Disney is raising prices for Disney+ and Hulu. See what the streaming services will cost.

September 23, 2026 2:59 PM EDT / CBS News

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The Walt Disney Company is raising prices for several of its subscription plans, including Disney+, Hulu and certain bundle options.

Both standalone ad-free plans for Disney+ and Hulu are increasing by $2.50, or 13%, bringing the total cost to $21.49 a month for each, the entertainment giant told CBS News on Wednesday. The cost of Disney+ and Hulu plans with ads will both rise by 50 cents to $12.49 a month. The ad-free plan that bundles the services will also go up by $2 to $21.99.

The company said it will continue pricing its most popular bundle, a joint Disney+/Hulu subscription with ads, at $12.99.

The price hikes for new subscribers take effect immediately, while existing subscribers will see the new billing rates kick in next month. Here’s a full breakdown of Disney’s new subscription prices:

• Disney+, Hulu Bundle (with ads) unchanged at $12.99 per month
• Disney+, Hulu Bundle Premium (ad-free) is increasing by $2 from $19.99 to $21.99 per month
• Disney+ and Hulu standalone plans (with ads) are increasing by 50 cents from $11.99 to $12.49 per month
• Disney+ and Hulu Premium standalone plans (ad-free) are increasing by $2.50 from $18.99 to $21.49 per month
• Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Select Bundle (with ads) is increasing by $2 from $19.99 to $21.99 per month
• Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Select Bundle Premium (ad-free) is increasing by $3 from $29.99 to $32.99 per month
• Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited Bundle (with ads) unchanged at $35.99 per month
• Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited Bundle Premium (ad-free) unchanged at $44.99 per month

Last year, Disney announced that it would combine Disney+ and Hulu to create a “unified app experience.” Hulu subscribers can now link their profiles and watch history on Disney+, CEO Josh D’Amaro said during the company’s earnings call in August.

Disney also offers bundle plans with ESPN, which it acquired in 1996 as part of its acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC.

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Ex-colonel on Trump’s Greenland deal, AI force, Saudi F-35 sale and more

2026-09-23 2:04 PM EDT / By Kriston Lewis, CNN

Ex-colonel on Trump’s Greenland deal, AI force, Saudi F-35 sale and more

Retired US Air Force colonel Cedric Leighton weighs in on President Donald Trump’s agreement with Denmark and Greenland that gives the US “permanent control” over Greenland’s security, Trump’s plans to create an “AI Force” and a potential multi-billion-dollar sale of stealth F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

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US CDC confirms first measles-related death of 2026

2026-09-23 17:48:42 UTC / Reuters

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Sept 23 (Reuters) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed one measles-related death in the country in 2026, according to the agency’s website on Wednesday.

The CDC added the figure is subject to change and will be updated as additional information becomes available and relevant reviews are completed.

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Pennsylvania has reported four measles-associated deaths in 2026 so far, according to the state’s health department, but the CDC did not confirm whether its reported measles-related death was among those cases.

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A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told Reuters that the National Center for Health Statistics had notified the agency of a death reported by a state.

The US has recorded 3,471 measles cases this year as of September 17, according to the CDC’s data.

The agency said last week it is working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to develop a standardized case definition for measles deaths, as the outbreak grows across the country.

This work is intended to promote consistent classification and reporting of measles deaths across jurisdictions, HHS said.

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Paxton’s estranged wife breaks silence on Texas Senate race after ‘biblical grounds’ divorce

2026-09-23T15:30:15-04:00 / Fox News

The Texas state senator told Republican women ‘we have more control’ when the Senate seat stays ‘in the family’

By Peter Pinedo Fox News

Published September 23, 2026 3:30pm EDT

Talarico knows he cannot win if he tells Texans the truth about his beliefs: Ken Paxton

Texas GOP U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton discusses the impact of the 2026 RNC midterm convention and his Democratic opponent James Talarico seemingly distancing himself from past views on ‘Hannity.’

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After filing for divorce on “biblical grounds,” Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton’s estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, addressed whether she would support him this November.

In an address to the Texas Federation of Republican Women themed “the elephant in the room,” the state senator stressed that “it’s not the people, it’s the seat.”

“We have more control over that seat and the future when we control the seat, when it’s still in the family, even if we’re mad at them,” she said as the audience chuckled.

Video of the address was posted on Facebook on Friday by the DeWitt County, Texas, GOP and state Republican Executive Committee member Cheryl Thompson-Draper.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, outside the Supreme Court after the court heard two challenges to Texas’ new abortion law on Nov. 1, 2021. State Sen. Paxton filed for divorce last year, citing “biblical grounds.”(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

This is the first time Paxton’s estranged wife has publicly addressed the Texas Senate race since filing for divorce. Democrats are targeting the seat as they seek to win control of the Senate. Democratic candidate James Talarico held a 3-point edge over Paxton, 51% to 48%, in the most recent Fox News poll. Fox News has categorized the race as a toss-up.

The state senator filed for divorce from Paxton in July 2025. In her filing, Paxton said that her husband had “committed adultery” and that their marriage had “become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.”

In a social media post, she wrote that “after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds.”

“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” she added. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”

Despite the divorce, the state senator urged GOP voters to remain loyal to the party in this midterm election.

“If we lose it to the other team, the nuances that we want to fix with maybe a certain candidate are nothing compared to what it’s going to take to get it back,” she said.

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She acknowledged that personal frustrations with a candidate may influence some voters but emphasized that “when you vote for the person, the party comes along with them.”

“The party comes with the person,” she continued. “So, when you vote for that person because you like this one better or whatever, you just need to understand, they are not alone, like a standalone thing, like a menu item, you get the whole thing, and we have more control when it’s our party. We have more ability to influence when that person is attached to our party.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the state senator, Paxton and Talarico for comment.

After a bruising primary race in which he toppled longtime Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Paxton has struggled to find his footing in the general election against Talarico.

Even so, Paxton has projected confidence that voters will reject Talarico as a “fake” moderate, pointing to past comments by Talarico, including saying “God is nonbinary” and saying there are six sexes. Paxton has the support of President Donald Trump and financial backing from the president’s MAGA Inc. political action committee as well as Elon Musk’s America PAC.

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Left: Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a press conference at the Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue on July 22, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Right: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton waves at the conclusion of a campaign event at Matt’s Rancho Martinez restaurant on August 04, 2026 in Allen, Texas.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

In an interview with Fox News earlier this month, Talarico walked back his comments about God being nonbinary and there being six sexes, saying his statements “missed the mark.”

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In the same interview, however, Talarico said, “I am proud of my legislative track record delivering for Texans.”

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“I brought Democrats and Republicans together to pass 60 bipartisan bills that lower people’s costs and get the economy back on track,” he said, adding, “I’ll put my record up against Ken Paxton’s every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

Israel’s ambassador to U.S. says son is fighting for his life after car-ramming attack in West Bank

2026-09-23T14:40:00-0400 / CBS News

By Mark Osborne

Updated on: September 23, 2026 / 3:45 PM EDT / CBS News

The son of Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. was seriously injured in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to his father and statements from the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ambassador Yechiel Leiter posted on social media about his son, Neria Leiter, who is serving as a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces. “I am grateful to the IDF, to the medical team at Shaare Zedek who are now fighting to save the life of Neria Dov ben Chana, and for the prayers of the people of Israel,” he wrote.

He continued, “I believe in the power of prayer, and I believe that when the people of Israel unite, miracles happen. Neria needs a miracle.”

Earlier in the day, the IDF reported a car-ramming attack “at a checkpoint in the Binyamin Brigade’s area of responsibility.” The Binyamin Brigade is the IDF unit responsible for operating in the central West Bank.

The attack took place in the area of Maccabim checkpoint, the IDF said, which is a key checkpoint west of Ramallah. The IDF said the terrorist who carried out the attack was “eliminated” by security forces.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the suspect as Mahmoud Suleiman, the Associated Press reported.

The IDF said one soldier was “severely injured” but did not share more on his condition. Neria Leiter is being treated at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Israeli security forces inspect the scene of the incident at a security checkpoint near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon on Sept. 23, 2026. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP

Neria Leiter’s older brother, Maj. Moshe Yedidya Leiter, was killed in battle in northern Gaza on Nov. 10, 2023.

Yechiel Leiter, who was born in the U.S. and also goes by Michael, said Neria continued to serve in the army reserves after his brother’s death and has “done hundreds of reserve duty days on various fronts since October 7th.”

The prime minister’s office said Netanyahu visited with the Leiter family at the hospital before leaving on his planned trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

Netanyahu wrote on social media, in a statement translated from Hebrew: “My wife Sarah and I, together with all the people of Israel, are praying for a miracle. Yechiel, my dear, we are all with you.”

Yechiel Leiter has served as Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. since January 2025.

Maine Democrats criticize Susan Collins over reported allegations of pay-to-play scheme

2026-09-23T17:49:19.447Z / CNN

Maine Democrats are demanding that Republican Sen. Susan Collins answer for a report that her office committed to steering millions of dollars in federal contracts to a Hawaii-based defense contractor in exchange for donations to her 2020 campaign.

“This is an incredibly serious allegation that we need Susan Collins to respond to and address immediately,” Devon Murphy-Anderson, the executive director of the Maine Democratic Party, said. “We’re not up here calling for Susan Collins to resign. We’re not up here putting blame on her. We are asking her for answers,” she added.

ProPublica reported on Tuesday that several executives of the contractor, Navatek, met with a top fundraiser for Collins in 2019 as she was facing a tough reelection contest in which she was behind in fundraising. The meeting took place about a year after Collins helped steer a multimillion-dollar naval research contract to the company, ProPublica reported.

ProPublica reported that the fundraiser asked the executives for a campaign donation, and the company’s CEO, Martin Kao, agreed to cut a check in exchange for tens of millions of additional dollars in government contracts, despite prohibitions on government contractors making political contributions.

The story could shake up a race that could help decide control of the Senate in November. Collins, a five-term incumbent, is seeking reelection in a state that President Donald Trump lost in 2024 by seven points.

Collins’ deputy chief of staff, Annie Clark, said in a statement that the allegations in ProPublica’s story were “categorically false.”

“The Collins campaign cooperated fully with the FBI throughout the investigation, producing all of the documents it requested and serving as fact witnesses in official settings,” Clark said in the statement.

She accused Kao of “making outlandish charges about the Collins office” while facing sentencing in his federal case.

The FBI issued a statement saying that “the allegations made in this article had already been investigated by the FBI years ago and ultimately found nothing implicating Senator Collins or Senator Collins’ campaign. Any suggestion otherwise is totally false.”

Collins’ campaign manager, Steve Abbott, held a press conference Wednesday in which he described ProPublica’s reporting as “outrageous.”

“We hear this every cycle that Susan Collins is corrupt and all,” Abbott said. “I mean, whatever … It’s the same thing over and over and over again.”

ProPublica reported that Kao, using a shell company, sent $150,000 to Collins’ campaign fundraising arm. Kao later told other executives that Collins had committed to giving Navatek $32 million in government contracts. The story included a picture of a check made out to the pro-Collins 1820 PAC from the purported shell company “Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers, LLC.”

The outlet also reported those alleged actions prompted an FBI investigation that was shuttered shortly after Trump took office in 2021.

Kao and two other Navatek executives in 2022 were indicted on charges of making unlawful campaign contributions to a candidate for Congress. Kao, who was already serving a sentence stemming from a COVID-relief fraud case, pleaded guilty in the illegal campaign donations case last year and was sentenced to an additional 33 months in prison.

Collins ended up winning her 2020 contest against Democrat Sara Gideon by more than 8 points.

Democrats held a press conference in Maine Tuesday morning demanding more answers from Collins.

“We deserve to know exactly what happened,” Murphy-Anderson added. “We deserve to know whether taxpayer dollars were always being directed solely based on the interests of Maine people, or if there was something else at play, and we deserve representation in DC that understands the public office is public trust.”

Bipartisan duo wants to remind Congress, Trump of China’s ‘atrocities’ ahead of Xi visit

James Lankford and Angus King detail CCP killings, mass detention of Uyghurs and Hong Kong crackdowns in new measure

September 23, 2026 3:30pm EDT / Fox News

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FIRST ON FOX: As President Donald Trump readies for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, some lawmakers want to remind the public of the several brutal acts that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed since its founding over a century ago.

Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Angus King, I-Maine, have joined forces to push a reminder of a long list of actions obtained by Fox News Digital undertaken by the CCP in pursuit of its “tyrannical ambitions” to grab ahold of and maintain power in China.

Both lawmakers want to put the “countless lives the Chinese Communist Party has destroyed and the people currently living in fear” at the forefront as Trump and Xi prepare for days of talks. And it comes as the CCP celebrates its 105th anniversary since its founding.

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“For 105 years, the Chinese Communist Party has oppressed its own people, persecuted people of faith, and denied basic freedoms,” Lankford said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“As the United States engages with Beijing, we cannot forget the millions who have suffered under the CCP or those who continue to live under its repression today,” he continued. “The United States must continue to stand for religious freedom, human rights, and the dignity of every person.”

Lankford and King’s resolution lists several instances over the last century when the CCP and its leaders have slain their own citizens, imprisoned dissidents and crushed opposition.

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Many happened during the CCP’s push for control, which left a wake of blood and carnage, during the vicious period when People’s Republic of China’s founder Mao Zedong was on the rise during and after World War II and up to the 1960s.

During that period, there was the Yan’an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945, where “more than 10,000 people were killed” as the CCP purged dissidents of the movement, and the Chinese Land Reform movement of 1949 to 1953, where between 200,000 and 5 million were slain as the party redistributed rural property to peasantry.

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Then came the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries from 1950 to 1952, where there were millions of arrests, imprisonments and over 700,000 executions. During that same stretch was the Three-Anti Campaign and the Five-Anti Campaign, where Zedong and the CCP “humiliated, terrorized, exiled, imprisoned, and killed thousands of political opponents and capitalists.”

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And in the last three decades, the resolution noted the CCP’s iron fist hasn’t loosened its grip, like undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy, targeting religions with “insidious tools of repression,” and subjecting an estimated 1 million Uighur Muslims to “mass detention and torture” in so-called reeducation camps.

Trump is set to welcome Jinping at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday afternoon, teeing up meetings that are set to last until Friday.

Lawmakers are hoping that Trump plays a strong hand during his meetings with Jinping, and are urging him to strike trade deals and an agreement on the artificial intelligence (AI) race, among other top priorities.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

‘We are gaining momentum.’ Montana Independent Senate candidate thinks he can beat a Democrat and a Republican

2:01 PM EDT, Wed September 23, 2026 / By Manu Raju, CNN

‘We are gaining momentum.’ Montana Independent Senate candidate thinks he can beat a Democrat and a Republican

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Independent Montana Senate candidate Seth Bodnar is trailing the Republican front runner Kurt Alme by 8 points in the latest Montana Free Press poll. But Bodnar believes he will be able to sway enough voters to beat out both both Alme and Democratic challenger Alani Bankhead. He joins Inside Politics and tells Manu Raju that both of his opponents have fallen in the polls this summer, but “more importantly when you look at voters who have heard the messages of our campaign, and of the opposing campaigns, they are shifting our way.”

贝森特本周第二次与何立峰会面 为习特会作准备

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美国财政部长贝森特（左）本周将第二次与中国副总理何立峰（右）会面，以进一步为习特会作准备。 （路透社档案照片）

美国财政部长贝森特说，他本周将第二次与中国副总理何立峰会面，以解决“尚未完成的事项”，为美国总统特朗普与中国国家主席习近平举行峰会作准备。

路透社报道，贝森特星期三（9月23日）说：“我们还有一些尚未完成的事项……我们希望实现战略稳定，但这必须建立在互惠和公平的基础上。”

双方当天将在世界银行总部举行会谈。美国财政部一名官员说，这次会谈将仅由贝森特和何立峰参加，以进一步为星期四（24日）的习特会作准备。

对于中美是否会同意延长11月10日到期的贸易休战，贝森特没有作出回应。

贝森特、何立峰和美国贸易代表格里尔上周末在纽约会面，试图为两国领导人准备可能达成的贸易及人工智能（AI）协议。贝森特形容这次会谈“成功”，并说双方同意设立一条沟通“热线”，相互通报AI安全事故。

美中问题分析人士说，由于双方在人工智能技术方面缺乏互信，加上两国都没有表现出认真放缓AI发展的意愿，因此外界对双方在人工智能领域展开合作的预期并不高。

格里尔星期一接受彭博电视采访时说，由于仍有时间，双方将继续讨论延长贸易休战的问题。“我预计我们会继续谈判，我认为双方都希望延长贸易休战。”

格里尔补充说，美国需要继续向中国施压，以确保中方履行关键矿产相关协议。美国官员上周告诉记者，中国供应的稀土“没有达到应有的水平”。

双方上周末还讨论了其他议题，这些议题此前已由特朗普与习近平在今年5月的北京会晤中探讨过，包括降低部分非战略商品的双边关税，以及中国采购波音飞机和美国农产品。

格里尔说，双方同意“落实”5月达成的一项机制，由双方各自提出可能降低关税的非战略商品清单。这项机制被称为“贸易委员会”（Board of Trade）。

他说，中国出口商品中可能包括“消费品、低技术产品”；美国方面则可能涵盖能源、农产品和医疗器械。

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