# RECORDx NEWS

> Short-form news, sourced and on the record. 79 short news films, each published as a story page carrying the video, the reporting, the full narration transcript and its sources. Every page has a Markdown twin at /story/<slug>.md.

## How to cite

Cite the story page URL (https://news.recordx.co/story/<slug>/) and the headline. The transcript is the narration as broadcast. Sources are listed per story.

## Stories

- [She Walked Away. Then Went To No. 1.](https://news.recordx.co/story/she-walked-away-then-went-to-no-1.md): Culture, 2026-09-15 — 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 "on
- [BRICS Didn't Launch A Currency. It Launched A Bypass.](https://news.recordx.co/story/brics-didnt-launch-a-currency-it-launched-a-bypass.md): World, 2026-09-15 — 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 i
- [Bayer's $7.25 Billion Roundup Settlement: Some Get $10,000.](https://news.recordx.co/story/bayers-7-25-billion-roundup-settlement-some-get-10-000.md): Business, 2026-09-15 — 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 c
- [OpenAI, Anthropic And Google Want To Write Their Own AI Rules.](https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-anthropic-and-google-want-to-write-their-own-ai-rules.md): AI, 2026-09-15 — 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 standar
- [Atlantic Hurricane Season 2026: Five Storms, Zero Hurricanes.](https://news.recordx.co/story/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-five-storms-zero-hurricanes.md): Science, 2026-09-15 — 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 hurrica
- [Their First Rocket Lasted 30 Seconds. The Second Reached Orbit.](https://news.recordx.co/story/their-first-rocket-lasted-30-seconds-the-second-reached-orbit.md): Science, 2026-09-14 — 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
- [He Promised You $5,000. His Own Speaker Says Not Yet.](https://news.recordx.co/story/he-promised-you-5-000-his-own-speaker-says-not-yet.md): US Politics, 2026-09-14 — 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: 
- [His Plane Sank. He Swam Out And Waited In The Lake.](https://news.recordx.co/story/his-plane-sank-he-swam-out-and-waited-in-the-lake.md): AI, 2026-09-13 — 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, 1
- [They Signed Their Letters 'Sis'. The DNA Test Agreed.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-signed-their-letters-sis-the-dna-test-agreed.md): Science, 2026-09-13 — 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 
- [A Lawyer Filed Witnesses That Do Not Exist](https://news.recordx.co/story/a-lawyer-filed-witnesses-that-do-not-exist.md): US Politics, 2026-09-12 — 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 
- [A Court Just Ruled The Energy Emergency Was Not One](https://news.recordx.co/story/a-court-just-ruled-the-energy-emergency-was-not-one.md): World, 2026-09-12 — 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 Michig
- [A 2,700-Year-Old Poem Just Beat Jurassic World](https://news.recordx.co/story/a-2-700-year-old-poem-just-beat-jurassic-world.md): Culture, 2026-09-12 — 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 Uni
- [Spider-Man Is $9 Million From The Biggest Number In Movies](https://news.recordx.co/story/spider-man-is-9-million-from-the-biggest-number-in-movies.md): Culture, 2026-09-12 — 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.
- [America Killed This Fly In 1966. It's Back In Texas.](https://news.recordx.co/story/america-killed-this-fly-in-1966-its-back-in-texas.md): World, 2026-09-11 — 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
- [An Island In The Red Sea Changed Hands. Nobody Fought.](https://news.recordx.co/story/an-island-in-the-red-sea-changed-hands-nobody-fought.md): World, 2026-09-11 — 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. 
- [They Asked SCOTUS To Block It. They're Republicans.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-asked-scotus-to-block-it-theyre-republicans.md): US Politics, 2026-09-11 — 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.
- [The New World Map Has A Second Objector. It Isn't Africa.](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-new-world-map-has-a-second-objector-it-isnt-africa.md): World, 2026-09-11 — 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.
- [An American Summer Just Beat The Dust Bowl](https://news.recordx.co/story/an-american-summer-just-beat-the-dust-bowl.md): World, 2026-09-11 — For the first time on record, a summer in the Lower 48 ran hotter than the Dust Bowl summer of 1936.
- [They Say He's 119. The World's Oldest Man Ever Was 116.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-say-hes-119-the-worlds-oldest-man-ever-was-116.md): Culture, 2026-09-10 — 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 i
- [Apple's $1,999 Foldable iPhone Can't Recognize Your Face](https://news.recordx.co/story/apples-1-999-foldable-iphone-cant-recognize-your-face.md): Business, 2026-09-10 — Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 — and it is the first flagship iPhone since 2017 without Face ID.
- [He Quit Anthropic To Warn About AI. Its Safety Lead Agreed.](https://news.recordx.co/story/he-quit-anthropic-to-warn-about-ai-its-safety-lead-agreed.md): AI, 2026-09-10 — 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.
- [Iran Says It Captured A US Drone. It Was Already Dead.](https://news.recordx.co/story/iran-says-it-captured-a-us-drone-it-was-already-dead.md): World, 2026-09-09 — 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 
- [They Tried To Take Off Again. The Wheels Were Already Down.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-tried-to-take-off-again-the-wheels-were-already-down.md): AI, 2026-09-09 — 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 air
- [New York Said The Air Was Safe. Its Own Files Say Otherwise.](https://news.recordx.co/story/new-york-said-the-air-was-safe-its-own-files-say-otherwise.md): AI, 2026-09-09 — 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, a
- [They Want To Rename New Mexico. It's 258 Years Older Than Mexico.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-want-to-rename-new-mexico-its-258-years-older-than-mexico.md): US Politics, 2026-09-08 — 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.
- [Five Died In The Miami Crash. None Of Them Were On The Plane.](https://news.recordx.co/story/five-died-in-the-miami-crash-none-of-them-were-on-the-plane.md): AI, 2026-09-08 — 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 fir
- [All Four Engines Stopped Over Java. That's Why Jakarta Just Shut.](https://news.recordx.co/story/all-four-engines-stopped-over-java-thats-why-jakarta-just-shut.md): World, 2026-09-08 — 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 we
- [In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night](https://news.recordx.co/story/in-brightest-day-in-blackest-night.md): US Politics, 2026-09-07 — 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.
- ["For the First Time Ever" — But All Three Already Existed](https://news.recordx.co/story/for-the-first-time-ever-but-all-three-already-existed.md): US Politics, 2026-09-07 — 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."
- [Trump: "We May Hit Pickax Very Soon"](https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-we-may-hit-pickax-very-soon.md): US Politics, 2026-09-07 — 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."
- [America Published an Exchange Rate. It's Denominated in Ships.](https://news.recordx.co/story/america-published-an-exchange-rate-its-denominated-in-ships.md): World, 2026-09-06 — 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 wri
- [The Trump Coin Markup Is the Mint's Normal Price](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-trump-coin-markup-is-the-mints-normal-price.md): Business, 2026-09-06 — 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.
- [Tesla's No-Wheel Robotaxi Got a Federal Audit on Day One](https://news.recordx.co/story/teslas-no-wheel-robotaxi-got-a-federal-audit-on-day-one.md): Business, 2026-09-05 — 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 i
- [OpenAI Says AGI. The People Whose Test It Beat Say No.](https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-says-agi-the-people-whose-test-it-beat-say-no.md): AI, 2026-09-05 — 164 headlines said AGI. The people whose test it beat said no.
- [164 Countries Voted to Redraw the World Map. One Said No.](https://news.recordx.co/story/164-countries-voted-to-redraw-the-world-map-one-said-no.md): World, 2026-09-05 — 164 countries voted. One voted no.
- [Gloria Steinem Planned To Live To 100](https://news.recordx.co/story/gloria-steinem-planned-to-live-to-100.md): Culture, 2026-09-04 — Gloria Steinem died at her home in New York on 2 September 2026, aged 92. Her last memoir goes on sale twenty days later.
- [Janmashtami: The 46 Minutes India Waits For](https://news.recordx.co/story/janmashtami-the-46-minutes-india-waits-for.md): World, 2026-09-04 — 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.
- [El-Sayed: 'A War On Michigan'](https://news.recordx.co/story/el-sayed-a-war-on-michigan.md): US Politics, 2026-09-04 — 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 it
- [Why Nepal Flooded Without Rain](https://news.recordx.co/story/why-nepal-flooded-without-rain.md): World, 2026-09-03 — 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
- [Trump Renamed The Lake. Canada Built A Sign.](https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-renamed-the-lake-canada-built-a-sign.md): US Politics, 2026-09-03 — 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 A
- [El-Sayed Walks Into Fox. It Backfires.](https://news.recordx.co/story/el-sayed-walks-into-fox-it-backfires.md): US Politics, 2026-09-03 — "I'm good, Jesse." Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed went on Jesse Watters Primetime and flipped the ICE question. Five days later the vice president called him "evil." The un
- [Ossoff On Trump: 'An Absolute Crook'](https://news.recordx.co/story/ossoff-on-trump-an-absolute-crook.md): US Politics, 2026-09-03 — "Just understand what's for sale here." Jon Ossoff's newest charge against Donald Trump — that access to the president is for sale — from his Atlanta rally. The White House answers
- [Vance: 'My Wife's Name.' El-Sayed: 'Back To Ohio.'](https://news.recordx.co/story/vance-my-wifes-name-el-sayed-back-to-ohio.md): US Politics, 2026-09-02 — "Keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth." The vice president versus the Michigan Senate nominee, in their own words: the post that lit it, the rally answer, and the CNN rep
- [Trump Calls Ossoff 'Pee-wee'. The Polls Say +7.](https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-calls-ossoff-pee-wee-the-polls-say-7.md): US Politics, 2026-09-02 — "You mean Pee-wee Herman?" Trump's answer, spoken to reporters in the Oval Office, to Jon Ossoff's Atlanta rally attack. The marquee Senate race of the 2026 midterms is fully joine
- [Apple's New Boss Has 8 Days To Prove It](https://news.recordx.co/story/apples-new-boss-has-8-days-to-prove-it.md): Business, 2026-09-02 — For the first time in 15 years, someone other than Tim Cook is running Apple. John Ternus took over September 1, and his first keynote is September 9, with a foldable iPhone rumore
- [A 1930 law. Never used. Until now.](https://news.recordx.co/story/a-1930-law-never-used-until-now.md): Business, 2026-09-01 — To put 50% tariffs on Canada, the White House reached back to 1930 — Section 338 of the Tariff Act, the Smoot-Hawley Act, a power no president had ever used.
- [Bombed in 2025. Nobody has been inside since.](https://news.recordx.co/story/bombed-in-2025-nobody-has-been-inside-since.md): World, 2026-09-01 — American and Israeli bombs hit Iran's nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in June 2025. More than a year later, not one inspector has been back inside them.
- [“Don’t lose any child” — then his army murdered 8,000](https://news.recordx.co/story/dont-lose-any-child-then-his-army-murdered-8-000.md): World, 2026-08-31 — Potočari, 12 July 1995. Ratko Mladić — commander of the Bosnian Serb army, which had just overrun the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica — stands among the women and tells them to
- [Norway's New King: His First Words Were For His Mother](https://news.recordx.co/story/norways-new-king-his-first-words-were-for-his-mother.md): World, 2026-08-31 — King Harald V of Norway died on Friday 28 August 2026 at 06:35, aged 89. His son, Crown Prince Haakon, was King Haakon VIII from that minute. Norway holds no coronation, so there w
- [Strait of Hormuz: 4½ Months to Clear, Two Days to Reload](https://news.recordx.co/story/strait-of-hormuz-41-2-months-to-clear-two-days-to-reload.md): World, 2026-08-31 — On Friday 28 August, Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, released a video address saying the Strait of Hormuz's internationally recognised transit routes were free o
- [He Refused The Pentagon. Seven Others Signed.](https://news.recordx.co/story/he-refused-the-pentagon-seven-others-signed.md): AI, 2026-08-30 — A federal court order dated 27 August 2026 lays out what happened between Anthropic and the administration.
- [15x The Beef Imports - For Under 1% Off The Price](https://news.recordx.co/story/15x-the-beef-imports-for-under-1-off-the-price.md): Business, 2026-08-30 — On 26 August 2026 the president signed a proclamation letting 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the United States duty free over 90 days.
- [Venezuela Oil Deal: The 100-Year Term Nobody Led With](https://news.recordx.co/story/venezuela-oil-deal-the-100-year-term-nobody-led-with.md): Business, 2026-08-29 — Trump announced on Truth Social on 28 August that the US has taken majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's proven oil reserves, "at no cost to the American 
- [Lake America: What Trump's Order Actually Changes](https://news.recordx.co/story/lake-america-what-trumps-order-actually-changes.md): US Politics, 2026-08-29 — Trump signed an executive order on 27 August renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," effective immediately. The order directs the Interior Department to update the federal Geographic
- [The Whole Day in 60 Seconds | 8 Stories, Aug 28](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-whole-day-in-60-seconds-8-stories-aug-28.md): Business, 2026-08-28 — Eight stories, sixty seconds. A new format we're testing — the whole day, fast.
- [Starbase Louisiana: $100 Billion on a Vanishing Coast](https://news.recordx.co/story/starbase-louisiana-100-billion-on-a-vanishing-coast.md): Business, 2026-08-27 — SpaceX will build the largest launch site on Earth on 125,000 acres of coastal marsh at Pecan Island, in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana — eight times the size of Manhattan, on former 
- [The Market Was Open At 8:40. By Nine It Was Gone.](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-market-was-open-at-8-40-by-nine-it-was-gone.md): Business, 2026-08-27 — At twenty to nine on the morning of 26 August 2026, the shops at Timure were opening. The market sat where it had always sat, on the bank of the Bhote Koshi, a few hundred metres f
- [No Rain Fell. There Was No Earthquake. 150+ Are Dead.](https://news.recordx.co/story/no-rain-fell-there-was-no-earthquake-150-are-dead.md): Science, 2026-08-27 — On the morning of 26 August 2026 a wall of grey debris came down the Bhote Koshi on the Nepal-China border. No rain had fallen. People in the border bazaar at Timure were opening t
- [They Called It Economic D-Day. Oil Went Down.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-called-it-economic-d-day-oil-went-down.md): Business, 2026-08-26 — On Monday the US Treasury announced Operation Economic Outcast and called it an economic D-Day for Iran. On Tuesday the oil market returned a different verdict.
- [The Mail Ballot Rule: A Judge Says They Violated Her Order](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-mail-ballot-rule-a-judge-says-they-violated-her-order.md): US Politics, 2026-08-25 — On 11 August a federal judge in Boston barred the Postal Service from even writing the rule that would carry Trump's mail-ballot executive order. On Friday 22 August, in the evenin
- [The Ballroom Case: The Court Decides While the Cranes Run](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-ballroom-case-the-court-decides-while-the-cranes-run.md): US Politics, 2026-08-24 — The East Wing of the White House is already gone. Two federal courts ruled the $400 million ballroom cannot be built without Congress. On August 21, Chief Justice Roberts let const
- [The Mail Ballot Order: The Supreme Court Decides Any Day](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-mail-ballot-order-the-supreme-court-decides-any-day.md): US Politics, 2026-08-24 — Trump signed an order in March that would let the Postal Service block mail ballots for anyone not on a federal citizenship list. Two courts froze it. Now the Supreme Court is deci
- [Cascadia: "The Big One" Is Not the Worst Case](https://news.recordx.co/story/cascadia-the-big-one-is-not-the-worst-case.md): Science, 2026-08-24 — Cascadia is a fault off the coast of northern California, Oregon, Washington and Vancouver Island, where one slab of sea floor is being pushed underneath the North American plate. 
- [Super El Niño, Explained: What It Is and Why This One Is Different](https://news.recordx.co/story/super-el-nino-explained-what-it-is-and-why-this-one-is-different.md): AI, 2026-08-23 — The Met Office says the El Nino now forming will be the strongest in living memory. This is what that actually means: how El Nino works, where the line between strong and super sit
- [Super El Niño: The Forecast They Called Absurd](https://news.recordx.co/story/super-el-nino-the-forecast-they-called-absurd.md): Science, 2026-08-23 — In March the Pacific was flat. NOAA's weekly Nino3.4 reading sat at about zero, and the official plume gave El Nino a 9% chance for the spring. One model, NCAR's CESM1, projected a
- [US Midterms 2026, Part 2: Where It Stands (as of Aug 21)](https://news.recordx.co/story/us-midterms-2026-part-2-where-it-stands-as-of-aug-21.md): US Politics, 2026-08-22 — Part 2 of 2. Where the 2026 US midterms stand as of August 21, 2026, race by race: the math (53-47 Senate, 218 R House), the pattern every White House fears, the August primaries t
- [US Midterms 2026, Part 1: How US Elections Work (Explained for Beginners)](https://news.recordx.co/story/us-midterms-2026-part-1-how-us-elections-work-explained-for-beginners.md): US Politics, 2026-08-22 — Halfway through the presidential term, Americans vote on November 3, 2026 with no president on the ballot. This is Part 1, for beginners: how the three layers of US elections work,
- [OpenAI Froze Its Biggest Training Run. DeepSeek Shipped.](https://news.recordx.co/story/openai-froze-its-biggest-training-run-deepseek-shipped.md): AI, 2026-08-22 — OpenAI froze the largest frontier training run it had planned. DeepSeek published the fastest-starred repository in GitHub history and then quadrupled its API price.
- [AI CEOs Get The Head-Of-State Treatment Now](https://news.recordx.co/story/ai-ceos-get-the-head-of-state-treatment-now.md): AI, 2026-08-21 — A short asking why AI CEOs are treated like presidents just crossed 1.7 million views. Here's the verified picture: June 17, Évian, France — the G7 lunch seated about a dozen AI ch
- [The Hurricane Missed. The Water Didn't.](https://news.recordx.co/story/the-hurricane-missed-the-water-didnt.md): Science, 2026-08-21 — Hurricane Lala passed 30 miles south of Hawaii's Big Island — the closest hurricane pass ever recorded there — and never made landfall. The rain came anyway: 43.54 inches at Laupāh
- ["We Ended The War On Crypto" — And The CEOs Were In The Room](https://news.recordx.co/story/we-ended-the-war-on-crypto-and-the-ceos-were-in-the-room.md): Business, 2026-08-21 — Tuesday night the SEC rewrote crypto's rules — easier token offerings. Wednesday, Trump stood in the Roosevelt Room flanked by the CEOs of Coinbase, Robinhood, Ripple and Kraken, c
- [Ossoff Escalates: "The Draft-Dodging Crook President"](https://news.recordx.co/story/ossoff-escalates-the-draft-dodging-crook-president.md): US Politics, 2026-08-20 — Two rallies in three nights. In Columbus — with Mark Kelly beside him — Jon Ossoff escalated: "the draft-dodging crook president." Then he turned to his opponent: "every time you s
- [Trump's Endorsement Failed 3 Times In One Night](https://news.recordx.co/story/trumps-endorsement-failed-3-times-in-one-night.md): US Politics, 2026-08-20 — Three Trump endorsements, three losses in one night — Mills, Lauf, and his Wyoming governor pick, beaten in deep-red country. Then the Wednesday edit: "I told him to drop out." He 
- [They Tried To Cancel Anne Hathaway's 2018 Speech. It Backfired.](https://news.recordx.co/story/they-tried-to-cancel-anne-hathaways-2018-speech-it-backfired.md): Culture, 2026-08-20 — In July 2026, an 8-year-old Anne Hathaway speech resurfaced on X as if it were new — and the internet, Elon Musk included, piled on with boycott threats and "she's just a marionett
- [Musk Called Her a Marionette. She Was There For Her Brother.](https://news.recordx.co/story/musk-called-her-a-marionette-she-was-there-for-her-brother.md): AI, 2026-08-20 — Elon Musk called Anne Hathaway "a marionette" — "just reading the script someone else wrote." But her viral 2018 HRC speech was deeply personal: she's stood up for LGBTQ+ rights fo
- [MAGA Wasn't Trump's Idea. Reagan Wrote It In 1979.](https://news.recordx.co/story/maga-wasnt-trumps-idea-reagan-wrote-it-in-1979.md): US Politics, 2026-08-19 — MAGA didn't start with Trump — Reagan ran on "Let's Make America Great Again" in 1980. Trump filed the trademark six days after Romney lost in 2012. From hat to brand to party plat
- [Trump: "If Oman Gets In The Way…" — The Iran Deadline Just Died](https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-if-oman-gets-in-the-way-the-iran-deadline-just-died.md): World, 2026-08-19 — The 60-day US–Iran deadline expired with no deal. The Strait of Hormuz is down to 13 ships a weekend — from 110 a day. And Trump just threatened a US ally on the record. Six months
- [Trump Was Asked About Natalie Harp. His Answer Says Everything 👀](https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-was-asked-about-natalie-harp-his-answer-says-everything.md): US Politics, 2026-08-19 — Who is Natalie Harp? Jon Ossoff named Trump's 35-year-old "shadow" from a rally stage — and the White House detonated. The moment, the woman, and Trump's on-camera answer: "You mea
- [Ossoff Said The Name Trump Never Wanted Spoken 👀](https://news.recordx.co/story/ossoff-said-the-name-trump-never-wanted-spoken.md): US Politics, 2026-08-18 — Jon Ossoff's Atlanta rally speech is everywhere — "the crook president raked in billions," a name the White House won't say, and a Pee-wee Herman comeback from Trump himself. Who i

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- [AI](https://news.recordx.co/section/ai/): 12 stories
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- [World](https://news.recordx.co/section/world/): 17 stories
- [Science](https://news.recordx.co/section/science/): 7 stories
- [Culture](https://news.recordx.co/section/culture/): 6 stories

## Topics

- [midterms 2026](https://news.recordx.co/topic/midterms-2026/): 8 stories
- [trump](https://news.recordx.co/topic/trump/): 8 stories
- [senate 2026](https://news.recordx.co/topic/senate-2026/): 7 stories
- [explainer](https://news.recordx.co/topic/explainer/): 6 stories
- [midterms](https://news.recordx.co/topic/midterms/): 5 stories
- [jon ossoff](https://news.recordx.co/topic/jon-ossoff/): 5 stories
- [strait of hormuz](https://news.recordx.co/topic/strait-of-hormuz/): 4 stories
- [supreme court](https://news.recordx.co/topic/supreme-court/): 4 stories
- [openai](https://news.recordx.co/topic/openai/): 4 stories
- [trade war](https://news.recordx.co/topic/trade-war/): 4 stories
- [canada](https://news.recordx.co/topic/canada/): 4 stories
- [georgia senate](https://news.recordx.co/topic/georgia-senate/): 4 stories
- [mike collins](https://news.recordx.co/topic/mike-collins/): 4 stories
- [us politics](https://news.recordx.co/topic/us-politics/): 4 stories
- [tariffs](https://news.recordx.co/topic/tariffs/): 3 stories
- [usps](https://news.recordx.co/topic/usps/): 3 stories
- [noaa](https://news.recordx.co/topic/noaa/): 3 stories
- [iran](https://news.recordx.co/topic/iran/): 3 stories
- [aviation safety](https://news.recordx.co/topic/aviation-safety/): 3 stories
- [abdul el-sayed](https://news.recordx.co/topic/abdul-el-sayed/): 3 stories
- [michigan senate](https://news.recordx.co/topic/michigan-senate/): 3 stories
- [mike rogers](https://news.recordx.co/topic/mike-rogers/): 3 stories
- [nepal flood](https://news.recordx.co/topic/nepal-flood/): 3 stories
- [atlanta rally](https://news.recordx.co/topic/atlanta-rally/): 3 stories
- [election 2026](https://news.recordx.co/topic/election-2026/): 3 stories
- [election news](https://news.recordx.co/topic/election-news/): 3 stories
- [cattle](https://news.recordx.co/topic/cattle/): 2 stories
- [mail ballots](https://news.recordx.co/topic/mail-ballots/): 2 stories
- [trump executive order](https://news.recordx.co/topic/trump-executive-order/): 2 stories
- [voting rights](https://news.recordx.co/topic/voting-rights/): 2 stories
- [world map](https://news.recordx.co/topic/world-map/): 2 stories
- [equal earth](https://news.recordx.co/topic/equal-earth/): 2 stories
- [united nations](https://news.recordx.co/topic/united-nations/): 2 stories
- [cartography](https://news.recordx.co/topic/cartography/): 2 stories
- [foldable iphone](https://news.recordx.co/topic/foldable-iphone/): 2 stories
- [apple](https://news.recordx.co/topic/apple/): 2 stories
- [john ternus](https://news.recordx.co/topic/john-ternus/): 2 stories
- [apple event](https://news.recordx.co/topic/apple-event/): 2 stories
- [anthropic](https://news.recordx.co/topic/anthropic/): 2 stories
- [ai safety](https://news.recordx.co/topic/ai-safety/): 2 stories
- [centcom](https://news.recordx.co/topic/centcom/): 2 stories
- [us navy](https://news.recordx.co/topic/us-navy/): 2 stories
- [ntsb](https://news.recordx.co/topic/ntsb/): 2 stories
- [miami airport](https://news.recordx.co/topic/miami-airport/): 2 stories
- [amazon air](https://news.recordx.co/topic/amazon-air/): 2 stories
- [boeing 767](https://news.recordx.co/topic/boeing-767/): 2 stories
- [runway overrun](https://news.recordx.co/topic/runway-overrun/): 2 stories
- [21 air](https://news.recordx.co/topic/21-air/): 2 stories
- [usgs](https://news.recordx.co/topic/usgs/): 2 stories
- [lake ontario](https://news.recordx.co/topic/lake-ontario/): 2 stories
- [lake america](https://news.recordx.co/topic/lake-america/): 2 stories
- [ice](https://news.recordx.co/topic/ice/): 2 stories
- [georgia politics](https://news.recordx.co/topic/georgia-politics/): 2 stories
- [rasuwa](https://news.recordx.co/topic/rasuwa/): 2 stories
- [timure](https://news.recordx.co/topic/timure/): 2 stories
- [bhote koshi](https://news.recordx.co/topic/bhote-koshi/): 2 stories
- [nepal tibet border](https://news.recordx.co/topic/nepal-tibet-border/): 2 stories
- [himalaya](https://news.recordx.co/topic/himalaya/): 2 stories
- [nepal news](https://news.recordx.co/topic/nepal-news/): 2 stories
- [oil prices](https://news.recordx.co/topic/oil-prices/): 2 stories