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Republican John Sununu and Democrat Chris Pappas won their parties' Senate nominations in New Hampshire's September 8, 2026 primary, setting up a high-stakes November contest for the seat being vacated by Senator Jeanne Shaheen. Primaries also set gubernatorial and House matchups.
The U.S. increased Nepal flood relief to $3.6 million after experts called the initial $500,000 response pitiful, but the slow escalation exposes the damage wrought by 18 months of USAID dismantlement across Asia, including 35,000 lost aid jobs in Nepal alone and documented rises in maternal and child mortality.
Liberal operative Jeremy Greenwood faced ICAC's Operation Rosny on 9 September 2026, denying that a request to be 'wired for sound' before a meeting with fellow Liberals indicated a prior arrangement to covertly record colleagues. The inquiry is investigating alleged sharing of $2m in payments from fugitive developer Jean Nassif's Toplace in exchange for political outcomes including the removal of NSW building commissioner David Chandler.
The thinktank Compass has published a report titled 'Ending Business as Usual' urging the Burnham government to adopt a wealth tax on assets above £10m, free personal social care funded by an income tax surcharge on over-40s, and public ownership of energy networks, ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first autumn budget.
An ECFR study based on 5,834 interviews across six European countries finds that 73% of Europeans want a more united, integrated EU, yet 68% describe the present in terms of decline and 74% say Europe is handling its challenges poorly. Author Pawel Zerka frames the tension as an 'imagination gap' between aspiration and credible pathway.
Martin Robinson, father of slain Australian surfers Jake and Callum Robinson, testified at the Mexico homicide trial on September 8, 2026, that his life had been 'turned into hell.' Three men are charged with killing the Robinson brothers and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad during an April 2024 surfing trip.
Financial disclosure forms published by the Trump administration reveal the president gave holiday gifts totaling $155,000 to four White House aides: three at $45,000 each and one at $20,000. The gifts, first reported by The Washington Post, were characterized by the White House as personal Christmas presents unrelated to official duties.
Six months into the U.S.-Iran 'tanker war,' new intelligence assessments indicate Iran has gained clarity on its own capabilities and U.S. power limits, even as the American economic squeeze erodes Tehran's leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and deepens its economic crisis. Diplomatic channels remain open but have not produced a breakthrough.
A longitudinal neuroimaging study published in Brain Communications found that babies born to mothers with even mild anaemia have smaller brain volumes, with differences in the putamen, caudate nucleus, and corpus callosum that emerge at age one and widen through age two. The study of over 300 mother-infant pairs in Cape Town used portable MRI scanners and adds to converging evidence linking antenatal maternal anaemia to altered child neurodevelopment.
Three jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial told NBC10 Boston that a lone holdout admitted reasonable doubt but refused to acquit by reason of insanity, deadlocking the jury and forcing a mistrial. Clancy remains at a psychiatric hospital with a status hearing set for September 29.
