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By Daniel Wiessner Sept 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday, said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by usurping FEMA’s authority over its own personnel and steering the agency to cut thousands […]

By Field Level Media Sep 12 (Field Level Media) – The Detroit Lions restructured the contracts of wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and left tackle Penei Sewell and created $35.68 million in cap space, multiple outlets reported Saturday. The Lions now rank second in the league in available cap space at about $38 million, which can also be carried over to 2027, according to Over The Cap and Spotrac. Detroit […]

Sept 12 (Reuters) – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to deliberately moderate the rate at which they advance model capabilities, outlining a three-step framework intended to pace development and create more time to manage its risks. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” Amodei […]

LONDON (AP) — Reform UK, the anti-immigration party led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, received 72 million pounds ($97 million) from two cryptocurrency billionaires this weekend, fueling concerns about money in British politics. After news broke that Ben Delo, a co-founder of the BitMEX cryptocurrency platform, had given 36 million pounds ($48 million) to the party, crypto investor Christopher Harborne on Saturday announced he was matching the donation. Harborne said […]

The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Nino that crushes storms before they get going. No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year and none are likely to form for at least another week, even though this would normally be the peak of the season, according to the National Hurricane Center. Only five relatively weak and brief tropical storms have spun […]

Sept 12 (Reuters) – A meeting between Iran and Gulf states planned for Monday in Oman will be a chance to discuss issues including the Strait of Hormuz, but is not expected to yield a signed agreement over the blockaded waterway, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Iran has been negotiating for months with Oman, which controls the opposite bank of the strait, over a deal that would govern […]

BUDAPEST, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Hungary’s government will change legislation passed in 2020 by Viktor Orban’s former government that had effectively banned gay adoption, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Saturday. Adoption in Hungary, a European Union member state, by gay and lesbian couples was possible until late 2020 if one partner applied as a single person. Under the law passed by Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party in 2020, single people […]

By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) – A lightning offensive by the Iran-aligned Houthis has put the militants in a position to control a crucial Middle East waterway, creating a major new problem for U.S. President Donald Trump as his war with Iran grinds on in its seventh month.  Widening the Middle East conflict, Houthi fighters have advanced south along Yemen’s coast, increasing their […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — New blood tests that might predict Alzheimer’s years before symptoms begin may sound tantalizing for people who worry about later-in-life dementia. But doctors say they aren’t quite ready yet — and besides, you don’t need a test before trying to lower your risk. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared four blood tests to help doctors diagnose whether Alzheimer’s — not another kind of dementia or […]