{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "RECORDx NEWS", "home_page_url": "https://news.recordx.co", "feed_url": "https://news.recordx.co/feed.json", "description": "Short-form news, sourced and on the record.", "items": [ { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/she-walked-away-then-went-to-no-1/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/she-walked-away-then-went-to-no-1/", "title": "She Walked Away. Then Went To No. 1.", "summary": "On 1 September 2026 Ariana Grande played the 41st and final show of the Eternal Sunshine Tour at The O2 in London, closing 10 London nights. From the stage she said it had been \"one of the most beautiful, extraordinary experiences of my life\" and that she wanted to \"express my gratitude without sobbing completely.\"", "content_text": "On 1 September 2026 Ariana Grande played the 41st and final show of the Eternal Sunshine Tour at The O2 in London, closing 10 London nights. From the stage she said it had been \"one of the most beautiful, extraordinary experiences of my life\" and that she wanted to \"express my gratitude without sobbing completely.\"\n\nFour weeks earlier her representative had already announced what came next: \"a step back from visibility,\" and \"a much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny.\" She also withdrew from a London stage run of \"Sunday in the Park With George.\"\n\nThen the charts answered. On 8 September she surprise-released petal (the complete live album). On the chart dated 12 September, \"Hate That I Made You Love Me\" went to No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart, her 11th, tying Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Rihanna, behind only Taylor Swift (15) and Bruno Mars (13). Petal became her 7th consecutive album to top that chart, a record. The following week it was still No. 1.\n\nShe is having the biggest chart run of her career and she is not there for it. The reason she gave for leaving was not the music and not the touring. It was people talking about how she looks, something she has asked them to stop doing for years.\n\nFOOTAGE: Licensed stock (Mixkit) only. This video contains no footage or photographs of Ariana Grande.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/she-walked-away-then-went-to-no-1.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-15T17:43:09+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/brics-didnt-launch-a-currency-it-launched-a-bypass/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/brics-didnt-launch-a-currency-it-launched-a-bypass/", "title": "BRICS Didn't Launch A Currency. It Launched A Bypass.", "summary": "Eleven leaders met at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 12-13 September 2026 and adopted the New Delhi Declaration unanimously. Every headline said the same thing: a BRICS currency is coming for the dollar.", "content_text": "Eleven leaders met at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 12-13 September 2026 and adopted the New Delhi Declaration unanimously. Every headline said the same thing: a BRICS currency is coming for the dollar.\n\nIndia chaired the summit. At India's own official media briefing, BRICS Sherpa Sudhakar Dalela said it plainly: \"there is no proposal in the BRICS for BRICS currency as of now.\" Local-currency settlement, he said, is \"complementary to global payment and settlement system\" - not a replacement. A reporter in that room asked whether BRICS Pay would \"automatically eliminate SWIFT.\" It was not the plan.\n\nWhat was actually agreed is plumbing: interoperating India's UPI, China's CIPS and Russia's SPFS so banks can settle trade without routing messaging through SWIFT.\n\nMeanwhile the slow number already moved. Foreign central banks now hold more gold than US Treasuries - the first time since 1996. The dollar's share of global reserves has slipped under 57%, down from 72% in 2001.\n\nAnd on the same weekend the declaration was signed, President Trump - in Ireland - said more tariffs are coming, and that on cutting off trade with deficit nations he'd \"have no choice.\"\n\nFOOTAGE: PMO India, PIB India, MEA India. White House footage is a work of the US federal government and is in the public domain.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/brics-didnt-launch-a-currency-it-launched-a-bypass.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-15T17:15:10+00:00", "tags": [ "tariffs" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/bayers-7-25-billion-roundup-settlement-some-get-10-000/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/bayers-7-25-billion-roundup-settlement-some-get-10-000/", "title": "Bayer's $7.25 Billion Roundup Settlement: Some Get $10,000.", "summary": "On Monday 14 September 2026, Judge Timothy Boyer of the Missouri Circuit Court in St. Louis began considering final approval of Bayer's $7.25 billion settlement of Roundup cancer claims. Bayer's Monsanto unit is asking him to sign off.", "content_text": "On Monday 14 September 2026, Judge Timothy Boyer of the Missouri Circuit Court in St. Louis began considering final approval of Bayer's $7.25 billion settlement of Roundup cancer claims. Bayer's Monsanto unit is asking him to sign off.\n\nThe deal covers roughly 65,000 lawsuits. Every one makes the same claim: that the weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma.\n\nPayments run from $10,000 to $165,000 per claimant, scaled by the severity of the cancer, the claimant's age at diagnosis, and exposure history.\n\nIn court, some plaintiffs' attorneys objected, arguing their clients should not be pushed into Bayer's framework. Other attorneys told the judge the opposite: that for their clients, this settlement is the best route left to compensation.\n\nBayer acquired Monsanto and inherited the litigation with it. The settlement is designed to limit the company's future liability.\n\nBoyer was not expected to rule at the hearing.\n\nOne thing the hearing does not decide: a settlement is not a finding of liability. Nobody in that courtroom was ruling on whether Roundup causes cancer. They were deciding what it costs. That question remains contested in the scientific literature and in the courts, and this reel takes no position on it.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/bayers-7-25-billion-roundup-settlement-some-get-10-000.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-15T02:16:23+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-anthropic-and-google-want-to-write-their-own-ai-rules/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-anthropic-and-google-want-to-write-their-own-ai-rules/", "title": "OpenAI, Anthropic And Google Want To Write Their Own AI Rules.", "summary": "On Sunday 13 September 2026, The Information reported that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding working-group meetings since July about setting up an industry-led standards body for AI. What it would do is test and audit frontier models. In some versions of the plan, before those models are released.", "content_text": "On Sunday 13 September 2026, The Information reported that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding working-group meetings since July about setting up an industry-led standards body for AI. What it would do is test and audit frontier models. In some versions of the plan, before those models are released.\n\nThey agree they need a referee. They do not agree on what it should be.\n\nAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei is driving the effort, focused on technical testing and pre-release auditing. His model has been described as an FAA for AI: a body with the power to block a model's release. On 12 September he published a post proposing that third-party watchdogs be embedded inside the labs.\n\nGoogle DeepMind's Demis Hassabis published a proposal in July for a FINRA for AI: industry-funded, federally overseen, starting with voluntary pre-release reviews that could harden into mandatory market-access rules. FINRA is the private, industry-funded body the securities industry built instead of being regulated directly.\n\nOpenAI's Sam Altman has said he favours a testing and auditing organisation, but told a company town hall he believes the labs will have to build it themselves, without the backing of the US government. OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has said \"shared safety standards and international coordination on further AI development need to be priorities now.\"\n\nNot everyone wants it built. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg advised President Trump against the idea. Meta is not in the working group.\n\nNothing has been founded. There is no charter and no commitment — these are conversations, reported, not announced. Asked about them, all three companies declined to comment or did not respond.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/openai-anthropic-and-google-want-to-write-their-own-ai-rules.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-15T02:12:29+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-five-storms-zero-hurricanes/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-five-storms-zero-hurricanes/", "title": "Atlantic Hurricane Season 2026: Five Storms, Zero Hurricanes.", "summary": "As of 12 September 2026, the Atlantic hurricane season has produced five named storms and not one hurricane. That makes it the latest any Atlantic season has gone without a hurricane in the satellite era. The old record was 11 September, shared by 2002 and 2014.", "content_text": "As of 12 September 2026, the Atlantic hurricane season has produced five named storms and not one hurricane. That makes it the latest any Atlantic season has gone without a hurricane in the satellite era. The old record was 11 September, shared by 2002 and 2014.\n\nIn an average year the first Atlantic hurricane arrives on 11 August. This season is about a month past that.\n\nThe five storms were Tropical Storm Arthur (17-18 June, peak 45 mph), Bertha (19-24 July, 60 mph), Cristobal (12-13 August, 45 mph), Dolly (27-28 August, 40 mph) and Edouard (31 August to 3 September, 60 mph). A tropical storm becomes a hurricane at 74 mph. The strongest of the five reached 60.\n\nAccumulated Cyclone Energy is the standard measure of how much storm energy a season actually produces. As of 12 September this season sits at roughly 4.4 units. Pre-season forecasts ranged from 66 to 155.\n\nTwo things are behind it: a developing El Nino, which raises wind shear over the tropical Atlantic and tears storms apart before they can organise, and an unusual load of Saharan dust, which dries out the air storms need.\n\nMichael Lowry, a hurricane specialist at WPLG-TV in South Florida, summed the outlook up in one word: \"crickets.\" He wrote that the Atlantic basin \"is as dead as it gets for early September.\"\n\nNOAA's 21 May outlook called for a below-normal season: 8 to 14 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, 1 to 3 major hurricanes. Five named storms is inside that range. Zero hurricanes is not.\n\nThe season runs to 30 November. October has produced major hurricanes before. This reel reports the record, not a forecast.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-five-storms-zero-hurricanes.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-15T02:08:10+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/their-first-rocket-lasted-30-seconds-the-second-reached-orbit/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/their-first-rocket-lasted-30-seconds-the-second-reached-orbit/", "title": "Their First Rocket Lasted 30 Seconds. The Second Reached Orbit.", "summary": "On 5 September 2026, the German company Isar Aerospace became the first European company to put customer satellites into orbit on its own launcher. It was only the second flight of its rocket, Spectrum.", "content_text": "On 5 September 2026, the German company Isar Aerospace became the first European company to put customer satellites into orbit on its own launcher. It was only the second flight of its rocket, Spectrum.\n\nSpectrum is two stages and about 28 metres tall. It lifted off at 22:12 CEST from Andøya Space in northern Norway, on a mission called \"Onward and Upward\". It crossed the Kármán line at 100 km, completed its circularization burn and separated its payloads.\n\nEvery customer payload reached orbit: five CubeSats from TU Berlin, the University of Maribor, EnduroSat, NTNU and the TU Wien Space Team, plus a technology demonstration from Dcubed. The first stage completed a controlled descent into the Norwegian Sea.\n\nNow go back to 30 March 2025. The first Spectrum flight was terminated after about 30 seconds. The investigation found an unintended vent valve opening and a loss of attitude control during the roll manoeuvre. The flight safety system performed as designed.\n\n\"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before,\" said CEO Daniel Metzler.\n\nEurope has launched rockets for decades through state and consortium programmes. What it had not had was a private European company able to reach orbit on its own vehicle — the capability that reshaped the American launch market.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/their-first-rocket-lasted-30-seconds-the-second-reached-orbit.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-14T03:48:05+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/he-promised-you-5-000-his-own-speaker-says-not-yet/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/he-promised-you-5-000-his-own-speaker-says-not-yet/", "title": "He Promised You $5,000. His Own Speaker Says Not Yet.", "summary": "At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on 10 September 2026, President Trump promised adult US citizens a $5,000 payment he called the \"Trump Dividend\" — on one condition: that Republicans hold both the House and the Senate in November.", "content_text": "At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on 10 September 2026, President Trump promised adult US citizens a $5,000 payment he called the \"Trump Dividend\" — on one condition: that Republicans hold both the House and the Senate in November.\n\nHe says the money is there. \"We're taking in so much money,\" he said, \"that we can easily handle that.\" Officials have pointed to tariffs, investment gains and other income.\n\nIndependent estimates put the cost above $1 trillion. This year's federal deficit is already running near $1.8 trillion.\n\nOn Sunday 13 September, House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about it on CNN's \"State of the Union\" and NBC's \"Meet the Press\". \"I would assume, yes, he'd need Congress to act,\" Johnson said. \"And that's a creative idea.\" Asked to commit that the checks will go out, he said Congress \"will work through it and find consensus on that like they have to do everything else.\"\n\nPolitico reported that Congress has so far spent zero time discussing it.\n\nHours after Johnson spoke, Trump was boarding Air Force One in Ireland. Asked about the checks, he said: \"The 5,000's going to happen, 100%.\" He has also said he does not think Congress needs to authorise the payments, without specifying how he would spend more than $1 trillion without lawmakers.\n\nThis reel reports the dispute, not a verdict on it. All footage is licensed stock — no footage of the convention, the President or the Speaker.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/he-promised-you-5-000-his-own-speaker-says-not-yet.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-14T03:23:50+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/his-plane-sank-he-swam-out-and-waited-in-the-lake/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/his-plane-sank-he-swam-out-and-waited-in-the-lake/", "title": "His Plane Sank. He Swam Out And Waited In The Lake.", "summary": "Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Republican from Wisconsin and his party's nominee for governor, was on a small plane that lost power on approach to Wausau Downtown Airport on Saturday night, 12 September 2026. The pilot put it down on Lake Wausau.", "content_text": "Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Republican from Wisconsin and his party's nominee for governor, was on a small plane that lost power on approach to Wausau Downtown Airport on Saturday night, 12 September 2026. The pilot put it down on Lake Wausau.\n\nThe aircraft was a Beechcraft K35, a single-engine plane that seats five. Two people were on board.\n\n\"As the plane began to submerge, we exited the aircraft and swam to a shallow area, where we waited until emergency responders reached us by boat,\" Tiffany wrote.\n\nThe Marathon County Sheriff's Office logged the 911 call at 20:49 local time. A Wausau Fire Department airboat reached them at 21:05, about fifteen minutes later.\n\nBoth men came out with minor injuries. Tiffany received a small cut over his right eye and was in hospital afterwards with his wife, Chris, beside him. \"God was watching over us tonight,\" he said. \"An experience like this reminds you just how precious life is.\"\n\nThe plane remains in the lake while crews work to remove it. The FAA and the NTSB will investigate; the cause of the mechanical issue was not immediately clear.\n\nNobody was killed. All footage is licensed stock — no footage of the crash, the aircraft or the lake itself.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/his-plane-sank-he-swam-out-and-waited-in-the-lake.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-13T18:22:21+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-signed-their-letters-sis-the-dna-test-agreed/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-signed-their-letters-sis-the-dna-test-agreed/", "title": "They Signed Their Letters 'Sis'. The DNA Test Agreed.", "summary": "Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were both born in Mumbai in the early 1980s and adopted as babies, from two different orphanages, within months of their birth. Two different Dutch couples took them home. They grew up near each other in the Netherlands, and neither family had any idea.", "content_text": "Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were both born in Mumbai in the early 1980s and adopted as babies, from two different orphanages, within months of their birth. Two different Dutch couples took them home. They grew up near each other in the Netherlands, and neither family had any idea.\n\nThey met in their early teens at a gathering for children adopted from India. Their friends noticed first. \"She has my nose,\" Meena remembers thinking. \"We have the same laugh.\"\n\nThey swapped addresses and wrote for years — about school, about boys, about dancing. They both loved the Backstreet Boys. They signed those letters \"Sis\", because, as Meena put it, \"we felt that way.\"\n\nThen Minal moved to France, Meena had her first child, and fifteen years went by with no contact at all.\n\nIn April 2026 Minal took a DNA test while visiting her parents. On 20 May a message arrived on Facebook with a screengrab attached. Meena had to reinstall the app, and typed the wrong password ten times before she could log in.\n\nThe result was a 100% match. Full sisters — the same biological mother and the same biological father.\n\nThey met again in August. \"We were friends before we were sisters,\" Minal said. \"We were sisters the whole time, but we didn't know.\"", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/they-signed-their-letters-sis-the-dna-test-agreed.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-13T18:09:16+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/a-lawyer-filed-witnesses-that-do-not-exist/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/a-lawyer-filed-witnesses-that-do-not-exist/", "title": "A Lawyer Filed Witnesses That Do Not Exist", "summary": "The New Mexico Supreme Court has fined Santa Fe defense attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000, held him in contempt and referred him to the state's attorney disciplinary board, after his brief in a murder appeal quoted testimony from witnesses who do not exist.", "content_text": "The New Mexico Supreme Court has fined Santa Fe defense attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000, held him in contempt and referred him to the state's attorney disciplinary board, after his brief in a murder appeal quoted testimony from witnesses who do not exist.\n\nThe court said the filing \"contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,\" including the invented detail that the shooter was wearing dark pants and a white shirt. None of it was in the trial record.\n\nHis client, Oscar Renee Sandoval, was convicted of murder and is serving life. The appeal is still pending and has been reassigned to a public defender; the briefs were stricken and the appeal starts again.\n\nAarons said he fed trial transcripts into ChatGPT expecting a summary of the proceedings, and that he did not understand the degree to which AI could hallucinate facts. He called it an honest mistake.\n\nFrom the bench, Justice C. Shannon Bacon asked him: \"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio?\" — noting that these stories appear every single day.\n\nThey do. The AI Hallucination Cases database listed 2,039 court decisions involving hallucinated material as of 12 September 2026, and dozens of lawyers have been sanctioned for fabricated case citations.\n\nWhat makes this one different is what was fabricated. Most of those cases are invented case law. This was invented evidence, in a case about a killing.\n\nSandoval's conviction stands and nothing here bears on his guilt. The sanction is against his former lawyer. All footage is licensed stock; nothing on screen depicts the case.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/a-lawyer-filed-witnesses-that-do-not-exist.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-12T19:21:19+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/a-court-just-ruled-the-energy-emergency-was-not-one/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/a-court-just-ruled-the-energy-emergency-was-not-one/", "title": "A Court Just Ruled The Energy Emergency Was Not One", "summary": "On 11 September 2026 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously vacated the Energy Department's emergency order that had kept the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan running about fifteen months past its scheduled retirement.", "content_text": "On 11 September 2026 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously vacated the Energy Department's emergency order that had kept the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan running about fifteen months past its scheduled retirement.\n\nCampbell is 1,420 megawatts of coal built in the 1960s, owned by Consumers Energy, and was scheduled to shut on 31 May 2025. Days before that date the Energy Department ordered it to keep running under section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act — the emergency provision — and then reissued the order each time it was about to expire.\n\nJudge Pillard, joined by Chief Judge Srinivasan and Judge Wilkins, wrote that section 202(c) \"is best read to apply where the Department identifies a risk of substantial harm from inadequate electricity supply that calls for immediate action by DOE,\" and that the court was \"unpersuaded by DOE's sweeping conception of its 'emergency' authority.\"\n\nConsumers Energy reports $259 million in net compliance costs for Campbell through 30 June, after market revenues, and is seeking to recover that from electricity customers across MISO's north and central regions. The Sierra Club's tracker puts the total across the seven plants held open by orders of this kind at roughly $547 million.\n\nThe case was brought by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, also representing Illinois and Minnesota, alongside Earthjustice for the Sierra Club and others. \"This administration does not get to invent fake emergencies to bypass the rule of law against Michigan residents,\" Nessel said.\n\nThe Energy Department says it will \"continue to protect and defend energy security for all Americans,\" pointing to blackouts avoided during Winter Storm Fern in January. Three more petitions over the other plants are pending at the same court.\n\nConsumers Energy says Campbell will keep running into mid-November.\n\nCost figures are claims in filings and a tracker, not judgments. All footage is licensed stock; nothing on screen is the Campbell plant.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/a-court-just-ruled-the-energy-emergency-was-not-one.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-12T19:15:39+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/a-2-700-year-old-poem-just-beat-jurassic-world/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/a-2-700-year-old-poem-just-beat-jurassic-world/", "title": "A 2,700-Year-Old Poem Just Beat Jurassic World", "summary": "By the end of this weekend Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey will have taken $1.684 billion worldwide, passing Jurassic World's $1.677 billion to become the highest-grossing film Universal has ever released.", "content_text": "By the end of this weekend Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey will have taken $1.684 billion worldwide, passing Jurassic World's $1.677 billion to become the highest-grossing film Universal has ever released.\n\nThe split: $601.2 million domestic, $1.083 billion international. That makes it the 12th highest-grossing film ever made and the third-biggest non-franchise title of all time.\n\nIt is also the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made, ahead of Deadpool & Wolverine's $1.33 billion, and the highest-grossing film in IMAX history at more than $486 million worldwide. It holds the biggest IMAX 70mm opening weekend on record and the biggest Universal R-rated opening weekend domestically at $123.5 million.\n\nThe number that explains it is the multiple: 6.33 times its opening weekend. In its eighth weekend it returned to number one worldwide and fell only 9% at home.\n\nOne record it did not take. Jurassic World is still Universal's biggest film in American cinemas, $653.4 million to $601.2 million.\n\nUniversal leads all studios in 2026 with $4.92 billion worldwide, the first past $4 billion globally and $3 billion internationally.\n\n\"What Chris and Emma have created will go down as one of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed films in cinematic history. A generational event that galvanizes moviegoing itself.\" — Donna Langley, Chairman, NBCUniversal Entertainment.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/a-2-700-year-old-poem-just-beat-jurassic-world.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-12T18:27:40+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/spider-man-is-9-million-from-the-biggest-number-in-movies/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/spider-man-is-9-million-from-the-biggest-number-in-movies/", "title": "Spider-Man Is $9 Million From The Biggest Number In Movies", "summary": "The all-time North American box office record has belonged to Star Wars: The Force Awakens since 2015, at $936,662,225. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now at $926,770,888.", "content_text": "The all-time North American box office record has belonged to Star Wars: The Force Awakens since 2015, at $936,662,225. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now at $926,770,888.\n\nThat is a gap of $9,891,337. One more weekend.\n\nIt already holds the other record. Its opening weekend took $360,091,572 across 4,487 theatres, the biggest domestic opening ever recorded. It passed Avengers: Endgame, which finished at $858,373,000, to sit second on the all-time chart. Worldwide it has taken $2,413,442,530, and 61.6% of that came from outside the United States.\n\nThe part worth staying for is the sixth weekend. It was still number one. Most blockbusters are finished by then.\n\nAnd the record it is about to take belongs to Star Wars, in the same summer Star Wars released the lowest-grossing live-action film in its history: The Mandalorian and Grogu, $345.7 million worldwide on a reported $165 million budget.\n\nEvery figure here is nominal, not adjusted for inflation, which is how the all-time domestic chart is kept.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/spider-man-is-9-million-from-the-biggest-number-in-movies.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-12T04:53:12+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/america-killed-this-fly-in-1966-its-back-in-texas/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/america-killed-this-fly-in-1966-its-back-in-texas/", "title": "America Killed This Fly In 1966. It's Back In Texas.", "summary": "A New World screwworm infestation has been confirmed in a working ranch horse in Presidio County, Texas — the first horse in this outbreak. The Texas Animal Health Commission found it this week; a federal laboratory confirmed it.", "content_text": "A New World screwworm infestation has been confirmed in a working ranch horse in Presidio County, Texas — the first horse in this outbreak. The Texas Animal Health Commission found it this week; a federal laboratory confirmed it.\n\nThe screwworm is a fly, and what makes it different from every other fly is that its larvae feed on living flesh rather than dead.\n\nBut the arrival is not really the story, because it already arrived. The first US animal case in this outbreak was a three-week-old calf in Zavala County on 3 June 2026.\n\nThe story is the wall. America eradicated this fly in 1966 by releasing sterile males until the population could not breed — one of the most successful pest programmes ever run — and then held the barrier at Panama for decades. In 2023 that barrier broke, and cases went from roughly 25 to 6,500. It reached southern Mexico in late 2024, Veracruz by July 2025, and came within 70 miles of the US border by September 2025.\n\nWhen Texas last had an outbreak, in 1976, it cost producers the equivalent of $732 million in today's money.\n\nThe half that rarely gets reported: the system is fighting. More than a billion sterile flies have been released since February, and restrictions were lifted in five Texas counties the same week this horse was found.\n\nThere are no locally acquired human cases in the United States.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/america-killed-this-fly-in-1966-its-back-in-texas.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-11T19:24:51+00:00", "tags": [ "cattle" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/an-island-in-the-red-sea-changed-hands-nobody-fought/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/an-island-in-the-red-sea-changed-hands-nobody-fought/", "title": "An Island In The Red Sea Changed Hands. Nobody Fought.", "summary": "Perim island — also called Mayyun, about 13 square kilometres of rock sitting in the Bab al-Mandeb strait, splitting the shipping lane into two channels — changed hands on Friday. Government troops withdrew; there was no major battle.", "content_text": "Perim island — also called Mayyun, about 13 square kilometres of rock sitting in the Bab al-Mandeb strait, splitting the shipping lane into two channels — changed hands on Friday. Government troops withdrew; there was no major battle.\n\nThe day before, Houthi forces had taken Mocha, the port city on the mainland coast. Most coverage has merged the two into one \"chokepoint seized\" headline. They are two places, two days.\n\nAnd it is not a closure. A Houthi official said the group poses \"no danger\" to cargo routes, and their spokesman Yahya Saree exempted only Saudi-linked vessels from safe passage. What has been declared is a blockade pointed at one country.\n\nIt matters anyway, because of the other strait. Hormuz has been disrupted all year by the war with Iran, and Bab al-Mandeb was the way around it. Both are now compromised at the same time. Oil closed above $100 a barrel, the first time since mid-May.\n\nAxios, citing two US officials, and Reuters, citing two sources familiar, report that the Saudi crown prince phoned President Trump twice on Thursday asking for American strikes, and that Trump declined — offering intelligence and targeting rather than firepower. Both accounts rest on anonymous sources; the White House and the Saudi embassy declined to comment.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/an-island-in-the-red-sea-changed-hands-nobody-fought.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-11T19:24:14+00:00", "tags": [ "strait of hormuz" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-asked-scotus-to-block-it-theyre-republicans/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-asked-scotus-to-block-it-theyre-republicans/", "title": "They Asked SCOTUS To Block It. They're Republicans.", "summary": "The people who asked the Supreme Court this week to keep Trump's mail-ballot rule blocked are Republicans — and they run the election offices in their own states.", "content_text": "The people who asked the Supreme Court this week to keep Trump's mail-ballot rule blocked are Republicans — and they run the election offices in their own states.\n\nThe rule implements an executive order the President signed in March to tighten mail voting. In August the Postal Service turned it into a final rule: USPS could refuse to deliver ballots to any state that fails to hand over a list of eligible voters, or that uses an envelope style the rule has not approved.\n\nOn Wednesday, Republican chief election officers filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to leave the rule blocked. Their states include Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, New Hampshire, North Dakota and South Dakota. Their argument is not that the rule is a bad idea — it is that ballots have already gone out in North Carolina and other early states, and changing the rules now would disrupt an election already under way.\n\nA day earlier, a three-judge panel of the First Circuit refused to let the rule take effect, saying the administration had not shown it would avoid \"chaos and widespread voter disenfranchisement.\"\n\nThe appeal is still pending. Whatever the Supreme Court decides, it is deciding on a calendar that has already started counting.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/they-asked-scotus-to-block-it-theyre-republicans.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-11T03:33:35+00:00", "tags": [ "mail ballots", "supreme court", "usps", "midterms 2026", "trump executive order", "voting rights" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/the-new-world-map-has-a-second-objector-it-isnt-africa/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/the-new-world-map-has-a-second-objector-it-isnt-africa/", "title": "The New World Map Has A Second Objector. It Isn't Africa.", "summary": "Six days after the UN General Assembly adopted a new world map, it has a second objector — and Japan's complaint has nothing to do with Africa.", "content_text": "Six days after the UN General Assembly adopted a new world map, it has a second objector — and Japan's complaint has nothing to do with Africa.\n\nOn 4 September 2026 the Assembly voted 164 to 1 to adopt the Equal Earth projection, the map that stops shrinking Africa. The single no vote was the United States. This week Japan lodged a protest of its own: on the new map, the Kuril Islands are drawn as Russian.\n\nJapan calls them the Northern Territories — four islands north of Hokkaido, taken by Soviet forces at the end of the Second World War and held by Moscow ever since. The dispute is why Japan and Russia have never signed a peace treaty.\n\nChief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said the map \"contained a depiction contradicting the Japanese government's position,\" and that Japan \"needs to prevent misconceptions of our territories and geographical names from spreading.\" The protest went to the operator of the map site through diplomatic channels — Japan is not asking the UN to re-run the vote, it is asking for one corner of the picture to be redrawn.\n\nThe timing isn't an accident. Last month Vladimir Putin visited the disputed islands for the first time. Japan summoned Russia's ambassador, and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the visit \"offends the sentiments of the Japanese people.\"\n\nEqual Earth fixed the size of Africa. It could not fix who owns what.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/the-new-world-map-has-a-second-objector-it-isnt-africa.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-11T03:33:03+00:00", "tags": [ "world map", "equal earth", "united nations", "cartography" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/an-american-summer-just-beat-the-dust-bowl/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/an-american-summer-just-beat-the-dust-bowl/", "title": "An American Summer Just Beat The Dust Bowl", "summary": "For the first time on record, a summer in the Lower 48 ran hotter than the Dust Bowl summer of 1936.", "content_text": "For the first time on record, a summer in the Lower 48 ran hotter than the Dust Bowl summer of 1936.\n\nNOAA puts June through August about four tenths of a degree Fahrenheit above the 1936 mark — a benchmark that had stood for ninety years. In the same week, the European climate service Copernicus said August was the hottest month it has ever measured anywhere on Earth.\n\nThat second record deserves a caveat, and most coverage skipped it: August came in one hundredth of a degree above July 2023, which is smaller than the uncertainty in the measurement. Statistically it is a tie, not a new record.\n\nWhat is not in doubt is the level. August ran 1.65 °C above pre-industrial — well past the 1.5 °C line the Paris agreement was written to hold. El Niño contributes a tenth or two of a degree. The rest is the burning of fossil fuels.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/an-american-summer-just-beat-the-dust-bowl.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-11T03:31:46+00:00", "tags": [ "noaa" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-say-hes-119-the-worlds-oldest-man-ever-was-116/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-say-hes-119-the-worlds-oldest-man-ever-was-116/", "title": "They Say He's 119. The World's Oldest Man Ever Was 116.", "summary": "A former farmer in Costa Rica is said by his family and by official records to be 119. If that is right, he beats the oldest verified man in history by almost three years — which is exactly why nobody has confirmed it.", "content_text": "A former farmer in Costa Rica is said by his family and by official records to be 119. If that is right, he beats the oldest verified man in history by almost three years — which is exactly why nobody has confirmed it.\n\nJosé Flores lives in Sardinal, on the Nicoya Peninsula. The oldest man ever verified is Jiroemon Kimura of Japan, who died in 2013 at 116 years and 54 days; he remains the only man ever confirmed to reach 116 at all. The oldest living person today is Ethel Caterham of Britain, born 21 August 1909, who is 117. International verification of Flores's birth date is still pending while specialists review historical documents.\n\nNicoya is one of five regions known as Blue Zones. Residents credit water rich in calcium and magnesium, a diet of corn and beans, physical work into old age, and families who stay close.\n\nIn 2024, Dr Saul Newman of University College London won the Ig Nobel Prize in Demography for testing that claim. He found that in 2008, 42% of Costa Ricans aged 99 and over had mis-stated their age in the 2000 census; after the errors were corrected, the Nicoya Blue Zone shrank by roughly 90%. His wider finding: only about 18% of claimed supercentenarians have an actual birth certificate, and recorded birthdays cluster on the 1st of the month and on dates divisible by five.\n\nNone of that is an accusation against José Flores. He may be exactly as old as his family says. It is the reason specialists are still reading pre-1914 documents instead of handing him a certificate.\n\nNo picture of him is ours to run. Every shot in this video is licensed stock.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/they-say-hes-119-the-worlds-oldest-man-ever-was-116.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-10T06:11:50+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/apples-1-999-foldable-iphone-cant-recognize-your-face/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/apples-1-999-foldable-iphone-cant-recognize-your-face/", "title": "Apple's $1,999 Foldable iPhone Can't Recognize Your Face", "summary": "Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 — and it is the first flagship iPhone since 2017 without Face ID.", "content_text": "Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 — and it is the first flagship iPhone since 2017 without Face ID.\n\nAnnounced 9 September 2026 at John Ternus's first keynote as CEO, the Duo folds from a 5.4-inch outer screen to a 7.6-inch inner display, which Apple says is the largest it has ever put on an iPhone. Pre-orders open 16 October; it ships 23 October in more than 70 countries. Ternus called it \"the most transformational change to iPhone since the original.\"\n\nTo get there, Apple took things out. Face ID is gone, replaced by Touch ID in the side button — the technology Face ID itself replaced on the flagship in 2017. There is no dedicated telephoto lens; the 2x zoom is a crop from the 48MP main camera. There is no Action Button, which has shipped on every Pro model since 2023.\n\nThe iPhone 18 Pro, announced on the same stage the same morning, keeps Face ID and the Action Button, and starts at $1,199. The more expensive phone is the one with fewer features, and the gap is $800.\n\nApple has not said publicly why the face sensors did not make it. And Apple is not first: Samsung shipped the Galaxy Fold in 2019, so the category is seven years old. What Apple brought to it is a hinge with over 100 components, a Grade 5 titanium body, and a battery split across the two halves.\n\nNo footage of the device is ours to run. Every shot in this video is licensed stock.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/apples-1-999-foldable-iphone-cant-recognize-your-face.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-10T06:11:27+00:00", "tags": [ "foldable iphone", "apple", "john ternus", "apple event" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/he-quit-anthropic-to-warn-about-ai-its-safety-lead-agreed/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/he-quit-anthropic-to-warn-about-ai-its-safety-lead-agreed/", "title": "He Quit Anthropic To Warn About AI. Its Safety Lead Agreed.", "summary": "An Anthropic researcher resigned to warn that AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade — and the company's own alignment science lead replied by putting the number higher.", "content_text": "An Anthropic researcher resigned to warn that AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade — and the company's own alignment science lead replied by putting the number higher.\n\nJacob Coxon spent about three years on pretraining research, first at OpenAI and then at Anthropic. He resigned on 8 September 2026 in a seven-part post on X, writing that the labs \"are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,\" that \"the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,\" and that \"no other human activity poses this level of danger.\" He told Axios he left before any of his equity vested, roughly two months short — which is what separates this from safety resignations that came after the stock landed.\n\nAnthropic did not deny it. Evan Hubinger, the company's alignment science lead, replied on X: \"I personally think it is [greater than] 10% within the next decade,\" and added, \"I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.\" Hubinger still works there.\n\nThe same week, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills creating the first state AI auditing framework in the US — both backed by Anthropic and OpenAI.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/he-quit-anthropic-to-warn-about-ai-its-safety-lead-agreed.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-10T06:10:54+00:00", "tags": [ "anthropic", "ai safety", "openai" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/iran-says-it-captured-a-us-drone-it-was-already-dead/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/iran-says-it-captured-a-us-drone-it-was-already-dead/", "title": "Iran Says It Captured A US Drone. It Was Already Dead.", "summary": "Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on 8 September 2026 that its navy had captured an advanced American unmanned underwater vehicle near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state media identified it as an Anduril Dive-LD, an autonomous undersea vehicle, and Naval News assessed that the machine shown in the released footage matches that model.", "content_text": "Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on 8 September 2026 that its navy had captured an advanced American unmanned underwater vehicle near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state media identified it as an Anduril Dive-LD, an autonomous undersea vehicle, and Naval News assessed that the machine shown in the released footage matches that model.\n\nUS Central Command's account differs in every part except the object. It says the vehicle was an older Dive-LD, that it was defective and malfunctioning well before Iran announced anything, and that it had been essentially dead in the water for more than a day. A US official told Reuters it had failed while surveying regional waters, that it was an older model, and that it carried no sonar, no radar and nothing classified.\n\nSo both sides agree Iran has it. What they disagree about is what it was worth.\n\nWe cannot settle that. Nobody outside the two governments has examined the vehicle, and each side has an obvious reason to describe it the way it does.\n\nBut one fact survives the argument, because it appears in both accounts: an American autonomous vehicle sat powerless in the most contested waterway on earth for more than a day. That is not the part anyone is disputing. The story is not only that it was taken. It is that it was lost first, and that the losing was quiet.\n\nFootage: licensed stock only. This video does not use state-media footage from either government.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/iran-says-it-captured-a-us-drone-it-was-already-dead.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-09T05:51:46+00:00", "tags": [ "strait of hormuz", "iran", "centcom", "us navy", "explainer" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-tried-to-take-off-again-the-wheels-were-already-down/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-tried-to-take-off-again-the-wheels-were-already-down/", "title": "They Tried To Take Off Again. The Wheels Were Already Down.", "summary": "The NTSB says flight data recorder evidence suggests the crew of the Amazon Air cargo jet that overran a runway at Miami International considered aborting the landing after the aircraft had already touched down.", "content_text": "The NTSB says flight data recorder evidence suggests the crew of the Amazon Air cargo jet that overran a runway at Miami International considered aborting the landing after the aircraft had already touched down.\n\nA go-around is routine. You break off the approach, climb away and come back, and pilots practise it constantly. What is not routine is doing it after you have landed.\n\nOnce the wheels are on the runway, the aeroplane has been deliberately turned into a braking machine. Spoilers come up, thrust reversers come out, and the wing is made to stop producing lift on purpose. To fly again from there you have to undo all of it while the runway runs out underneath you.\n\nThe jet overran the end by about 1,300 feet. CNN reported that the pilots applied full power seconds before it left the runway. It crossed the airport boundary, hit a van, went through a fence and struck an SUV on a city street.\n\nA correction to our earlier video: authorities now say all five people who died were inside the van, which was shuttling crews that clean aircraft. We previously said the deaths were split across two vehicles.\n\nBoth pilots survived. The safety board was due to interview them, and it has not stated a cause. That matters, because a recorder shows what the aircraft did. It does not show what the crew was facing, or whether something had already gone wrong.\n\nFootage: licensed stock only. No crash footage is used and the fire footage is marked illustrative because it is not Miami.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/they-tried-to-take-off-again-the-wheels-were-already-down.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-09T05:37:48+00:00", "tags": [ "ntsb", "miami airport", "amazon air", "boeing 767", "aviation safety", "runway overrun", "21 air", "explainer" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/new-york-said-the-air-was-safe-its-own-files-say-otherwise/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/new-york-said-the-air-was-safe-its-own-files-say-otherwise/", "title": "New York Said The Air Was Safe. Its Own Files Say Otherwise.", "summary": "New York City released more than 170,000 pages of post-9/11 air quality records this week through a public portal. They were found in 68 boxes inside a city environmental office, and many of them were only discovered within the past year.", "content_text": "New York City released more than 170,000 pages of post-9/11 air quality records this week through a public portal. They were found in 68 boxes inside a city environmental office, and many of them were only discovered within the past year.\n\nFor 25 years the argument has been about what officials knew when they told people the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe. These are the city's own papers.\n\nThe most quoted document is an unsigned note from May 2002, about letters going out on a Lower Manhattan cleanup initiative. It says the word \"risk\" should not be used, because using it would defeat the purpose of creating public confidence.\n\nNot that the risk was small. That the word should not appear.\n\nThe testing records sit underneath it. Inspectors found asbestos nearly everywhere they looked. One record places it on a facade ledge on John Street, streets away from the site, in July 2002, ten months after the towers fell.\n\n2,753 people were killed in New York on the day. The World Trade Center Health Program now says more than 9,000 have died of illnesses linked to the attacks. More than three times as many have died from what came afterwards as died on the morning itself.\n\nThe fire department published its own 25-year count this month: more than 600 FDNY members have died of a World Trade Center illness, and more than 10,000 are living with one.\n\nThis is the first release, not the last, and nobody has read 170,000 pages yet.\n\nFootage: licensed stock only. This video contains no footage of the September 11 attacks, of the towers, or of victims and responders at the site. That is deliberate.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/new-york-said-the-air-was-safe-its-own-files-say-otherwise.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-09T04:37:32+00:00", "tags": [ "explainer" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-want-to-rename-new-mexico-its-258-years-older-than-mexico/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/they-want-to-rename-new-mexico-its-258-years-older-than-mexico/", "title": "They Want To Rename New Mexico. It's 258 Years Older Than Mexico.", "summary": "The President posted a map this week with \"Mexico\" crossed out in red and \"America\" written over it, suggesting New Mexico be renamed New America. The White House reshared it.", "content_text": "The President posted a map this week with \"Mexico\" crossed out in red and \"America\" written over it, suggesting New Mexico be renamed New America. The White House reshared it.\n\nAlmost everyone assumes New Mexico was named after Mexico. It was not, and it could not have been. Spanish explorers applied the name Nuevo Mexico in 1563, and again in 1581. The country we call Mexico did not take that name until it won independence in 1821. That makes the state's name 258 years older than the country people think it copied, and 213 years older than the United States. Both names come from the Mexica.\n\nThe confusion is old and well documented. New Mexico Magazine has run a column for decades called \"One Of Our 50 Is Missing\", collecting the times Americans are told they live in another country. The editor puts it at 50 to 100 submissions a month. One man in Santa Fe, ordering tickets for the Atlanta Olympics, was told to call the Mexican consulate.\n\nAnd a president cannot rename a state. The name is the opening line of New Mexico's constitution. Changing it would take New Mexico's own voters amending that constitution. Not a post, not an order, a ballot.\n\nOne more thing: the map itself came from a satirical account that describes its own output as news that doesn't matter. No executive order renaming the state was signed.\n\nFootage: licensed stock only. The map image is not shown.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/they-want-to-rename-new-mexico-its-258-years-older-than-mexico.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-08T06:35:09+00:00", "tags": [ "explainer" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/five-died-in-the-miami-crash-none-of-them-were-on-the-plane/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/five-died-in-the-miami-crash-none-of-them-were-on-the-plane/", "title": "Five Died In The Miami Crash. None Of Them Were On The Plane.", "summary": "Amazon Air Flight 7598 overran runway 30 at Miami International on 6 September 2026, leaving the usable runway at about 130 miles an hour and striking vehicles before it caught fire. Five people were killed. Not one of them was on the plane.", "content_text": "Amazon Air Flight 7598 overran runway 30 at Miami International on 6 September 2026, leaving the usable runway at about 130 miles an hour and striking vehicles before it caught fire. Five people were killed. Not one of them was on the plane.\n\nBoth pilots survived and were released from hospital. The five who died were on the ground: in a van carrying an aircraft cleaning crew, seven people inside, run by a contract cleaning company, and in an SUV on a road outside the airport.\n\nThe aircraft carried Amazon's name, but Amazon did not fly it. It was operated by 21 Air, a contract cargo carrier based in Miami, on behalf of Amazon Air. The jet itself was 32 years old, registration N1997A, built in 1994 for a Belgian holiday airline, ordered by a leasing company, and converted into a freighter in Israel about a decade ago.\n\nThere is one more difference, written into the rules. When the United States rewrote pilot rest and duty limits in 2014, the first change in more than sixty years, all-cargo flying was left out. Cargo pilots were in the FAA's original proposal and were removed before it became law. That exemption is still open and the 2024 reauthorization did not close it.\n\nNothing here says fatigue caused this crash. The investigators have not said what did, and the NTSB investigation is ongoing.\n\nFootage: licensed stock only. No crash footage is used, and the fire beds are marked illustrative because they are not Miami.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/five-died-in-the-miami-crash-none-of-them-were-on-the-plane.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-08T05:52:36+00:00", "tags": [ "miami airport", "amazon air", "boeing 767", "ntsb", "aviation safety", "21 air", "runway overrun" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/all-four-engines-stopped-over-java-thats-why-jakarta-just-shut/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/all-four-engines-stopped-over-java-thats-why-jakarta-just-shut/", "title": "All Four Engines Stopped Over Java. That's Why Jakarta Just Shut.", "summary": "Anak Krakatau erupted for about twenty five hours from 4 September 2026. Eight Indonesian airports closed, 1,558 flights were cancelled or delayed and roughly 341,000 travellers were affected. Almost every report led with the stranded passengers. Almost none explained why an airport closes for ash at all.", "content_text": "Anak Krakatau erupted for about twenty five hours from 4 September 2026. Eight Indonesian airports closed, 1,558 flights were cancelled or delayed and roughly 341,000 travellers were affected. Almost every report led with the stranded passengers. Almost none explained why an airport closes for ash at all.\n\nIt is not visibility. Volcanic ash is powdered rock, and the burner section of a jet engine runs hotter than that rock's melting point. Ash entering the engine melts, then re-solidifies as glass on the cooler turbine blades behind it and chokes the engine. Weather radar cannot see ash, so the rule was never detection. It is avoidance, and the airports underneath the plume close.\n\nThat rule was written over this same island. On 24 June 1982 a British Airways 747 with 263 people aboard flew into ash from Mount Galunggung and lost all four engines, falling 23,500 feet across roughly thirteen minutes before the crew restarted them and landed at Jakarta. Nineteen days later a second 747 flew into ash from the same volcano and lost three engines. It also landed at Jakarta.\n\nThe US Geological Survey counted 94 confirmed encounters between aircraft and volcanic ash from 1953 to 2009. Nine lost an engine in flight. Three lost all of them. None crashed.\n\nFootage: licensed stock, and a NASA Goddard ash dispersal visualisation (Calbuco, 2015, public domain) shown as a model of how ash travels, not as this eruption. No frame in this video is footage of Anak Krakatau.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/all-four-engines-stopped-over-java-thats-why-jakarta-just-shut.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-08T05:13:44+00:00", "tags": [ "aviation safety", "usgs", "explainer" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/in-brightest-day-in-blackest-night/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/in-brightest-day-in-blackest-night/", "title": "In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night", "summary": "The official White House account posted this: the President wearing a Green Lantern ring, building a border wall out of green light, then a factory, then an air force.", "content_text": "The official White House account posted this: the President wearing a Green Lantern ring, building a border wall out of green light, then a factory, then an air force.\n\nThe caption they wrote under it is the Green Lantern oath, in full. Here it is, read out: \"In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power, Green Lantern's light.\"\n\nOne footnote. The ring runs on willpower, and the classic version had exactly one famous weakness: it did not work on anything yellow. Later retconned, but it held for most of the character's run.\n\nThe oath here is our own recording, not audio from any Green Lantern film or series. The pictures are the White House's, 7 September 2026, public domain. Green Lantern is a DC Comics character.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/in-brightest-day-in-blackest-night.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-07T07:03:47+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/for-the-first-time-ever-but-all-three-already-existed/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/for-the-first-time-ever-but-all-three-already-existed/", "title": "\"For the First Time Ever\" — But All Three Already Existed", "summary": "Signing two executive orders on Friday, the President told ranchers they would be able to process their own meat and sell it directly to consumers, \"for the first time ever.\"", "content_text": "Signing two executive orders on Friday, the President told ranchers they would be able to process their own meat and sell it directly to consumers, \"for the first time ever.\"\n\nThe order that covers processing does real things. It directs USDA to speed states into three inspection programmes and to cut reporting it calls unnecessary. That matters to small processors.\n\nBut all three programmes already existed: the State Meat and Poultry Inspection Program, Talmadge-Aiken cooperative inspection, and Cooperative Interstate Shipment, which already lets a state-inspected plant ship across state lines.\n\nAnd the rule that stops a rancher selling meat they processed themselves is not in the order at all. It is in the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and only Congress can change it. The bill that would — the PRIME Act, H.R. 4700 / S. 2409 — is riding the 2026 Farm Bill. It is pending: not passed, not failed.\n\nRanchers may already process for their own use. The restriction is on selling it.\n\nSource video: The White House, 4 September 2026 (public domain). Both executive orders read in full. Quotes transcribed from the tape.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/for-the-first-time-ever-but-all-three-already-existed.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-07T06:10:39+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-we-may-hit-pickax-very-soon/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-we-may-hit-pickax-very-soon/", "title": "Trump: \"We May Hit Pickax Very Soon\"", "summary": "At Friday's executive-order signing, the President was asked about Iran. He said America \"may hit Pickax very soon\" — and that \"we know everybody that's moving at Pickax.\"", "content_text": "At Friday's executive-order signing, the President was asked about Iran. He said America \"may hit Pickax very soon\" — and that \"we know everybody that's moving at Pickax.\"\n\nPickax Mountain, Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, sits about a mile south of Natanz. No IAEA inspector has ever been allowed inside it. Published estimates of how deep it goes range from about 100 metres to around 2,000 feet of granite — a difference of roughly six times, and the difference that decides whether it can be reached from the air at all. Analysts already rate it harder to strike than Fordow.\n\nHe said \"may.\" No strike has been announced. His claim about knowing who is moving there is his, and is not independently established.\n\nSource video: The White House, 4 September 2026 (public domain). Site details: CNN, PBS NewsHour, JNS. Quotes transcribed from the tape.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/trump-we-may-hit-pickax-very-soon.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-07T06:10:35+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/america-published-an-exchange-rate-its-denominated-in-ships/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/america-published-an-exchange-rate-its-denominated-in-ships/", "title": "America Published an Exchange Rate. It's Denominated in Ships.", "summary": "On 5 September 2026 US Central Command said it struck three Iranian crude oil carriers after the IRGC fired at two US Navy warships. Adm. Brad Cooper's statement puts a rate in writing: if you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours.", "content_text": "On 5 September 2026 US Central Command said it struck three Iranian crude oil carriers after the IRGC fired at two US Navy warships. Adm. Brad Cooper's statement puts a rate in writing: if you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours.\n\nThe fleet that rate prices has a countable size. 64 vessels tied to Iran's state tanker line sit on the Treasury's SDN list, 45 of them crude carriers.\n\nThen the ships stop fitting the sentence. Two of the three were empty. And the one CENTCOM says it destroyed outright, the M/T Kylo, IMO 9189146, returns zero rows on that list.\n\nALL STRIKE DETAILS ARE CENTCOM'S ACCOUNT, UNCONFIRMED INDEPENDENTLY. THE IRGC SAYS BOTH U.S. WARSHIPS WERE HIT. EVERY PICTURE HERE IS CENTCOM'S OWN RELEASE.\n\nFootage: U.S. Central Command via DVIDS. Audio: Fox News.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/america-published-an-exchange-rate-its-denominated-in-ships.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-06T07:01:04+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/the-trump-coin-markup-is-the-mints-normal-price/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/the-trump-coin-markup-is-the-mints-normal-price/", "title": "The Trump Coin Markup Is the Mint's Normal Price", "summary": "The US Mint listed the Semiquincentennial President Donald J. Trump 2026 $1 coin at $61.00 for a 25-coin roll, which is $2.44 a coin, and it went to backorder the same evening.", "content_text": "The US Mint listed the Semiquincentennial President Donald J. Trump 2026 $1 coin at $61.00 for a 25-coin roll, which is $2.44 a coin, and it went to backorder the same evening.\n\nFive weeks earlier the same Mint charged $61.00 for a roll of American Innovation $1 coins honouring Minnesota and mobile refrigeration. Same price, to the cent. $61 is simply what a 2026 dollar roll costs.\n\nThe price was never the anomaly. The supply was.\n\nUSMINT.GOV READ 6 SEPT 2026. THE MINT LISTS NO MINTAGE LIMIT, SO THIS IS OUT OF STOCK, NOT A SELL OUT.\n\nFootage: U.S. Mint official channel (file 2016 and file 2023), Reuters, Forbes Breaking News.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/the-trump-coin-markup-is-the-mints-normal-price.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-06T05:58:59+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/teslas-no-wheel-robotaxi-got-a-federal-audit-on-day-one/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/teslas-no-wheel-robotaxi-got-a-federal-audit-on-day-one/", "title": "Tesla's No-Wheel Robotaxi Got a Federal Audit on Day One", "summary": "Tesla began paid Cybercab rides in Austin on 3 September 2026. The car has no steering wheel, no pedals and no mirrors, and Tesla certified it as meeting federal safety standards itself. A federal audit into that certification opened the same day.", "content_text": "Tesla began paid Cybercab rides in Austin on 3 September 2026. The car has no steering wheel, no pedals and no mirrors, and Tesla certified it as meeting federal safety standards itself. A federal audit into that certification opened the same day.\n\nNHTSA's Audit Query AQ26002, from its Office of Defects Investigation, covers roughly 1,000 vehicles. What it says it is examining is narrower and stranger than \"is it safe\": the process and technical data Tesla relied on when certifying the Cybercab, and specifically \"the extent to which Tesla's certification depended on determinations that certain FMVSS are inapplicable to the Cybercab.\"\n\nThere is a precedent and it is exact. In July 2022 Zoox self-certified a purpose-built robotaxi with no driving controls. NHTSA's own closing resume says Zoox \"was an outlier in the industry, having self-certified these vehicles rather than seeking an available exemption.\" Audit AQ23001 opened in March 2023. In December 2024 inspectors issued a report that \"included multiple apparent noncompliances with applicable FMVSS.\" In June 2025 Zoox asked for an exemption instead, and was granted one in August 2025 on condition that it \"obscure or remove all existing statements that the purpose-built vehicle complies with or conforms to all applicable FMVSS.\" The commercial exemption — the first ever granted to a passenger vehicle built without a steering wheel — arrived on 30 July 2026, covering parts of eight federal standards. Four years from self-certifying to being allowed.\n\nMeanwhile Waymo, which has steering wheels and is not part of this fight, was reported by TechCrunch on 1 September at around 4,000 robotaxis across 14 US cities and about 500,000 paid trips a week.\n\nAn audit query is a question about a certification process. Nothing here says the Cybercab is unsafe, has crashed, or has hurt anyone.\n\nFootage: Tesla, Zoox and Waymo official channels.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/teslas-no-wheel-robotaxi-got-a-federal-audit-on-day-one.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:23:02+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-says-agi-the-people-whose-test-it-beat-say-no/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-says-agi-the-people-whose-test-it-beat-say-no/", "title": "OpenAI Says AGI. The People Whose Test It Beat Say No.", "summary": "164 headlines said AGI. The people whose test it beat said no.", "content_text": "164 headlines said AGI. The people whose test it beat said no.\n\nOpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026 and its president, Greg Brockman, closed the launch briefing with \"Welcome to the AGI era.\" The number that travelled with it was 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark built to be hard for machines and easy for people.\n\nARC Prize, who make that benchmark, then published their own post. Verbatim: \"While we believe Astra represents meaningful progress towards generalization, we are not claiming that it is AGI.\" They also published TWO numbers, not one. The 99.9% (for $18,817) comes from a Provider Adapter harness that uses OpenAI's own built-in context management. On the provider-neutral standard harness, the same model scores 62.7% (for $26,098).\n\nThat is not a debunking. Francois Chollet, who designed the test, moved his own AGI forecast forward and called Astra \"a step-function change in model capability for interactive reasoning problems.\" It is simply that the number in the headline and the number on a level playing field are not the same number.\n\nAnd while the AGI argument ran, something else happened that actually changed what the model is allowed to do. Astra is the first OpenAI model ever to cross the \"Critical\" threshold for cybersecurity risk under the company's own Preparedness Framework. It scored 100% on ExploitBench against 78.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol, and found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities during testing, which OpenAI says it is disclosing. The public version refuses to generate proof-of-concept exploits; OpenAI says it will loosen that for vetted defenders through a programme called Daybreak.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/openai-says-agi-the-people-whose-test-it-beat-say-no.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-05T08:47:16+00:00", "tags": [ "openai", "ai safety" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/164-countries-voted-to-redraw-the-world-map-one-said-no/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/164-countries-voted-to-redraw-the-world-map-one-said-no/", "title": "164 Countries Voted to Redraw the World Map. One Said No.", "summary": "164 countries voted. One voted no.", "content_text": "164 countries voted. One voted no.\n\nOn Friday 4 September 2026 the UN General Assembly adopted the African-led \"Correct the Map\" resolution, A/80/L.104, by 164 votes to 1 with 6 abstentions. The single vote against was the United States, whose delegate told the Assembly that resolutions like it \"are barnacles on our work here and the reason this institution is losing its credibility.\"\n\nSix countries abstained: Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine. None of them is African and none of them objected to Africa. Ukraine's objection was that Equal Earth maps depict parts of its territory occupied by Russia \"in a manner that is wholly unacceptable.\" Russia itself voted in favour.\n\nAnd the headline almost everyone ran is wrong. The UN did not adopt a new world map. The resolution is not binding, it replaces nothing, and its own text keeps the Mercator projection for navigation at sea and in the air. What 164 countries actually voted on is smaller than that, and harder: which picture of the world gets printed in a schoolbook.\n\nMercator drew his projection in 1569 for sailors. It keeps every compass bearing straight and pays for it by stretching everything far from the equator, which is why Greenland and Africa look about the same size on it. Africa is roughly fourteen times larger.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/164-countries-voted-to-redraw-the-world-map-one-said-no.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-05T05:36:31+00:00", "tags": [ "united nations", "equal earth", "world map", "cartography" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/gloria-steinem-planned-to-live-to-100/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/gloria-steinem-planned-to-live-to-100/", "title": "Gloria Steinem Planned To Live To 100", "summary": "Gloria Steinem died at her home in New York on 2 September 2026, aged 92. Her last memoir goes on sale twenty days later.", "content_text": "Gloria Steinem died at her home in New York on 2 September 2026, aged 92. Her last memoir goes on sale twenty days later.\n\nRandom House announced An Unexpected Life on 25 March — her 92nd birthday. It publishes on 22 September. In it she writes that she was \"both older than I ever imagined I would become and happier than I ever imagined I could be\", that she planned to live to 100, and that \"hope is a form of planning\". She gave no indication it would be her last book.\n\nUntil 1974 a married American woman could only hold a credit card in her husband's name, and a single woman often needed a man to co-sign a loan; the Equal Credit Opportunity Act changed that. In 1963 Steinem spent eleven days undercover as a Playboy Bunny for Show magazine and published \"A Bunny's Tale\". Ms. arrived as a one-shot preview inside the December 1971 issue of New York magazine — 300,000 copies were gone in under eight days, 26,000 readers wrote in to subscribe, and the first issue carried a page headed \"We Have Had Abortions\", signed by 53 women under their real names. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/gloria-steinem-planned-to-live-to-100.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-04T07:03:22+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/janmashtami-the-46-minutes-india-waits-for/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/janmashtami-the-46-minutes-india-waits-for/", "title": "Janmashtami: The 46 Minutes India Waits For", "summary": "Tonight at three minutes to midnight a 46-minute window opens, and millions of Indians have arranged their whole day around it. This is Krishna Janmashtami.", "content_text": "Tonight at three minutes to midnight a 46-minute window opens, and millions of Indians have arranged their whole day around it. This is Krishna Janmashtami.\n\nWhat is happening: the Nishita muhurat runs 23:57 to 00:43, and only inside it is the idol bathed in panchamrit (milk, curd, honey, sugar and ghee), dressed in new clothes, and laid in a cradle. Mathura, where Krishna was born, and Vrindavan, where he grew up, are the centre of it; at the Banke Bihari temple the crowd gets dense enough that police run one-way lanes through the old town. For the first time, 500 drones will draw Krishna's story across the Mathura sky tonight.\n\nWhat it is about: Hindus mark the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, at midnight in a prison cell in Mathura. The story goes that King Kansa was warned his sister's eighth child would kill him, jailed Devaki and Vasudeva, and killed every child they had; and that when the eighth came, the guards slept, the locks opened, and Vasudeva carried him across a flooded Yamuna to Gokul.\n\nTomorrow the festival changes character. In Mumbai, pots of curd are strung high above the street and teams called Govindas climb on each other's shoulders to break them, because the boy in the story stole butter. Last year a team from Jogeshwari stacked ten human layers, 48 feet, a Guinness world record. A court classifies this as an adventure sport, and the state insures 1.6 lakh climbers.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/janmashtami-the-46-minutes-india-waits-for.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-04T06:04:44+00:00", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/el-sayed-a-war-on-michigan/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/el-sayed-a-war-on-michigan/", "title": "El-Sayed: 'A War On Michigan'", "summary": "At a Detroit press conference, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed called the expanded Canada trade war \"a vanity war… not a war with Canada. It's a war on Michigan,\" and put its cost at nearly $6,000 a year per Michigan family. Nine weeks to Nov 3.", "content_text": "At a Detroit press conference, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed called the expanded Canada trade war \"a vanity war… not a war with Canada. It's a war on Michigan,\" and put its cost at nearly $6,000 a year per Michigan family. Nine weeks to Nov 3.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/el-sayed-a-war-on-michigan.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-04T03:02:49+00:00", "tags": [ "abdul el-sayed", "trade war", "michigan senate", "mike rogers", "senate 2026", "midterms" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/why-nepal-flooded-without-rain/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/why-nepal-flooded-without-rain/", "title": "Why Nepal Flooded Without Rain", "summary": "The water that killed more than a thousand people in Nepal on August 26 did not fall as rain. A slab of glacier and bedrock broke off Langtang Lirung, dammed a river on the Tibetan border, and let go.", "content_text": "The water that killed more than a thousand people in Nepal on August 26 did not fall as rain. A slab of glacier and bedrock broke off Langtang Lirung, dammed a river on the Tibetan border, and let go.\n\nThis is what happened, minute by minute, and what it means: where the collapse was, why it was not an earthquake and not a glacial lake burst, how the surge reached 9 metres in 30 minutes and carried the dead 240 km into India, why the same valley flooded thirteen months earlier, the satellite data that showed the slope accelerating for weeks, the barrier lake that formed and drained, and the numbers behind the next one.\n\n00:00 The mountain that fell 00:32 1. The morning 02:18 2. What fell 04:29 3. The valley that floods 06:06 4. The warning signs 07:39 5. The lake 08:22 6. The next one\n\nWritten and edited by RECORDx NEWS. Maps from OpenStreetMap (ODbL) river and boundary data; elevation profile from SRTM 90 m. Narration is synthetic. Every figure is dated and attributed on screen; where sources conflict, the video says so.\n\nFootage: AP · BBC News · Sky News · ITV News · DW News · CBC News · CNN · France 24 · USA TODAY (SWNS/Reuters). Soundbites: Jakob Steiner (University of Graz, via CBC), Simon Cox (Earth Sciences New Zealand, via USA TODAY), Simon Cook (University of Dundee, via DW), Mark Poynting (BBC).", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/why-nepal-flooded-without-rain.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-03T11:27:55+00:00", "tags": [ "nepal flood" ] }, { "id": "https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-renamed-the-lake-canada-built-a-sign/", "url": "https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-renamed-the-lake-canada-built-a-sign/", "title": "Trump Renamed The Lake. Canada Built A Sign.", "summary": "After an executive order renamed Lake Ontario \"Lake America\" (Google Maps now shows it to US users), Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a 24-foot bilingual \"Lake Ontario. Now and Always\" sign near Grimsby and called the renaming \"something out of Saturday Night Live.\" Reuters/Ipsos: 63% of Americans oppose the renaming.", "content_text": "After an executive order renamed Lake Ontario \"Lake America\" (Google Maps now shows it to US users), Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a 24-foot bilingual \"Lake Ontario. Now and Always\" sign near Grimsby and called the renaming \"something out of Saturday Night Live.\" Reuters/Ipsos: 63% of Americans oppose the renaming.", "image": "https://news.recordx.co/img/wide/trump-renamed-the-lake-canada-built-a-sign.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-03T05:25:40+00:00", "tags": [ "lake ontario", "lake america", "canada", "trade war" ] } ] }