LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran.
The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year's war.
Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of the base in the early hours of Sept. 27, and a 25-year-old British-Iranian man was arrested in London on Thursday. All six have been released on bail under investigation.
Counter Terrorism Policing said a British national was detained Tuesday in the Westminster area of central London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said detectives "continue to pursue multiple lines of inquiry" and "remain committed to investigating all possible angles."

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Every year, RealClear Media Fund presents the Samizdat Prize - the "Sami" for short - an award for individuals who have courageously resisted censorship and stood for the principles of the First Amendment.
Why do we do this? Because we get the future that we praise today.
We are pleased to announce one of 2027's honorees: Gad Saad, professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author of the new best-selling book "Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind."
Gad, originally from Lebanon, is a long-time Canadian professor, having taught at Concordia University for over 30 years, author of myriad books and scientific papers on evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and host of "The Saad Truth" podcast, which focuses on such themes as intellectual diversity, modern day thought policing, and the current state of political correctness.
In his 2020 best-selling book "The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense," Professor Saad unabashedly defends the Western tradition of open debate and Socratic dialogue. He does this in an age of university-sponsored safe ***** es, trigger warnings, and censorship.

#university #evolutionary #author #book

Updated on: October 3, 2026 / 6:00 PM EDT / CBS/AP
A dual U.K.-Iranian national who was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at the U.S.-run RAF Fairford air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran was released on bail Saturday.
The 25-year-old man was arrested in London on Thursday, and police have searched two properties in the U.K. capital, Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement.
On Saturday, Counter Terrorism Policing announced that the man had been released on bail.
"The investigation into the circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is continuing," the agency said in a new statement.

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President Trump gathered top artificial intelligence leaders in Washington on Tuesday and doubled down on his opposition to government intervention, suggesting that "self-regulation" is the answer to growing worries about the technology getting out of human control.
"There's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation," the president said after meeting with the ***** embled CEOs. "There was a lot of commonality in this room."
Trump said he and the CEOs signed a "morally binding" accord that would keep the companies in line through "self-policing and group policing."
Trump posted a copy of the accord to his Truth Social account with a one-page document that called for each participating company to implement four different measures to safeguard the technology and added that, later on, "it might make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations."
Some executives on hand said the accord included commitments to a combination of technological controls to detect problems with new models, internal risk review efforts, external auditors, and other measures.

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James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, once described parents who refused to acknowledge their children's gender identity as potentially engaging in "abusive" behavior.
"I think there are some folks that would think that if you deny your child's gender identity, that's incredibly harmful. And whether or not we label it with the term abuse, it's abusive for sure," Talarico said while speaking at a committee hearing in the Texas Legislature in 2019.
Talarico's resurfaced comments add to a growing pile of past remarks that cut against his efforts to paint himself as a moderate on issues like gender, policing and border security as he attempts to win over Texas, a historically Republican-leaning state.
Talarico Says He 'Missed The Mark' As He Backtracks On Controversial Woke Statements
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally at the Cailloux Theater on Aug. 31, 2026, in Kerrville, Texas. Talarico is in a close race against Republican Ken Paxton ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

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Germany's AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream arrivals, exit polls say. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern.
The far-right party is projected to win 44-44.5% of the vote, far ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.5%. The AfD has hailed the result as a "historic outcome" and the charismatic leader in the state, Ulrich Siegmund, has refused to rule with any other party.
No far-right party has won control of a state in Germany since World War Two, and governing at state level would mean powers over policing, local education and culture.
Saxony-Anhalt has a small population of 2.1 million and the AfD in the state is ******* sed by domestic intelligence as "far-right extremist", a classification rejected by Siegmund.
The AfD's projected result is higher than earlier opinion polls suggested, but it will depend on which of the smaller parties get into the state parliament before the party's leaders know if they have enough seats to govern.

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By Pavel Polityuk and Felix Light
Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia carried out a wave of airstrikes on Ukraine overnight, killing two people at a steel plant, and Kyiv launched a heavy drone attack on the Moscow region that killed one ‌person and set ablaze a warehouse used by Russia's leading e-commerce retailer.
Romania, which borders Ukraine, said an F-18 fighter on ‌a NATO air policing mission had shot down a drone that breached its airspace during the latest attacks. It did not specify the origin of the drone, which entered from Moldova, but a NATO spokesperson said it appeared to be Russian.
Russia struck Ukraine's largest grain export port on the River Danube near the Romanian border last week after stepping up attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks. Ukraine has also intensified attacks on Russian targets including oil refineries, and both sides have struck commercial vessels in the Black Sea.
In the latest attacks since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian forces ‌struck Ukraine's biggest steel plant overnight in the industrial ⁠city of Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's home town.

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The number of antisemitic incidents recorded across the UK since the start of the year is up by a fifth compared to last year, figures show.
The Community Security Trust (CST), an organisation that provides security support to the Jewish community, recorded 1,926 incidents of anti-Jewish hate across the UK in the first six months of 2026.
It represents a 21% increase on the number of similar incidents reported in the first half of last year.
It also marks the second highest total of antisemitic hate incidents ever recorded by CST in the first half of any year since the organisation began collecting data in 1984.
Policing Minister Sarah Jones said the numbers were "appalling" and showed people "living in fear just for being who they are".

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England football fans can now stay in pubs longer this Saturday for the match against Norway, the government has confirmed.
Extended licensing hours mean pubs in England and Wales can remain open until 30 minutes past the final whistle, even if the game faces delays due to extreme heat.
The fixture, which sees England face Norway at 10pm BST on Saturday from Miami, Florida's Hard Rock Stadium, had previously seen ministers extend opening times until 2am, with this latest move utilising flexible laws for further allowance.
Policing minister Sarah Jones said: "England fans deserve the chance to watch every minute of the quarter-final together, and that is exactly what our extension guarantees.
"After the weather delay we saw before the Mexico game, we want to give fans and venues complete certainty that no-one will miss a moment of the action.

England fans will be able to stay in the pub until after Saturday's World Cup quarter-final with Norway is over, the UK government has said.
Extended licensing hours mean that pubs in England and Wales can remain open until 30 minutes after the final whistle is blown, even if the start of the game is delayed because of extreme heat.
England play Norway at 10 pm English time (2100 GMT) at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.
Ministers had already pushed opening hours for the game until 2 am, but have made the extra extension with flexible licensing laws.
Policing minister Sarah Jones said: "England fans deserve the chance to watch every minute of the quarter-final together, and that is exactly what our extension guarantees.

England football fans can now stay in pubs longer this Saturday for the match against Norway, the government has confirmed.
Extended licensing hours mean pubs in England and Wales can remain open until 30 minutes past the final whistle, even if the game faces delays due to extreme heat.
The fixture, which sees England face Norway at 10pm BST on Saturday from Miami, Florida's Hard Rock Stadium, had previously seen ministers extend opening times until 2am, with this latest move utilising flexible laws for further allowance.
Policing minister Sarah Jones said: "England fans deserve the chance to watch every minute of the quarter-final together, and that is exactly what our extension guarantees.
"After the weather delay we saw before the Mexico game, we want to give fans and venues complete certainty that no-one will miss a moment of the action.

England fans can stay in the pub - either celebrating or commiserating with each other - until 30 minutes after the final whistle is blown in the World Cup quarter-final against Norway, the government has said.
Extended licensing hours will allow supporters in England and Wales to watch the entire game, even if the start is delayed because of extreme heat. An earlier extension had allowed venues to stay open until 02:00 BST.
The Three Lions are due to kick off at 22:00 (18:00 local time) at the Hard Rock Stadium, in Miami, Florida.
It comes after England's match against Mexico on 2 July, held at the host country's Azteca Stadium, began an hour later than scheduled because of storms.
"England fans deserve the chance to watch every minute of the quarter-final together, and that is exactly what our extension guarantees," said Policing Minister Sarah Jones.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by police who were responding to a shoplifting call this week has ignited simmering tensions between police and Black residents in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi.
The death of Kohen Wiley is the latest in a series of troubling encounters with police that have outraged community members in recent years. It has led to protests and calls for greater police accountability in the town of 8,000, with some civil rights activists pointing to Kohen's death as another example of a Black life lost over something of nominal value — in this case, allegedly stolen diapers.
"We are treating items on a shelf as more valuable than a child," Bernice King, the daughter of civil right icon Martin Luther King, Jr., said in a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday. "That is not just bad policing; it is a moral collapse."
There are still many unanswered questions about the shooting and what led up to it.
Senatobia police responded to the shoplifting call at a local Walmart on Sunday, where they found two women and a child leaving the store, getting into a car and driving away. According to a statement released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation: "Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one. An officer then discharged their weapon and the vehicle fled the scene."

The collective announcement that the USGA and R&A would be working on new ideas in collaboration with the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to find solutions to slow the rate of distance increases at the elite level of the game reopened the question of where the rollback stands. While the ruling bodies are committed to implementing a change to the distance golf ***** fly beginning in 2030, Wednesday’s announcement suggests we are a long way from clarity. Here are some questions and answers.
Is the rollback dead?The ruling bodies have been talking about the distance issue since the Joint Statement of Principles was released more than two decades ago. Since that announcement 24 years ago, driving distance on the PGA Tour has increased nearly 25 yards. In short, for various reasons, they’ve delayed and deferred and studied without coming to a significant decision about a rollback until late 2023 when they announced the rollback to the Overall Distance Standard test. The USGA and R&A were initially firm in implementing the rollback in two stages, for elite players in 2028 and then all of golf in 2030. Now, they plan on implementing the ball change universally in 2030. But in the same breadth, Wednesday’s announcement suggests they are collaborating with the pro tours on alternatives to stop distance increases and studying concerns that “the updated ODS testing approach may not achieve the desired results.” So, the rulemakers are firm that something is going to happen by 2030, but also saying there’s urgency to re-open the study of the problem. The more nothing is decided collectively, the more nothing is done. Maybe a rollback happens, but it seems like it's going to take a lot more late-stage negotiating on a topic that 24 hours ago seemed to be settled.
Is 2030 a reasonable date? It seems like manufacturers have to start all over again.Difficult to tell. If there is a significant shift in the Overall Distance Standard, it’s tight. Manufacturers have been working on rolled-back designs for a decade or more. However, more recently their focus has been on designs that meet the new standard. Anything significantly altering that will take time.
It sounds like the USGA and R&A are no longer driving the bus when it comes to these kinds of rule changes. It’s reasonable to believe two things here: One, the PGA Tour wants to be involved more. Two, the PGA Tour doesn’t want the headache of policing equipment rules. While the professional tours and the PGA of America have long been part of the discussions when rules are being proposed, they are not making the rules, they are abiding by them. Based on many of Wednesday’s comments, the feelings about the status of distance at the elite level seem to be shared across the tours and the rulemakers. What’s not shared is what needs to be done or can be done, and indeed, what’s good for the business of the game. It seems the PGA Tour holds all the cards in this issue and its players will be more involved in how the r

Routing guides are crumbling. Truckload contract rates set early in the 2026 bid season aren't holding, management teams at some of the nation's largest carriers told investors at a conference last week.
Mini-bid activity has spiked, and some shippers have been forced to rebid their entire book as tender rejections surge, Spencer Frazier, head of sales and marketing at J.B. Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ: JBHT), told investors at the Wells Fargo Industrials & Materials Conference in Chicago.
"The only reason that happens is because routing guides, once implemented, start to crumble," Frazier said. "They're falling apart. And that's what has happened at an accelerated pace … from March through today."
Heightened regulatory enforcement has been purging noncompliant drivers from the market since last fall. The impact on the supply side was notable in the spot market around Thanksgiving when rates began to step higher. With additional levers being pulled more recently (strict policing of cabotage rules and the Supreme Court's broker liability ruling) many believe market fundamentals have been structurally altered.
"It is different this time," Frazier said. "Our customers are experiencing basically the increased enforcement of government regulations, and regulations that were existing, and a few new ones."

A coalition of civil rights groups on Tuesday asked a state judge to order one of New York's largest suburban counties to stop its deployment of nearly 600 license plate readers, calling it a warrantless and "indiscriminate surveillance system" that violates the state constitution.
The class action lawsuit also alleged that Westchester County never got proper authorization to launch the program, which has amassed a database of 1.6 billion plate scans that has been shared with more than 50 outside law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The complaint said the network "records the long-term travel patterns, daily habits, and intimate information of millions of law-abiding New Yorkers and other motorists who travel through Westchester."
"In a democracy, a police department cannot unilaterally decide — without legislative authorization — to surveil the daily movements of its own citizens without any real accountability, transparency, or oversight," said Barry Friedman, founder and faculty director of the Policing Project at NYU School of Law, which brought the suit on behalf of four motorists. "This indiscriminate data surveillance must not be allowed to continue in the dark."
"Westchester County has not yet received or reviewed the lawsuit referenced," a spokesperson for the county said.
The widespread use of license plate reader systems, which utilize a system of cameras to scan and record motorists' license plate information, has generated controversy. The ****** ociated Press in November reported that the U.S. Border Patrol was running a secretive license plate reader program that singled drivers out over their travel patterns, prompting a complaint from congressional Democrats that the program may be unlawful.