What changed the week of Sep 14

001 RULES U.S. 2026 primary season closes with record congressional turnover SOURCED 002 RULES U.S. Congress confronts its war powers as US-Iran conflict escalates without authorization SOURCED 003 RULES U.S. Court reinstates $7 billion 'Solar for All' program cut by EPA SOURCED 004 RULES U.S. End of protected status for Haitians brings deportations and family separations SOURCED 005 RULES U.S. House passes bipartisan bill to shield ratepayers from data center electricity costs SOURCED 006 RULES U.S. Income hit a record and poverty fell in 2025, with safety net cuts looming SOURCED 007 RULES U.S. Massie forces House vote on impeaching Hegseth over Iran war SOURCED 008 RULES U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions for midterms SOURCED 009 RULES U.S. Trump withdraws ICE director nominee after Senate confirmation stalls SOURCED 010 RULES U.S. Trump's Kennedy Center overhaul SOURCED 011 RULES WORLD Bank of Japan raises rates to 31-year high SOURCED 012 RULES WORLD C++26 makes trivial infinite loops well-defined SOURCED 013 RULES WORLD China's new exit rules take effect, giving officials power to bar citizens from leaving SOURCED 014 RULES WORLD Colombia bans new mining and oil projects across its Amazon SOURCED 015 RULES WORLD Congress moves to tariff the biggest buyers of Russian oil SOURCED 016 RULES WORLD EPA repeals limits on power plant climate pollution SOURCED 017 RULES WORLD FDA launches pilot to speed up early-stage drug trials SOURCED 018 RULES WORLD FTC blocks Beretta from seating directors on Ruger board SOURCED 019 RULES WORLD FTC settles Amway deception case for largest MLM recovery ever SOURCED 020 RULES WORLD Greater one-horned rhino population hits record high SOURCED 021 RULES WORLD Iranian banks lose SSL certificates as U.S. sanctions expand SOURCED 022 RULES WORLD Missouri governor orders 30-day data limit on Flock license plate cameras SOURCED 023 RULES WORLD Second Circuit allows warrantless cellphone searches at the border SOURCED 024 RULES WORLD Spain blocks Archive.today and all its mirrors without a court order SOURCED 025 RULES WORLD Swedish PM Kristersson resigns after centre-left wins narrow election majority SOURCED 026 RULES WORLD TSA brings back gate access for non-ticketed travelers 25 years after 9/11 SOURCED 027 RULES WORLD Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety features SOURCED 028 RULES WORLD Trump administration overhauls nuclear safety regulations SOURCED 029 RULES WORLD Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House SOURCED 030 RULES WORLD US restricts visas for South African officials over land, discrimination policies SOURCED 031 RULES WORLD Yamanashi to charge Mount Fuji climbers for off-season rescues SOURCED 032 NEW U.S. Autism rates hold steady across birth cohorts, pointing to detection rather than epidemic SOURCED 033 NEW U.S. Custom RNA drug improves rare ALS in first personalized case SOURCED 034 NEW U.S. Four-week diet change shifts biological age markers in older adults SOURCED 035 NEW U.S. NASA moon orbiter finds 728-foot crater that wasn't there before SOURCED 036 NEW U.S. Psilocybin trial misses primary endpoint in treatment-resistant depression SOURCED 037 NEW U.S. Smart contact lens measures serotonin in tears non-invasively SOURCED 038 NEW U.S. Stanford records first real-time quantum jumps of sound SOURCED 039 NEW U.S. Study finds human brain grows from two separate cell lineages SOURCED 040 NEW U.S. Teclistamab shows deep remissions in high-risk smoldering myeloma trial SOURCED 041 NEW WORLD ARPA-H launches SPECTRA, an AI-driven initiative to transform autism diagnosis SOURCED 042 NEW WORLD Ancient DNA shows plague returned to Europe for centuries after Black Death SOURCED 043 NEW WORLD Astronomers confirm youngest known planet, a baby Jupiter still forming SOURCED 044 NEW WORLD CERN finds strong evidence of quantum entanglement in Z bosons from Higgs decays SOURCED 045 NEW WORLD Chile first in South America to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies SOURCED 046 NEW WORLD DNA analysis identifies ancient Maine tree as a lost ancestor of American apples SOURCED 047 NEW WORLD Diamond membranes generate voltage when bent, overturning a century-old assumption SOURCED 048 NEW WORLD Diplodocus fossils found in Spain, first outside North America SOURCED 049 NEW WORLD FDA approves Telix's Pixclara, first FET-PET imaging drug for glioma SOURCED 050 NEW WORLD FDA approves first gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome type A SOURCED 051 NEW WORLD FDA clears LigaSure vessel sealer for Medtronic's Hugo surgical robot SOURCED 052 NEW WORLD FDA grants Aptitude first 510(k) clearance for next-gen Metrix COVID test SOURCED 053 NEW WORLD Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies during safety test SOURCED 054 NEW WORLD Hidden immune hubs in the skull may fight brain cancer SOURCED 055 NEW WORLD JWST finds Chariklo's rings changing in opposite directions SOURCED 056 NEW WORLD Laser-etched panels desalinate seawater without producing brine SOURCED 057 NEW WORLD Mathematicians prove graph sandwich conjecture after two decades SOURCED 058 NEW WORLD Mexico reintroduces bison to desert reserve, ecosystem begins recovering SOURCED 059 NEW WORLD Mice with human brain cells open a new path to studying brain disease SOURCED 060 NEW WORLD Microscopic plant traces reveal 25,000 years of ritual burning in Australian cave SOURCED 061 NEW WORLD NIST's 10-year measurement of gravity's constant deepens a 225-year puzzle SOURCED 062 NEW WORLD New Horizons finds signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto SOURCED 063 NEW WORLD New wild cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century SOURCED 064 NEW WORLD Papal cipher from 1542 cracked with simulated annealing SOURCED 065 NEW WORLD Paper claims proof of the 38-year-old k-server conjecture SOURCED 066 NEW WORLD Paradromics brain implant lets patient communicate in real time SOURCED 067 NEW WORLD Plague killed hunter-gatherer families 5,500 years ago, study finds SOURCED 068 NEW WORLD Plugin4Shell flaw hits top AI coding agents; two major vendors unpatched SOURCED 069 NEW WORLD Pre-auth bug in 32-year-old GNU telnetd enables remote code execution on unpatched systems SOURCED 070 NEW WORLD Researcher recovers hidden verification keys from driver's license barcodes SOURCED 071 NEW WORLD Researchers identify new blood group MAL, ending 50-year search SOURCED 072 NEW WORLD Roche-backed lung cancer drug clears phase 3 but trails GSK rival on survival SOURCED 073 NEW WORLD Scientists find cells that survive their own death program to rebuild tissue SOURCED 074 NEW WORLD Scientists reconstruct movies from mouse brain activity alone SOURCED 075 NEW WORLD Scientists restore brain protein Menin, reverse aging signs in mice SOURCED 076 NEW WORLD Studies find brain cell axons are strings of pearls, not smooth tubes SOURCED 077 NEW WORLD Study confirms T. rex was warm-blooded with a human-like temperature SOURCED 078 NEW WORLD Study maps sweeping brain genome changes between ages 50 and 75 SOURCED 079 NEW WORLD Tanzania fossil discovery suggests oldest dinosaur fossils are younger than believed SOURCED 080 NEW WORLD The great energy flip SOURCED 081 NEW WORLD Two high school students crack an open math problem with AI assistance SOURCED 082 NEW WORLD Waymo opens public robotaxi service in Las Vegas SOURCED 083 NEW WORLD World's first solar ambulance completes Kenya real-world test SOURCED 084 NEW WORLD World's largest battery-electric ferry arrives in South America after Pacific crossing SOURCED 085 NEW WORLD Xenon pauses Phase 3 depression trials after psychosis events SOURCED 086 MONEY U.S. AI data centers push grid batteries past the 4-hour ceiling SOURCED 087 MONEY U.S. China cuts US Treasury holdings to lowest since 2008 amid global bond sell-off SOURCED 088 MONEY U.S. DOE launches $58 million push to scale up chemical production from waste feedstocks SOURCED 089 MONEY U.S. Treasury triples long-term debt buybacks as yields hit 2007 levels SOURCED 090 MONEY U.S. Trump-aligned super PACs launch late ad blitz in Republican midterm races SOURCED 091 MONEY WORLD Amazon raises minimum starting pay to $20 an hour for US operations workers SOURCED 092 MONEY WORLD Fed holds rates at 3.75%-4% after September's first hike since 2023 SOURCED 093 MONEY WORLD FleetCor to pay $100 million for hidden fuel card fees SOURCED 094 MONEY WORLD Longeveron's stem cell therapy misses pediatric heart trial goal, company launches strategic review SOURCED 095 MONEY WORLD North Carolina settles PFAS contamination claims with DuPont and Chemours SOURCED 096 MONEY WORLD Remittances to developing nations nearly double in a decade SOURCED 097 BUILT U.S. Costco rations motor oil as global shortage drives prices up SOURCED 098 BUILT U.S. Courts restore $5 billion EV charging program after Trump administration froze it SOURCED 099 BUILT U.S. US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts squeeze global supply SOURCED 100 BUILT WORLD AWS cannot restore data lost in Iranian-struck Middle East data centers SOURCED 101 BUILT WORLD Indonesian ferry capsizes in Java Sea, leaving more than 100 missing SOURCED 102 BUILT WORLD Mesa approves $3B desert project with lake barred from municipal water SOURCED 103 BUILT WORLD Tennessee approves record interstate toll lane partnership SOURCED 104 BUILT WORLD US solar capacity now powers more than 50 million homes SOURCED 105 BUILT WORLD War-damaged Gaza City building collapses, killing displaced families SOURCED 106 FORCE U.S. Iran conflict shuts down the world's most important oil chokepoint SOURCED 107 FORCE U.S. US charges Russian intelligence operatives with murder plots in America and Europe SOURCED 108 FORCE U.S. US confirms for first time it has weapons deployed in orbit SOURCED 109 FORCE WORLD Chess.com data leak exposes millions of accounts; evidence points to scraping SOURCED 110 FORCE WORLD Dozens of suspected illegal miners die in Nigerian custody SOURCED 111 FORCE WORLD Houthis strike Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery, reopening a front held quiet since 2022 SOURCED 112 FORCE WORLD Japan's centenarian population tops 100,000 for first time SOURCED 113 FORCE WORLD Screwworm returns to the US for the first time since 1966 SOURCED 114 FORCE WORLD Trump's Greenland gambit SOURCED 115 FORCE WORLD Turkey detains LGBTQ+ activists in nationwide raids tied to family-values push SOURCED 116 FORCE WORLD UN finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran school strike SOURCED 117 FORCE WORLD US allows Iranian delegation to attend UN General Assembly amid ongoing war SOURCED 118 FORCE WORLD US and Israel launch joint military campaign against Iran SOURCED