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PARIS — French authorities are investigating whether sabotage caused a train derailment that injured 44 people in Normandy, after a piece of rail was found on the track, police told The Associated Press on Saturday.The regional train was carrying 186 passengers from Rouen to Caen when it derailed Friday evening at Cléon, in the Seine-Maritime department of northwestern France.An 18-year-old woman was among the injured and was evacuated by helicopter to Rouen University Hospital, police said.A spokeswoman for the French national police communications service, known as SICOP, said that the piece of rail found on the track was “probably” linked…

Meg KinnardSeptember 12, 2026 — 4:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWashington: Dozens of presidential briefing documents declassified on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks detail intelligence that US government officials had gathered about Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3000 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 US and…

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Lady Gaga has officially stepped into a brand-new role — and it’s one she’s been talking about for years. The Grammy-winning superstar and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, are celebrating a major new chapter together, and fans of Mother Monster have plenty to celebrate right along with them.RELATED: C’mon Support Team! Lady Gaga Cheers On Simone Biles During Balance Beam Routine Following Leg Injury (VIDEO)Lady Gaga’s Mama Era Just Got RealThe ‘Born This Way; singer, 40, and Michael Polansky have welcomed their first baby together, a source tells Page Six. According to the source, the singer has been keeping a low…

The Weekend Read / September 12, 2026 Eviction is practically baked into the way Britain manages its tenanted homes. Here how it played out—over and over again—for my parents. Ad Policy On the set of “Hanging On” by Cosmosquare Films.(Hazell Field) This essay is drawn from Jessica Field’s book, Eviction: A Social History of Rent, out in paperback from Verso Books on September 15th. “I’m a different person now,” Mum often says. For a time, she meant that in a good way: stronger, confident, less fearful of ruffling feathers. That’s because for five years between 2017 and 2022 my mum,…

The Western Illinois Leathernecks visit the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026 at 7:15 p.m. ET from Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. Western Illinois is 1-1, having lost to Illinois State 41-10 last week, and Wisconsin is 0-1, having lost to Notre Dame 41-13. Western Illinois has moved the ball through the air. Quarterback Kennedy McGill has thrown for 317 yards and added three rushing touchdowns, and the Leathernecks’ seven total touchdowns rank eighth-most in college football in the 2026 regular season.Wisconsin’s offense struggled in its opener. Quarterback Colton Joseph completed 19 of 30 passes for 217 yards…

In March 2014, a woman in China had an IUD placed for the fourth time. A month later, she was back with abdominal pain, a swollen right leg, and trouble moving around. An ultrasound found no device in her uterus and nothing abnormal in her uterus or the structures beside it, and after a day of rest, she felt better.Where the IUD had gone was never established. Nine years later, at 38, she was admitted with a week of persistent lower abdominal pain. A CT scan showed metal inside her bladder.Gynecologists at Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences Affiliated…

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Torture became “enhanced interrogation”. Suspects were seized and removed across borders through “extraordinary rendition”. Detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were designated “enemy combatants”, while deadly attacks were described as “surgical” or “targeted” strikes.In the years after the September 11 attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center, a whole new vocabulary of war, laced with the language of bureaucracy and precision, moved into the political mainstream in the United States.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAt its centre was a phrase broad enough to encompass almost everything that followed: the “war on terror”.That phrase came to define an era…

The weather on September 11, as we’ve come to know it in New York City, is strangely perfect year after year — clear, bright and temperate, as though it has come from a movie set.  That endless blue sky, without even the threat of a cloud, became a memorable feature of one of the darkest days in American history, helping remind us how the perfect and the terrible are often stitched together, almost as though one lays the groundwork for the other.   This week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration released some 170,000 pages of long-concealed air-quality documents, forced into view by…