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College volleyball players keep Wrigley Field crowd entertained during game-ending delays
More than 40,000 college volleyball fans left Chicago’s Wrigley Field Sunday night without getting to watch the Nebraska-Missouri match, but it was still a win with players doing their best to keep the crowd entertained amid weather delays.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/college-sports/college-volleyball-players-keep-wrigley-field-crowd-entertained-game-e-rcna596472

Policing minister makes statement on ‘intimidating and thuggish’ anti-migrant protests - UK politics live

Sarah Jones tells MPs ‘those responsible should expect to face the consequences’

Healey says Andy Burnham set out in his statement to MPs last week what he thought had gone wrong

The fundamentals of our economy [were] hollowed out through a series of past policy decisions, political power was centralised, weakening the relationships between the people, the businesses and the institutions who can make things happen beyond Whitehall. The economic enablers were privatised and outsourced, leaving accountability to a thicket of arm’s length bodies and regulators, too often without the predictability or the pace that underpins a thriving market economy. And our country was deindustrialised as the cost to make anything, to build anything here soared, and our dependence on unreliable sources grew, including in areas critical to our national security and sovereignty.

Let me be clear, I recognise that the costs of business, its energy bills, regulation, burdens, planning constraints, labour costs, have grown since Covid and I want to draw the line.

And whether it is the cost of business or the cost of living, the only way we deal with these in the long term is growth.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/sep/07/uk-politics-live-john-healey-economy-portsmouth-immigration-protests-latest-news-updates

German chancellor vows to stay in office despite AfD triumph in state election

Friedrich Merz said his conservative CDU was shaken ‘to its very foundations’ after far-right victory in Saxony-Anhalt

A “shocked” and chastened Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay in office despite the far right’s triumph in a state election that has brought anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin politicians within striking distance of power.

The German chancellor, appearing ashen-faced in front of reporters in Berlin, said on Monday that the landslide victory by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt had shaken his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) “to its very foundations”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-cdu-afd-saxony-anhalt

New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’
New Mexico Democratic leaders are aggressively pushing back on President Donald Trump’s social media posts about renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-mexico-democrats-push-back-trump-posts-renaming-state-new-america-rcna596473

New Mexico Democrats push back over Trump posts about renaming the state ‘New America’
New Mexico Democratic leaders are aggressively pushing back on President Donald Trump’s social media posts about renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-mexico-democrats-push-back-trump-posts-renaming-state-new-america-rcna596473

Alleged killers of Australian surfers and American friend go on trial in Mexico

Three men on trial for killing Jake and Callum Robinson and Jack Carter Rhoad in Baja California in 2024

The alleged killers of two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot in 2024 have gone on trial in the border resort where the three were murdered.

The Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, respectively, and their 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were shot dead after being robbed in Mexico’s violence-hit Baja California.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/alleged-killers-of-australian-surfers-and-american-friend-go-on-trial-in-mexico

King Charles confirms Harry and Meghan will not be working royals after U.K. return
Prince Harry and Meghan will not be working members of Britain’s royal family now they have returned to the U.K., a letter sent on behalf of King Charles said.
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King Charles confirms Harry and Meghan will not be working royals after U.K. return
Prince Harry and Meghan will not be working members of Britain’s royal family now they have returned to the U.K., a letter sent on behalf of King Charles said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/king-charles-harry-meghan-working-royals-uk-return-california-rcna596470

Polanski faces Green rival in his pursuit of Keir Starmer’s old seat

Hamza Chowdhury says most of his fellow Green Camden councillors back him to contest 8 October byelection

Zack Polanski is facing unexpected opposition from his own party in his attempt to fight the Holborn and St Pancras byelection for the Greens, with a local councillor saying he is also seeking the nomination, and that the seat does not need “a politician you’ll only see on a leaflet”.

The intervention by Hamza Chowdhury, a Green representative on Camden council in north London, came as the date for the byelection was confirmed for 8 October, after Keir Starmer’s formal resignation as an MP.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/07/polanski-faces-green-rival-in-his-pursuit-of-keir-starmers-old-seat

Syrian reactor could have been used for nuclear weapons if completed, UN says

Chief of nuclear watchdog says secret Assad-era facility would have been able to produce fissile material

A nearly complete nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of the toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would have been able to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has revealed.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month visited two sites, one in Deir ez-Zor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/syrian-reactor-could-nuclear-weapons-if-completed-un

Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame

Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas

The numbers speak for themselves: Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party that dabbles in Nazi imagery, distinguishes between “biological” and “passport” Germans, and is too extreme even for France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, nearly doubled its score in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt to 43.8% of the vote.

Meanwhile, the centre-right CDU of the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, collapsed to 17.2%, less than half its total in the same race five years ago, and the centre-left SPD - Germany’s other main party of government for the past 60-odd years - scraped 9.3%. The least that can be said is that the centre did not hold.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/afd-germany-far-right-saxony-anhalt-nationalist-wave-europe-analysis

No 10 condemns ‘thuggish’ far-right activists after Portsmouth unrest

Hundreds of men, some in balaclavas, try to prevent asylum seekers’ processing, two days after similar scenes in Dover

Downing Street has condemned the “thuggish and intimidating behaviour” of far-right activists who blocked roads in Portsmouth when a boat carrying asylum seekers arrived in the city, two days after similar scenes in Dover.

Hundreds of men, some dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, tried to stop the arrivals from being transported for processing until 3am, when police removed them with threats of arrest.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/07/ministers-condemn-far-right-activists-portsmouth-asylum-seekers

Merz says ‘shock’ AfD victory in key German state ‘is an election result we cannot simply move past’ - as it happened

German chancellor says vote for far-right party ‘will have repercussions’ across the country

• Far-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority

AfD’s Chrupalla continues in this vein, saying the German public wants to see a change in direction, and specifically saying the electorate is “fed up” as the government keeps “transferring billions of our tax money to Ukraine … instead of using it for our own population.”

He says the party has “a clear mandate” to rule in Saxony-Anhalt and will hold discussions with others about what can be done.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/sep/07/germany-afd-saxony-anhalt-merz-greenland-ratko-mladic-europe-latest-news-updates

Amazon’s Labor Day sale ends tonight — get Brooks, Shark, Stanley and more up to 78% off
Amazon’s Labor Day sale is live. I rounded up the best deals available now from Shark, Brooks, Stanley, Kiehl’s and more.
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/shopping/amazon-labor-day-sale-2026-rcna596463

French winemakers forecast 30-year low harvest after severe drought and heat

Estimates suggest drop in production with vineyards also concerned ‘smoke taint’ from wildfires may affect quality

French vineyards hit by severe drought and heatwaves are expected to report a 30-year low in wine production after the country’s hottest ever recorded summer, according to the agriculture ministry.

Initial estimates suggest winemakers will produce just under 34m hectolitres from this year’s harvest: a drop of 6% on last year, and 17% less than ‌the 2021-2025 average.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/french-winemakers-forecast-30-year-low-harvest-after-severe-drought-and-heat

Stolen Generations survivors have more health challenges than other First Nations people

Indigenous Australians forcibly removed under government policies more likely to have severe or profound disability, report finds

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The tens of thousands of Indigenous Australians and their descendents who were forcibly removed under government assimilation policies have far greater physical and health challenges when compared to the wider Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, according to a new report.

The report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) was commissioned by peak advocacy body the Healing Foundation, which supports Stolen Generations survivors and their families, and builds on existing data released in 2023.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/stolen-generations-survivors-have-more-health-challenges-than-other-first-nations-people-ntwnfb

Record strength El Niño could mean bigger supermarket bills for Australians, experts warn

Predicted hot and dry weather in growing areas in eastern Australia identified as ‘one of the key issues’ that will affect food prices over next 12 months

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The most severe El Niño weather event on record threatens to push food prices higher this year, experts say, piling pressure on households already struggling with the post-pandemic spike in grocery bills and complicating the Reserve Bank’s efforts to bring inflation back under control.

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast El Niño will peak in late spring or summer and “reach levels above the warmest observed since reliable records began in 1950”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/08/record-strength-el-nino-could-mean-bigger-supermarket-bills-for-australians-experts-warn

Grassroots Labor group urges Albanese government to chart course away from ‘American war machine’

Pressure follows revelations US military and weapons manufacturers control or have access to more than 100 bases across Australian continent

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The US has “led Australia into wars of aggression” for 50 years, internal party campaign group Labor Against War has argued, urging the government to chart a foreign policy independent “from the American war machine”.

The Australian government has defended the growing presence of the US military on the Australian continent, insisting the defence sites “are Australian bases under Australian control”, despite evidence the US military controls more than a dozen bases on Australian territory.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/grassroots-labor-pressure-group-albanese-government-us-military-war-machine

Architect of UK’s AI policy quits after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns

Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company

The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a job with the San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, in a move senior MPs called a “clear conflict of interest”.

Matt Clifford announced last week that he was taking a full-time job working for the company behind the Claude chatbot, “leading its engagement” with governments outside the US - including the UK. But he retained his leadership at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), which funds frontier science and tech projects.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/07/architect-uk-ai-policy-quits-anthropic-conflict-of-interest-concerns

Netflix announces production of third Inbetweeners film

Creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris return as writers and directors, with the original cast reprising their roles

Netflix has announced that production has begun on a new Inbetweeners film, with the original cast members reprising their roles.

It will be a continuation of the popular Channel 4 sitcom, which aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010, followed by two films in 2011 and 2014.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/07/netflix-third-inbetweeners-film

Federal investigators search for cause of Amazon cargo jet crash that killed five

Theories begin to emerge that plane may have landed too fast and too far down the runway to be able to stop in time

Federal investigators got plans under way on Monday for determining what caused an Amazon cargo jet to barrel off a runway at Miami international airport on Sunday afternoon and crash, killing five people and injuring five others.

Video footage showed the jet wobbling a little and coming in fast and far along the runway, with storm clouds clearly visible in the sky behind, as expert theories began to emerge that the Boeing 767 may have landed too fast and too far down the runway to be able to stop in time.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/07/amazon-cargo-plane-crash-miami-airport

I found 173+ Labor Day sales that are actually worth shopping — deals up to 75% off end tonight
Labor Day sales are officially here. Shop deals actually worth buying from Amazon, Target, REI and more before they’re gone, with discounts up to 75% off.
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/shopping/best-labor-day-sales-2026-rcna596415

Nathan Fielder’s surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary debuts at Telluride
A provocative and previously unannounced documentary from comedian Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim that features an intimate look at Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her family premiered Sunday night in a secrecy-shrouded screening at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/elizabeth-holmes-nathan-fielder-documentary-you-can-see-everything-rcna596457

Why is the far-right AfD’s state victory significant and what might happen next in German politics?

Aftershocks of party’s win in Saxony-Anhalt will ripple across Germany, with two more state elections this month

Germany is reeling from the biggest far-right victory in a state election since the Nazi period after voters in Saxony-Anhalt in the former communist east gave the anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party a thumping first-place finish of 44%, just short of an absolute majority.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/07/why-far-right-afd-state-victory-significant-german-politics-germany-explainer