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The Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended a Boston judge's ruling that removing migrants to countries other than their own, without assessing the risks they face, was unlawful. More than 25,000 people have already been deported to 29 countries. The case will be heard on the merits in December.
The first papal visit to France in eighteen years: at the Élysée, Leo XIV warned of a "paradise of machines" and raised secularism and end-of-life issues, before speaking at UNESCO. Some 300,000 people cheered him in Paris according to the Vatican, and 80,000 young people heard him at the Stade de France. The four-day trip continues to Lourdes and Metz.
On the second day of Xi Jinping's state visit, Donald Trump hailed a "truly great friendship": under two hours of talks, a state dinner with the heads of Apple, Nvidia and AMD, and two pandas promised to Atlanta's zoo. No progress was announced on trade, Taiwan, rare earths or AI; the trade truce is only extended to January 10.
At the General Assembly, Donald Trump said he would have to decide whether to annihilate Iran absent a deal, then minutes later announced a "very good" three-hour meeting between US and Iranian representatives in New York, led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. A deal, he said, could come after the midterm elections. The Iranian and Cuban delegations walked out; oil prices fell.
The Congressional Budget Office puts the cost of the war against Iran at $38.1 billion through 1 August, about $246 million a day, with a further $2-3 billion a month if the conflict continues. More than half covers replacing munitions; extra flight hours account for $10.4 billion. The agency estimates the war has consumed up to two-thirds of US missile interceptors since June 2025. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given Congress a figure of $37.5 billion in July.
On Saturday in Dublin, facing Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Donald Trump said he would love to see Ireland “united” and that reunification would be “fantastic”, before a tournament at his Doonbeg golf course. On Sunday he insisted it “is going to happen eventually”. Northern Irish unionists and Reform UK hit back sharply, while London had ruled the question off the table. Twenty countries read an unprecedented remark for a US president.
In an essay published on Saturday, Dario Amodei asks AI companies to slow the growth of their models' capabilities so that safety can catch up, and proposes a three-part framework. Sam Altman and Elon Musk say they agree. From Washington to Caracas, thirteen countries read the call according to their place in the race: regulation, jobs, sovereignty, fear of an AI beyond control.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella in Barranquilla on 8 September, a month into his term. Two memoranda were signed, on civil nuclear energy and on lithium and copper. The tour continues to Ecuador and Peru; Brazil is not on it. Colombia's opposition alleges US interference in the election.
On 28 August 2026 Donald Trump announced a deal with Caracas covering, according to both governments, 17 fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels and an expected $100 billion in investment. Axios, which had revealed the talks the day before, puts the figure at 90 billion barrels across a dozen fields. The US strategic reserve is at a forty-year low.
On 27 August 2026 Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America", as trade talks with Ottawa collapsed. The lake is a shared border water between New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario, and its name comes from an Iroquoian word. The order applies only to US federal nomenclature and does not bind Canada, which rejected it. The move follows the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".
The US State Department has suspended immigrant visa interviews at its embassies and consulates worldwide, with no announced resumption date, citing in-depth training for its consular staff. Diplomatic posts say they will contact applicants to reschedule. The measure comes four days after a federal judge struck down the visa freeze targeting nationals of seventy-five countries, and a day after the announced revocation of two hundred thousand tourist and business visas.
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