Trump News for Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are responding to - AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular. Asked if they support or oppose the construction of data cent…

In a letter, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said that visitors “should know” about a museum director’s ideological bias.

A Russia-Ukraine cease-fire isn’t guaranteed to get prices down.

The Kennedy Center board voted to immediately close the main building for a two-year renovation, hours after a federal judge blocked efforts to put President...

Trump's family members say have no connection to Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

House Democrats are fuming after a pair of centrist members once again defied their party leaders by voting to help advance a key White House priority — the...

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump can’t put his name on the Kenne…

By Brad Brooks and Nathan Layne Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.S.

The inquiry follows reporting that the Russian oligarch paid for "hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses," including renting a private island.

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The recent history of mail voting in the United States has more twists and turns than an Emmy-winning drama.…

Did Trump actually make out with his "human printer"?

Anti-Muslim messaging has been on the rise among Republican elected officials for a while, and last week it took center stage at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, where speakers warned that leftists and “Islamists” were joining forces. “We are wi…

Patel testified the FBI had found no connections between the suspect and others.

The Commerce Department reportedly pushed Kalshi to take down its AI compute price tracker over National security concerns.

The Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board voted to close on Tuesday — the latest twist in the Trump administration's quest to rename the Center.

Trump has dismissed AI fears as 'hoax', insisting US safeguards suffice and warning slowdown benefits China.

Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI. While AI researchers have been warning about their creations’ capabilities for many years, recent events have made those alarms newly tangible.  In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up t…

AI companies worries over antitrust are making many people deeply suspicious of ulterior motives.

The Air Force's unusually candid statement may have been a way to send a message to potential adversaries.

A whistleblower claims DHS has directed agents to "misrepresent" themselves and "violate state laws" in a voter probe, Democratic lawmakers say.

President Donald Trump upbraided Supreme Court justices as “shells” beholden to “crazed” liberal interests in a lengthy online screed a day after the court b...

Trump also stated that data centers are great because 'they make people wealthy,' and described AI as being 'bigger than the internet'

The war with Iran has cost the US at least $38B through the end of July and is expected to further push inflation higher, according to a nonpartisan CBO assessment.

The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted to immediately close the bulk of the iconic institution for the next two years.

An MPA-commissioned study estimated 143,500 new jobs added through 2035 if President Trump puts in place filming incentives on a federal level.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince sought backing Tuesday from the president of Egypt, his ally across the Red Sea, as the kingdom faces increased attacks by Yemen’...

FBI director Kash Patel claimed to US senators that the removal of a bar on hiring people who had engaged in bestiality was aimed at protecting sexual assault survivors.

The judge ruled that the arts center's board may not put Trump's name back up on the building, saying such a change needs Congressional approval.

The board's vote to shutter the historic arts center came amid concerns about financial, structural problems.

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a neg…

Trump-supporting states are driving the solar boom even as Republican policies complicate its future.

The Kentucky Republican, a noted political foe of President Trump, accused Hegseth of abusing the powers of the Pentagon amid the Iran war.

Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday over the war in Iran.

Ruth Marcus writes about the Supreme Court’s latest ruling, which demonstrates that it is willing to limit Donald Trump’s restriction on mail-in voting.

Investors tend to dislike rate hikes, but there's reason to believe stocks could hold up just fine, even if this week's rate move causes volatility.

More frontier researchers are coming out of the woodwork to raise alarms.

Jack Clark says lawmakers may need to make AI “kill switches” mandatory. Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and its head of policy. He told the BBC that outside parties should perhaps be able to check those switches too, in an interview published on 14 Septem…

On Monday evening, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in United States Postal Service v. California — the case involving President Donald Trump’s attempt to sabotage voting by mail in the United States.  If Trump’s attack on mailed ballot…

A federal judge blocked the Kennedy Center on Tuesday from returning President Donald Trump ’s name to the iconic performing arts venue in a move meant to re...

The U.S. military said Tuesday that it opened fire and destroyed two small Iranian boats this week trying to steal a drone ship in the waters off Iran. Capt...

The former president joins other liberal politicians in taking the middle ground while still calling for more regulation of AI development.

The Trump administration is stripping tens of millions of dollars in U.S. military assistance from countries in Europe and the Middle East to support conserv...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - More than 300 South Korean workers who were detained in last year’s immigration raid at a Hyundai electric-vehicle manufacturing plant in...

If the president is so concerned about staying ahead in the AI race, why is he letting Chinese companies buy American chips?

FBI Director Kash Patel defended relaxing the FBI's hiring standards to allow applicants who have engaged in bestiality during a bizarre hearing.

The inspector also found a bottleneck in resupply, despite President Donald Trump's claims that US supplies are "virtually limitless".

By Timour Azhari and Jana Choukeir RIYADH/DUBAI, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia issued security alerts over a range of territory on Tuesday, including in t...

OpenAI’s top political strategist Chris Lehane calls the industry’s turn to state-level AI lawmaking reverse federalism, while super PACs backed by OpenAI’s president and a16z spend heavily for a national framework that would override state rules. The company…

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has set out how he thinks the AI industry should slow down. He also said OpenAI will not wait for Congress to act. In a post on X early on Monday, he welcomed “a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for …

The first deadline for student-loan borrowers to move off the SAVE repayment plan is approaching at the end of September. Millions still haven't left.

The cost of licensing news content would be a “rounding error” for companies like OpenAI, says Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah.

The two most conservative justices on the Supreme Court were loyal allies to Trump in the big mail-in vote decision, but they didn't block what was a major l...

Bestiality took center-stage at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, with Patel facing bipartisan grilling that only got weirder as it went on.

It is Patel's first appearance before Congress since May.

Joseph Moore had dreamed of a life in law enforcement since he was a teenager. “Policing is in my blood,” he wrote a Pennsylvania town’s supervisors in 2020....

President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year's midterms, saying justices...

Anthropic is the unnamed customer behind a $13.7bn, six-year computing contract that Rum Group disclosed last month, The Information reported on Sunday. Rum Group owns the video platform Rumble. Reporters Valida Pau and Phoebe Liu cited one person familiar wi…

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Seth Bernstein, Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube (video), YouTube (audio), and Bl…

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posted security video of a partial ceiling collapse.

Farmers in states bordering Canada say they are reeling from President Trump's trade wars and resulting retaliatory tariffs. And it's just not neighborly.

Former acting FEMA administrator David Richardson talked about former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Texas flooding in a new book.

The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air and Space Cyber Confer...

Twenty-five years since 9/11, tech and political shifts have increasingly pitted mass surveillance against constitutional rights.

The Supreme Court has rejected Trump's mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the midterm elections. And, the Kennedy Center says it is on the brink of bankruptcy and could close soon.

While most lawmakers are saying it’s time to enact guardrails against AI, President Donald Trump is continuing to downplay the potential dangers. In a surpri...

This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders…

Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.

As the rapid development of artificial intelligence triggers a renewed debate about its risks, the United States and China keep racing to develop increasingl...

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My Two-for-Tuesday morning reads: • What if Elon Musk Was Always Elon Musk? The most disturbing part of the controversial new four-hour documentary. (Slate) • Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone: A combination of rapid advances, …

Troy Meink's statement is seen as a clear warning to China and Russia.

In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.

By Aditya Soni Sept 16 (Reuters) - The heads of America's leading AI labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to call for a pause in the t...

By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware, Sept 15 (Reuters) - As U.S.

Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and “establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing” for frontier model…

"If the US stops improving its AI software, that would be a historic opportunity for us," one Weibo user in Hebei wrote.

The legislation would establish rules of the road for the crypto sector for the first time — but opponents are up in arms, and the bill faces an uncertain prospect in the Senate.

The poles of U.S. politics are coming together over AI. Sanders and Bannon will appear at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington, D.C., to convince Congress to work faster to curb the impact of AI.

Haitians in the U.S. lost their Temporary Protected Status under Trump's immigration crackdown. Now facing deportation to a homeland wracked by gang violence, disease and extreme poverty, Haitians in Miami are meeting the moment with grief, anger, and courage.

GOP operatives fear Bo French’s rhetoric could undermine the party’s recent gains with Hispanic and Asian American voters.

NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight, officials said Tuesday, the day after the head of the alliance said strikes c...

Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: “I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I w…

Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any government is…

The EPA's rollback of emissions rules for power plants hastens climate change but helps the data center buildout.

John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a Florida grand jury in a Justice Department probe into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Trump.

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - No government in the world is ready for the changes artificial intelligence will bring to society, Bill Gates s...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman requested a private meeting with Trump last week, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dialed up him on stage at an event.

Courts and Democratic-led states mount legal challenges against Trump administration visa and green card limits.

US Secretary of the Air Force says the space weapon is necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action.

As the midterms approach, the president can’t stop picking fights.

The Trump administration had asked the court to lift a federal judge's temporary block on new rules for mail-in ballots.

Donald Trump's EPA not only abandoned greenhouse gas limits on the power sector, but is practically begging for a court ruling that it never can again.

The ruling bars the United States Postal Service from implementing restrictions that experts and election officials say would upend voting in November.