What changed the week of Sep 7

001 RULES U.S. Lawsuits challenge federal surveillance and intimidation of ICE observers SOURCED 002 RULES U.S. North America's trade war SOURCED 003 RULES U.S. TSA brings back gate access for non-ticketed travelers 25 years after 9/11 SOURCED 004 RULES U.S. Trump administration allows Salvadoran TPS to continue, for now SOURCED 005 RULES U.S. Trump administration proposes census overhaul that could exclude millions SOURCED 006 RULES U.S. Trump administration shrinks post-9/11 intelligence coordination office SOURCED 007 RULES U.S. UK ends subsidies for small-scale biomass plants, putting poultry-litter power stations at risk SOURCED 008 RULES U.S. US coal generation falls 11% despite Trump revival push SOURCED 009 RULES WORLD Anthropic bars minors from Claude SOURCED 010 RULES WORLD Austria's headscarf ban for under-14s takes effect as schools reopen SOURCED 011 RULES WORLD Blizzard workers ratify union contract covering 1,900 employees SOURCED 012 RULES WORLD Boston Scientific recalls spinal cord stimulator leads after more than 1,000 serious injuries SOURCED 013 RULES WORLD California bans addictive social media features for users under 16 SOURCED 014 RULES WORLD Colombia lifts decade-long ban on carrying firearms in public SOURCED 015 RULES WORLD FDA delays decision on Exelixis' colorectal cancer drug zanzalintinib SOURCED 016 RULES WORLD FTC settles with payment processor over sham merchant accounts SOURCED 017 RULES WORLD Federal court vacates New Jersey permit for $1 billion gas pipeline to New York City SOURCED 018 RULES WORLD Germany's far-right AfD nears state power for the first time since Nazi era SOURCED 019 RULES WORLD Global childhood vaccination inches forward but still trails 2019 levels SOURCED 020 RULES WORLD Long-dormant Alien Terrorist Removal Court used for first time to deport legal US resident SOURCED 021 RULES WORLD Microsoft withdraws copyright takedown against open-source game Luanti SOURCED 022 RULES WORLD NYC invalidates construction safety cards amid alleged training fraud SOURCED 023 RULES WORLD New heart attack definition corrects decades of under-diagnosis in women SOURCED 024 RULES WORLD Oslo bans smart glasses in schools, citing Meta data collection SOURCED 025 RULES WORLD Scientists boycott American Diabetes Association over June conference ousters SOURCED 026 RULES WORLD Student reading and math scores hit record lows in PISA 2025 SOURCED 027 RULES WORLD UK sanctions Israeli West Bank settlements; Israel closes UK consulate SOURCED 028 RULES WORLD US bans Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motorcycles as trade war deepens SOURCED 029 RULES WORLD US-Iran nuclear standoff SOURCED 030 RULES WORLD Ukraine's prosecutor general resigns amid call center corruption scandal SOURCED 031 RULES WORLD Women drive most new enrolment in India's expanding higher education system SOURCED 032 NEW U.S. Blood vessels preserved in a broken rib of the largest known T. rex show healing in progress SOURCED 033 NEW U.S. Flushing toilets spray microbes into the breathing zone, new review finds SOURCED 034 NEW U.S. Global study quantifies COVID death underreporting across 134 countries SOURCED 035 NEW U.S. Scientists identify the stem cell that builds tendons and ligaments SOURCED 036 NEW U.S. Simulations show kinesin's neck region steers steps counterclockwise SOURCED 037 NEW WORLD AI detects heart failure and valve disease from a standard ECG in under two seconds SOURCED 038 NEW WORLD Alzheimer's disrupts the 3D folding of DNA in brain cells SOURCED 039 NEW WORLD Amur leopard conservation breeding resumes in Helsinki SOURCED 040 NEW WORLD Ancient Indonesian skeletons reveal earliest known human drug use SOURCED 041 NEW WORLD Ancient tooth proteins suggest link between Homo erectus and modern humans SOURCED 042 NEW WORLD Antarctica's record ice gain traced to tropical ocean warming SOURCED 043 NEW WORLD Anthropic builds predictive surveillance operation to monitor activists SOURCED 044 NEW WORLD Anthropic says it blocked AI use that could aid biological weapons SOURCED 045 NEW WORLD Archaeologists find 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb while racing to protect it from floods SOURCED 046 NEW WORLD AstraZeneca COPD drug cuts flare-ups across all patient types in late-stage trials SOURCED 047 NEW WORLD Astronomers directly detect hydrogen signal from billions of light-years away SOURCED 048 NEW WORLD At-home urine test spots bladder cancer in nine of ten NHS cases SOURCED 049 NEW WORLD Beeline's oral lupus drug clears phase 2, heads to pivotal trials SOURCED 050 NEW WORLD Biohaven epilepsy drug hits FDA hold nine days after SK Biopharma licensing deal SOURCED 051 NEW WORLD CERN finds gluons behaving strangely deep inside atomic nuclei SOURCED 052 NEW WORLD Charged raindrops corrode coated metal, researchers find SOURCED 053 NEW WORLD Cognition's SWE-2 coding model nears frontier AI performance at lower cost SOURCED 054 NEW WORLD Cullinan, Taiho show six-month progression-free survival benefit in phase 3 lung cancer trial SOURCED 055 NEW WORLD Dry-cleaning chemical linked to triple the risk of liver scarring SOURCED 056 NEW WORLD FDA approves AstraZeneca's Etcamah for ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer SOURCED 057 NEW WORLD FDA clears Abbott's dual-energy ablation catheter for complex AFib SOURCED 058 NEW WORLD Forgejo patches critical RCE affecting versions through 16.0.3 SOURCED 059 NEW WORLD Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a predictive map of all 9 billion human DNA variants SOURCED 060 NEW WORLD Hansoh's B7-H3 ADC wins China breakthrough status for esophageal cancer SOURCED 061 NEW WORLD Harvard researchers use sound waves to shield quantum bits from noise SOURCED 062 NEW WORLD Human heart can regrow muscle after heart attack, first study shows SOURCED 063 NEW WORLD Immune signal that lets zebrafish regrow spinal cords identified SOURCED 064 NEW WORLD Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is bursting with methanol SOURCED 065 NEW WORLD Investigation finds LG smart TVs record audio and scan home networks while off SOURCED 066 NEW WORLD MIT creates injectable mini livers that work inside the body SOURCED 067 NEW WORLD Mercury's surface holds far less silicon dioxide than thought SOURCED 068 NEW WORLD Mexico reintroduces bison to desert reserve, ecosystem begins recovering SOURCED 069 NEW WORLD Microsoft makes Rust a Tier-1 language for internal development SOURCED 070 NEW WORLD Nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half SOURCED 071 NEW WORLD New method could slash computer memory energy use by orders of magnitude SOURCED 072 NEW WORLD New proof of four-color theorem runs in near-linear time SOURCED 073 NEW WORLD Nickel oxide surface structure unlocks methane conversion with 10x less metal SOURCED 074 NEW WORLD North Korea builds new uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon, IAEA says SOURCED 075 NEW WORLD Phone tutorials boost learning during school closures across five countries SOURCED 076 NEW WORLD Photoswitchable eye drops restore light sensitivity in blind animals SOURCED 077 NEW WORLD Physicists observe the optical Magnus effect in quantum light for the first time SOURCED 078 NEW WORLD Planet Labs publishes open orbital data for its 97 satellites SOURCED 079 NEW WORLD Prairie butterfly rebounds from 9 known US individuals to hundreds in the wild SOURCED 080 NEW WORLD Quantum operations run 1,000 times faster with new error-cutting method SOURCED 081 NEW WORLD Rattlesnake blood proteins outmatch standard antivenom in lab tests SOURCED 082 NEW WORLD Researchers find drug combo that slows treatment-resistant prostate cancer SOURCED 083 NEW WORLD Saint Louis Zoo red wolf pups join wild pack in North Carolina SOURCED 084 NEW WORLD Samsung stacks memory directly on AI accelerators with zHBM prototype SOURCED 085 NEW WORLD Scientists create brilliant white material without a drop of white pigment SOURCED 086 NEW WORLD Scientists directly observe DNA strands zipping together for the first time SOURCED 087 NEW WORLD Scientists identify body's natural brake on inflammation SOURCED 088 NEW WORLD Study finds Americas' tectonic collision happened earlier than thought SOURCED 089 NEW WORLD Study traces Devil's Arrows stones to Brimham Rocks, 11 miles away SOURCED 090 NEW WORLD Synthetic cell research group accidentally builds a factory SOURCED 091 NEW WORLD Thailand eliminates rubella as a public health problem, WHO confirms SOURCED 092 NEW WORLD UCLA turns cord blood into off-the-shelf cancer-fighting T cells SOURCED 093 NEW WORLD WHO validates Bhutan for eliminating dog-transmitted human rabies SOURCED 094 NEW WORLD Wandering black hole caught feeding from its gravitational wake SOURCED 095 MONEY U.S. Georgia EV manufacturers pivot to hybrids as federal incentives end SOURCED 096 MONEY U.S. Treasury bond buyback backfires as yields jump SOURCED 097 MONEY U.S. Treasury triples long-term debt buybacks as yields hit 2007 levels SOURCED 098 MONEY U.S. US consumer confidence drops to second-lowest on record as gas prices jump SOURCED 099 MONEY WORLD Automattic board places founder Matt Mullenweg on leave, names CFO interim CEO SOURCED 100 MONEY WORLD Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355 billion SOURCED 101 MONEY WORLD China injects $54 billion into state banks and insurers SOURCED 102 MONEY WORLD Energy Department restores funding for LuxWall's Detroit factory after cancellation SOURCED 103 MONEY WORLD Google announces largest-ever European investment in Finnish AI infrastructure SOURCED 104 MONEY WORLD Native Forward turns MacKenzie Scott's $50 million gift into permanent endowment SOURCED 105 MONEY WORLD Nine African countries double average incomes since 1990 SOURCED 106 MONEY WORLD Novartis\' $12B del-desiran flops in crucial phase 3 trial SOURCED 107 MONEY WORLD Singapore opens Boston biotech hub, its fifth US outpost SOURCED 108 MONEY WORLD Tailwind Labs joins Shopify SOURCED 109 BUILT U.S. Amazon cargo crew warned of excessive speed before fatal Miami crash SOURCED 110 BUILT U.S. Costco rations motor oil as global shortage drives prices up SOURCED 111 BUILT U.S. EVgo expands fast-charging network to grocery-anchored shopping centers SOURCED 112 BUILT U.S. Global coal demand set to reach record as Iran war cuts gas supplies SOURCED 113 BUILT U.S. US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts squeeze global supply SOURCED 114 BUILT U.S. US solar installations surge as federal tax credits begin phasing out SOURCED 115 BUILT WORLD Chinook salmon reclaim most of former Klamath range after largest US dam removal SOURCED 116 BUILT WORLD DP World installs new harbor cranes in $800M modernization of Syria's Tartus port SOURCED 117 BUILT WORLD Deadly ferry fire off Palawan leaves dozens dead and missing SOURCED 118 BUILT WORLD Idaho-Nevada transmission line starts construction after decades of planning SOURCED 119 BUILT WORLD NATS flight system failure grounds hundreds of flights at UK airports SOURCED 120 BUILT WORLD Navy awards major contract to modernize Portsmouth Naval Shipyard infrastructure SOURCED 121 BUILT WORLD Scotland's first commercial wind farm recycled 99.9% of its decommissioned turbines SOURCED 122 BUILT WORLD US closes federal loan to restart Iowa's Duane Arnold nuclear plant SOURCED 123 FORCE U.S. August 2026 was Earth's hottest month on record SOURCED 124 FORCE U.S. Brent crude nears $100 as Strait of Hormuz shipping halves SOURCED 125 FORCE U.S. Houthis seize strategic island at Red Sea shipping chokepoint SOURCED 126 FORCE U.S. Houthis strike Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery, reopening a front held quiet since 2022 SOURCED 127 FORCE U.S. US strikes dismantle Iran's surface fleet after Strait of Hormuz blockade attempt SOURCED 128 FORCE WORLD Baby orangutans found in Indian forest spark trafficking inquiry SOURCED 129 FORCE WORLD Deep Java Sea earthquake shakes Jakarta without reported damage SOURCED 130 FORCE WORLD Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats in break from pro-Moscow past SOURCED 131 FORCE WORLD Israeli strikes kill civilians in southern Lebanon as ceasefire deal frays SOURCED 132 FORCE WORLD North Korea deploys troops to fight Russia's war in Ukraine SOURCED 133 FORCE WORLD Revolut tricked into releasing customer data via fraudulent government requests SOURCED 134 FORCE WORLD Russian drone strikes Kyiv-Warsaw train near Polish border SOURCED 135 FORCE WORLD Turkey detains LGBTQ+ activists in nationwide raids tied to family-values push SOURCED 136 FORCE WORLD US and Israel launch joint military campaign against Iran SOURCED