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Paramount to Settle States’ Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Bros. Merger
By resolving a lawsuit filed by a group of states, the media mogul David Ellison removed the last major hurdle he faced in buying Warner Bros. Discovery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/business/paramount-warner-bros-ellison.html

What Is the White House Press Pool, and Why Did It Suspend TV Coverage of Trump?
By barring CNN, the White House has thrown a staple of TV news coverage into disarray.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/business/white-house-press-pool-trump.html

Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom
Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/business/ai-data-center-ipos.html

This Is the Thinking Behind Trump’s Puzzling Foreign Policy
What is “civilizationism”?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opinion/trump-intellectuals-western-civilization.html

Technical Problems Ground Flights at Major East Coast Airports
The incident revived concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s aging air traffic control infrastructure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/east-coast-flights-ground-stop-communication-failure.html

Iraq’s Prime Minister Al-Zaidi Vows to Disarm Iran-backed Militias
Ali al-Zaidi is a political neophyte hoping to succeed where previous leaders failed. In an interview, he laid out an ambitious timeline that could prove hard to meet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/world/middleeast/iraq-prime-minister-interview-disarm-militias.html

An Unused and Divisive Philippine Nuclear Plant Awaits Its Fate
The Filipino government is exploring nuclear power options to guard against global energy shocks. One proposal is to switch on a plant in Bataan that has been mothballed for 40 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/world/asia/philippines-bataan-nuclear-power-plant.html

Trump and Xi Meet Amid an Uneasy U.S.-China Trade Truce
Beyond warm meetings between their leaders, the countries are engaging in tit-for-tat measures that call into question the stability of their arrangement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/business/economy/trump-xi-china-trade.html

Are A.I. Models Being Misled to Act Too Human?
A corporate spat between two tech giants last week was just the latest volley in a conflict over whether dangerous mistakes are being made in A.I. training.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/science/ai-anthropomorphism-consciousness.html

U.N. Seeks Relevance on A.I. as the U.S. and China Race Ahead
Artificial intelligence is a race solely between two rival powers with the rest of the world largely on the sidelines, foreign policy experts said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/politics/united-nations-artificial-intelligence-china-us.html

Republicans Enter Final Midterm Stretch With a Significant Financial Edge
The party and its allies are currently set to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on advertising than Democrats are, giving Republicans some hope in a tough midterm environment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/politics/republicans-midterm-fundraising-maga-inc-trump.html

At 92, the Bard of Bollywood Is Still Writing About Love
The poet and lyricist Gulzar has profoundly shaped the idea of tender romance in India through his verse and songs in more than 150 musicals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/world/asia/bollywood-india-gulzar.html

College Sports Bill Prompts Clash Among Senators, Including Some Ex-Athletes
Lawmakers are applying their experiences on the playing field to the debate over a measure that would impose big changes to college athletics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/senate-protect-college-sports-bill.html

He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor.
Somehow the story got through.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opinion/gessen-censorship-nyt-175.html

It’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb
In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/politics/amazon-drone-delivery-texas.html

China gets closer to Jupiter mission by bringing Nasa’s StarNAV concept to life
Chinese researchers have tested a new way for spacecraft to navigate in deep space, putting a concept funded by Nasa into practice and paving the way for the country’s planned mission to Jupiter in 2030.
Known as stellar aberration navigation, the approach uses tiny shifts in the relative position of stars to work out how fast a probe is moving and in what direction, allowing autonomous real-time navigation without constantly relying on tracking and commands from Earth.
In a low-Earth-orbit...
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3368292/china-gets-closer-jupiter-mission-bringing-nasas-starnav-concept-life?utm_source=rss_feed

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