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#1 Trump Cuts Ireland’s Whiskey Tariff as a Parting Gift - Shawn Pogatchnik for POLITICO, RTÉ News, Chay Bowes, Dolando, Ivanka Trump RV, and John Finucane MP on X
How do you get U.S. President Donald Trump to cut tariffs? Evidently, let him host your nation’s golf tournament in one of his resorts. Trump announced Sunday night he will remove the 10% U.S. tariff charge on Irish whiskey products. He made the move as a crowd-pleaser at the closing ceremony of the Irish Open, where he presented the winner’s trophy to Ireland’s Shane Lowry. The United States is the primary export market for Ireland’s distillers. But they have been at a competitive disadvantage versus U.K. whiskey brands made in Scotland and Northern Ireland since May, when Trump removed tariff charges on U.K. exports of the product. Trump had tied his U.K. move to the just-completed U.S. visit of King Charles...
#2 Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Leaders Meet to Plan Break-up of United Kingdom - Nick Gutteridge and Simon Johnson for The Telegraph, Eric Daugherty, Politics UK, The National, The Clash Report, Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry., and IrishPropaganda on X
Pro-independence first ministers will sign ‘memorandum of understanding’ at Cardiff summit and demand referendums. The leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose…
#3 Migration Change in Britain Could Cost Treasury up to £4BILLION More in Borrowing Costs, Economist Warns - Patrick O'Donnell for GBN, Politics Global/Narinder Kaur, Restore Australia, Thand, and MB45 on X
Changes to migration policy in Britain will cost the Treasury up to £4billion by the 2029-30 tax year, the director of a leading think tank has warned. Helen Miller, who leads the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), is calling on the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to provide clarity on how migration affects the UK economy. Recent data suggests that net migration is projected to fall below 150,000, which is significantly lower than figures of around one million a couple of years ago. Based on Office for National Statistics (ONS) forecasts, net migration is likely to settle at around 230,000 a year from 2027 and beyond...
#4 House Speaker Johnson Says Congress Shouldn’t Lead AI Safety Efforts - James Powel and Jay Stahl for USA TODAY, Axios, Dallas Morning News, Bloomberg, and New York Post on X
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that artificial intelligence developers, not Congress, bear responsibility for ensuring their products are safe and rejected a national moratorium on AI buildout during a Sept. 13 appearance on CNN's "State of the Union." The Louisiana Republican said there was an "obvious corporate responsibility" but pointed to competition with China as a reason to keep Congress from imposing regulations. "We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us, and that’s the challenge," Johnson said. "If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American."
#5 ‘Whoever Wins AI, Wins’: Trump Rejects Tech Bosses’ Call for an AI Slowdown - Sagar Kar for Times Now, Fox News, CBS News, CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil, Financial Times, and Reuters on X
President Trump has dismissed calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Elon Musk to slow the pace of AI development, insisting the U.S. must maintain its lead over China. His comments follow warnings from an Anthropic researcher that AI could pose an existential threat by the end of the decade. US President Donald Trump isn't budging on his approach to AI development, even as some of the industry's most prominent leaders push for a more cautious pace amid growing fears the technology could pose an existential threat. Over the weekend, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and SpaceX's Elon Musk all called for slowing AI development, following a wave of stark safety warnings about how quickly AI model capabilities are advancing...
#6 Obama Urges Democrats to Move AI Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda - Monica Alba and Raquel Coronell Uribe for NBC News, POLITICO, Sayer Ji, Trump22222/The Hill, Civic Duty, and Arkansawyer - President-Elect on X
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize developing a plan around artificial intelligence, saying that’s what he would be doing if he were running for president in 2028. In remarks at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser Thursday, Obama said that while he was neither an “accelerationist” nor a “doomer,” the AI bell is not one that could be unrung, and that Democrats ought to flesh out an agenda on the topic...
#7 Trump Touts White House Renovations, Says Building Was in ‘Very Bad Condition’ - Landon Mion for Fox News, Rsan37, ilearnedtofish, Morkie/New York Post, Policy Wire, MAGAVoice, and Newsweek on X
President Donald Trump on Sunday touted new renovations to the White House, saying the building was a "dump" before the updates. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the White House was in "very bad condition" and that previous administrations failed to take proper care of it. "The White House was in very bad condition, both inside and out. Frankly, it was a 'dump!' Past Presidents did not take care of it," Trump wrote. "I love renovating it during my spare time, which is not much."
#8 Kennedy Center Near 'Certain Fiscal Collapse' - Newsmax Wires, Debra Irvin, Marcin_MX - J384C P15, Reuters/Ramblin Rover/Antifa Colonel Grade III, Tom Burton, and TexasBlue on X
The Kennedy Center is on the brink of bankruptcy and could close its main building as early as Tuesday amid mounting financial and structural problems, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Leaders of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts warn the institution could be unable to make payroll or pay routine maintenance bills "within a matter of weeks," the Post reported. Officials describe the situation as an imminent "certain fiscal collapse." The warnings are contained in a 57-page packet prepared for a special meeting Tuesday of the center's board of trustees, which is chaired by President Donald Trump...
#9 McConnell’s Return Shines Spotlight on Older Lawmakers -Joseph Choi for The Hill, NEWSMAX, Mister Nobody, Filtered News, MandylouNbrian, GingerBeardGage, and Glockford Files on X
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) expected return to the Senate next week is drawing attention again to the health of aging lawmakers. McConnell, 84, was hospitalized over the summer for nearly two months after falling at home and receiving treatment for pneumonia. He has since been recovering at home and engaging in what he described as an “intensive regimen of physical therapy.” His extended absence and advanced age have reignited conversations about lawmakers staying in office too long, with polls showing many voters support term limits, even as they also keep reelecting elder statesmen...
#10 Hayden Panettiere Died After Taking Just One Pill Laced With Fentanyl: Report - Chris Bradford for New York Post, Norma Kay/Grok, 𝕏 L̤̮E̤̮G̤̮C̤̮Y̤̮ 𝕏, and
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Hayden Panettiere died after taking just one pill that is believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl, it was reported Monday, as cops are said to be “zeroing in” on her alleged dealer. The actress appears to have met with her “long-term drug dealer” in Los Angeles before flying to South Carolina, where she died of a suspected overdose on Aug. 16, just before her 37th birthday, multiple law enforcement sources connected to the case told TMZ. The mom appears to have taken one pill the day she died, but it was fatal because it was laced with fentanyl, the sources said of the opioid 50 times stronger than heroin...
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