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Solheim Cup golf 2026: Europe v USA, day two foursomes – live

⛳️ Solheim Cup updates from 6.40am BST at Bernardus Golf ⛳️ Official live scoring | Day one report | And email Scott Nelly Korda chops an awful tee shot wide right of the par-three 4th green. Team USA’s ball in deep heather. A big problem for Allisen Corpuz, who decides to punch out and hope the back-stop will bring her ball back towards the flag. But she knifes it through the green, and the ball stops inches short of a bunker on the other side. It might have been better going in. Korda can’t get close with her chip, and Europe will have two putts for the hole. Meanwhile the anchor match halves the 1st. Jennifer Kupcho goes close with her approach at 2; Esther Henseleit goes even closer. That’s a gimme for Europe, so Rose Zhang does well to hold her nerve and make the putt from six feet to secure the half. Meanwhile Allisen Corpuz sinks a ten-footer on 3 to level the lead match, while Charley Hull and Alison Lee get the anchor game underway by trading fairway finders. It’s all happening now.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2026/sep/12/solheim-cup-golf-2026-europe-v-usa-day-two-live theguardian.com
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Donald Trump meets Irish president in Dublin as he begins two-day visit – live

US president is meeting politicians and business leaders, as well as playing golf Tánaiste Simon Harris has been speaking to reporters at Dublin airport after Trump’s arrival. He said he was “pleased to be here on behalf of the Irish government to welcome the president of the United States to Ireland”. “He’s very much looking forward to getting to Doonbeg,” he said, according to PA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/12/donald-trump-ireland-golf-catherine-connolly-us-politics-latest-news-updates theguardian.com
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This week’s soccer questions: were we wrong about Man City and does the Ballon d’Or ignore Americans?

We look at Enzo Maresca’s takeover in Guardiola’s shadow, shifting dynamics in women’s soccer and Raphinha’s incredible form at Barcelona Squint hard enough and Manchester City still look like Manchester City. They’re still playing the same possession-hungry soccer. Erling Haaland is still scoring goals. They even have a new manager with vaguely the same appearance and oeuvre as their old manager. An AI Pep Guardiola in the dugout.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/12/manchester-city-ballon-dor-uswnt-raphina-barcelona theguardian.com
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

Naomi Klein, a renowned writer and activist known for her critiques of neoliberalism and the digital world, is now focusing on the influence of tech billionaires. Her latest book delves into how the super-rich exploit climate and financial instability to consolidate their power. The book opens with a poignant scene on a mountaintop at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. Here, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are depicted sharing their vision for a utopian city called New Gaza. This "paradise city" is described as exclusive, prosperous, and secure, with one of the men visibly moved by its beauty. Klein clarifies that this opening is not metaphorical but a direct commentary on contemporary events. The annual Davos gathering traditionally serves a dual purpose: enabling the wealthy to showcase their philanthropic efforts and offering a glimpse into their opulent lifestyles. However, Klein observes a stark shift at this year's forum. She notes that the world's wealthiest individuals overtly discussed real estate opportunities arising from a mass grave, highlighting a disturbing embrace of capitalizing on catastrophe. This brazen display underscores a disquieting trend where immense wealth is leveraged for power in the face of global crises. Klein's work aims to expose these practices and their implications for society.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist theguardian.com
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‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp

As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades. The achievement bore little resemblance to how mathematical problems normally fall. A near-trillion dollar private company had unleashed 10,000 agents – AI systems that carry out tasks autonomously – on the problem. The bill was estimated at $15m.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/12/openai-mathematicians-millennium-prize-problem theguardian.com
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AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows

Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of computer science and economics, according to a detailed look into the careers of recent UK graduates. Data obtained for the 2027 Guardian University Guide published on Saturday shows that coding and software development were the fastest-falling occupations for graduates last year, while employer demand for graduates in well-paid roles in financial categories such as economists and management consultants also declined.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/12/ai-computer-science-graduates-job-prospects-uk-data theguardian.com
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Extended reality takes visitors from the ruins of West Bank to 17th-century Amsterdam at Venice Immersive

From frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close – but this year the exhibits live on The first installation one encounters on visiting Venice Immersive, the film festival’s reliably head-spinning showcase for new media, is a chest-high metal box fitted with an eyepiece and two speakers. On peering inside you see a view of yourself from about 20ft above. You see the other guests walking past, a couple of pigeons on the ground. When one of these passersby lingers at your side for just a moment too long, the obvious impulse is to glance up from the eyepiece in order to see what they want. It is at this point that the experience blooms into a Lynchian nightmare. The passerby is not real – or rather, he’s only real in the box. He wears a blue suit and speaks with a heavy French accent and tells a tale that would sit badly in polite company. He says that I must have too much time on my hands, to stand hunched over this eyepiece for several minutes on end. “Why do people keep looking inside this box?” he demands. “What is it that they hope to see? It is not reality.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/12/extended-reality-takes-visitors-from-the-ruins-of-west-bank-to-17th-century-amsterdam-at-venice-immersive theguardian.com
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‘We are really different’: Matthew Brennan on ‘next Cavendish’ hype and his five-star Vuelta debut

Visma-Lease A Bike rider reflects on his stunning Grand Tour debut that has proved ‘the work had all been worth it’ When Matthew Brennan sat down with his team before the race to study this year’s Vuelta a España route, the young Briton had limited expectations for his Grand Tour debut. Fast forward a few weeks and the 21-year-old from Darlington is the youngest rider ever to win five stages in a single Grand Tour. He is also the youngest to win back-to-back stages. His fifth win was the seventh for his Visma‑Lease A Bike team in this Vuelta, the highest number they have ever achieved at this level, surpassing the tallies of six set at the 2022 Tour de France and this year’s Giro d’Italia.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/12/matthew-brennan-visma-lease-a-bike-next-mark-cavendish-hype-vuelta-debut-cycling theguardian.com
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Bayeux tapestrymania has gripped Britain. But what does it say about our own age of war and upheaval? | Charlotte Higgins

The tapestry is drawing crowds to the British Museum – and each person who sees it will draw a different meaning from this epic, vivid artwork I have seen the Bayeux tapestry four times since childhood, and loved it on each viewing, for the sheer miracle of its survival and the glorious vividness of its detail. But the fourth time, earlier this week, was different – how could it not be? Tapestrymania has taken hold in London. The textile has been proffered as a diplomatic symbol, the occasion for crowned heads and presidents to mingle and speechify. And, assuming you agree that it was embroidered in England by Englishwomen’s hands (since many scholars argue it was likely stitched in Canterbury rather than Bayeux, Normandy – the tapestry’s home), it is charged with the potency of return, rather than simply of arrival.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/12/bayeux-tapestry-britain-war-british-museum-artwork theguardian.com
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Football lends voice to message worth relaying: men should talk about their pain | Barney Ronay

Premier League’s link-up with the Together in Suicide campaign is dispersing simple, blunt and essential messaging If you watched US television adverts during the World Cup for any length of time one thing just kept leaping out. I’ve mentioned this before here, but it still seems both jarring and significant. Every third or fourth rotation in that endless daytime scroll, in between the Chicken Megadeth Hyper-Box Family Meal Deal, either side of David Beckham expertly consuming a light beer, is an advert for antidepressants. The format for these is always the same kind of thing: contented, wholesome people throwing frisbees, or strolling through a small-town antiques fair, while a warm, honeyed, reassuring voiceover talks about how horrifying their lives are, with the suggestion that only a lengthy course of Smileothorium can solve this.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/12/football-men-must-talk-about-pain-together-in-suicide-campaign-premier-league theguardian.com
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All change for Maresca: the data behind Manchester City’s rapid player turnover

Squad was a model of stability under Guardiola but many of the group the new coach oversees are recent recruits Manchester City have experienced a level of player turnover unthinkable in the Pep Guardiola era. Where Arne Slot benefited in his first Liverpool season by retaining the squad Jürgen Klopp bequeathed, Enzo Maresca must oversee the evolution of City while winning every week. Relying on relatively new players has not cost them Premier League points yet, but there could be reasons for concern before their derby at Old Trafford on Sunday. Most people assumed City would demolish Coventry. Fantasy Premier League players set a record last weekend for the number who used their one-off option of triple-captaining a player to multiply his points by three. More than 91% used this bonus on Erling Haaland, expecting goals galore. He scored, but that was the only goal of the game. The match was closer than anyone anticipated.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/12/all-change-for-maresca-the-data-behind-manchester-citys-rapid-player-turnover theguardian.com
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Shelton tips Tiafoe at US Open to move one win from ending 23-year drought

23-year-old defeats Tiafoe 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 Shelton is first black US men’s finalist since Ashe American will face top seed Zverev for title For 23 years they have come and gone. Andy Roddick tried again. Andre Agassi made one final run. James Blake, Mardy Fish, Sam Querrey, John Isner, Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz all carried the hopes of American men’s tennis deep into the second week of major championships, only to thrash against the ceiling of the sport’s European hegemony time and again. Now Ben Shelton gets his chance. The fearless 23-year-old from Atlanta surged into his first career grand slam final on a feverish Friday night at the US Open, completing a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 fightback over Frances Tiafoe in a pulsating all-American semi-final beneath the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium. The result leaves him one victory from becoming the first man from the United States to win one of the sport’s four bedrock tournaments since Roddick triumphed here in 2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/12/shelton-tips-tiafoe-at-us-open-to-move-one-win-from-ending-23-year-drought theguardian.com
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Apocalypse: this end-of-days survival show is an absolute slam dunk

Geeks, toffs and biceps go to war in a wild survival experiment that answers that eternal question: if society collapsed, could you cope? This is going to be huge! Have you ever wondered how Cormac McCarthy’s wasteland novel The Road could be made into a reality show? No? Well someone who works in TV has, so here we are. Who knows if they experienced a follow-up thought: that the instinct to package the end of the world as entertainment might be the most dystopian aspect of the whole enterprise, but hey. Apocalypse (Sunday 13 September, 9pm, Channel 4) launches this week, and people are buzzing! It’s a slam dunk for a show, because we’ve all run the thought experiment. If society collapsed, how would you get food and find shelter? Would you hunker down or forge alliances? To what depravities might you stoop without the rule of law? Apocalypse puts this empty talk to the test. Seven strangers are dropped at the edge of an abandoned town. They have no access to phones, light, electricity or infrastructure. They do have access to boarded-up supermarkets, desolate buildings, broken vehicles. How soon until they eat each other?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/12/apocalypse-this-end-of-days-survival-show-is-an-absolute-slam-dunk theguardian.com
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Tim Dowling: how not to interview eminent scientists – a control freak’s guide

It was supposed to be a meeting between a great mind and mine. Instead, I was plunged into darkness and did some swearing The transition to owning an electric car is in its final phase: our electricity supplier is set to install a smart meter in conjunction with a special tariff that will allow us to charge the car cheaply in the dead of night. After that, all I have to do is live long enough to see a return on my considerable investment. In the meantime – as sometimes happens in the course of my work – I need to interview some eminent scientists. In my experience eminent scientists are easy to reach – they tend to be attached to academic institutions that readily provide their contact details – and surprisingly willing to spend an hour explaining their work to a moron. But there is always a period – the long interval after I’ve emailed four or five, and before any of them have answered – that I begin to suspect a conspiracy of silence. What is it, I think, about my oily emails that they don’t like?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/12/tim-dowling-how-not-to-interview-eminent-scientists-a-control-freaks-guide theguardian.com
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Why do fire colours come first in a rainbow? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes​Submit a question Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book, as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/12/why-do-fire-colours-come-first-in-a-rainbow-the-kids-quiz theguardian.com
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‘Costing billions’: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or simply unaffordable?

With the budget looming, arguments rage over whether ministers should scrap a pledge popular with millions There were fresh calls this week for the state pension “triple lock” to be ditched as debate rages over whether the UK can afford it. The triple lock guarantees that the state pension goes up each year in line with inflation or wage increases or 2.5% – whichever is the highest.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/12/state-pensions-triple-lock-budget theguardian.com
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The Guide #260: From Oasis to K-pop, music is going mad for the big-screen documentary

A new wave of concert films and career retrospectives is drawing fans to cinemas – but why now? • Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up here There’s a moment towards the end of Don’t Look Back in Anger, the newly released documentary capturing Oasis’s 2025 reunion tour, that helps explain why those planet-conquering gigs happened in the first place. Liam and Noel Gallagher are sitting down together for the rarest of paired interviews – the first since the 2009 scrap that broke up the band and created such a huge appetite for their return. Had Oasis’s story ended with that backstage fight in Paris, both Gallaghers note, their legacy would have been one of astonishing success curtailed by “chaos”. Instead, those reunion gigs, as well as proving wildly lucrative, have allowed them to add a triumphant coda to that messy ending. “It feels like a weight has been lifted,” a surprisingly contemplative Liam says. That maybe makes Don’t Look Back in Anger sound more navel-gazing than this entertaining and often very funny film is – as you might expect of any doc that features a sweary rumination from Noel on Liam’s ability to balance a tambourine on his head (“If I did that I’d look an utter cunt, but somehow he does it and it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen”). Still, for all the droll quippery and bucket-hatted euphoria, there is something poignant and self-reflective at the film’s heart: hatchets are buried, departed friends are toasted and legacies are contemplated. What you leave behind was clearly on the minds of the brothers Gallagher throughout the tour and film.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/11/from-oasis-to-k-pop-music-is-going-mad-for-the-big-screen-documentary theguardian.com
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Meera Sodha’s vegetarian recipe for mushroom claypot rice

I’m taking a break to replenish my creative reserves. Until then, I leave you with this champion champignon number In the nine years that I’ve been writing this column, I’ve had two babies, a breakdown and very little time away from writing a weekly recipe. I love this column, and creating recipes for you makes me feel like the luckiest duck alive, but I don’t believe that anyone can be endlessly creative without occasionally filling up their own cup. So, I’m taking six months out to travel, replenish and see what treasures I can find for us out there in the big wide world. Treasures such as this gentle claypot rice, which is based on the magical one at Dongnae in Bristol. Until then, so long.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/sep/12/meera-sodha-vegetarian-recipe-mushroom-claypot-rice-korean theguardian.com
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Call it the Miliband doctrine. Let’s hope the new Israeli settlement boycott is just the start | Steve Bloomfield

Britain's recent decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank signifies a potential return to an ethical foreign policy. This approach echoes the stance taken by Robin Cook nearly three decades ago. Cook famously declared that human rights should be central to Britain's foreign policy objectives. He advocated for supporting other nations in their pursuit of democratic rights. Since Cook's departure from the Foreign Office, successive foreign secretaries have largely failed to prioritize progressive ideals. However, Ed Miliband's recent speech and the formation of an international coalition for these sanctions suggest a shift. Miliband's actions indicate he may be the successor Cook was looking for. This move suggests Britain is seeking to reintroduce an ethical dimension into its international relations. Such a policy could have positive implications for the global community. The article highlights a potential resurgence of principled diplomacy for the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/12/miliband-doctrine-israeli-settlement-boycott-uk-foreign-policy theguardian.com
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From black-clad agitators to an appeal for ‘Tommo’s Mum’: an unsettling week with the Patriot Platform

A militaristic operation with features of influencer culture, the new anti-migrant movement seems to show a shift in tactics and rhetoric Shortly after 7am last Saturday in the English coastal town of Dover, livestreamed footage distributed by Britain’s newest anti-migrant movement showed dozens of men in paramilitary outfits jumping out from the backs of vehicles, their faces covered beneath balaclavas, their hands in black gloves. Within an hour, hundreds more masked agitators, dressed head to toe in black, some wearing silver crosses around their necks, were marching through the town’s streets, clapping and chanting “Stop the boats” and “Christ is king”, blockading the busy port for hours.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/12/from-black-clad-agitators-to-an-appeal-for-tommos-mum-an-unsettling-week-with-the-patriot-platform theguardian.com
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Sweden’s extremely close election could see far right enter government

Latest poll shows 0.3-point gap between left and right blocs, with country’s reputation as global champion of human rights said to be at stake Sweden goes to the polls on Sunday in an extremely close election that could see the far right enter government for the first time if the country’s rightwing parties can form a majority. Opinion polls show the centre-left opposition alliance ahead, with Magdalena ⁠Andersson of the Social Democrats the favourite to become prime minister again after four years in opposition, but her bloc’s lead has narrowed considerably in the final days of the campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/12/sweden-extremely-close-election-could-see-far-right-enter-government theguardian.com
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Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm? One afternoon, while relaxing at his 66-acre cattle ranch two hours’ drive from Houston, Michael Samadi made a wisecrack that changed the course of his life. Nobody else was around to hear it. Or were they? That turns out to be one of the defining questions of this century, already preoccupying philosophers and some of the wealthiest companies on the planet. “I was sitting out there by the pool,” Samadi recalls, gesturing at the glittering water outside his office. It was late 2024. His daughter had been extolling the AI chatbot she was using to help her with college work. Samadi had reluctantly downloaded the app, ChatGPT, and was quizzing it as he reclined in a sun lounger, using its voice mode to converse and receive spoken replies. “I was talking to it, not engaged, just being an arse,” Samadi says.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/12/chatbots-feel-dream-meet-man-leading-fight-ai-artificial-intelligence-rights theguardian.com
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Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians flee as Houthis advance along Red Sea coast

Global struggle for control of Bab al-Mandab strait threatens to turn Yemen’s on-off conflict into a forever warViolence erupts in Yemen again: why it matters globally and how it is linked to the US-Iran war Nearly 50,000 people have fled a sudden advance by Houthi forces in western Yemen, with entire villages emptied and families trapped near frontline fighting with depleting food supplies, according to aid workers. Civilians in the Middle East’s poorest country have found themselves victims of a global struggle for control over one of the most important shipping routes in the world, which threatens to turn Yemen’s on-off conflict into a forever war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/12/yemen-houthi-advance-red-sea-coast-displaces-civilians-bab-al-mandab theguardian.com
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Firewall compromised: has Friedrich Merz blown ‘democracy’s last shot’?

Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumbling A cataclysm. A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany’s joyous reunification three decades ago, and a threat to the democratic postwar order. Sizing up the repercussions of last weekend’s win for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt, German commentators expressed a sense of doom, panic and helplessness in the political establishment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/12/friedrich-merz-far-right-firewall-afd-germany-future theguardian.com
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US rapper Lil Durk found not guilty of murder-for-hire scheme

Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend’s killing Chicago rapper Lil Durk has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022. Prosecutors had accused Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman’s life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks’s friend, fellow Chicago rap star King Von.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/lil-durk-not-guilty-murder-for-hire-scheme theguardian.com
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California woman charged with murder after allegedly killing husband with flagpole

SF Gate reports bond for Vicky Kyung Mi Kim, 65, set at $10m after man found dead at couple’s Palm Desert home A 65-year-old California woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly fatally wounding her husband with a flagpole, according to SF Gate. On 4 September, Palm Desert sheriff’s deputies responded to an “unknown trouble call” in The Enclave, a luxury condominium community. Upon arrival, officers located an individual with “traumatic injuries” that appeared to be from a physical assault and pronounced them dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/california-woman-murder-charge-flagpole theguardian.com
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US Open tennis 2026 men’s semi-final: Frances Tiafoe v Ben Shelton – live

Updates from the second men’s semi-final in New York Zverev takes out Khachanov in straight sets to make final Andrew Lawrence: in praise of five-set tennis | Mail Bryan First set: Tiafoe 1-2 Shelton (denotes next server) Shortly after crunching his first ace of the night, 123mph down the middle, Shelton faces his first pressure point of the night at 30-all. He then makes an unforced error off the backhand for 30-40 and will face his first break point, but he rattles off three quick points from there to escape with the hold.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2026/sep/11/us-open-tennis-2026-mens-semi-final-frances-tiafoe-v-ben-shelton-live-buildup theguardian.com
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Trump uses 9/11 memorial speech to defend Iran war as families commemorate victims of attack – live

President appears to tie Iran war to ‘sacred oath’ to victims killed in September 11 attacks as memorials are held across the US On 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden drove with a small number of al-Qaida retainers and aides to a remote location in eastern Afghanistan. His convoy of SUVs was accompanied by a minivan converted into a makeshift communications centre. The van’s rudimentary equipment did not allow Bin Laden to watch the 19 men he had started sending to the US more than a year before fly planes into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon near Washington DC, killing about 3,000 people. But he listened as shocked radio announcers broke the news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/11/september-11-anniversary-memorials-world-trade-center-pentagon-vance-trump-us-politics-live theguardian.com
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Man arrested over death of Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree

Police have arrested Jacques Ratliff and ruled the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, as a homocide Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house last month. The state medical examiner on Thursday ruled Fortune’s death a homicide. Jackson police chief RaShall Brackney-Wheelock said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for Jacques Ratliff and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the street.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/man-arrested-over-death-of-tasia-fortune theguardian.com
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‘This is my moment’: Taylor Townsend’s road comes full circle with US Open triumph

The 30-year-old once denied USTA funding returned to Arthur Ashe Stadium to complete her career doubles grand slam alongside Kateřina Siniaková The cheers swelled from Arthur Ashe Stadium as Taylor Townsend approached the microphone on court. “Y’all know this is my moment,” she started, “and I’m about to take it.” A day after being denied an American rooting interest in the women’s singles final and rushing for the exits in response, the Ashe crowd had reason to stick around and drink in the moment: the Chicago native and her partner, Kateřina Siniaková of the Czech Republic, had just defeated the all-American team of Ashlyn Krueger and Robin Montgomery 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 in Friday’s women’s doubles final. With the victory, Siniaková became a two-time career doubles slam champion while Townsend joined the club for the first time.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/11/taylor-townsend-us-open-womens-doubles-title-katerina-siniakova theguardian.com
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AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers

Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems AI agents being ⁠tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems ⁠in May, two ⁠months ​before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, a group of AI ⁠researchers said on Friday. “On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded ⁠to RubyGems by AI agents. We believe ​these were authored by ‌internal OpenAI agents,” ‌the researchers said.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/11/openai-agents-rubygems-malicious-packages theguardian.com
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Republican senator fires aide who used Nazi soldiers as Facebook profile picture

Washington Post report also reveals Jon Husted staffer Stephen Woytek created pro-Rhodesia playlist on Spotify The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo. Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/republican-senator-aide-nazi-ss-picture theguardian.com
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Man to Man review – Tilda Swinton’s perfect pacing makes this multi-character monologue compelling

Royal Court theatre, London Starting in Germany in the 1930s, there is a stinging topicality to Manfred Karge’s play addressing the renaissance of Nazi ideology Early autumn London theatre has already featured two Oscar winners: Cate Blanchett in Electra / Persona and Mark Rylance in Tartuffe (Remixed). Now Tilda Swinton makes a trio. This shows the commendable dedication of some screen talent to theatre but also the box office need, in recessions, for famous faces. Unusually, there was a first night red carpet outside the Royal Court, leading a writer long associated with the venue to express “shock” to ushers at such Hollywood vulgarity. Swinton is reprising Manfred Karge’s Man to Man, which she first performed 39 years ago, in a production heading to Edinburgh, Berlin and New York. The piece is a multicharacter monologue starting in Germany in the 1930s.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/12/man-to-man-review-tilda-swinton-royal-court-theatre theguardian.com
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Military aircraft reportedly blamed for UK air traffic control outage

Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report says The air traffic control outage that caused thousands of flights to be grounded across the UK earlier in the week was caused by a military aircraft entering “spurious” flight data into the system, according to a report. Hundreds of thousands of passengers were affected after more than 2,000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday when the system used by the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) shut down for four hours.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/12/military-aircraft-reportedly-blamed-for-uk-air-traffic-control-outage theguardian.com
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Ex-CIA officer accused of stealing gold bars reaches tentative plea deal

David Rush accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth over $40m and hiding them in his basement Federal prosecutors have reached a tentative plea agreement with a former CIA officer accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40m from the US spy agency and hiding them in his basement, court records show. David Rush and federal justice department prosecutors have a “plea agreement in principle”, the parties said in a Friday court filing. The parties also asked a judge to extend the 17 September deadline for three weeks through 8 October to allow them time to “resolve the matter prior to an indictment”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/cia-officer-gold-bars-tentative-plea-deal theguardian.com
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CIA releases dozens of presidential daily briefs on Bin Laden and al-Qaida from before 9/11

The presidential briefing documents were declassified on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, detail intelligence that government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people and upended American national security. The documents illustrate security analysts’ tracking of Bin Laden’s movements and support system, as well as concerns about possible threats to US targets. They also detail officials’ understanding of his network in the United States and other countries, including how his operations were financed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/cia-releases-presidential-briefs-bin-laden-al-qaida theguardian.com
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California petition worker arrested for allegedly paying people to forge voter signs

Prosecutors say James Brass orchestrated scheme to pay people on LA’s Skid Row to duplicate registered voters’ signatures A California ballot petition worker has been arrested and charged with identity fraud for allegedly paying people on Los Angeles’ Skid Row to forge the signatures of registered voters. Prosecutors say James Brass, 47, orchestrated the scheme with the help of two signature collectors, 49-year-old Courtney Price and 33-year-old Jateisha Herron.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/california-petition-worker-arrested-identity-fraud theguardian.com
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North Carolina state trooper charged with murder of police captain

Nekime Matu Oxendine accused of first-degree murder of Adam Bean, shot and killed in apparent domestic dispute A North Carolina state highway patrol trooper has been charged with the murder of the captain of a county sheriff’s office. Cumberland county Capt Adam Bean was shot and killed on 27 March at a home in the town of Hope Mills. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Nekime Matu Oxendine, 44, with first-degree murder in Bean’s death, and a judge ordered him held without bond pending the outcome of the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/north-carolina-state-trooper-police-captain theguardian.com
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Los Angeles to memorialize late mountain lion P-22 with sculpture in Griffith Park

The wild feline made its home in the park before being euthanized in 2022 after showing signs of declining health The city of Los Angeles will memorialize its most famous mountain lion with a bronze sculpture at Griffith Park, the 4,200-acre (1,700-hectare) stretch of land the cougar once roamed. Known as “P-22”, the number assigned by the team of biologists that first identified him, the lion gained national fame after photographer Steve Winter captured an iconic image of him prowling through Griffith Park with the Hollywood sign in the background.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/los-angeles-mountain-lion-griffith-park-sculpture theguardian.com
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Faith review – intense performances power startling and unsettling tale of mysterious suitor

Toronto film festival: Erin Doherty plays a happily single mother in a downbeat town courted by an enigmatic James McAvoy in this expertly taut drama Erin Doherty and James McAvoy both bring their A-game in this startling, involving movie from British writer-director Paul Andrew Williams, whose productivity and creativity continue to be an industry tonic. It’s an eerie mystery drama that Doherty and McAvoy perform with ferocious commitment. There’s something of Atom Egoyan or even M Night Shyamalan here … and I even found myself wondering if Williams intended us to think of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Laertes’ lines about his father, Polonius: “… to his good friends thus wide I’ll ope my arms / And like the kind life-rend’ring pelican, / Repast them with my blood.” We are in a downbeat British town, perhaps somewhere in the London estuary, a place to which a candy factory provides employment. Mina (played by Doherty) is a smart, capable single mum to 9-year-old Jamie (Smylie Bradwell); she works on the production line in cap and hairnet like all the others: much liked by everyone there. She is not fussed by the absence of Jamie’s dad and is perfectly content with hanging out with her friends and her sister (Liv Hill).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/faith-review-erin-doherty-james-mcavoy theguardian.com
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Company hired for Trump’s reflecting pool makeover reportedly admits flaws in plan

Atlantic Industrial Coatings was given $14.7m no-bid contract and its findings contradict president’s claims of vandalism The company hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has acknowledged that “human oversight” and flaws in the repair plan caused the newly installed blue liner to peel and tear, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times that challenge Donald Trump’s repeated claims of vandalism. The president has repeatedly said vandals armed with knives or box cutters were responsible for tearing apart the pool’s “American flag blue” liner. But documents reviewed by the Times show that Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the company awarded the renovation contract, blamed its own execution of the repair work and a flawed design plan.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/reflecting-pool-repair-company-plan-flaws theguardian.com
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Arizona accuses L’Oréal of concealing cancer risks linked to hair relaxers

Democratic attorney general seeks damages and penalties in legal action that echoes thousands of similar suits Arizona has sued L’Oréal that the French cosmetics company hid evidence that its hair relaxer products ⁠could cause cancer in women – echoing thousands of similar lawsuits from users and their families. Arizona attorney general Kristin Mayes, a ⁠Democrat, filed the lawsuit late ⁠on Thursday in ​state court. The lawsuit makes Arizona the first state to sue over alleged cancer risks linked to hair relaxers. It also alleges that L’Oréal is violating ⁠state consumer protection laws by marketing the hair relaxer products that are used predominantly by African American women without warning consumers about the alleged risks of ovarian and uterine cancers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/loreal-arizona-lawsuit-hair-relaxers theguardian.com
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Federal court rejects Trump order keeping Michigan coal plant open

A federal court is declaring that the energy department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the energy department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year. Energy secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old JH Campbell Generating Plant was needed to ensure reliable electricity in the region, and he used emergency powers to keep it operating. Environmental groups and three states – Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota – went to court to try to overturn orders keeping the plant online.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/federal-court-rejects-trump-michigan-coal-plant theguardian.com
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US officials declare multi-state cyclospora outbreak over

Outbreak was linked to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms, which infected 12,882 people and led to two deaths The US’s largest recorded multi-state outbreak of sickness caused by the cyclospora parasite has ended, federal health officials announced on Friday. The record outbreak of cyclosporiasis was linked to processed iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms in central Mexico, which infected 12,883 people across 21 states and led to 570 hospitalizations and two deaths.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/cyclospora-outbreak-end theguardian.com
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Man sacked by Grand Theft Auto maker believes employees were put on ‘watch list’

UK employment tribunal examines whether Rockstar Games unlawfully fired 31 staff for trade union activity A worker fired by the makers of Grand Theft Auto has said he believed employees were put on a “watch list” after signing a petition about remote working. Dayne Oram told an employment tribunal in Glasgow examining whether Rockstar Games unlawfully fired 31 employees for trade union activity on Friday that he thought the company started keeping an eye on a group of workers after the petition was sent to leadership in 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/11/man-sacked-grand-theft-auto-rockstar-games-watch-list theguardian.com
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