Trump News for Tuesday, September 22, 2026

The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s annual cl…

When in doubt, add “super.” What could possibly go wrong?

The US and Iran hold talks on UNGA’s first day, despite Trump threatening to ‘annihilate’ Iran in his opening address.

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’s campaign to take over Greenla…

US Senator John Curtis's letter marks a rare effort by a member of the president's own party to hold him accountable.

Potato farmers rub shoulders with rows of gleaming new data centres as Trump and Xi meet to discuss AI safety.

"High diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME," wrote Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

NEW YORK (AP) — On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, "You should not be here.""It's an honor to be here," Trump said as he entered U.N. doors Tuesd…

Days after President Trump barred reporters from three major news outlets from the White House, the administration has launched a 24/7 YouTube channel promising to put its "biggest moments all in one place."

Organisers say more than 300 constituents met with House and Senate members from 26 states to demand US policy shift.

Breaking down the consent decree that will follow a combined WarnerMount for the next five years and what it means for the rest of Hollywood.

Trump and leaders of Greenland and Denmark have signed a deal allowing an expanded US military presence in Greenland.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country in 2027 to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday, as it continues to transform a program that at one point served a…

Cornyn hosted a fundraiser in Dallas for six GOP Senate candidates running in races this cycle that will decide control of Congress. Bush was listed as a "special guest."

US President Donald Trump says he had a ‘very good’ three-hour meeting with Iranian officials at the UN.

Since President Donald Trump returned to office, he has moved aggressively to leave his mark. Many of his most visible legacy projects are not pieces of legislation, though. They’re part of a campaign to reshape Washington, DC, itself.  Last year, Trump knock…

By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to make the case for his war on Iran, arguing he has prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and warning t…

Ever since Trump’s return to office, almost every federal law enforcement agency has been ordered to treat illegal immigration as their first priority. This is why the administration is gutting FEMA to direct more dollars to detention and removal efforts. And…

The Orange Menace made yet another strategic blunder, trying to decide which news sources could cover him, and now he has no microphone. Now Donnie Diapers just looks ridiculous, yelling into the wind, his comb-over flowing. Attempting to kick CNN, MS NOW, an…

US solicitor general challenges lower court's ruling on Georgetown scholar's detention, sparking constitutional debates.

BBC correspondents who covered the president's address on Tuesday assess five key moments.

The future of Trump's D.C. arch was already fraught. Then he rebranded it as a military complex. Experts say that only raises more legal and logistical questions.

The company says Claude Opus 5.5 scores well on alignment measures, but that “public policy” will eventually need to step in to protect the world from recursively self-improving AI.

Vice President JD Vance and White House officials are announcing plans to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges

Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake. …

President Trump said Tuesday that he would support banning exports of diesel fuel."I've said let's not send out the diesel," the president said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "We make a lot of diesel. It could have a little bit of an effect on r…

Literally decreasing prices is exceptionally hard to accomplish, even if that is what voters want.

NATO and the European Union welcome accord that ends months-long standoff after Trump threatened to seize Greenland.

An olive branch before the Trump-Xi meeting?

The defence deal signed at the UN General Assembly also re-affirms Denmark's sovereignty over its semi-autonomous Arctic territory.

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Former President Bill Clinton slammed the Trump administration’s recent actions such as pushing for a triumphal arch and running the government as a "profit center."

President Donald Trump announced plans to rebrand artificial intelligence. It was once associated with terms like "automata studies."

By Gram Slattery, Parisa Hafezi and Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington and Tehran were moving toward a settlement, while a senior Iranian official said Tehran could reopen the Strait of…

Lula’s remarks come as Trump asserts US power in Latin America in his own UN address.

Trump dismissed warnings from AI safety advocates, comparing them to warnings about climate change (Brendan SMIALOWSKI) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the US government would rename artificial intelligence "super intelligence" in officia…

Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as part of an investigation into "the use of presidential fami…

The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.

I love everything about this. I love the way this ICE officer was picked up. I love the fact that his lawyer claims an arrest is the same thing as “surrendering.” And I especially love the fact that this officer is in state custody only a day prior to schedul…

Washington Dulles International Airport has long been a study in contradiction — one of the most architecturally significant airports on the planet, home to Eero Saarinen's sweeping, gravity-defying terminal, and yet one of the most frustrating to actually tr…

Speaking at the UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump claimed he helped end the war in Gaza.

The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super intelligence”

“You first believe it when the wave hits you.”

By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of ‌Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that ‌permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a ​sta…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio alleged U.S.-linked oil infrastructure has been targeted in recent weeks by Ukraine amid its war with Russia in an interview with Fox News.

Trump has launched his own channel amid an ongoing rift with the White House press pool.

The White House launched 'Trump TV' as major networks suspended the television pool covering the US president.

Sept 22 (Reuters) - The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans covering about 760,000 people last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration ‌documentation and suspected improper enrollm…

US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he has a ‘big decision to make’ on Iran.

Speaking to the UN on Tuesday, Trump floated two options. One was to “annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy countries again.”

After years of planning and location changes, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s impressive spaceship-like museum lands in L.A.

At least two new US bases will be established as part of a deal with Denmark and Greenland.

Trump is also set to meet with key leaders on the sidelines of the event.

We’re as surprised as anyone to hear that Kid Rock lacked the star power and sentient fanbase to successfully headline the festival.

President Donald Trump lashed out at CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins before his address the U.N. General Assembly in New York amid the White House ban to deny CNN, MS NOW and Politico access.Those three news outlets are suing the president for violating the First Amend…

A high-stakes week unfolds among Trump, Xi, and other global leaders.

The White House is now airing reruns of President Donald Trump's speeches, bill signings, and other moments on a YouTube livestream that it's calling "Trump TV," as reported earlier by Time. The 24/7 station launched just days after Trump banned CNN, MS Now, …

Major photo agencies and newspapers are temporarily withholding photographs of President Donald Trump’s events in solidarity with news organizations barred from the White House. [Read More]

The comedian talks about his emotional transformation through shrooms and therapy, his latest acting job in The Social Reckoning, getting roasted by his kids, and the state of America

Days after banning a group of news organisations from the White House, the Trump administration launches 'Trump TV'.

A network boycott affected live TV coverage of Trump's ribbon-cutting event at the White House [EPA] When Donald Trump unveiled a helipad at the White House on Monday, his remarks were barely audible in live footage of the event.Trump made his first remarks …

President Donald Trump’s push to convert his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery into a military complex has complicated a required federal review process and raised new legal and safety concerns. Trump unveiled his new national security …

There was a four year span where Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr simply couldn’t stop hyperventilating about the fact that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was Chinese. Carr would appear on cable news pretty much every week to endlessly rant about the potentia…

First day of high-level meeting to kick off with speeches from world leaders, including from Brazil, US, Turkiye, Qatar.

Infographic with map showing route of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline Yemen's Houthis on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out a spate of deadly strikes that killed civilians and prison inmates, as Riyadh seeks to repel an offensive that has seen th…

Britain will try to broker a worldwide deal on AI during its upcoming turn at the head of the G20, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told reporters on the eve of the UN General Assembly in New York, Politico Europe reported. Britain was “uniquely positioned to play…

Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president

Trump will meet with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman on the sidelines of UNGA.

According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-member co…

CNN, MS NOW and Politico have sued Trump after the networks were suspended from the White House. And, Paramount makes concessions to resolve a lawsuit over its massive Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Experts worry Goddard—and NASA’s space science—may never recover

Washington justifies the attacks as necessary to halt the flow of lethal drugs into the US.

Per ProPublica, Collins was the subject of a massive bribery probe conducted by the FBI in 2024.

Nationally, abortion has faded as a campaign issue. Four years after it helped Democrats stave off a red wave, candidates in battleground races are focusing their attention on cost-of-living issues, immigration, and policing. As of mid-August, abortion was me…

The deal comes after months of Trump's rhetoric about taking over the island.

The conservative House Freedom caucus grew in prominence along side President Trump, now they are considering what the future of their movement looks like.

Republicans are playing defense deep in their own territory as voter anger over price hikes puts more House and Senate seats in play in the midterms.New rounds of big spending, visits from Trump administration officials and private conversations among top GOP…

Regular coverage of the president has been disrupted after he banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.

While acting as the official host for the UN, the US has sought to weaken it for decades.

FILE PHOTO - US President Donald Trump delivers a speech during an event at the Pentagon. (is associated with: «White House launches 'Trump TV' stream as media access row escalates») Andrea Hanks/White House/dpa The White House launched its own online stream…

Jon Stewart took aim at Donald Trump banning news outlets from the White House on the latest episode of 'The Daily Show.'

Fighting intensifies as US media say Trump called off strikes against Houthis at the last minute on Sunday.

The DOJ's criminal division and U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan are reportedly involved.

The G7 also condemns "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying that the escalation in fighting in Yemen jeopardises regional security.

The BBC’s Sarah Smith outlines which world leaders Trump is set to meet and the key topics expected on the agenda.

President Trump met New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at his official residence, one day before Trump speaks to the UNGA.

In New York, the prime minister will also deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly expected to be focused on AI.

Last year's speech was characterized by Trump's extraordinary accusations of UN sabotage when an escalator in the New York headquarters briefly stopped working and the teleprompter glitched (TIMOTHY A. CLARY) US President Donald Trump is expected to claim he…

The White House's answer to a rebellion by press pool reporters? Trump speeches on loop.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are regulating data center development amid bipartisan backlash.

Trump returns to UNGA amid Iran war he started, Israeli violations of a Gaza ceasefire, and scrutiny of US aims.

By Stine Jacobsen, Erin Banco and Gram Slattery COPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The US plans to re-establish a Cold War-era military base in southern Greenland and set up another ‌on the east coast, now used by the Danish dog sled patrol, under a d…