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Sep 29, 2026 - World

Pope Leo said leaders must "seek ways to solve problems without continuing these wars, which no longer make sense."

Sep 29, 2026 - World

This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailWhile the lawmakers in the US House have already left Washington to get a head start on midterm campaigning, the Senate is hoping to wrap up its legislative agenda this week. Today, we can expect a vote at 5.30pm ET on the Protect College Sports act, which attempts to provide greater protections for university athletes in the US.The bill includes provisions for players to earn compensation from their name, image and likeness – known as NIL payments, and allow them to transfer schools (and teams) without being penalized or forced to sit out for a defined period of time. If the legislation clears the Senate it will still need to head back to the lower chamber before it can head to Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's war in Iran has cost Americans in a number of obvious ways, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow said on Monday — but it is costing them in a number of subtler and more insidious ways too.Nothing demonstrates this better, she explained, than a possible terror threat that didn't even affect the United States — a set of five men in suspicious vans who were arrested in the U.K., which raised immediate alarms there.In July, Maddow explained, "Iran told the U.K. explicitly that if any British base was used by the U.S. military for this war against iran, that would make that base in the U.K. a legitimate military target for Iran," said Maddow. Now, she said, when today we learn "that five young men had been arrested and those vans were seized outside the gates of this rural air base, well, there was, for obvious reasons, lots and lots of speculation about who these five young men might be and what this might have all been about. Lots of speculation, lots of worry, and then lots of head scratching."The investigation is only beginning, Maddow said, even as the five were granted bail. But it highlights security threats that could soon find their way to the United States, too."Here in the United States, it raises an important question about the cost of Trump's war in Iran," said Maddow. "Raises the question as to whether the cost of Trump's war in iran is something that we've really adequately grappled with. Is it a cost that's not just going to be measured in lives lost and people injured and and buildings destroyed, and facilities and aircraft and equipment destroyed, and the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz and all the other oil transit routes and infrastructure that have driven your gas and gas and diesel prices and fertilizer prices to all time record highs, the multi-billion dollar cost just of anti-aircraft munitions alone, let alone all the other missiles and materiel we have expended in this war."All of these are well known, Maddow said. But beyond that, the U.K. incident "raises this very uncomfortable question for us Americans as to whether there's an additional cost of this war, which might be an additional risk for us here at home of potential retaliatory violence against us by Iran or its proxies or its sympathizers."Unfortunately, Maddow said, the U.S. could have a hard time dealing with these threats, because Trump's administration just reassigned Michael Burgwald and Courtland Rae, two of the most important FBI officials investigating terror threats from the Middle East. - YouTube youtu.be

Sep 29, 2026 - World

"The death toll from a fire at a fireworks factory in the Yaroslavl region has risen to 14, with one person injured," the state TASS news agency reported, citing Russia's emergency ministry.

Sep 29, 2026 - World

Former Sydney police officer, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering AFL umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke DaviesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBrand new AFL shorts, a Qantas card and other bloodied belongings were found in a dumpster two days after football umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies were allegedly murdered, a Sydney court has heard.Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. Continue reading...