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Sep 16, 2026
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday that Canada become the bloc's first "associate member," provoking a fresh tariff threat from US President Donald Trump.
The move is aimed at shoring up their economies in the face of increasing trade tensions with the United States. But Trump said Wednesday the US could put "heavy tariffs" on the European Union if he considers any new agreement with Canada to be a "hostile act."
"If it's a good intention, that's fine. If it's a bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe, which is a possibility," he told reporters.
Canada is currently locked in a trade war with the US, its largest trading partner, adding urgency to efforts to get closer to the the European Union.
Trump has also repeatedly called for Canada to become the 51st US state, an idea firmly rejected by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Carney was a guest at von der Leyen's state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, where she remarked that "in this new world we must urgently reimagine our partnerships and build global coalitions for our resilience and democracies."
"In short, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible," she said.
Carney, meanwhile, is keen to foster a much closer relationship with the EU, saying Sunday that Canada was pursuing a "unique alliance with the European Union." He made headlines with a speech at Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year stressing the need for "middle powers" to act in concert amid a "rupture in the world order."
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Sep 16, 2026
President Trump reacted to Wednesday's Fed rate hike, saying "Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less" and acknowledging he discussed with Kevin Warsh the Fed chair's plans for how to vote ahead of time.
"I talked to Kevin and I said, ‘you might as well vote with the board because it's not going to matter,'" Trump told reporters Wednesday evening.
The Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to raise rates by 25 basis points, its first hike in three years and the first under Warsh.
The president, who has spent more than a year calling for lower rates, first posted on Truth Social that rates should be dropping and that the trade deficit was a reason to "LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST!" days after he threatened to stop trading with countries that have a trade deficit unless the Fed cuts rates.
Later Wednesday, when he was asked by reporters if he still has confidence in Warsh, Trump said he did, but said "he's got a very tough board." He called
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Sep 16, 2026
The House passed the sweeping Russia sanctions bill long championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday, sending the legislation to the White House for President Donald Trump's signature after more than a year of congressional maneuvering.
The 262 to 159 vote ends a nearly two-year lull in Ukraine assistance from Congress, which had not passed any major Ukraine efforts since a 2024 emergency aid package. The bill faced a number of obstacles on the path to the Resolute Desk, including significant opposition from some House Democrats who argued that the bill would give the White House too much tariff power.
After weathering a number of storms to make it out of Capitol Hill, the legislation is all but guaranteed to get Trump's signature.
The long-anticipated legislation issues mandatory sanctions on Russia's leadership and energy sector — as well as new sanctions on collaborators in Moscow's defense industry and its so-called shadow fleet. Advocates of the bill, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have argued it would give the White House necessary tools to squeeze Russia economically, curbing the flow of funds to Moscow's war machine.
But, to many Democrats' dismay, the legislation also includes a 100% tariff on top buyers of Russian energy. Opponents of the bill have cautioned that the tariff provision would hand another cudgel for Trump to use against not only U.S. foes but also global allies — an action the White House has repeatedly taken since Trump returned to office.
"We cannot grant more tariff power that we know he will abuse," Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) said in comments on the House floor Wednesday.
Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, argued that the tariffs would worsen the economic pain already felt by everyday Americans
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Sep 16, 2026
Macklemore on Wednesday pledged to donate the "entire $1 million" of his net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to Palestinian relief organizations, days after he was dropped from the tour over his pro-Palestinian comments.
He also invited New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who said Macklemore wouldn't be welcome at Gillette Stadium for the tour's scheduled performances at the end of September, to match his donation. Within hours, Kraft released a statement saying Sheeran had already asked him to match his $2 million donation to humanitarian aid in the region.
Their statements come amid a growing controversy following Macklemore's removal that has seen all of Sheeran's supporting acts quit the tour. Sheeran is set to play in Philadelphia this weekend.
Sheeran broke his silence about Macklemore's removal from the tour on Tuesday, saying it wasn't his decision but the promoter's. Macklemore's contract for the tour was with the promoter, Sheeran said.
Here's how the controversy began — and how it continues to unfold.
Sept. 4-5: Macklemore's performances at MetLife StadiumEarlier this month, Macklemore performed as Sheeran's opening act at M
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Sep 16, 2026
On Wednesday, investigators examine the site of the NBC4 news helicopter crash in Chatsworth. (Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times)It was a night of devastation in Chatsworth that began with a deadly Metro bus collision and ended with the fiery crash of an NBC4 helicopter covering the news that left two journalists and, on the ground, a bystander dead.
Tuesday's scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos, with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe. The crashes claimed the lives of five people and left others with various degrees of injury.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were trying Wednesday to determine exactly what caused the news helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350 B2, to go down.
NTSB Investigator Fabian Salazar said officials are searching through the wreckage, combing through maintenance logbooks, security footage, weather reports and witness interviews, and reviewing the pilot's training to figure out what went wrong.
But the most critical information so far has been audio captured from the helicopter during a live broadcast of reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw's final moments before it crashed.
The footage shows an aerial view of the bus crash with the whirl of the helicopter in the background. Suddenly, the sound of the engine's motor winds down and a horn blares, possibly warning the pilot that the main rotor speed had dropped too low or the helicopter had lost hydraulics. Moreno responds to the noise with a quiet "uh oh."
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Sep 16, 2026
The fate of Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour is suddenly uncertain after all of the British singer's remaining opening acts quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped from the remaining North American dates over pro-Palestinian comments.
Hours after Sheeran released a statement saying it was the promoter's decision to remove Macklemore from the tour and not his, the rest of his supporting acts — Irish singer Aaron Rowe, Danish pop band Lukas Graham and songwriter Finneas — as well as Sheeran's house band, Beoga, announced that they were pulling out in protest.
"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed," Finneas, the brother of Billie Eilish, wrote in a note posted to Instagram. "I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people."
The Irish artists cited their country's history of oppression in their decisions to drop out.
"I don't take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this," Rowe wrote in his own Instagram post. "But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot
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Sep 16, 2026
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seen from the Georgetown Waterfront on September 15, in Washington, DC. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
One day after a dramatic meeting of the arts institution's Board of Trustees, during which members - many of whom are allies of President Donald Trump - voted to close its doors, lights inside the Kennedy Center's main building appeared to have been turned off.
The doors had been locked at 6 p.m. Tuesday night and bike racks were stacked up by entrances to block public access.
But officially closing the public monument would violate a court order requiring it remain open as a lawsuit brought by Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty continues.
On Wednesday, US District Court Judge Christopher Cooper, in response to an appeal for an emergency hearing filed by Beatty, ordered the Trump administration to answer questions over the status of the building by Thursday at 10 a.m ET.
Beatty issued the request after a member of her legal team was denied entry to the main building and "was informed by several security staff members that the building is currently closed to the public," her attorneys said in a court filing.
A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center told CNN the building was "temporarily" closed due to safety concerns. But Beatty's lawyers said that when they asked for an explanation from the Justice Department, they did not receive a reply - a violation of the court order, they contend.
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Sep 16, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that he's going to block a proposed sale of $2.8 billion in heavy weaponry to Israel over concerns that the powerful bombs may not be used in line with U.S. and international law.
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York said he would withhold approval for the sale because of "grave, unresolved concerns" about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
"The Trump administration has not provided sufficient assurances that these weapons will be used by the Netanyahu government in accordance with U.S. law and with appropriate protections for civilians," Meeks said in a statement. "I therefore will not clear this sale at this time."
Meeks' objections, however, will not likely affect the sale, which was informally notified to lawmakers on Tuesday. Once it is formally notified to Congress, Secretary of State Marco Rubio can bypass the normal congressional review process by making an emergency determination that the transaction is an urgent national security interest.
Rubio has done so in the past, including bypassing a normal congressional review process to approve a nearly $3 billion sale to Israel last year. The administration then approved a new series of arms sales to Israel tot
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Sep 16, 2026
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in March 2026.Alex Wong/Getty ImagesWhite House chief of staff Susie Wiles is "cancer free," she announced on X on Sept. 16, 2026. "Some personal news I'm grateful to share. After a medical appointment at the Mayo Clinic this week, my pathology results came back clear," she explained.
Wiles was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in March and told the New York Times that her prognosis was "strong." Wiles did not disclose at the time what treatment she would undergo, but said it would last several weeks — during which time she planned to continue working. Noting that one in eight American women develops breast cancer at some point in their lives, Wiles posted on X at the time: "Every day, these women continue t
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Sep 16, 2026
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years in a unanimous decision on Wednesday, with central bankers now seeing a second hike this year to arrest sticky inflation.
The Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise its benchmark interest rate to the range of 3.75% to 4% from 3.5% to 3.75%, the first rate hike since July 2023, as renewed tensions in the Middle East drive oil prices higher and raise concerns about broadening price pressures.
"We now have data broadly defined that says the economy has indeed strengthened," Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said in a press conference following the meeting. "Underlying growth is higher. Inflation is the problem. Stable prices have been the problem for, now, more than five and a half years.
"So what the committee decided to do today was take an action to ensure a timely return to our price stability."
Noting that the economy is essentially at full employment, Warsh said he thinks the Fed can tame inflation without depressing growth.
"I don't believe that we need to do harm to the labor markets to achieve our objective," he said. "I don't believe that the two parts of our mandate — price stability and full employment — are working at cross purposes over the medium term."
Dot plot projects another hike in 2026In their updated summary of economic projections, officials now see one more rate hike this year. That compares with expectations in June, when half of the committee expected they would need to r
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Sep 16, 2026
By Jacob Bogage
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Postal Service has told confidants that he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign, according to four people familiar with his thinking, as the agency comes under scrutiny over financial losses and President Donald Trump's ?effort to tighten rules on mail-in voting.
Postmaster General David Steiner, who took office in July 2025 after the White House forced out his predecessor, has ?expressed frustration over a lack of help from the White House and Congress in addressing the mail service's long-running financial woes, the people said.
At the same time, the Postal Service was thrust to the center of ?a debate over the federal government's role in voting after Trump directed it in March to serve as a clearinghouse for mail ballots. The Supreme Court on Monday blocked the agency from implementing key elements of the plan, dealing the White House a significant setback.
The pressures culminated in a contentious June Senate hearing, where lawmakers from both parties interrogated Steiner over poor delivery service, Trump's ballot restrictions and his compensation.
The hearing left Steiner furious, the people said. ?In conversations afterward, Steiner described the job as thankless, warned that the agency's finances were increasingly dire without ?federal aid, and said he wanted out, according to the ?people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"The message was, this isn't what he signed up for, and he didn't come on board to get beat up like this," one of the people said.
The Postal Service disputed the information from the sources, saying it had "absolutely zero ?validity," but did not comment on specific incidents. The agency did not respond to a request for an interview with Steiner.
TRUMP ATTEMPTS TO INTERVENE ON MAIL-IN VOTING
The postmaster general, who runs the independent agency of 630,000 emp
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Sep 16, 2026
President Donald Trump's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier, faced her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. - Jose Luis Magana/AP
Wednesday's Senate confirmation hearing wasn't the first time much of the American public met Dr. Nicole Saphier and heard her perspective; President Donald Trump's nominee for US surgeon general is a health and wellness influencer who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers through her podcast and social media platforms.
In some ways, the surgeon general position - often referred to as the nation's doctor - is the original health influencer, tasked with translating science into terms that are easy to understand and guiding the public on ways to improve their health.
"For a decade, I have specialized in translating complex, fast-evolving medical information on various media platforms into content that millions of Americans can understand and use, including during the uncertainty of the global pandemic," Saphier, a radiologist and Fox News contributor, said in Wednesday's hearing.
"I realized then how badly this country needs public health communication that is straightforward and grounded in the best evidence available," she said. "My years of communicating directly with the public have prepared me to explain complex topics in a way that they can understand."
But experts say that social media has changed how people receive health information, with increasingly blurred lines as to who is considered to have authority and expertise - and that bringing an influencer
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Sep 16, 2026
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday, marking its first hike in more than three years, in a move that will likely make borrowing more expensive while giving savers a modest boost.
Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee announced a widely expected quarter-point rate increase and indicated another to come.
The stock market's reaction to the Fed's announcement is likely to draw the most headlines, and John Shugar, a partner at Goldman Sachs, leans toward an optimistic scenario.
"You basically have a market where all of the heavy lifting has actually been done on the earnings side," Shugar said in an analysis. He points to "terrific opportunities" in various AI consumer sectors, though "over the next few weeks, we may have a lot more speed bumps."
However, within one year, he says he expects the S&P 500 index to climb above 8,000.
What will a higher rate environment mean for your money? The federal funds rate influences not only the stock market, but also savings rates, interest charges, and, to a lesser degree, mortgage rates. Here's how to prepare for the impact on your deposits, credit, and debt.
Read more: Understanding the Fed decision: Do we want high or low interest rates?
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Sep 16, 2026
A key House panel investigating law enforcement's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case has voted to hold the investor and hedge fund manager Leon Black in contempt of Congress after he did not appear for a deposition or turn over documents.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee took the vote unanimously and across party lines on Sept. 15 as Epstein survivors applauded Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, for his willingness to force the issue.
"No one is above the law," Comer said. "Mr. Black will be treated the same as anyone else in this investigation, and his actions have consequences."
Black founded the hedge fund Apollo Global Management but stepped down in 2021 after it became public that he paid Epstein $158 million for tax and estate planning. He was mentioned multiple times in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice in February.
Comer said Black refused to comply with the committee's subpoenas to appear for a deposition, and a second one requiring him to turn over all nondisclosure agreements to which he was a party and ones that mention Epstein or Epstein's convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
"Subpoenas are not suggestions," Comer said before the vote. "They carry the force of law and require full compliance. Mr. Black's testimony is crucial to our investigation because he maintained a close personal relationship with Epstein for years during the time when Epstein was engaged in sex trafficking."
Black has said in the past that he had a strictly professional relationship with Epstein. Additionally, Blac
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Sep 16, 2026
The speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, speaks to reporters at the US Capitol on 16 September 2026 in Washington DC.Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, announced on Wednesday that he would again cancel votes scheduled for Thursday, sending lawmakers home one day early ahead of the midterm election recess.
The latest change to the legislative schedule means House members will avoid voting on Republican Thomas Massie's resolution to impeach the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and comes amid a frenzied attempt to propose legislation on artificial intelligence.
It's the latest round of cancellations at the hands of Johnson, who had already cut the pre-election session short by two weeks. Democrats have reacted angrily, encouraging Johnson to keep lawmakers on Capitol Hill before the midterm recess beginning on Friday.
Related: More Republicans are turning on Iran war as midterms come into view
"I think it shows the cowardice of the Republican party. They are canceling votes to do business for the American people because they are afraid that that impeachment resolution of Pete Hegseth would pass on a bipartisan basis," the Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal told MediasTouch.
Lawmakers also hoped to addr
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Sep 16, 2026
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation on Wednesday to bar government officials from pressuring private companies to censor speech, citing threats from the Trump administration ?against late-night talk shows as evidence of efforts to stifle free expression.
The measure would allow citizens to ?sue federal employees who pressure private companies into suppressing speech protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees free expression. Both ?Republicans and Democrats on the committee said the bill was needed to curb government overreach.
The committee approved the bill 18-10. It must still pass the full Senate, where it is unclear when it may be taken up, and the U.S. House of Representatives to become law.
Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the panel, said the bill, if it had ?been in effect, would have allowed Disney-owned ?ABC's late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel to file suit after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr last year pressured station owners to stop airing Kimmel's show following remarks about ?the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz cited actions by the administration of then-President Joe Biden that he said were intended to pressure private companies to censor speech protected by the First Amendment. He said ?the Biden ?administration sought to pressure Big Tech firms into "canceling Americans who ?spoke out against vaccine mandates and election ?fraud."
The American Civil Liberties Union said the bill would have prevented Carr "from threatening the broadcast licenses of television stations that continued to air Jimmy Kimmel's show after he made remarks the White House did not like."
U.S. President Donald Trump has called repeatedly for ABC to lose its licenses over programming he dislikes. The reviews wer
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Sep 16, 2026
Austin Abrams in Zach Cregger's Resident Evil. (Sony Pictures Releasing /Courtesy Everett Collection)There have already been seven Resident Evil movies — six of them in a more action-oriented series starring Milla Jovovich, four of which were directed by her husband, Paul W.S. Anderson, plus an unrelated "reboot" in 2021 called Welcome to Raccoon City that went for more of a John Carpenter vibe and was more of an attempt to truly "adapt" the games. There's also a Netflix TV show version that ran for a single season in 2022. Countless other works in the horror genre have unofficially cribbed from the Resident Evil games over the years. It's an incredibly influential series.
And yet, Zach Cregger, hot off his Oscar-
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Sep 16, 2026
The family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at the age of 37 when she was 20 weeks pregnant, has filed a lawsuit in Texas, saying she was denied an abortion that could have saved her life as her health quickly deteriorated.
Lawyers for Walker's family filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Bexar County District Court accusing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, several of her doctors and others of "deliberate indifference, discrimination, and medical mistreatment [that] ultimately caused her horrific and tragic death" in 2024. Preeclampsia is a severe high blood pressure condition in pregnancy that can be fatal.
Walker's family alleges Paxton — a Republican who is currently running for Senate — and another defendant, Stephen Brint Carlton, executive director of the Texas Medical Board, stripped her of her right to life by imposing "a merciless blanket prohibition" on abortion, while the doctors allegedly failed to offer life-saving medical treatment.
Paxton has been outspoken in his defense of Texas' near-total abortion ban. He has filed lawsuits against doctors and organizations who ship abortion pills to Texas from out of state. His office has not responded to CBS News' request for comment.
"At every turn, Texas's political and medical establishments not only failed but actively harmed Ms. Walker," the lawsuit alleges.
"Tierra Walker is dead because not one of her … healthcare providers would give her the one medical procedure that would have saved her life," Michelle Maloney, an attorney representing the family, told CBS News. They refused, she said, because of what she called "the immense culture of fear" that has developed around abortion in the state of Texas since the
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Sep 16, 2026
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Sep 16, 2026
President Barack Obama is mourning the loss of a "cherished" family member.
The former president, in a Wednesday, Sept. 16, post on Instagram, shared his pet dog, Sunny, who joined the family during Obama's second term in the White House and immediately won their hearts, has died. He did not share a cause of death.
Describing his pet of 13 years as a "force of nature," Obama joked the family "had trouble keeping up with her."
"Athletic and full of boundless energy, she leapt over the hedges on the South Lawn like they weren't even there, chasing squirrels, birds and anything else that moved," Obama wrote. "And whereas the way to Bo's (the Obamas' first dog) heart usually involved a treat, Sunny was more interested in having us run around with her, roll on the floor with her, or have her belly rubbed for as long as we were willing."
Obama said Sunny, a Portuguese water dog, loved his daughters, "even if they were pestering her when she was napping," and their team, who she would "often follow them around, helping them on the job."
"She was fiercely protective of Bo, who she rightly sensed wasn't always as alert and attentive as she was," Obama said, adding that, other than Bo, she "preferred people to dogs."
Sunny was 'pretty much perfect'
Sunny also had her quirks. She was a loud and sloppy drinker, Obama said, and despite her breed, "she hated getting wet."
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