September 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 17, 2026

Headlines for September 17, 2026 U.S. Declines to Join Saudi Attacks on Yemen After Secretly Meeting With Houthis, Trump on Iran: “Hopefully We Are Towards the End of "?the War”, Fed Raises Interest Rates for First Time Since 2023 as Iran War Drives Inflation, Oil Prices Dip Slightly From 4-Month Highs as Saudi Arabia Offers Additional Oil Shipments, Palestinian-American Journalist Naqaa Hamed Arrested by Israeli Authorities, Palestinians in Gaza Hold Funerals for People Killed in Building Collapse, Democratic Rep. Meeks Refuses to Clear Trump's $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Interfaith Coalition Unveils 330-foot Memorial Shroud Bearing Names of Children Killed in Gaza, Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat Arrested at Palm Beach Hearing on $1B Israel Bond Investment, OpenAI Discloses Six More Incidents of “Concerning” Behavior by “Misaligned”AI Agents, House OKs Ratepayer Protection Act to Shield Against Surging Electricity Costs from Data Centers, Pentagon Claims to Strike Vessel in the Eastern Pacific, Ex-Philippines President Duterte Appears at ICC to Face Charges Over “War on Drugs” Killings, Toxic Haze Spreads Across Southeast Asia as Wildfires Rage in Indonesia, NYT: Trump Admin Guts Key Provision of the Endangered Species ActU.S. Declines to Join Saudi Attacks on Yemen After Secretly Meeting With Houthis, Trump on Iran: "Hopefully We Are Towards the End of "?the War", Fed Raises Interest Rates for First Time Since

September 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM EDT
"Architects of Atrocities": Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown

"Architects of Atrocities": Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown Four years ago today, the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising erupted in Iran after the death in custody of Zhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested by Iran's "morality police." Over the next three months, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting against Iran’s discriminatory compulsory veiling laws.

September 16, 2026 at 8:26 AM EDT
"The Elimination Project": Israel's Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B'Tselem

"The Elimination Project": Israel's Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B'Tselem A major new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem titled “The Elimination Project” accuses Israel of “dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank." "For too long, Israel’s policies in the West Bank have been treated or looked at as isolated events," says Ori Givati, director of international relations at B’Tselem. "We actually find that there is one very coherent logic behind all of them, and this is the logic of elimination of Palestinian collective life in the West Bank." Givati says tactics against Palestinians intensified with Israel's 2022 election and again after October 7, 2023, adding that "we are definitely seeing a lot of the mechanisms, the tools that were used and are used still " in Gaza, being implemented in the West Bank."

September 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM EDT
A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe

A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation after ProPublica revealed on Monday that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin bankrolled part of Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding in May. ProPublica reports that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on wedding expenses, including the rental of a private island. Just weeks before the wedding, Putin awarded Kremlev the Order of Friendship.

September 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 16, 2026

Headlines for September 16, 2026 U.S. House of Representatives Votes to End War on Iran for a Third Time, Saudi Arabia Claims It Destroyed a Houthi Drone South of Mecca, GOP Congressmember Massie Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Defense Secretary Hegseth, U.S. Acknowledges Space Force Has Deployed Weapons in Orbit, Trump Admin Approves $2.8 Billion Package Selling 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Building in Gaza Housing 100 People Collapses, Killing At Least 20 People, UN Warns of Israel War Crimes as Hundreds of Bodies Recovered From Rubble in Gaza, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Headline "Pro-Human Assembly" Calling for AI Regulations, 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Spilled From a Data Center's Storage Tank in New Jersey, Trump's Board of Trustees Votes to Close Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bloomberg: Trump Made Nearly 28,700 Stock Trades in 17 Months, More Than All of Congress, FBI Director Kash Patel Suggests He Might Send Federal Agents to Polling Places, Pennsylvania Health Officials Report a Fourth Measles Death, More Opening Acts Drop Out of Ed Sheeran's Tour Over Macklemore's RemovalU.S. House of Representatives Votes to End War on Iran for a Third Time, Saudi Arabia Claims It Destroyed a Houthi Drone South of Mecca, GOP Congressmember Massie Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Defense Secretary Hegseth, U.S. Acknowledges Space Force Has Deployed Weapons in Orbit, Trump Admin Approves $2.8 Billion Package Selling 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel,

September 15, 2026 at 8:17 AM EDT
"End Times Fascism": Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right

"End Times Fascism": Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for "the end of the world," even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is "not simply a rerun," explains Klein. "We don't believe that history repeats on a loop. We believe that we're in something more like a sequel, where the logics of fascism, which are the logics of dehumanization, of othering, of racial supremacy and hierarchy, are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis." In response, says Taylor, the growing movement seeking to resist this fatalistic vision "fundamentally needs to be grounded in a desire to stay here on Earth, to commit to this place."Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for "the end of the world," even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is "not simply a rerun," explains Klein. "We don't believe that history repeats on a loop. We believe that we're in something more like a sequel, where the logics of fascism, which are the logics of dehumanization, of othering, of racial supremacy and hierarchy, are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis." In response, says Taylor, the growing movement seeking to resist this fatalistic vision "fundamentally needs to be grounded in a desire to stay here on Earth, to commit to this place."

September 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 15, 2026

Headlines for September 15, 2026 Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Order Restricting Mail-In Voting, Whistleblower Says Federal Agents Broke Laws in Trump-Ordered Search for "Unlawful Voters", Trump Rejects Calls to Regulate A.I. as a "SICK Conspiracy" and "HOAX", Saudi Crown Prince MBS Meets CENTCOM Chief as Houthis Consolidate Control Over Red Sea Coast, Iran's IRGC Claims It Shot Down Two U.S. Drones Over the Strait of Hormuz, Yield on 10-Year U.S. Treasury Bonds Passes 5% as Mideast War Drives Up Oil Prices, 'Alligator Alcatraz' Locked Immigrants in Outdoor Metal Cages Dubbed 'Calming Areas', New York Leads Coalition Suing Trump Admin Over New Immigration Rule, ProPublica: Don Jr.'s Wedding Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch, Mitch McConnell Returns to the Senate Three Months After Medical Emergency, Turkish Authorities Detain At Least 162 People in Raids of Gay Bars and Homes of LGBTQ+ Activists, Judge Blocks Trump's Restrictions on Visas for International Students, Academics and Journalists, Mahmoud Khalil Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Columbia University, Ed Sheeran Removes Macklemore From U.S. Tour Over Palestine AdvocacySupreme Court Blocks Trump's Order Restricting Mail-In Voting, Whistleblower Says Federal Agents Broke Laws in Trump-Ordered Search for "Unlawful Voters", Trump Rejects Calls to Regulate A.I. as a "SICK Conspiracy" and "HOAX", Saudi Crown Prince MBS Meets CENTCOM Chief as Houthis Consolidate Control Over Red Sea Coast, Iran's IRGC Claims It Shot Down Two U.S. Drones Over the Strait of Hormuz, Yield on 10-Year U.S. Treasury Bonds Passes 5% as Mideast War Drives Up Oil Prices, 'Alligator Alcatraz' Locked Immigrants in Outdoor Metal Cages Dubbed 'Calming Areas', New York Leads Coalition Suing Trump Admin Over New Immigration Rule, ProPublica: Don Jr.'s Wedding Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch, Mitch McConnell Returns to the Senate Three Months After Medical Emergency, Turkish Authorities Detain At Least 162 People in Raids of Gay Bars and Homes of LGBTQ+ Activists, Judge Blocks Trump's Restrictions on Visas for International Students, Academics and Journalists, Mahmoud Khalil Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Columbia University, Ed Sheeran Removes Macklemore From U.S. Tour Over Palestine Advocacy

September 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM EDT
Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast

Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast Yemen is at risk of spiraling back into all-out war as Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia exchange new strikes amid a fight over control of the key Bab el-Mandeb strait through which much of Saudi oil passes on its way to world markets. The Houthis, the Iran-allied force also known as Ansarallah, has seized Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline from the Saudi-backed Yemeni government. The United Nations says the latest escalation has displaced 86,000 people in Yemen as the U.S. war on Iran continues to wrack the Middle East and raise oil prices around the world. "What's happening right now is essentially a break in the ceasefire between Ansarallah " and Saudi Arabia," says Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni American associate professor at Michigan State University. "This ceasefire has been in place since 2022, but it has not ended the war in Yemen."Yemen is at risk of spiraling back into all-out war as Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia exchange new strikes amid a fight over control of the key Bab el-Mandeb strait through which much of Saudi oil passes on its way to world markets. The Houthis, the Iran-allied force also known as Ansarallah, has seized Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline from the Saudi-backed Yemeni government. The United Nations says the latest escalation has displaced 86,000 people in Yemen as the U.S. war on Iran continues to wrack the Middle East and raise oil prices around the world. "What's happening right now is essentially a break in the ceasefire between Ansarallah " and Saudi Arabia," says Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni American associate professor at Michigan State University. "This ceasefire has been in place since 2022, but it has not ended the war in Yemen."

September 14, 2026 at 8:31 AM EDT
Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack

Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack Did Saudi Arabia play a role in the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks of 2001? That question was raised immediately after the attack, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were revealed to be Saudi citizens, and it has only grown louder in the 25 years since as more evidence emerged of the attackers' connections to Saudi figures inside the United States. We speak with ProPublica journalist Tim Golden, who reports that the FBI failed to fully investigate Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi intelligence asset who helped two of the hijackers as they arrived in California in early 2000. Key evidence, including a handwritten note by al-Bayoumi calculating an airplane's trajectory to a point on the horizon, was not fully disclosed to investigators. "Al-Bayoumi was incredibly important, but this evidence " sort of went missing for more than 20 years," says Golden. "If the Saudi government is indirectly responsible, or even if this was some rogue cell of Saudis within the religious bureaucracy, we would hope that that should come out."Did Saudi Arabia play a role in the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks of 2001? That question was raised immediately after the attack, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were revealed to be Saudi citizens, and it has only grown louder in the 25 years since as more evidence emerged of the attackers' connections to Saudi figures inside the United States. We speak with ProPublica journalist Tim Golden, who reports that the FBI failed to fully investigate Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi intelligence asset who helped two of the hijackers as they arrived in California in early 2000. Key evidence, including a handwritten note by al-Bayoumi calculating an airplane's trajectory to a point on the horizon, was not fully disclosed to investigators. "Al-Bayoumi was incredibly important, but this evidence " sort of went missing for more than 20 years," says Golden. "If the Saudi government is indirectly responsible, or even if this was some rogue cell of Saudis within the religious bureaucracy, we would hope that that should come out."

September 14, 2026 at 8:18 AM EDT
"One Betrayal After Another": 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks

"One Betrayal After Another": 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks A quarter-century after the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, a group of victims' families is continuing a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to hold the kingdom accountable for any role it played in the planning and execution of the plot. While the Saudi government has always denied advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, 15 of the 19 plane hijackers were Saudi citizens, including some with connections to Saudi officials and intelligence assets in the United States. Terry Strada, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, raised the issue during an official commemoration on Friday in New York while paying tribute to her husband Tom, who was killed in the World Trade Center. With Vice President JD Vance and all four living ex-presidents in the audience, Strada asked: "How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?" Strada tells Democracy Now! that evidence has only grown that Saudi agents "were directly involved with providing the support network" to carry out the 9/11 attacks, and that she hopes President Donald Trump will tell the Saudi government "that they can no longer hide and that they need to confront the evidence and work things out with the families."A quarter-century after the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, a group of victims' families is continuing a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to hold the kingdom accountable for any role it played in the planning and execution of the plot. While the Saudi government has always denied advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, 15 of the 19 plane hijackers were Saudi citizens, including some with connections to Saudi officials and intelligence assets in the United States. Terry Strada, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, raised the issue during an official commemoration on Friday in New York while paying tribute to her husband Tom, who was killed in the World Trade Center. With Vice President JD Vance and all four living ex-presidents in the audience, Strada asked: "How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?" Strada tells Democracy Now! that evidence has only grown that Saudi agents "were directly involved with providing the support network" to carry out the 9/11 attacks, and that she hopes President Donald Trump will tell the Saudi government "that they can no longer hide and that they need to confront the evidence and work things out with the families."

September 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM EDT
"NAZA" Film on Gaza Genocide Wins Venice Special Jury Prize; Israel Threatens Directors' Citizenship

"NAZA" Film on Gaza Genocide Wins Venice Special Jury Prize; Israel Threatens Directors' Citizenship The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military's use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film was directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, both of whom won an Oscar for the documentary No Other Land in 2025 along with Palestinian co-directors Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. NAZA was shot in secret on rooftops in Tel Aviv over three years and builds on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources who spoke on the condition their identities be concealed. The film's title refers to an acronym used by the Israeli military as a shorthand for civilian killings in Gaza. The film's reception in Venice, where it received a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation, was met with angry backlash from Israel's government as Culture Minister Miki Zohar threatened to revoke Abraham and Szor's Israeli citizenship.The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military's use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film was directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, both of whom won an Oscar for the documentary No Other Land in 2025 along with Palestinian co-directors Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. NAZA was shot in secret on rooftops in Tel Aviv over three years and builds on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources who spoke on the condition their identities be concealed. The film's title refers to an acronym used by the Israeli military as a shorthand for civilian killings in Gaza. The film's reception in Venice, where it received a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation, was met with angry backlash from Israel's government as Culture Minister Miki Zohar threatened to revoke Abraham and Szor's Israeli citizenship.

September 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT
Headlines for September 14, 2026

Headlines for September 14, 2026 Anthropic's CEO Calls for the Development of Artificial Intelligence to Slowdown, Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Blocked From Attending Annual IAEA Meeting, Houthis Claim Drone and Missile Attack on Military Base in Southern Saudi Arabia, B'tselem: Israel Systematically Dismantling Palestinian Life in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills At Least Two People, Israeli Military Uses More Than 1,000 Tons of Explosives to Destroy Hezbollah Tunnels in Lebanon, Former U.S. CIA Director Petraeus Narrowly Escapes Russian Drone Strike at Train Station Near Poland-Ukraine Border, Ebola Cases in the Democratic Republic ?of Congo Tops 7,000, EPA Set to Repeal Carbon Pollution Standards for Coal and Gas Power Plants, Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin Broke the Law in Directing FEMA's Workforce be Cut in Half, NYT and Flatwater Free Press: Nebraska's GOP Governor Backs Trump's ICE Raids as his Hog Business Employs Undocumented Workers, Trump Demands Smithsonian Install a 30-Foot Colossal Statue of George WashingtonAnthropic's CEO Calls for the Development of Artificial Intelligence to Slowdown, Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Blocked From Attending Annual IAEA Meeting, Houthis Claim Drone and Missile Attack on Military Base in Southern Saudi Arabia, B'tselem: Israel Systematically Dismantling Palestinian Life in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills At Least Two People, Israeli Military Uses More Than 1,000 Tons of Explosives to Destroy Hezbollah Tunnels in Lebanon, Former U.S. CIA Director Petraeus Narrowly Escapes Russian Drone Strike at Train Station Near Poland-Ukraine Border, Ebola Cases in the Democratic Republic ?of Congo Tops 7,000, EPA Set to Repeal Carbon Pollution Standards for Coal and Gas Power Plants, Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin Broke the Law in Directing FEMA's Workforce be Cut in Half, NYT and Flatwater Free Press: Nebraska's GOP Governor Backs Trump's ICE Raids as his Hog Business Employs Undocumented Workers, Trump Demands Smithsonian Install a 30-Foot Colossal Statue of George Washington