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Updated September 25, 2026 — 2:27am,first published 12:28amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWashington: Chinese President Xi Jinping said artificial intelligence must remain “under human control” and pressured Donald Trump to give Chinese companies more access to the American market as he made his first visit to the White House in 11 years.Xi told Trump the world’s two largest economies would gain from co-operation and lose from confrontation. “Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand,” he said, a reference…

A retired Air Force lieutenant general who was the first director of the DoD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, a former chair of NATO’s highest-level nuclear policymaking body, and a legal and political strategist with ties to the Vatican may not share an obvious agenda. But we do share a conviction: AI’s role in humanity’s future may be the most significant issue of our time, and this requires sustained national and international dialogue. We likewise share both the enthusiasm and unease Pope Leo XIV expressed in his first encyclical covering AI’s known and unknowable impacts. Now,…

Mayor Karen Bass called the training that LAPD officers receive for handling mental health calls “woefully inadequate” and ordered an outside review of the department’s policies Thursday, saying recent shootings highlight continued shortcomings in how police deal with people in crisis.Bass is particularly concerned by the relative lack of specialized intervention training for patrol officers who respond to the vast majority of service calls. While the SWAT team and other units receive such training, it is not standard across the Los Angeles Police Department.“After the academy, they have spot training that is essentially videos that are played at roll calls,”…

Skincare meets science! Eve Mérinville is known for taking a research-backed, biological approach to beauty. But while science has a permanent place in her skincare routine, the numbers don’t always tell the whole story.Comfort ZoneIn fact, when it comes to achieving a healthy glow, Mérinville believes doing less can actually deliver more.»People are often paying a premium for complexity: long routines, trend-led launches, and formulas packed with a very high number of active ingredients. But more ingredients, more steps, and a higher price don’t automatically lead to better results,» she tells ET.»We’re also seeing an arms race around percentages of…

Heavy rains could cause life-threatening flooding and landslides on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, the US National Hurricane Center warned.Published On 24 Sep 202624 Sep 2026Hurricane Polo has sent heavy rain and strong waves across Mexico’s Pacific coast, while Tropical Storm Nolo is approaching Hawaii with the potential for catastrophic flooding.Early on Thursday, the hurricane was swirling about 130 miles (209 kilometres) south-southwest of the Mexican city of Zihuatanejo. It was moving northwest at 7mph (11kph) and forecast to turn west-northwest later in the day, taking it further out to sea, before turning northwest on Saturday.Polo was forecast to maintain Category 5…

By Kath Hudson    23 Sep 2026Halo Leisure’s Carers’ Respite Programme delivers much-needed support / Halo Leisure Social enterprise Halo Leisure is extending the reach of its Carers Respite Programme, which supports unpaid carers through physical activity and wellbeing support, alongside replacement care for the people they look after. Launched in Bridgend in 2022 and now also delivered in Merthyr Tydfil, Halo is working with Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council to deliver the programme in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The programme has yielded impressive results. This year, 100 per cent of participants have reported an improvement in their ability to…

Reporting Highlights Too “Woke”? Trump tried to fire one Smithsonian official and, after finding “ideological capture,” plans to install anti-woke warning signs outside the history museum. Is This History? One exhibit speculated that Ben Franklin may have shocked enslaved people in electric experiments. Another displayed a “crotch harness” used for sadomasochistic sex.  A Longstanding Debate: As early as 1999, one critic argued that the history museum lacked focus, examining oppression rather than the central figures and episodes of U.S. history. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National…

PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes this weekend as part of his four-day apostolic journey to France, which is the first official papal state visit to the country in 18 years.The site near the Spanish border draws millions of pilgrims annually, including sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from the famed spring water in the Lourdes grotto. Here is what to know about Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites. The popularity of Lourdes is intrinsically linked to Bernadette Soubirous. A young girl who came from…

Politics / September 23, 2026 In a meeting with mayors from around the globe, Mamdani argued that the left must fix everyday problems—or the right will find someone to scapegoat for them. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani holds a news conference after a meeting with Donald Trump at Gracie Mansion on September 21, 2026, in New York City.(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) On the afternoon of September 19, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood in front of a wastewater treatment plant at Hunts Point in the Bronx and told a group of visiting international mayors that it offered one of the…

Some prominent references to President Trump were scrubbed from Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds’ campaign website in recent weeks — but the Republican said Wednesday he isn’t backing away from the president’s agenda.During an onstage interview at the Sunshine Economy Summit, Donalds said his campaign has «been working on website changes for, like, two months now.» He said the changes are meant to reinforce the campaign’s key policy themes ahead of the general election, including affordability.»These are the issues we talk about every day on the campaign trail,» he told Tom Hudson of public media organization WLRN. «For the general…