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Trump on 9/11 reposts video of him asking January 6 rioters to go home

2026-09-11T20:55:43.878Z / CNN

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PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2026, 4:55 PM ET

US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.

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After spending the morning at the Pentagon to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, President Donald Trump apparently had another attack on his mind in the afternoon — posting the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home after they violently stormed the Capitol building.

The video, which was posted in full on Trump’s Truth Social account Friday without any further context, shows the president repeating his false claim that he won the 2020 election but telling rioters to go home: “We have to have peace. So go home, we love you, you’re very special.”

A White House spokesperson said Trump reposted the video Friday as “a reminder to everyone that what the Democrats did to weaponize the justice system against President Trump has been debunked thoroughly.”

It’s unclear what cases they were referencing — the criminal case against Trump concerning the Capitol attack was dismissed due to his win in the 2024 election.

Trump has been repeatedly emphasizing voter fraud in recent months, increasingly and without evidence accusing Democrats of cheating in elections. At the GOP midterm convention this week, he implored the audience to “cheat like hell” to help Republicans keep control of Congress.

The January 6 video, about a minute in length, was panned at the time for being posted hours after the attack began and for being overly sympathetic to those storming the Capitol building. Around the same time Trump posted it Friday, he also had several other posts about the midterm convention.

Former CIA official found with $40 million in gold bars in plea deal talks

September 11, 2026 / 5:43 PM EDT / CBS News

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Washington — The Justice Department has reached a tentative plea deal with a former CIA official who was found with more than $40 million worth of gold bars in his home in May, according to a court filing Friday.

Prosecutors and a lawyer for the former CIA official asked a federal district court in Virginia to extend the deadline to file an indictment until Oct. 8, saying “a pre-indictment resolution promotes the public interest by conserving government and judicial resources.”

“The parties have made significant progress and have a plea agreement in principle that would resolve the matter prior to an indictment,” they wrote, adding that “based on the evidence obtained in the case thus far, the parties assess that proceeding to an indictment and trial would require significant litigation on any classified material.”

The court filing did not indicate what charges the former official, David Rush, could plead to.

A criminal complaint from May charged Rush with one count of stealing public money for timesheet fraud.

In the criminal complaint, the FBI said it found 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash and 35 luxury watches, many of which were Rolex watches, while executing a search warrant at Rush’s Virginia home in May.

The FBI also alleged Rush had provided false information about his education and military service on his government application and fraudulently took military leave after his service ended. The complaint alleges that Rush claimed 744 hours of military leave on his official timesheet, totaling about $77,000 in compensation, after he was honorably discharged in 2015 from the Navy.

According to the FBI, Rush allegedly made several requests to the government for large amounts of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses, which he received. The complaint added that Rush’s employer was unable to identify “the intended use of these funds.”

In June, a federal judge ordered Rush to remain in custody pending trial, determining that he posed a severe flight risk.

CBS News has reached out to Rush’s attorney.

House Democrats urge Speaker Johnson to cancel recess to pass AI safeguards, citing ‘catastrophic’ risk

2026-09-11 5:38 PM ET / CNN

By Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol Building on September 01, in Washington, DC.

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A group of House Democratic lawmakers is pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately and cancel an upcoming break to address what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.”

In a letter to the speaker, the Democrats cite potential threats, including “mass cybersecurity breaches and development of biological or chemical weapons,” and point to recent examples of the possible misuse of artificial intelligence by foreign actors.

“Reasonable minds may disagree about precisely how Congress should regulate this rapidly evolving technology. We cannot disagree about the imperative for Congress to act,” the letter states. It is signed by Reps. Sam Liccardo, George Whitesides, Lori Trahan and Ted Lieu, who call on Speaker Johnson to bring the House back “immediately and remain in session until Congress advances meaningful, bipartisan AI safeguards.”

The House reconvenes Monday for a legislative week, but plans to recess after Thursday for several weeks, returning November 9 after the midterm elections. Members had been scheduled to work at the Capitol the last two weeks of September, but House leaders earlier this month canceled those two weeks, giving members more time to campaign in their districts ahead of the elections.

“While AI safety experts and Americans increasingly urge action to confront this conflagration of risk, Congress fiddles,” said the House members’ letter.

The letter pointed to several recent incidents documenting risks and the potential for misuse of artificial intelligence. For example, it cited a report from Anthropic this week that said it disrupted efforts to use its Claude models “in ways that could support biological weapons development.”

The company also said it disrupted a Chinese government-linked surveillance and recruitment operation targeting Uyghurs in Syria, and in another instance, an Iran-linked effort to use Claude to analyze publicly accessible data “to develop targeting recommendations against US naval forces in the region.”

Saudi Arabia tells Trump now is the time for military action as Iran-backed Houthis advance

September 11, 2026 1:08pm EDT / Fox News

Trump offered intelligence but declined direct US military involvement for now, a source told Fox News Digital

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Houthi rebels reportedly seize strategic Yemeni port as trade concerns mount

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Saudi Arabia is urging Washington to take direct military action against Iran-backed Houthis, Fox News Digital learned after the terrorist group seized key positions along Yemen’s Bab al-Mandab Strait on Friday.

The dramatic strengthening of Houthi’s positioning along the coastline of Yemen is in one of the world’s most important shipping choke points — a narrow passage that links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, which has been used as a bypass as the Iran war continues to severely disrupt shipping, especially of oil, through the Strait of Hormuz.

The rapid advance on Friday triggered urgent discussions at the highest levels in Riyadh and Washington, and a source familiar with the matter tells Fox News Digital that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Donald Trump to take military action against the Houthis.

NEW RISK FOR U.S. CONSUMERS AS IRAN-BACKED ATTACKS THREATEN A SECOND MAJOR OIL CHOKEPOINT

Houthi supporters demonstrate in solidarity with Iran, amid a two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 10, 2026.(Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

The Houthis reached the strategic island of Mayyun, also known as Perim, after Yemeni government forces withdrew and also took the mainland coastal town of Dhubab, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters on Friday.

Fox News Digital independently confirmed key elements of an Axios report with a source familiar with the matter, who said the crown prince spoke with Trump a few times over the past 24 hours about the escalating situation in Yemen.

The U.S. does not want to take direct military action for now, but Trump told bin Salman that Washington would assist Saudi Arabia with intelligence and targeting support, according to the source.

The source also confirmed that U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper traveled to Saudi Arabia for coordination talks.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the calls or whether additional U.S. military action is under consideration.

IRAN’S BIGGEST WEAPON AGAINST THE U.S. MAY BE SLIPPING AWAY, EXPERTS SAY

U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an official state arrival ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The convergence raises the prospect of simultaneous pressure on two of the world’s most consequential maritime arteries: Iran disrupting traffic through Hormuz while its Houthi allies strengthen their position around Bab al-Mandab.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that the shift reflects Tehran’s effort to recover leverage as pressure around Hormuz changes.

“Trump’s success in pushing back on Iran’s maritime threat in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf has made the regime lose the maritime leverage it had, and now it is looking to double down on the Houthis who have proven to be able to impact Red Sea shipping and the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the past,” Ben Taleblu said.

“As Tehran loses leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, it is trying to wield a knife and a handshake at once: diplomacy with Arab states and a knife in the back via the Houthi offensive,” he added.

IRAN CALLS ON HOUTHIS TO PREPARE TO CUT OFF RED SEA GATEWAY — CAN THE TERROR GROUP DO IT?

Satellite imagery shows Bab al-Mandab Strait, a key shipping waterway and the gateway to the Red Sea, as Iran threatens using Yemen’s Houthi allies to shut the Bab al-Mandab gateway to the Red Sea, in this handout picture dated July 12, 2026.(Nasa Worldview/Handout via Reuters)

The latest advance follows the Houthis’ capture Thursday of the strategic Red Sea port of Mocha, which was previously held by forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized government.

Former U.S. special envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking said Friday that the Houthis had spent the years since the 2022 U.N.-brokered truce rebuilding their military strength and are now exploiting the broader Iran conflict to increase pressure on Saudi Arabia.

Speaking during an on-the-record Middle East Institute virtual briefing, Lenderking said the April 2022 truce largely put Yemen’s civil war on pause but also “did allow the Houthis to regroup, retrain, refit, restock.”

“They’re extremely entrepreneurial. They use every opportunity to build their capability, to test their capabilities, such that they are now the most lethal non-state actor in the entire Middle East,” Lenderking said.

Lenderking traced the latest round of escalation in part to Iranian Mahan Air flights into Sanaa earlier this summer, which he said brought personnel and equipment intended to support the Houthi war effort, adding that the personnel were from Iran and were “probably IRGC members.”

IRAN-BACKED HOUTHI THREAT IN RED SEA COULD LEAD TO MAJOR U.S. POLICY SHIFT, ANALYSTS SAY

Members of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces fire a tank during what they say to be clashes with Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a location given as near Al-Hazm, Yemen, in this screen grab obtained from a handout video released September 9, 2026.(Media Centre Of The Yemeni Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters)

Lenderking said the Houthis are now taking advantage of the wider conflict with Iran to increase their leverage over Riyadh.

“They’ve seized this opportunity, bringing these various lines of effort together, to put a great deal of pressure on the Yemen government and the Saudis specifically,” he said.

On Thursday, a senior Trump administration official told Fox News Digital: “The United States is focused on protecting our core national security interests — such as ensuring freedom of navigation in the Red Sea — while empowering our regional partners to take the lead in managing and resolving regional security challenges. We are in continuous dialogue with Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Yemen Government regarding regional stability.”

The stakes extend well beyond Yemen.

The Bab al-Mandab is only about 18 miles wide at its narrowest point and serves as the southern gateway to the Suez Canal. About 7% of global oil output passed through the strait in June, according to Kpler data cited by Reuters. Disruption can force ships to reroute around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, adding significant time and cost to voyages.

Reuters reported Friday that only seven vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, compared with a prewar daily average of 125, underscoring the pressure already facing the region’s other critical maritime choke point.

EXPERT WARNS OF ‘GENERAL ESCALATION’ OF FIGHTING IF HOUTHIS RESUME RED SEA CAMPAIGN

A vehicle burns after being attacked by Houthis during fighting with Saudi-backed forces at a location given as Al Jawf, Yemen, in this still image taken from a handout video released September 9, 2026.(Al Masirah/Handout via Reuters)

Ben Taleblu said the speed of the Houthi advance exposed vulnerabilities in the Saudi-led effort to contain the group.

“The U.S. should help the Saudis stymie the Houthi advance,” he said. “The inability of the Saudis to prevent the Houthis from taking the strategic port city of Mocha, for example, does not bode well for what may come.”

Hisham Al-Omeisy, senior Yemen adviser at the European Institute of Peace, told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the danger extends beyond the territory captured. Retreating government forces, he said, left behind military equipment that could strengthen the Houthis on other fronts.

“People are focused on taking Mocha and those outposts on the Red Sea,” Al-Omeisy said. “But the military side is terrible, particularly the equipment, the munitions, the vehicles, the drones that were at those military camps, which they can now, in turn, use against the government forces elsewhere.”

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The developments mark a dramatic reversal from the relative calm that followed the 2022 truce and leave Washington and its regional allies confronting a growing question: whether the Houthi advance can be contained without opening another direct U.S. military front as American forces remain focused on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

Efrat (Effie) Lachter is a reporter for Fox News Digital with more than 15 years of experience covering conflict, global affairs, human rights and political accountability.She has directed and produced more than 200 documentary segments across more than 40 countries, documenting conflicts, humanitarian crises, corruption, human trafficking, gender-based violence and the human stories behind major world events.

Lachter’s reporting has taken her into conflict zones and crisis areas across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. Her work has included uncovering human trafficking networks, revealing an ISIS underground torture prison in Syria, documenting the war in Ukraine and interviewing senior political figures and world leaders. She was also among the Western journalists who entered Russia after the war began to bring testimonies from Putin’s opposition. Lachter is the recipient of the 2022 Peres Center for Peace Award and was a 2023–2024 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. She also won two Rockower Awards for Excellence in Reporting. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in political science.

Trump wants voters focused on Democrats, not grocery bills

2026-09-11T18:25:00Z / reuters.com

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Sept 11 – Hello, I’m Tim Reid, a Reuters national political correspondent, covering my 13th midterm election and happy to be writing my inaugural U.S. politics newsletter. This week my colleagues and I followed an unprecedented event: a national Republican Party midterms convention. Most notable about the two-day gathering in Dallas was the subject President Donald Trump and many speakers ​largely avoided: the cost of living and the U.S. economy, as Trump’s record-low approval ratings weigh on his party’s chances of keeping control of Congress.

For the past ‌year Trump’s White House aides have been urging him to hit the road and talk to voters about their number one concern: stubbornly high inflation, something the president promised he would fix when he returned to office in 2025.

In his keynote speech in Dallas on Wednesday, Trump did briefly mention inflation, repeating what he has said in speeches all year – that the term “affordability” was a Democratic “hoax”, and that prices were way down since he re-entered the ​White House, a claim at odds with economic data.

In his nearly two-hour address, Trump barely acknowledged the strain many Americans say they feel about the cost of living. ​It has been a constant theme of his public addresses this year and the central problem for Republicans as they struggle to keep control ⁠of Congress in November.

Trump has cast himself as the party’s chief economic messenger but his words do not match the daily reality of high grocery and gas prices for American families. As ​some Republicans told my colleagues Nandita Bose and Nathan Layne in Dallas, they worry about his appeal to voters to make the election a referendum on him.

The convention speech was not an outlier. In ​an analysis of Trump’s speeches billed as economic addresses that I conducted earlier this year, I found that Trump asserted inflation had been beaten or was greatly reduced almost 20 times and said prices were falling almost 30 times.

In Dallas, Trump did make one extraordinary financial offer to voters: a $5,000 payment to every U.S. adult if Republicans win the midterms, although paying roughly $1.3 trillion into millions of bank accounts would probably increase inflation rather than lower it.

This ​week, Trump also pledged to send $500 checks to nearly 1 million Americans he claimed have been overcharged for government-run medical coverage. He and other speakers in Dallas also touted Trump’s efforts ​to lower drug prices, a clear sign Republicans want to highlight the cost of health care as a political issue in the midterms.

At the Texas convention, Trump spent most of his time riffing on topics ‌unrelated to ⁠the economy. Like many other speakers, he also turned his fire on Democrats, accusing them of being dangerously extreme.

The focus on Democrats, rather than the economy, appeared an acknowledgment by Republicans that their best chance in November is to stay largely silent on the cost of living and instead scare voters into believing a Democratic takeover of Congress would be worse for the country.

At the convention, which ended on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, attendees marked that solemn milestone.

The first midterm campaign I covered was in 2002. With America still reeling ​from those attacks, President George W. Bush campaigned ​around the country as a wartime president, ⁠and Republicans increased their majorities in both chambers of Congress, a rare feat. This November is shaping up to be much more challenging for Republicans.

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Mexico and the U.S. are racing to reach a bilateral trade deal before the midterm elections, according to six sources in both countries familiar with the talks, an effort made more urgent by the collapse of Canadian trade negotiations with Washington.

The negotiations are aimed at striking an interim bilateral bargain under which Mexico could win relief from some U.S. tariffs while addressing ⁠U.S. demands ​on areas including automotive content and Chinese investment.

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September 22: Trump expected to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York

September 24: Trump to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House

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AOC’s ‘modern-day lynchings’ claim torn to shreds online as Black hanging case findings tell a different story

September 11, 2026 12:04pm EDT / Fox News

Most cases referenced in the letter led by Rep Ayanna Pressley were ruled suicides by law enforcement or medical examiners

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned Friday of “racial terror” and “widespread modern-day lynchings” in the U.S. as she joined dozens of Democrats demanding that the DOJ and FBI investigate hanging deaths of Black Americans.

Multiple official findings in several recent cases show that law enforcement or medical examiners ruled the deaths suicides, while at least one very recent death remains under a homicide investigation.

AOC alleges there is systemic racial bias at the agencies, while fellow progressive lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., called the hangings a “national crisis” in a letter to the agencies that she spearheaded.

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“This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S. I’m proud to have signed onto Rep. Pressley’s letter to address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X in support of the call.

Pressley warned in her letter that “Black folks are being found hanged in America” and insisted: “We cannot stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country.”

The letter, addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, was signed by Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez and about 50 Democrats. They demanded a “thorough, transparent, and comprehensive federal investigation into every hanging death of a Black individual across the United States,” arguing that federal agencies have failed for decades to adequately investigate such deaths.

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One 2026 case involved the death of a 21-year-old Atlanta man who had gone missing. He was later found hanging from a tree in a Cobb County park, where officials ruled out foul play and deemed the death a suicide, according to Atlanta’s NBC affiliate.

Another 2026 case involved Delta State University student Demartravion Reed in Mississippi. Officials “determined the cause of death to be a hanging and the manner of death as suicide.”

At the time, the case reopened old memories of the murder of Emmett Till, according to reports. Till was a Black teen kidnapped and murdered by White men not far from the site after he was falsely accused of flirting with a White woman in 1955.

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A Grio report on Pressley’s letter also referenced the hanging deaths of a 58-year-old man in Albany, N.Y., and a 39-year-old man in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

The Albany Police Department said Earl Smith’s death was “ruled a suicide” and investigators found “no evidence” of criminal activity.

“The Albany Police Department is aware of concerns posted on social media suggesting that criminal activity was involved with this incident, which has understandably caused public concern,” the department said.

A preliminary investigation of the Wisconsin man’s death also indicated suicide, according to Brookfield’s police chief cited by the Waukesha County Freeman.

At least one case remains under homicide investigation, according to reports.

Tasia Fortune was found hanging outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi, CNN reported Thursday. Authorities later questioned Terence Bernard Anderson, the father of one of her children, and arrested him on unrelated weapons charges, according to several reports.

AOC SLAMS ‘OPPRESSED’ TRUMP STATES WHILE TOUTING NYC SERVICES DESPITE $5B DEFICIT AND TRANSIT CRIME SPIKE

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 11, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The lawmakers’ characterization also drew criticism on social media.

“Those community notes are stacking up,” one critic said, as X’s crowdsourced correction indicator included several wire reports and media links disputing Ocasio-Cortez’ claims.

“There should be some sort of penalty for willfully lying on social media, especially for a politician,” another claimed.

Former Energy Department official Matt Van Swol posted to X, “In the last ‘lynching’ of a Black woman, the media conveniently left out the prime suspect in the case was her Black boyfriend. Zero White people are lynching Black people in America today.”

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Former Senate staffer Matt Whitlock added that “every death is a tragedy, but what do you think ‘widespread’ means if only one of these was actually a homicide. Not sure you’ve landed the point about ‘racial terror’ with this.”

Ayanna Pressley at the Featured Session “Repro Revolution: A Conversation with Rep. Ayanna Pressley” during the SXSW Conference & Festivals held at the Austin Convention Center on March 9, 2025, in Austin, Texas.(Amy E. Price/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)

X’s crowdsourced Community Notes feature also pointed readers to law-enforcement and medical-examiner findings in several of the cases, stating that most high-profile hanging deaths it identified in 2025 and 2026 had been ruled suicides and that one remained under homicide investigation.

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When reached for comment, Pressley spokesperson Ricardo Sanchez directed Fox News Digital back to the lawmakers’ letter to Blanche and Patel, specifically a line reminding them that “Congress enacted the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in 2022 to ensure the DOJ and FBI are empowered to fully investigate suspicious deaths and hold individuals accountable.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez, the DOJ and the FBI for comment.

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US court blocks Trump administration bid to keep Michigan coal plant open

2026-09-11 17:24:54 / Reuters

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Sept 11 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out an order from President Donald Trump’s administration that had forced a Michigan coal plant to remain open beyond its planned retirement.

The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found the Department of Energy exceeded its authority under a rarely used emergency provision of federal law, according to court papers.

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Michigan challenged the order after DOE instructed the 1960s-era J.H. Campbell plant in 2025 to remain online shortly before its planned closure.

The ruling is a setback for the administration’s efforts to preserve coal-fired generation at a time when U.S. demand for electricity has soared due largely to the expansion of data centers. Coal-fired power is among the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.

“By forcing its continued operation, DOE tried a never-before-used tactic to illegally prop up the aging J.H. Campbell coal plant that nobody asked to keep, sticking ratepayers with a bill for a facility that should have been retired more than a year ago,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement. “I am relieved that the Court saw through this facade and threw out DOE’s order that had zero basis in reality.”

Since 2025, the Trump administration has used emergency powers under the Federal Power Act to keep operating several aging power plants slated for retirement, including coal plants in Michigan, Indiana, Washington state and Colorado.

DOE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The decision comes a month after DOE extended the emergency order to keep the aging J.H. Campbell Generating Plant open through November 14.

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CMS.N plant had been slated to close in 2025 because it was no longer economic. Its continued operation under the order cost the utility $295 million from May 2025 through June 2026, according to the Michigan attorney general’s office.

Consumers Energy is reviewing the ruling, spokesperson Brian Wheeler said.

“While that happens, we are continuing to comply with the current 90-day Department of Energy order that keeps the Campbell plant operating,” he said.

Environmental groups welcomed the ruling.

“The DOE needs to stay in its lane and use its emergency powers only in actual emergencies,” Michael Lenoff, an attorney with environmental group Earthjustice, said in a statement. “Preventing the market-driven retirements of coal plants to advance a coal-friendly agenda is not a proper use of emergency powers.”

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Suspects accused of swindling American women out of $6 million in romance scam extradited to U.S. from South Africa

2026-09-11T12:21:00-0400 / CBS/AP

Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of more than $6 million through online romance scams will be extradited to the United States on Friday, South African police said.

The men, who were arrested in the South African city of Cape Town in 2021, are set to be handed over to officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday and taken to the U.S. to face wire fraud and money laundering charges.

They are accused of belonging to a criminal network known as the Black Axe, which Interpol describes as being part of criminal groups responsible for a significant share of the world’s cyber-enabled financial fraud, typically through romance scams, cryptocurrency and investment scams.

The move comes less than two years after a prominent leader of the Black Axe was extradited to the U.S. for conspiring to engage in internet scams and money laundering.

According to South African police, the men are alleged to have targeted more than 100 women in the U.S., defrauding them of more than $6 million through online romance or love scams.

Among the alleged victims were pensioners and businesspeople who were reportedly targeted through sophisticated online relationships, police said in a statement.

Members of the elite tactical police unit escort six Nigerian nationals being extradited to U.S. for participating in romance scams, in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. AP Photo

“Through the coordination of Interpol South Africa, the six will today be transported from a correctional facility in Cape Town to Cape Town International Airport, where they will be handed over to officials from the FBI and the United States Secret Service, who arrived in South Africa this morning,” said police spokesperson Katlego Mogale.

A recent operation by Interpol targeting West African organized crime groups led to the arrest of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects linked to various criminal networks involved in similar crimes, the multinational police body said last month.

The operation aimed to disrupt money laundering, identify high-value targets, seize assets and support arrests and prosecution.

In South Africa, authorities raided seven locations in the city of Johannesburg linked to a syndicate that ran romance and investment scams targeting retirees in English-speaking countries.

In that operation in South Africa, police arrested 39 people, seized $2.67 million and froze more than 250 bank accounts, Interpol said.

More than 64,000 Americans were taken for over $1 billion in romance scams in 2023— double the $500 million just four years earlier, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

In 2024, a CBS News investigation uncovered a large-scale romance scam operation in Ghana.

“I fish everywhere in the world,” a syndicate boss in Ghana who called himself Voodu told CBS News. But he said of the easiest victims to catch, “They are Americans.”

Mamdani draws fury from 9/11 mourners over Ground Zero appearance: ‘Disrespectful’

A former police officer said the mayor ‘probably should have skipped it’ after his appointment of Ramzi Kassem

September 11, 2026 2:07pm EDT / Fox News

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9/11 memorial mourners react to Mamdani’s decision to attend ceremony: ‘disrespectful’

Mourners at the 9/11 Memorial at the Twin Towers site in Lower Manhattan criticized New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for attending the remembrance service despite a petition and public outcry demanding he stay at city hall.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s presence at Friday’s 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero drew criticism from some in the city, including one former police officer who said the mayor “probably should have skipped it” and another mourner who called his appearance “disrespectful” and “very offensive.”

Mamdani has faced criticism over his associations with controversial political and online figures, as well as his decision to appoint Ramzi Kassem as his administration’s chief counsel. Kassem previously represented a Guantánamo detainee linked to an al Qaeda terrorist plot.

Former New York Republican Gov. George Pataki, 9/11-era FDNY Commissioner Thomas von Essen and others called on Mamdani to skip the ceremony.

“He showed up anyway. It does bother us,” Walter Matuza, whose father Walter was killed that day, told Fox News Digital.

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New York first gentleman William Hochul Jr., New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Mikie Sherrill(Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images)

Matuza said he was part of the group of victims’ families that initiated the petition to keep Mamdani away.

He cited Mamdani’s association with streamer Hasan Piker, who once said America “deserved 9/11,” as well as Mamdani’s appointment of Kassem.

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Matuza, of Staten Island, said his father was one of dozens at Carr Futures brokerage who died after American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower just above their 92nd floor offices.

Mike, a former New Jersey police officer, told Fox News Digital he recalled watching the terror unfold on television from across the Hudson – and later came to Manhattan to help relieve exhausted NYPD officers stuck at their posts.

“Based on the rhetoric that he’s used in the past. Yeah, he probably should have skipped it,” Mike said of Mamdani.

He added that Mamdani’s appointment of Kassem also troubled him, saying the mayor could’ve handled the situation in a “whole different way.”

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“But, he did it and unfortunately people aren’t going to forget it.”

Another mourner called Mamdani a “communist” when asked about his appearance on Friday, adding that the memorial was “not supposed to be a political event.”

Steven, who traveled all the way to New York from Hobe Sound, Florida, to attend the remembrance, lambasted Mamdani’s presence as “disrespectful” and “offensive.”

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“I’ve been following that over the past couple weeks and I saw that I think they had upwards of 700,000 New Yorkers requesting him not to be here. I mean, as the mayor, I would assume he has the right to be here…. But who he represents and the people he’s affiliated with… I feel that he should stay away. I don’t feel that his presence here is wanted, and I think he should honor that as a human being.”

The petition had garnered more than 110,000 signatures at the time, according to the petition’s tally.

Steven called Kassem’s appointment “hideous” and added that the youngest generation who does not remember or did not live through 9/11 are suffering from “incorrect information” and do not understand the reality of the terror attack.

He said he will educate his children on 9/11 so that they do not go down the same ideological road.

Attendee John told Fox News Digital that Mamdani does have a right to attend.

John said he lost friends including at now-Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s Cantor-Fitzgerald firm – which lost more than 650 people; the most of any company in the Twin Towers that day – and that as long as Mamdani is respectful to the fallen Americans being remembered, he is “fine” with the Democrat attending.

Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani for comment.

In a prior statement, the mayor said he is proud of New York and “love[s] this city [and] country.”

“[W]hat I want this week to be a focus on is on the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25 years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11, and a focus also on the first responders who gave everything they could to this city and to the people who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers.”

During the ceremony, footage captured Mamdani approaching and greeting his 9/11-era predecessor, Republican Rudolph Giuliani.

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The two could be seen appearing to exchange brief pleasantries before Giuliani turned and sat down and an aide began speaking to the incumbent mayor.

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All living former presidents reportedly attended the ceremony, as President Donald Trump instead visited the Pentagon’s remembrance before departing for County Clare, Ireland from nearby Andrews Air Force Base.

Record-setting cyclospora outbreak is over, U.S. health officials declare

September 11, 2026 / 12:18 PM EDT / CBS/AP

The cyclospora food poisoning outbreak linked to recalled iceberg lettuce is over, U.S. health officials said Friday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there is no longer a risk of people getting sick with cyclosporiasis from this outbreak and is confident that all related iceberg lettuce is off the market.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that while the outbreak is over, it will continue its investigation of cyclospora infections linked to the iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico and recalled by Taylor Farms de Mexico.

“FDA will continue to work with federal, state, and international partners to complete its investigation and will provide updates as they become available,” the agency said on Friday.

Nearly 13,000 reported cyclospora cases were tied to the outbreak spanning 21 states, federal officials say. They represent the bulk of an unprecedented surge in the parasitic diarrheal illness this year. More than 570 people have been hospitalized and two died, according to the FDA and CDC, as of Friday.

Even with the outbreak deemed over, several questions remain, including about its origin. The parasite is spread through human feces, and it still isn’t clear how sewage could have contaminated enough food to sicken so many people.

“This contamination can happen if produce is grown in soil or comes into contact with water that has been contaminated,” said Ellen Shumaker, director of outreach for a North Carolina State University food safety program, Safe Plates.

Since May 1, the government has received reports of nearly 20,000 lab-confirmed cases, or more than 16 times the number reported during the same period last year. More than 6,100 suspected cases also have been reported.

The worst previous year in the U.S. for infections was 2019, when about 4,700 illnesses were reported nationally.

This year’s surge in cases was dominated by an outbreak in 21 states linked to iceberg lettuce. But there are thousands of other cases that have not been linked to that outbreak.

Michigan was the hardest-hit state, with the most reported cases and the two U.S. deaths tied to the outbreak.

Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC. Outbreaks tend to occur most often in the late spring and summer.

The illness, called cyclosporiasis, is less common than foodborne illnesses caused by other germs, including salmonella and E. coli. Many cases are never linked to a specific food or other source.

In this outbreak, investigators initially zeroed in on lettuce served at Taco Bell. Federal officials subsequently focused on Taylor Farms as the source of the lettuce, and the company recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico.

The Taylor Farms recall involved thousands of packaged salad products combining iceberg lettuce with other vegetables. The products were shipped to major U.S. restaurant chains, including Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.

The FDA has ended its on-site inspections and sample collection at iceberg lettuce growers and the processing facility in Mexico, the agency said Friday. Samples from the on-site inspections are pending analysis, the FDA said.

The outbreak cast a spotlight on a worsening problem: U.S. regulators are conducting fewer international inspections to catch contaminated produce before it lands on American plates.