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A former JPMorgan Chase associate sued the bank in New York on 23 September, alleging a supervisor told him to 'separate [his] gay job from [his] day job' and that the bank forced him out, in a case over US workplace protections.

Rich Logis spent seven years inside MAGA before walking away, and the former Trump activist has laid out a step-by-step method for families trying to reach relatives still in the movement, arguing that empathy, not confrontation, opens a closed door.

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President Donald Trump changed the subject from an Angolan reporter's Oval Office question about the Congo war on Monday by asking, 'How is Ebola going?', after she said Rwanda was still violating a US-brokered peace deal and that she had evidence.

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A Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber crashed during a training flight in the Amur region of Russia’s Far East on September 29, killing six of the seven crew members aboard, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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Russia’s intelligence services ordered the August arson attack on Milrem Robotics, the Tallinn maker of unmanned ground vehicles for Ukraine, the Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) concluded on September 29 after a six-week investigation.

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Dutch National Police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man on September 15 on suspicion of belonging to the cyber-extortion group ShinyHunters, six days before the same group breached a hiring website run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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A Rome court on September 28 convicted three Egyptian security officers in absentia of the aggravated kidnapping of Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral researcher abducted in Cairo in 2016, and sentenced each to 10 years in prison.

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The U.S. Navy selected Boeing on September 29 to build the F/A-XX, its first sixth-generation carrier-based strike fighter, awarding a contract valued at more than $20 billion and choosing the company over Northrop Grumman.

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The U.S. Army has awarded 10 companies up to $7 billion worth of contracts for counter-drone technologies as it expands efforts to address the growing threat from small unmanned aircraft.

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US and Royal Navy forces sank the decommissioned guided-missile frigate ex-USS Klakring in the North Atlantic on September 21, firing missiles and a submarine torpedo from longest to shortest range so each strike on the hull could be measured in turn.

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US forces have completed their withdrawal from their last bases in Iraq, an Iraqi government official said, meeting a September 30 deadline that ends Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the US-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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Kristi Noem, the former Homeland Security secretary and a high-profile Republican, has filed in South Dakota to end her 34-year marriage to Bryon Noem, court records show, citing irreconcilable differences and leaving the door open to spousal support.

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President Donald Trump touted a $15 billion steel plant as the largest in US history on Monday, then appeared to nod off in the Oval Office as its chairman spoke amid praise for the long-delayed project, weeks before Iowa's midterm races.

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A man accused of holding a woman captive in a Massachusetts attic for six weeks was out on bail in a separate weapons case when a landlord found her this month, court records show, putting his earlier release under fresh scrutiny.

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FBI Director Kash Patel was photographed socialising with Sigal Chattah at a New York wedding on 26 September, weeks after a federal appeals court ruled her service as Nevada's acting US attorney unlawful, renewing questions over his judgement.

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A company created under Dolly Parton's estate plan has won a Tennessee court order against her nephew Bryan Seaver, who allegedly threatened to destroy the star's brand, putting her legacy in a legal dispute that has now placed her carefully structured estate under scrutiny.

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Ed Sheeran's two Gillette Stadium shows were cancelled Friday as a nor'easter hit Massachusetts, ending a bruising week for his Loop Tour and giving fans of the venue owned by billionaire Robert Kraft, a longtime supporter of Israel, another headache.

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Princeton historian Sean Wilentz argued in Rolling Stone that Donald Trump's loyalty networks have made his presidency the most corrupt in US history, steering government power towards his own interests.

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Prosecutors in central New York have reopened a 2024 gang rape investigation at Cornell University after a former student's civil lawsuit alleged the school let some accused fraternity members write 'essays' to soften their punishment, with none arrested.

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President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrapped a three-day state visit to Washington, DC on Friday with a short trade truce extension and new mechanisms for artificial intelligence cooperation, yet they left the Taiwan question shaping Asian security firmly unresolved.

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Representative Steve Cohen introduced 26 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, calling him the most impeachable leader in US history and filing the most impeachment articles against a sitting president.

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Actress Hannah Einbinder was led away by police chanting 'Free Palestine' as officers cleared an anti-Netanyahu sit-in near the United Nations in New York, where more than 400 protesters gathered, and 104 were arrested during the Israeli leader's General Assembly address.

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Acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed that 8 service members in the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted suicide during a record deployment, telling Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that two licensed mental health clinicians remained aboard the carrier after a resiliency counsellor left.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded 77 delegations that either walked out or stayed away from his United Nations speech 'moral cowards', turning a snub in New York into a defiant message for voters back home weeks before an upcoming election.

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A former Las Vegas youth pastor accused of shoving his wife off a cliff for insurance money has died by suicide in a Nevada jail, ending a 20-year-old murder case before a jury could ever weigh the evidence against him.

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Canada has broken with Washington, unveiling C$100 million (about $71 million) in new aid for Palestinians and pledging to bar goods from Israeli settlements, a stance that puts Prime Minister Mark Carney at odds with President Donald Trump.

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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in a New York prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006, yet the frail 74-year-old's fate may rest less on that number than on how California now treats the time he still faces.

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Iran's president used the world's biggest diplomatic stage on Wednesday to refuse an unconditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the standoff over that single waterway is now landing squarely on what American drivers pay at the pump.

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Nearly 60 nations backed Melania Trump's children's technology coalition on Tuesday, as she announced fresh support from Adobe, Amazon, Google, Intel, Starlink and Zoom, handing the same Big Tech firms her online-safety brand has pressed for a role in classrooms.

Hayden Panettiere died of an accidental overdose. A South Carolina coroner has ruled the actress's death an accident caused by fentanyl and other drugs, and federal agents are investigating whether she obtained a counterfeit pill, possibly from a California source.

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Benjamin Netanyahu has cut his US visit to a few hours, scrapped a Texas meeting with Elon Musk and steered his state jet away from New York, as a mayor who concedes he cannot arrest him reshapes an allied leader's movements.

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Reporters from three news outlets banned by President Donald Trump covered his United Nations speech on Tuesday using credentials the world body issued, sidestepping a White House block as a federal judge prepares to weigh whether the ban can stand.

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Donald Trump's crackdown on the press has turned his favourite network against him. Fox News Washington bureau chief Bryan Boughton, who chairs the White House television pool, issued a memo on Monday pulling every major-network camera off the president.

The White House launched its own 24/7 streaming channel on Monday, yet the first 'live' broadcast on Trump TV was recycled footage of President Donald Trump's Mount Rushmore speech from 3 July, filmed more than two months earlier.

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US President Donald Trump has named Joe Biden almost 900 times this year, blaming his predecessor for inflation, immigration, and foreign crises, even as the 83-year-old former president, who is being treated for Stage 4 cancer, has all but vanished from public life.

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Braden Peters, the 20-year-old streamer known to more than one million followers as Clavicular, has been charged in Massachusetts with rape, drugging, and giving alcohol to a minor over an alleged 2025 encounter with a 16-year-old girl.

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A federal agent shot a Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin on Sunday, and within hours his family was shut out of the hospital. The wounded man was taken into federal custody, and city leaders say they still do not control the investigation into the officer who fired.

An Israeli father of six was shot dead at a West Bank spring as he prepared to immerse for Yom Kippur, and hours later Israeli commandos raided a Ramallah area hospital to seize the wounded Palestinian suspect who had fled there.

A Trump-backed plan to lock the clocks on permanent daylight saving time has stalled in the US Senate, where Republicans warn it could repeat a botched 1974 experiment that once sent American children to school in darkness.

Ed Sheeran wept onstage in Philadelphia on Saturday, 19 September, telling about 50,000 fans that friends, family and long-time collaborators had pulled away, days after his remaining North American openers and his touring band walked out over the removal of rapper Macklemore.

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Millions of US shoppers who assumed they'd missed their shot at an Amazon Prime refund are back in line. A federal court has approved a Federal Trade Commission plan that lifts the payout cap and automatically sends future refunds.

Millie Bobby Brown has adopted a baby boy, her second child in just over a year, confirming the news with a quiet Instagram photo of clasped hands after an Italy holiday clip tipped off fans.

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Macklemore, Ms. Rachel, Bella Hadid, Pedro Pascal, Finneas, Shawn Mendes, and six more. Here are all 12 celebrities who put money or their careers on the line for Gaza in 2026. From million-dollar pledges to tour walkouts to Robert Kraft's $2 million counter-donation. The full list.

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Two women who say Jeffrey Epstein kept sexualised photos of them as children are suing his estate for at least $6 million, arguing US authorities never told dozens of survivors that their images sit inside a federal evidence vault.

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A woman living in an Oxfordshire village has condemned what she described as 'overt racism' after residents overwhelmingly backed a symbolic vote to leave the United Kingdom in protest against plans to accommodate up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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