SN Last Week · Sep 14–20, 2026
Seven curated weekly digests across the news that mattered.
Russia Bill Hands Trump 100% Tariff Hammer
Trump now holds a 100% tariff hammer over Beijing and New Delhi as leverage over Moscow — a single instrument Congress just handed him, expecting he'll actually swing it.
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Microsoft's own data kills AI's fair use defense
OpenAI and Microsoft's own internal documents now give publishers a paper trail to demand licensing, dismantle the fair use defense, and reset what 'training data' actually costs.
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Fed hikes into 5% Treasury yields; Trump demands 1%
With the Fed signaling another hike into year-end while 10-year yields already sit above 5%, U.S. households face structurally higher mortgage, auto-loan, and credit-card borrowing costs for the foreseeable future.
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Stanford grows half-human mouse brains; Xenon drops 30%
Stanford's chimeric mice are the first working in-vivo model for rare human brain cell types — but the ethical questions the team itself flagged will decide whether the field actually gets to scale this work beyond a Nature paper.
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EPA scraps power plant rules; CCC blocks Heathrow expansion
If the EPA rollback survives court challenges, the US power sector's ~1.5 billion tonnes of annual CO2-equivalent output will operate without federal climate guardrails for the foreseeable future, with the legal fate of the 4,500-deaths-a-year counter-claim now the only remaining pressure point.
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Maresca's Man City top; Spurs goalless through four
Maresca's calm at Old Trafford has already erased the rebuild-narrative cushion rivals were counting on, and if City seal September unbeaten against Norwich and Sunderland, the post-Guardiola rebuild question becomes moot by October.
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Colbert Wins Emmy 6 Weeks After CBS Cancels Late Show
Colbert winning the category his network just eliminated six weeks earlier turns the ceremony's loudest moment into an implicit indictment of the late-night contraction — one that Sally Field reinforced from the Best Actress podium with a pointed jab at the pending Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.
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