lots and lots of speculation about who these five young men might be and what this might have all been about. Lots of speculation, lots of worry, and then lots of head scratching."The investigation is only beginning, Maddow said, even as the five were granted bail. But it highlights security threats that could soon find their way to the United States, too."Here in the United States, it raises an important question about the cost of Trump's war in Iran," said Maddow. "Raises the question as to whether the cost of Trump's war in iran is something that we've really adequately grappled with. Is it a cost that's not just going to be measured in lives lost and people injured and and buildings destroyed, and facilities and aircraft and equipment destroyed, and the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz and all the other oil transit routes and infrastructure that have driven your gas and gas and diesel prices and fertilizer prices to all time record highs, the multi-billion dollar cost just of anti-aircraft munitions alone, let alone all the other missiles and materiel we have expended in this war."All of these are well known, Maddow said. But beyond that, the U.K. incident "raises this very uncomfortable question for us Americans as to whether there's an additional cost of this war, which might be an additional risk for us here at home of potential retaliatory violence against us by Iran or its proxies or its sympathizers."Unfortunately, Maddow said, the U.S. could have a hard time dealing with these threats, because Trump's administration just reassigned Michael Burgwald and Courtland Rae, two of the most important FBI officials investigating terror threats from the Middle East. - YouTube youtu.be

Sep 29, 2026 - World

Detained anti-human trafficking campaigners include Tran Hiep, a Vietnamese Australian, not heard from since 18 September Vietnamese authorities have detained three activists, including a Norwegian and an Australian, on what have been described as “fabricated” charges.The Vietnamese government said the three confessed to being members of Viet Tan – a pro-democracy organisation – which it describes as a terrorist group. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stayChrista Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to death on Wednesday after her request for clemency was denied by Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Monday. If the execution goes through, she will be the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmates at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. Continue reading...

Sep 28, 2026 - World

A former CIA counterterrorism official poked holes Monday in President Donald Trump’s account of an alleged terror plot in the United Kingdom — calling one version of events “a little far-fetched” and Trump’s public comments “a little bit embarrassing.”Phil Mudd, a former CIA counterterrorism official and former FBI senior intelligence adviser, joined CNN’s Jake Tapper after Trump claimed the U.S. had suspects “under investigation” before arrests connected to an alleged plot targeting a U.K. base.Mudd said Trump’s account left him confused.“I have about 200 dog years in investigations like this, and this one’s a little confusing,” Mudd said.He first questioned the idea that authorities sprang into action simply after a civilian reported suspicious activity.“Boy, that sounds a little far-fetched in this situation,” he said.But Trump’s suggestion that the suspects had already been under surveillance also raised questions, Mudd said.That doesn’t make sense either, because if you’re surveilling people, you don’t conduct the operation when you’re in a high-risk area with a bunch of civilians,” he said.Mudd said he wasn’t sure exactly what happened, but took particular issue with Trump publicly suggesting the U.S. played a role in a British-led investigation.“If the Brits are leading the investigation and the Americans say we're actually involved in the investigation, that's a little bit embarrassing,” Mudd said.“You don’t say that,” he added. “The Brits take the lead. We sit in the back seat.”