https://news.recordx.co Short-form news, sourced and on the record. en-us Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:51:20 +0000 https://news.recordx.co/story/she-walked-away-then-went-to-no-1/ https://news.recordx.co/story/she-walked-away-then-went-to-no-1/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:43:09 +0000 Culture 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." https://news.recordx.co/story/brics-didnt-launch-a-currency-it-launched-a-bypass/ https://news.recordx.co/story/brics-didnt-launch-a-currency-it-launched-a-bypass/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:15:10 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/bayers-7-25-billion-roundup-settlement-some-get-10-000/ https://news.recordx.co/story/bayers-7-25-billion-roundup-settlement-some-get-10-000/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:16:23 +0000 Business 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:12:29 +0000 AI 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-five-storms-zero-hurricanes/ https://news.recordx.co/story/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-five-storms-zero-hurricanes/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:08:10 +0000 Science 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:48:05 +0000 Science 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:23:50 +0000 US Politics 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:22:21 +0000 AI 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/they-signed-their-letters-sis-the-dna-test-agreed/ https://news.recordx.co/story/they-signed-their-letters-sis-the-dna-test-agreed/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:09:16 +0000 Science 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/a-lawyer-filed-witnesses-that-do-not-exist/ https://news.recordx.co/story/a-lawyer-filed-witnesses-that-do-not-exist/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:21:19 +0000 US Politics 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:15:39 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:27:40 +0000 Culture 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:53:12 +0000 Culture 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/america-killed-this-fly-in-1966-its-back-in-texas/ https://news.recordx.co/story/america-killed-this-fly-in-1966-its-back-in-texas/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:24:51 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:24:14 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/they-asked-scotus-to-block-it-theyre-republicans/ https://news.recordx.co/story/they-asked-scotus-to-block-it-theyre-republicans/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:33:35 +0000 US Politics 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/the-new-world-map-has-a-second-objector-it-isnt-africa/ https://news.recordx.co/story/the-new-world-map-has-a-second-objector-it-isnt-africa/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:33:03 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/an-american-summer-just-beat-the-dust-bowl/ https://news.recordx.co/story/an-american-summer-just-beat-the-dust-bowl/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:31:46 +0000 World For the first time on record, a summer in the Lower 48 ran hotter than the Dust Bowl summer of 1936. https://news.recordx.co/story/they-say-hes-119-the-worlds-oldest-man-ever-was-116/ https://news.recordx.co/story/they-say-hes-119-the-worlds-oldest-man-ever-was-116/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:11:50 +0000 Culture 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/apples-1-999-foldable-iphone-cant-recognize-your-face/ https://news.recordx.co/story/apples-1-999-foldable-iphone-cant-recognize-your-face/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:11:27 +0000 Business Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 — and it is the first flagship iPhone since 2017 without Face ID. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:10:54 +0000 AI 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:51:46 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:37:48 +0000 AI 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:37:32 +0000 AI 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/they-want-to-rename-new-mexico-its-258-years-older-than-mexico/ https://news.recordx.co/story/they-want-to-rename-new-mexico-its-258-years-older-than-mexico/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:35:09 +0000 US Politics 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:52:36 +0000 AI 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/all-four-engines-stopped-over-java-thats-why-jakarta-just-shut/ https://news.recordx.co/story/all-four-engines-stopped-over-java-thats-why-jakarta-just-shut/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:13:44 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/in-brightest-day-in-blackest-night/ https://news.recordx.co/story/in-brightest-day-in-blackest-night/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:03:47 +0000 US Politics 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:10:39 +0000 US Politics 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." https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-we-may-hit-pickax-very-soon/ https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-we-may-hit-pickax-very-soon/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:10:35 +0000 US Politics 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." https://news.recordx.co/story/america-published-an-exchange-rate-its-denominated-in-ships/ https://news.recordx.co/story/america-published-an-exchange-rate-its-denominated-in-ships/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:01:04 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/the-trump-coin-markup-is-the-mints-normal-price/ https://news.recordx.co/story/the-trump-coin-markup-is-the-mints-normal-price/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:58:59 +0000 Business 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/teslas-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/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:23:02 +0000 Business 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:47:16 +0000 AI 164 headlines said AGI. The people whose test it beat said no. https://news.recordx.co/story/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/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:36:31 +0000 World 164 countries voted. One voted no. https://news.recordx.co/story/gloria-steinem-planned-to-live-to-100/ https://news.recordx.co/story/gloria-steinem-planned-to-live-to-100/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:03:22 +0000 Culture Gloria Steinem died at her home in New York on 2 September 2026, aged 92. Her last memoir goes on sale twenty days later. https://news.recordx.co/story/janmashtami-the-46-minutes-india-waits-for/ https://news.recordx.co/story/janmashtami-the-46-minutes-india-waits-for/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:04:44 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/el-sayed-a-war-on-michigan/ https://news.recordx.co/story/el-sayed-a-war-on-michigan/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:02:49 +0000 US Politics 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/why-nepal-flooded-without-rain/ https://news.recordx.co/story/why-nepal-flooded-without-rain/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:27:55 +0000 World 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. https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-renamed-the-lake-canada-built-a-sign/ https://news.recordx.co/story/trump-renamed-the-lake-canada-built-a-sign/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:25:40 +0000 US Politics 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.