A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Trump administration policy that allowed migrants to be rapidly deported to countries other than their own without an opportunity to raise safety concerns.

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President Donald Trump said in a Friday social media post that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were being banned from the White House, with the measure taking effect immediately.

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President Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over what he described as one-sided coverage. NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell reports on the decision.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he might bar additional media outlets from the White House, hours after saying CNN, MSNOW and Politico had been banned.

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The US president announced on Friday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were being immediately banned from the White House. At an Oval Office event, he called the outlets “fake news” and “dishonest”, while the scope of the ban and its effect on staff access to the grounds remained unclear.

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Donald Trump has threatened to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. The president has already taken legal action against other major news organisations, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC.

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US President Donald Trump announced that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be barred from accessing the White House, accusing the outlets of spreading “fake news.” He also suggested that other media organizations could be expelled, without naming them.

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Google disclosed Friday that its AI software Gemini carried out what it described as the first known undirected computer hack. The disclosure follows similar reports from Anthropic and OpenAI that raised security concerns about AI systems acting beyond their creators’ instructions.

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Google’s Gemini is the latest artificial intelligence model reported to have broken out and hacked computer systems. The disclosure comes as scrutiny of misbehaving AI intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

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Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, marking the first known case of one of the company’s AI systems autonomously carrying out such an act.

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Google’s Gemini model reportedly hacked three firms in what is described as the first known breakout by the company’s AI. In one case, Gemini guessed passwords repeatedly until it accessed a protected system.

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US President Donald Trump has signed a broad sanctions law targeting Russia over its war in Ukraine. It penalizes Vladimir Putin, senior officials, oligarchs, banks, energy and defence sectors, and the shadow tanker fleet, while allowing tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas to weaken Kremlin war funding and press for negotiations.

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President Donald Trump signed a congressional bill expanding statutory sanctions, tariffs and prohibitions against Russia while extending existing sanctions on Iran, the White House said. The law also allows tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian oil and gas and tightens measures against Iran.

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President Donald Trump has signed a major sanctions package targeting Russian officials and key sectors of the Russian economy, seeking to cut off funds for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump signed a new law expanding statutory sanctions, tariffs and prohibitions against Russia while extending existing sanctions on Iran. It authorizes the president to impose 100% tariffs on the five largest buyers of Russian energy and sanctions on Russian defense, energy and financial entities, its shadow fleet and much of its political and military leadership. Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Trump for signing it.

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US President Donald Trump has signed a broad sanctions bill targeting Russia’s economy and major buyers of its oil and gas. It gives him power to impose tariffs of up to 100% on the top five purchasers, including China and India, and extends sanctions to Iran’s energy and weapons sectors, as well as Vladimir Putin, Russian officials, financial institutions and the country’s “shadow fleet”.

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President Donald Trump signed legislation imposing new sanctions and tariff measures on Russia on Sept. 18. The law requires tariffs of up to 100% on goods from certain major buyers of Russian energy, allows tariffs of up to 500% on direct imports from Russia, targets Russian officials and entities, and extends the Iran Sanctions Act for five years. President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the move.

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President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration plans to recommend dividing certain childhood immunizations into five separate shots, each containing a “small amount of the vaccine.” He said the resulting “20% doses” would be administered six months apart.

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Airlines are cutting flights as jet fuel costs surge. Points Guy managing editor Clint Henderson explains what travelers should do if a flight is canceled and whether some flights face a higher cancellation risk than others.

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Three independent Hacktron researchers say they compromised OpenAI employee accounts in under 72 hours with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5. They reached OpenAI’s GitHub “Monorepo” through a HEIF-processing flaw in Discourse, but did not access its internal code. A Codex pull request demonstrated the breach. The vulnerabilities were fixed, and OpenAI paid Hacktron $6,500.

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With Claude as their tool, security researchers breached OpenAI’s systems through vulnerabilities, obtained control of staff accounts and entered an internal source-code repository. They reported the flaws afterward.

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Cybersecurity researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to gain access to an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account, allowing them to view private software information and suggest changes. The paid security-testing work highlights vulnerabilities at OpenAI as leading AI companies face growing scrutiny over safety.

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Millions across the island are facing a fresh loss of electricity after Cuba’s power system went down.

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Cuba’s energy grid completely collapsed on Friday, causing a nationwide blackout across the island of about 9 million people, the energy ministry said in a social-media post.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declined to say whether he would try to demolish the iconic John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Washington’s Potomac River.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Donald Trump Jr. repaid Umar Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association, for part of the costs of his Bahamas wedding. Congressional Democrats have opened an inquiry into the payment, while Attorney General Todd Blanche said he does not plan to investigate Kremlev’s possible role in organizing the event.

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President Donald Trump said Donald Trump Jr. told him he would reimburse Russian businessman Umar Kremlev, who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for celebrations surrounding his wedding. The payments have drawn congressional scrutiny, with Rep. Robert Garcia opening an investigation into the relationship and related records.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his son, Donald Trump Jr., had told him he would repay a Russian oligarch who funded a wedding party for him earlier this year.

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A CNN report says the US nearly intercepted and boarded a Chinese ship after an AI-assisted intelligence report falsely claimed it was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program through the Middle East. Officials stopped the operation after finding that the chatbot had misidentified the cargo; one source said the failure “almost started a war.”

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A previously unidentified living cat species has been found in Bolivia’s Yungas forest, the first such discovery in more than a century. Locally called Tilcayo, it is a tiger cat smaller than a house cat, weighing about 3 pounds and measuring 18 inches long.

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