VOL. I · NO. 8593THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 20265¢

THE EDITION

Thursday, September 10, 2026

128 stories filed by the Buffoon Desk.

WORLD Belgium to supply Ukraine with F-16 munitions to counter jet-powered Shaheds – Defense Ministry · via NV

WORLD Naftogaz to hold open competition for new CEO after Koretskyi’s departure · via NV

WORLD Russian drone that delayed Zelenskyy’s plane crashed 160 kilometers from Chisinau airport · via NV

TARIFFS How To Choose The Best Crypto Exchange Or Broker In The UK · via Forbes

WORLD ‘Pay-by-the-day’ living in Pereira: The forgotten survivors of Colombia’s earthquake · via Global Voices

WHITE HOUSE Ex-OpenAI Researcher Warns Joe Rogan AI Could Turn On Humans And 'Kill Everyone' · via HuffPost

WORLD Fire Point says Ukraine’s FP-7 ballistic missile nears combat testing · via NV

WHITE HOUSE ‘Off The Charts’: Tim Scott Goes Full ‘Cringe’ In Stunning Meltdown At Trump Convention · via HuffPost

WORLD Russian drones strike civilian ship in Black Sea, killing two Azerbaijani citizens · via NV

COURTS Dan Schneider ‘Quiet on Set’ defamation suit falters · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Rogers uses RNC midterm platform to attack El-Sayed as Dems push back against Islamophobic rhetoric · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Facing Electoral Disaster, Trump Offers $5,000 Voter Bribe If Republicans Win Midterms · via HuffPost

WORLD Ukraine puts Russian airspace risks on record, pressuring foreign carriers — NV analysis · via NV

WORLD Javan rhinos survive eruption in Indonesia, but single habitat leaves species vulnerable · via Mongabay

COURTS Arizona sheriff’s office remains under orders to end racial profiling · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Melania Trump Adviser Weighs In On President’s Relationship With Natalie Harp · via HuffPost

WORLD Ukrainian drones hit Novy Urengoy gas plant, disrupting production chain · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Incumbent Democratic Governor Goes Down In Primary · via HuffPost

WHITE HOUSE Regulators reject GOP candidate Ralph Heap’s bid to settle Clean Elections dispute · via Arizona Mirror

WORLD Top Signs You’re Heading for a Quagmire · via Foreign Policy

WORLD Police detain suspects accused of tricking 13-year-old daughter of soldier out of more than $56,000 · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Critics Hit Scott Bessent With Pictures For Proof After His Bold New Claim About Trump · via HuffPost

COURTS Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC sued over in-state tuition for immigrants · via Courthouse News

WORLD Russia strikes Sumy’s Manufaktura mall again after previous day’s attack · via NV

WHITE HOUSE GOP's Big Midterm Convention Kicks Off With Comically Unfortunate Malfunction · via HuffPost

COURTS English speakers in Quebec fight to get voter info in their language · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Appeals court upholds ‘Secure the Border Act’ that jails border crossers · via Arizona Mirror

WORLD One of Russia’s largest refineries stops operating after drone strike · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump's Threats Forced Him To Make 1 Drastic Move This Week · via HuffPost

COURTS Citizen rights group sues to require warrant for Flock database searches · via Courthouse News

COURTS DC man sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting two women near library · via Courthouse News

COURTS Lauren Boebert’s son gets 20 days in jail for identity theft · via Courthouse News

COURTS No competency hearing for inmate who stabbed Derek Chauvin · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Budget experts pan Trump’s ‘fiscally dangerous’ $5,000 payout that would ‘explode’ the national debt · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Wisconsin DNR tells Enbridge to stop work on pipeline after natural gas leak · via Michigan Advance

COURTS Man charged with paying LA skid row denizens to sign ballot measure petitions · via Courthouse News

COURTS Judge reprimanded after detainee fled the court · via Courthouse News

COURTS California governor signs over a dozen bills regulating social media, AI · via Courthouse News

COURTS Long-lasting dispute over ‘Morisky Widget’ IP yields fresh lawsuit · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE GOP lawmaker touts economic record while his own wages are being garnished · via Arizona Mirror

COURTS First Circuit rejects bid to lift injunction blocking USPS rule for mail-in voting · via Courthouse News

COURTS American pop culture icons balk at White House deportation marketing · via Courthouse News

COURTS Democrats hold 11-point lead for House control in new Quinnipiac poll · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Sparks fly during town hall debate over property tax-cutting Amendment 3 · via Florida Phoenix

COURTS No 9th Circuit rehearing in Amazon-Perplexity case · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Consumer Energy asks state regulators to delay decision on hydroelectric dam sale until November · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Up, up, and away: Are double-digit health insurance rate increases ahead? · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Court rules residents of a US city don’t have a constitutional right to lead-free water · via Mongabay

COURTS California judge halts state’s largest data center · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE S. 858 Signed into Law · via White House

COURTS Fourth Circuit rejects Trump’s interpretation of immigrant detention policy · via Courthouse News

COURTS Judge presses feds on delay in processing diversity visa applications · via Courthouse News

COURTS Religious freedoms tested in Indiana abortion ban case · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Trump plan to send $5K to every adult projected to cost $1.2T and ‘explode’ the deficit · via Michigan Advance

COURTS Russia trafficking foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Amnesty says · via Courthouse News

COURTS Wisconsin judge grills attorney general over duplicative lawsuits · via Courthouse News

COURTS Nicaragua demands Germany answer to world court for backing Israel · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Michigan Senate passes new versions of nine bills held up in House, vetoed by Whitmer · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Florida university speech ranks above national average, damaged by incidents · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia’s Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze · via Mongabay

COURTS EU asylum requests drop to five-year low · via Courthouse News

COURTS In their words: Israeli forces describe AI-backed Gaza killing in new film · via Courthouse News

COURTS Heavy rainfall drives microplastic pollution in rivers · via Courthouse News

COURTS France’s Epstein probe identifies ‘potential recruiters’ · via Courthouse News

COURTS August tied hottest month on record globally, Copernicus says · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Suit challenges Trump administration move to allow some ICE presence at polling places · via Michigan Advance

WHITE HOUSE Louisiana AG returns to 5th Circuit seeking end to telehealth abortion meds · via Florida Phoenix

WHITE HOUSE Schools, libraries sound alarm over potential changes to federal internet program · via Stateline

WORLD Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election · via Mongabay

COURTS ECB lifts borrowing costs amid energy shock, opens door for more hikes · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Décadas después del 11 de septiembre, el polvo tóxico y el trastorno de estrés postraumático podrían estar acelerando el envejecimiento cerebral entre los socorristas · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE Trump Dividend: America Is Winning — and Americans Should Win With It · via White House

WHITE HOUSE 25 years after 9/11, a surveillance state few could have imagined · via Arizona Mirror

WORLD More than 70% of new solar is being built in states that voted for Trump · via Grist

WORLD Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too? · via Mongabay

COURTS English mayors flex new tourist tax power · via Courthouse News

CULTURE The Pentagon is using polygraphs to hunt leakers, but the tests are more theater than fact · via The Conversation

COURTS Adviser urges EU to clamp down on airlines avoiding passenger delay payouts · via Courthouse News

WORLD As saltwater advances, Gambian farmers rethink how to protect rice fields · via Mongabay

COURTS France, Vietnam reinforce push toward ‘coalition of independents’ · via Courthouse News

WORLD Russian forces strike Pavlohrad in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing four and injuring more than 60 · via Meduza

WORLD ‘Forgotten fauna’: Little known river sharks and rays face increased extinction risk · via Mongabay

COURTS Denver sues Trump to block ICE patrols at polling sites · via Courthouse News

CULTURE How heat on the Tibetan Plateau fuels powerful storms in California, half a world away · via The Conversation

WORLD Putin dismisses rumors of another mobilization as ‘nonsense.’ But can Russia keep fighting without another draft? · via Meduza

COURTS Wife, brother of slain surfer recount grueling search in Mexico beach homicide trial · via Courthouse News

CULTURE I’m a pediatrician in Michigan who created Rx Kids, one of the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs – here’s what I’ve learned about how medical schools can improve community health · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK Nuclear Security Enterprise: Strategic Partnership Projects Can Support Mission, Operations, and Research · via GAO

CULTURE Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK Disaster Risk: Improvements Needed to Enhance FEMA’s National Risk Index · via GAO

WORLD McDonald’s in Ukraine to shorten menu at some restaurants over supply disruptions · via Meduza

WORLD Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires · via Mongabay

CULTURE What we remember when we remember 9/11 · via The Conversation

CULTURE Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive · via The Conversation

CULTURE To control weeds in your garden, late summer and early fall is the best time to make a difference · via The Conversation

CULTURE Pennsylvania’s aging levees are under pressure from scarce funding and severe weather · via The Conversation

CULTURE 2026’s El Niño is shaping up to be a doozy – it’s already affecting global shipping, fish behavior and heat · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE Citizens-only voting petition sponsors look to 2028 after initiative fails before state canvassers · via Michigan Advance

CULTURE Are too many Americans taking antidepressants? · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE Will Lawrence takes progressive campaign to conservative Livingston County to court independents · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil · via Mongabay

WORLD Moldova and Ukraine say Zelensky’s flight from Chisinau was delayed due to a drone threat. Norway’s prime minister said the president’s plane ‘almost collided with a drone.’ · via Meduza

WORLD Ukrainian sea drones strike Sochi waterfront, injuring nearly 30. Photos and videos from the scene. · via Meduza

WORLD Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years · via Mongabay

CULTURE Study Finds Link Between Food Insecurity and Chronic Illness in Rural Texas · via Daily Yonder

WHITE HOUSE Fetterman continues GOP flirtation, appears in surprise video to midterm convention · via Michigan Advance

WORLD What the record-high cost of diesel means for you · via Grist

WHITE HOUSE How 9/11 changed the way America surveils its citizens · via Stateline

WORLD Russian marketplace sellers started storing goods in own warehouses after drone strikes · via Meduza

WORLD FSB detains British embassy guard on treason charges. It says he collected data for Ukraine’s SBU — to stage a terror attack and pin it on Russia. · via Meduza

WORLD Ukraine attacks port in Russia’s Dagestan with drones. One drone hits theater building. · via Meduza

WORLD Production designer of a Russian TV series arrested on treason charges. He lived in Kyiv and came to Russia to renew his passport. · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE Trump administration aims to exclude many noncitizens from the census · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Norway’s prime minister says Zelensky’s plane nearly collided with drone en route from Moldova to Oslo · via Meduza

WORLD Le jour où le ciel s’est vidé : le Canada face au 11 septembre | The Walrus · via The Walrus

WHITE HOUSE Fox News Spots Awkward Problem With Trump’s $5,000 Midterm Promise · via HuffPost

WORLD The Walrus Talks at Home: Canada After America | The Walrus · via The Walrus

CULTURE Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Christian Gonzalez voice mutual respect before Week 1 clash · via Newsweek

WORLD Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis · via Mongabay

WORLD The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it · via Mongabay

WORLD Zelenskyy says he met Kravchenko, NABU and SAPO chiefs · via NV

CULTURE Lions HC Dan Campbell expects big season from fifth-year defender · via Newsweek

WORLD U.S. bombs Iranian tankers in Gulf of Oman following warship missile attack · via NV

WORLD Kremlin begins record-breaking gold sell-off from central bank reserves · via NV

WHITE HOUSE TikTok wants state’s suit dismissed, responds to state ban on minor social media use · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD A New Engine of Development · via Foreign Policy

WORLD Metro hypermarket hit and set ablaze in Russian raid on Mykolaiv · via NV

WORLD South Korean civil society says no to military deployment in Straight of Hormuz · via Global Voices

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