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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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Good morning! It’s Friday. Here are today’s top stories. |
- In Ceuta, Spain, tensions are rising with at least 13,000 migrants in a city of 83,000. Emergency incidents are up 532 percent. Madrid calls the fear ‘subjective' as residents warn of a revolt.
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived at the White House Thursday for the first time in more than a decade.
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Reporters from three news outlets that President Donald Trump banned from the White House have said they’ve regained access, hours after a judge ordered the government to restore press passes to the journalists.
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Russia is increasingly using drone incursions, cyberattacks, sabotage, and other covert operations to sow fear, test Western resolve, and weaken backing for Kyiv, but it is not planning an imminent direct attack on NATO members, European officials said.
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🍵 Health: Some families are traveling hundreds of miles to receive a little-known ear acupuncture protocol for red meat allergy. Learn about the alpha-gal syndrome and the treatment you’ve never heard of.
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The company said the 250 coffeehouses will be shut down this week. After opening its first location in 1971 in a Seattle market, Starbucks now has 41,000 coffeehouses worldwide. |
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Residents of Ceuta carry a banner reading “S.O.S. Ceuta invadida” (“SOS Ceuta invaded”) at the front of a march to the Tarajal border, in Ceuta, Spain, on Sept. 20, 2026. (Etienne Fauchaire/The Epoch Times) |
Behind a large banner declaring “SOS Ceuta Invaded,” more than a thousand protesters made their way toward the Moroccan border on Sept. 20, demanding that migrants now living on the Spanish enclave’s beaches, streets, and public spaces be sent back.
Spanish and Ceuta flags rose above the crowd as it moved through the city. Protesters chanted “Ceuta is Spanish,” “I am Spanish,” “Invaders, expulsion!” and “Sánchez to prison,” directing much of their anger at Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.
The march, organized by the local Federation of Neighborhood Associations, came almost eight weeks after more than 72,000 people, overwhelmingly young men, crossed into Ceuta from Morocco over the course of two days. Most returned to Morocco within days. Thousands remained.
For a city of about 83,000 people squeezed into a small strip of territory on the North African coast, the migrants’ continued presence has put housing, public spaces, and other local resources under growing strain, fueling anger among residents who say their daily lives have been transformed.
“I’m here because our government is not standing by us,” Ramón, a 56-year-old civil servant, told The Epoch Times as he joined the march. “Our streets are no longer safe, and our children are shut up inside their homes.” Among those walking toward the border was Daniel, 16, who said the situation had left him feeling that he “can’t do anything” anymore because of the lack of public safety. His mother, Ana Belén, a 43-year-old health care worker, directed her anger toward the government in Madrid.
“Our own government is betraying us,” she told The Epoch Times. “Its first duty is to defend the homeland, not to put the rights of invaders ahead of our safety and our rights as citizens. We pay our taxes, and this is what they are used for. In a normal world, the members of this government would be tried for treason.” (More) |
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Fei Feng Lou, whose husband was forced into divorcing her in China, and her son Runxin Wang hold signs at a rally held by Falun Gong practitioners to demand an end to the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of the spiritual practice, during Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on Sept. 24, 2026.(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) |
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Hundreds of human rights activists gathered for a rally blocks away from the White House, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with President Donald Trump. The speakers urged Trump to press for human rights as part of the dialogue with Xi.
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Pro-Beijing protesters allegedly attacked and injured a human rights activist seeking to spotlight abuses in China amid the Trump–Xi summit. The injured woman is Xin Qin, a Falun Gong practitioner who was taking a photo of some other demonstrators who held banners quietly in front of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington.
- An Iowa judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against a pollster and The Des Moines Register on Sept. 23, finding that an inaccurate poll published three days before the 2024 election was protected speech and didn’t violate the state’s consumer fraud law.
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A split federal appeals court has restored an Ohio law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, overturning a recent injunction against the statute.
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California and a coalition of eight Northeastern states separately have sued the Trump administration, seeking to block agreements that would redirect about $1.5 billion in investment away from offshore wind and toward oil and gas.
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A Flock Safety camera in Burbank, Calif., on Aug. 3, 2026. The police department of neighboring Los Angeles recently ended its relationship with Flock Safety over civil liberties concerns. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) |
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Executives from Flock Safety, Axon Enterprise, and Motorola declined to voluntarily testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee as the upper chamber moves to investigate their camera technology over concerns about mass surveillance and constitutional violations.
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AI executives allegedly knew their products could unlawfully harm businesses, flood the market with inferior work, and damage human society’s creative capacity as a whole, according to communications recently revealed in a lawsuit.
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James Copenhaver, who was wounded during a Pennsylvania gunman’s 2024 attempt to kill President Donald Trump, has passed away.
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Eight U.S. Navy sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group attempted suicide during the recent extended deployment, according to acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao.
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The State Department launched a portal to allow people to report visa fraud as part of a crackdown on the practice.
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Boeing has finalized an order of up to 150 planes for Turkish Airlines, the largest single-aisle aircraft order placed by the airline with the U.S. company.
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A Saudi man looks at the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau arriving at the port of Yanbu, on Sept. 24, 1990. (Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images)
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- France announced that it would deploy troops and military assets to protect the key Saudi oil and gas port of Yanbu after Yemen’s Houthis launched several missiles at the site earlier in the day.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, pushed back on those accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, calling it the “greatest lie of the century.”
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President Trump’s Board of Peace has unveiled a $2.45 billion plan to rebuild Gaza.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez talked about restructuring the country’s sovereign debt in a brief meeting on the night of Sept. 22.
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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party came first in the country’s legislative election, winning 97 of the 395 seats in the House of Representatives, according to provisional results.
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Renewed fighting has broken out between Tigrayan rebels and the Ethiopian government in the country’s northernmost region of Tigray.
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