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Good morning! It’s Saturday. Here are today’s top stories. |
- Chinese state actors were using Claude to surveil dissident and religious communities, including practitioners of the faith group Falun Gong and NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet, AI company Anthropic said in a report.
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In London, Ottawa, Melbourne, Jerusalem, and beyond, allies honored the people who died in the 9/11 attacks.
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The national average price of a gallon of diesel hit a record high on Friday, exceeding $6 for the first time as tensions in the Middle East continued to disrupt oil shipments.
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Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori announced that Peru will join the Shield of the Americas, a U.S.-led coalition to combat transnational drug cartels and reduce illegal immigration in the Western Hemisphere.
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🍵 Health: Try this 10-minute exercise to support digestion.
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When people lose weight by eating less, do their brains benefit simply because they’ve lost weight, or does the timing of the meals matter on its own?
That’s exactly the question that a randomized controlled trial set out to answer. The researchers talked about their surprising results with our health reporter Emma Suttie. |
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The Claude logo displayed on a smartphone and the Anthropic logo on a computer screen in Tunis, Tunisia, on May 24, 2026. (Imen Ben Youssef/Hans Lucas via AFP via Getty Images) |
Chinese state actors were using Claude to surveil dissident and religious communities, including practitioners of the faith group Falun Gong and NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet, tech company Anthropic said in a report.
The Chinese state-aligned actors targeted groups that Beijing has historically suppressed, using its artificial intelligence (AI) model to build dossiers on religious leaders and identify potential levers for the regime to exploit, according to Anthropic’s Sept. 10 threat intelligence report.
In this way, the Chinese actors were using AI to do the work that traditionally would take a team of analysts, the company said. It describes the activities as part of the effort of sophisticated threat actors testing safeguards, a risk that will only increase as the technology advances. One of the accounts identified himself as an information security officer for the Chinese state, according to the report.
Anthropic assessed the accounts as part of a China-based intelligence operation, noting that the activities adhere closely to the priorities of China’s religious affairs apparatus, the top Chinese intelligence agency, and the United Front, the party-state body that co-opts the Chinese diaspora and targets the regime’s critics.
Anthropic said it banned the accounts and strengthened its systems to detect similar activity. (More) |
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President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks in the courtyard of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Sept. 11, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) |
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President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine gathered at the Pentagon Center Courtyard on Friday for a remembrance ceremony on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks gathered at the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center to read the names of those who were killed 25 years ago.
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The Tunnel to Towers foundation has toured for over 10,000 miles across the U.S., bringing a remnant of the Twin Towers to far-flung communities.
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Epoch Times reporters recall where they were on the day of the attacks.
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The Supreme Court on Aug. 17, 2026. (Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times) |
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned a noncitizen with a criminal conviction whose immigration-related appeal was scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, ending the case a month before the oral argument.
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President Donald Trump will make his first appearance in Ireland since 2019 on Saturday, when he arrives in the nation’s capital on a trip that serves as a diplomatic and sports-related mission.
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President Donald Trump announced $500 rebates for about 1 million Americans he said were overcharged through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, commonly known as Obamacare. Here’s what to know about the rebates, the surplus, and the little-known fee that created it.
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Nashville’s international airport will be named after country star Dolly Parton, a board decided Friday on a unanimous vote.
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Six Nigerian nationals allegedly involved in an organized crime network that carries out romance scams and cybercrime were being extradited from South Africa to the United States on Friday.
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A worker hauls rolls of fabric after unloading them at a warehouse in a textile industrial park in Shaoxing, in China's eastern Zhejiang Province on May 9, 2025. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) |
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China’s textile and apparel industry is showing signs of further contraction, with about 1,500 companies estimated to have dropped out of the regime’s official industrial-enterprise statistics during the first half of this year.
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Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre were sentenced on Friday to five to seven years in prison, underscoring the erosion of the city’s civil liberties under the Beijing-imposed national security law.
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Saudi Arabia on Friday announced it shut down its East-West Pipeline “as a precaution” after several attacks were reported a day earlier.
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The Trump administration has issued a fresh warning that Americans living in or visiting China risk “unjust arrest or detention.” Two American scholars, Chen Youlin and U Min Zin, who traveled to China for academic and professional reasons, have been wrongfully detained, the office said, reiterating a call for their release.
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Beijing’s Influence in US Schools—by Antonio Graceffo (Read)
- Can a Republic Survive Conditional Legitimacy?—by Lamont Colucci (Read)
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The Cruelty of Cocooning—by Jeffrey A. Tucker (Read)
- Why Can’t We Eat the Horses?—by Mollie Engelhart (Read)
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America Can’t Win the Minerals Race Without a 21st-Century Mining Workforce—by Rich Nolan (Read)
- Feminism’s War Against Civilization—by Patrick Keeney (Read)
- High School Football Wins—by Terence P. Jeffrey (Read)
- A Convoluted Scheme to Pay Parents to Stay at Home—by Veronique de Rugy (Read)
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Ube is a purple-colored variety of yams that lends a distinctive dash to the color palette of Hawaiian food. In cheesecake, Ube works especially well thanks to its mild sweetness and a touch of earthy flavor, which balance the rich, slightly tangy cream cheese.
For a familiar dish with a memorable, exotic twist, here’s how to make Hawaii’s favorite purple cheesecake. |
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