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Lead Three former senior FBI officials filed a civil lawsuit on Sept. 10, 2025, naming FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi as defendants. The plaintiffs—former acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen and Spencer Evans—say their removals were carried out at the direction of the White House and the Justice Department and … Read more

On Wednesday morning, Larry Ellison surpassed Elon Musk to become the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after a sharp rise in Oracle’s share price. Ellison’s estimated net worth climbed to $393bn, edging past Musk’s $385bn. The jump followed Oracle’s upbeat outlook for its cloud infrastructure business and a string of large … Read more

Lead: Three senior FBI officials filed a lawsuit on Sept. 10, 2025 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., saying they were unlawfully dismissed in an early-August leadership purge directed for political reasons. The complaint alleges FBI Director Kash Patel removed the agents at the urging of White House and Justice Department officials and tied … Read more

Lead Prince Harry and King Charles met in person at Clarence House on Wednesday, their first face-to-face encounter since February 2024. Buckingham Palace confirmed the encounter was a private tea that lasted about 50 minutes after the King travelled from Balmoral to London. The meeting took place while Harry is in the UK for charity … Read more

Lead Congress declined to extend President Donald Trump’s Aug. 11 emergency order that federalized Washington, D.C.’s city police, allowing the takeover to lapse at midnight, the mayor’s office said. Practically, visible security may not change immediately: National Guard orders for D.C. troops were extended through December and remain under federal command. Meanwhile, a House committee … Read more

Lead Larry Ellison, co‑founder and chairman of Oracle, became the world’s richest person on Wednesday morning when the Bloomberg Billionaires Index put his net worth at $393bn, surpassing Elon Musk’s $385bn. The jump followed Oracle’s quarterly report and a forecast that sent its shares rising more than 40% as demand for cloud infrastructure and AI … Read more

Lead Three senior FBI agents filed a federal lawsuit in September 2025 after being dismissed on August 8, 2025, alleging their removals were driven by a “campaign of retribution” tied to the Trump White House. The plaintiffs — Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen and Spencer Evans — say they were ousted before qualifying for early retirement … Read more

Lead: Apple expanded its wearable and audio lineups with the AirPods Pro 3 and three new Apple Watch models, and opened preorders for the accessories and watches on Amazon the same day the announcements were made. The iPhone 17 family and the thin new iPhone Air were unveiled alongside these devices, but iPhone preorders begin … Read more

Lead: In a 3,000-word excerpt from her forthcoming memoir 107 Days published by The Atlantic, former Vice‑President Kamala Harris describes Joe Biden’s 2024 re‑election bid as “recklessness.” Harris, writing of decisions made inside the White House, says she felt sidelined at times and raises questions about the judgment that led an 81‑year‑old president to run … Read more

Lead In June 2025, roughly 10,000 members of a collective called Unwrapped voted to sell portions of their Spotify listening preferences to AI developers, drawing a swift legal and policy pushback from Spotify. The group—organized through the decentralized data platform Vana—collected about $55,000 for the dataset, with individual contributors receiving roughly $5 in cryptocurrency. Spotify … Read more

President Donald Trump publicly called for the death penalty for the man charged in the Aug. 22 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line. Federal prosecutors in the Western District of North Carolina have charged Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, with an act causing death on a mass transit system … Read more

Matthew Berry published his positional PPR rankings for Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season on NBC Sports, updating lists for quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends. The release highlights top-tier names—Lamar Jackson, Christian McCaffrey, Ja’Marr Chase and Brock Bowers—while listing extended rankings (30 QBs, 60 RBs, 60 WRs, 30 TEs). Berry notes … Read more

Lead On September 10, 2025, President Donald Trump issued his first public reaction after at least 19 Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down, an action NATO and Polish officials described as unprecedented. Trump posted a brief comment on his social platform saying, “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we … Read more

Lead White House officials told CNN on September 10, 2025, that President Donald Trump will allow the 30-day federal takeover of the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to lapse, citing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent executive order promising indefinite cooperation with federal law enforcement. The decision removes the immediate need for a congressional vote … Read more

Lead: A UNICEF report released on 10 September 2025 finds that, for the first time, more school‑age children and adolescents worldwide are obese than underweight. The agency estimates about 188 million young people are living with obesity, a shift driven by rising consumption of ultra‑processed foods and beverages. The pattern holds across most regions except … Read more