FDA nominee Heidi Overton affirms vaccine safety at Senate hearing
At HELP, Overton said MMR is not lethal and U.S.-market vaccines meet FDA safety standards; Democrats pressed her abortion record and the agency’s mifepristone review.
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Trump administration finalizes weaker fuel-economy rules for new cars
NHTSA sets CAFE gains of up to 1% a year toward about 34.9 mpg by model year 2031, far below Biden-era targets; officials cite affordability, critics cite pollution and pump costs.
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New York City Council subpoenas SpaceXAI to testify at Oct. 5 AI safety hearing
Speaker Julie Menin used the council’s subpoena power after Elon Musk’s company did not answer an invitation; Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have agreed to testify under oath.
Three Tampa Bay counties declare local emergencies as dengue cases climb
Hillsborough, the center of Florida’s outbreak, declared Sept. 24, and Pasco and Pinellas acted as a precaution. State and federal case totals differ.
Judge strikes FEMA rule tying counterterrorism grants to election changes
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that Congress never gave FEMA authority to withhold 20% of homeland security grant money from states that did not adopt the administration’s election requirements.
Bangkok flooding affects about 700,000 people as city races to drain canals
City officials say 329,000 households have been hit since more than 300 mm of rain fell. An emergency covers all 50 districts, and draining the worst-hit east could take about a week.
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How we report →FDA nominee Heidi Overton affirms vaccine safety at Senate hearing
At HELP, Overton said MMR is not lethal and U.S.-market vaccines meet FDA safety standards; Democrats pressed her abortion record and the agency’s mifepristone review.
New York City Council subpoenas SpaceXAI to testify at Oct. 5 AI safety hearing
Speaker Julie Menin used the council’s subpoena power after Elon Musk’s company did not answer an invitation; Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have agreed to testify under oath.
Three Tampa Bay counties declare local emergencies as dengue cases climb
Hillsborough, the center of Florida’s outbreak, declared Sept. 24, and Pasco and Pinellas acted as a precaution. State and federal case totals differ.
Judge strikes FEMA rule tying counterterrorism grants to election changes
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that Congress never gave FEMA authority to withhold 20% of homeland security grant money from states that did not adopt the administration’s election requirements.
Bangkok flooding affects about 700,000 people as city races to drain canals
City officials say 329,000 households have been hit since more than 300 mm of rain fell. An emergency covers all 50 districts, and draining the worst-hit east could take about a week.
Nor’easter floods Jersey Shore and cuts power across Northeast; one killed in Brooklyn
Repeated high tides swamped New Jersey beach towns and winds brought down trees from New York to New England over the weekend. By Monday the storm was pulling away, and the focus turned to cleanup and beach erosion.
NFL asks DHS to take down border video built on Brian Dawkins highlights
The Hall of Fame safety says he never gave permission to use his name, image or likeness. DHS defended its “lockdown defense” message, and the post was still up Monday.
Senate Democrats press Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft on AI tax deductions
Letters led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren ask the four companies to detail write-offs for AI and data-center spending under the 2025 tax law and their lobbying before it passed; the White House defends the law.
Tennessee governor denies clemency to Christa Pike; state set for first execution of a woman in 200 years
Pike, convicted in a 1995 Knoxville killing committed at 18, is scheduled for lethal injection Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT while her stay request is pending at the U.S. Supreme Court; the state calls the sentence just, and the victim’s mother supports it.
Olive ridley sea turtles nest on Southern California beaches, a first for the U.S. West Coast
NOAA says two females laid eggs near Seal Beach and at Huntington Beach this month, the first documented natural sea turtle nesting on the West Coast.
Poland calls Starlink station fire sabotage amid hybrid-war warnings
Deputy PM Gawkowski says an Exatel ground-station blaze south of Warsaw was deliberate; PM Tusk urges caution on labeling sabotage, and Russia has not commented.
White House pushes DHS surge to scan state voter rolls for noncitizens
A Sept. 1 internal DHS email shows pressure to accelerate review of rolls from at least 47 states; Nevada pushback and false-positive warnings keep the scale of illegal voting contested.