09:55 OpenAI said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission websites (on.wsj.com)
09:44 CNN said it was pulled from a planned trip with President Trump for Saturday, the second time in less than a week that the news network was barred from a scheduled rotation in the TV press pool (on.wsj.com)
09:02 President Trump’s approval rating drops to 37% in a WSJ poll, the lowest of any president heading into a midterm election in Journal polls dating to 1990 (on.wsj.com)
09-25 Chinese flags are waving everywhere in Washington this week. Will the Trump-driven flattery campaign make any difference in U.S.-China relations? Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-25 President Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a summit heavy on ceremony and light on outcomes, concealing major disagreements on trade, technology and Beijing’s support for Iran (on.wsj.com)
09-25 New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has called for the resignation of Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell after an independent investigation found he repeatedly violated state policy (on.wsj.com)
09-25 The White House is pressing China about suspected nuclear tests in confidential talks, and GOP lawmakers squashed the latest measure to end the Iran War. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-25 The Trump administration has been quietly holding talks with China about its rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal amid doubts over Beijing’s compliance with a 30-year test ban, U.S. officials said (on.wsj.com)
09-25 A pro-Trump ad that said it was paid for by the U.S. government aired on Fox News in major TV markets. Ethics experts said it could violate federal law. (on.wsj.com)
09-24 TechNet is urging the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed DHS rule to charge companies 103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications (on.wsj.com)
09-24 Oil executives and their lobbyists launched a coordinated contingency plan to persuade the Trump administration not to enact a ban on U.S. diesel exports (on.wsj.com)
09-24 Trump wants to preserve relations with Xi, but Iranian customs data show Chinese entities have made thousands of shipments of components used in drones and missiles. (on.wsj.com)
09-24 Nebraska independent U.S. Senate contender Dan Osborn, backed by Democrats, was heard saying on leaked tapes that Trump supporters have lives that “probably suck” (on.wsj.com)
09-24 Trump has invited Putin to the G-20 meeting, reflecting his obsession with inviting Putin to such meetings. Read more in this Special Edition of WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-23 Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday said the Trump administration wouldn’t outright ban exports of diesel but rather implement restrictions (on.wsj.com)
09-23 Kamala Harris was campaigning alongside Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. If she helps him, could she help others? Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-23 American oil executives thought they had won their fight to persuade Washington to keep diesel shipments flowing. Then, President Trump spoke up. (on.wsj.com)
09-23 The president sees muscular foreign policy as a core part of his legacy, even if it is complicating Republicans’ prospects in the coming election (on.wsj.com)
09-23 HHS moved money from a minority health office to help pay security costs for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to people familiar with the matter and a document reviewed by the WSJ (on.wsj.com)
09-23 Delegates from Iran and Cuba walked out during Trump’s speech at the U.N., and an Ivy League school outlines how higher education can adapt. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-23 President Trump said he is considering restricting diesel exports in an effort to curb soaring fuel prices, an idea that is quickly gaining traction with more Republicans ahead of the midterms (on.wsj.com)
09-22 President Trump defended his record as one of tough but necessary choices, casting himself during remarks to the United Nations as a man of action who had made peace and confronted threats (on.wsj.com)
09-22 A GOP senator called for an investigation of Donald Trump Jr., following the disclosure that the president’s oldest son received a lavish afterparty as a wedding gift from a Russian businessman (on.wsj.com)
09-22 Trump’s moves against the White House press pool are crimping coverage as he deals with wars, the economy and his fellow world leaders. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-22 When Bill Pulte examined the mortgages of President Trump’s political adversaries last year, he also looked at those of Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to people familiar with the matter (on.wsj.com)
09-22 President Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani continued their surprising rapport Monday, meeting for an hour at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence (on.wsj.com)
09-22 The Trump administration is seeking to rebuild energy infrastructure in the Middle East with a 10 billion investment with regional partners. Plus, OpenAI calls for worldwide AI safety standards. (on.wsj.com)
09-22 President Trump has discussed kicking journalists out of the White House, where they have worked for decades, and moving them to a nearby building, current and former administration officials say (on.wsj.com)
09-21 Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, whose weight has been repeatedly mocked by President Trump, said he has taken a GLP-1 medication for two years after being diagnosed with diabetes (on.wsj.com)
09-21 Republican lawmakers are running out of time to assuage voters angry about soaring fuel costs—an issue seen as the GOP’s biggest political liability in the midterms (on.wsj.com)
09-21 Polling has been spotty this year, but as of today, Democrats appear to have a solid edge in the midterms. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-21 California’s attorney general and Paramount have discussed a series of potential concessions as part of advanced settlement negotiations, including a 1.5 billion investment by the company in production in California (on.wsj.com)
09-21 Republicans are pumping money into Senate and House battleground states, unleashing one of their biggest advantages over Democrats as they seek to overcome headwinds before midterm elections (on.wsj.com)
09-21 A federal immigration agent shot a person in Austin on Sunday, drawing condemnation from the city’s mayor, who called for an independent investigation into the incident (on.wsj.com)
09-21 President Trump will meet New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday, a day before the president’s remarks to the U.N. General Assembly (on.wsj.com)
09-20 President Trump said on Sunday that his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington will double as a “military complex” housing drones and sniper ammunition (on.wsj.com)
09-20 They sniff around for burning equipment and check the roof for bird damage. These are the data-center squads keeping things running 99.999% of the time. (on.wsj.com)
09-20 At the Kansas State Fair’s Senate debate, incumbent Republican Roger Marshall was on home turf. Yet when he stepped to the microphone last weekend, hundreds booed, hissed, and jeered. (on.wsj.com)
09-19 The president’s order renaming Lake Ontario could have been an easy sell along its New York shore, an area where he has polled well. Instead, many red-leaning residents have come out against it. (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Documents recently unsealed in a copyright case show OpenAI employees weighing the cost of buying books to train early ChatGPT models (on.wsj.com)
09-19 As Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urges an AI slowdown, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues for acceleration, saying AI safety is an engineering problem not a regulatory matter, writes WSJ columnist @timkhiggins (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Law firms are trying to push partners to take the leap into retirement with new and increasingly creative incentives that range from financial to life-fulfilling. (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth avoided a House impeachment vote for now but lawmakers, including several Republicans, say they are frustrated with the direction of the Pentagon (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Republican candidates in some of the toughest House and Senate races have begun to break from President Trump on central parts of his agenda (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Patients are suing GLP-1 drugmakers over the risk of sudden vision loss. The little-discussed potential risk of popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs is on warning labels outside of the U.S. (on.wsj.com)
09-19 President Trump said the U.S. and Denmark reached an agreement that allows for more American forces in Greenland and prevents certain nations from establishing a military foothold (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI autonomously committing such an act (on.wsj.com)
09-19 President Trump said that Donald Trump Jr. reimbursed a Russian businessman who financed his son’s lavish wedding afterparty in the Bahamas earlier this year (on.wsj.com)
09-19 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received more than 250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. (on.wsj.com)
09-19 President Trump said on Friday he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage of his administration (on.wsj.com)
09-18 Democrats think they’re expanding the number of seats they could get in November. But there’s a deluge of ad spending coming from the other side. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-17 The trillion-dollar question: Did Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh really seek Trump’s blessing to hike rates? Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-18 Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents a red-leaning South Florida district, rolled out a straight-to-camera ad breaking with Trump on his immigration enforcement tactics (on.wsj.com)
09-17 House lawmakers are heading home until after the elections, getting an early dismissal despite concerns about gas prices and AI—and criticism that Congress just isn’t doing its job (on.wsj.com)
09-17 President Trump said he was standing by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh and that he spoke to him just before the central bank unanimously voted to raise interest rates (on.wsj.com)
09-17 Patriots owner Robert Kraft made it clear to Ed Sheeran that he would cancel his tour dates at Gillette Stadium unless Macklemore was dropped from the bill (on.wsj.com)
09-17 White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said Wednesday that she is cancer free after undergoing treatment for breast cancer earlier this year (on.wsj.com)
09-16 Trump is threatening to block the Kennedy Center’s renovation, Republicans aren’t sold on Trump’s 5,000 payments, and how much the Pentagon spent in the first few months of the war with Iran. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-16 The Kennedy Center’s board voted on Tuesday to close the venue for a two-year renovation, but President Trump immediately threatened to block that work unless his name is restored to the building (on.wsj.com)
09-16 The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address this September (on.wsj.com)
09-16 President Trump said Tuesday that the three Supreme Court justices he appointed were unrecognizable to him, a statement that Attorney General Todd Blanche later defended (on.wsj.com)
09-16 In a setback for the crypto industry, a bill that would have helped usher digital assets into the mainstream financial system failed to advance in Congress (on.wsj.com)
09-16 President Trump promised 5,000 to every American adult citizen if Republicans hold the House and Senate in the midterms; but the Republicans who would actually need to vote for that aren’t sold (on.wsj.com)
09-15 Bo French, a candidate for Texas’ railroad commissioner, tests boundaries of political speech as both parties struggle to define what’s off limits. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-15 The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from imposing new requirements for mail ballots, averting what officials warned would have been a crisis in the midterm elections (on.wsj.com)
09-15 The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would repeal some carbon dioxide emission rules for power plants, part of an effort to curtail the agency’s role in regulating climate change (on.wsj.com)
09-13 The Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor, Rep. Tom Tiffany, survived an emergency water landing and swam to safety after his plane lost power approaching a Wisconsin airport, he said Sunday (on.wsj.com)
09-14 The price of gasoline—and, by proxy, the Iran War— could end up being the defining issue of the midterm elections. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-14 President Trump defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top AI companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development (on.wsj.com)
09-14 Trump’s Irish weekend was supposed to center on low-stakes diplomacy. Instead, it drew him into controversy when he voiced support for Irish reunification, an issue U.S. presidents typically avoid (on.wsj.com)
09-14 The U.S. Postal Service wants to press ahead—in time for the midterm elections—with new controls on mail ballots used by nearly a third of American voters (on.wsj.com)
09-13 Georgian developers are planning to launch marketing on the Trump Tower Tbilisi, a skyscraper poised to be the Caucasus country’s tallest (on.wsj.com)
09-13 Trump insulted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at the GOP convention this past week despite endorsing him, as concerns mount about his Senate race (on.wsj.com)
09-12 Democratic Socialists are having a breakout year, but the public is still trying to learn what the movement believes, how it is organized and the level of its followers’ involvement (on.wsj.com)
09-12 A CIA official who authorities said walked out of his office with 40 million in gold bars has reached a tentative plea agreement, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday (on.wsj.com)
09-12 The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other, @greg_ip writes. (on.wsj.com)
09-12 GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who faces a tough re-election campaign, made some of her sharpest criticisms to date about Trump’s handling of the U.S.’s trade dispute with Canada (on.wsj.com)
09-11 Iran used American-developed artificial-intelligence models to try to target U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East, an Anthropic report said (on.wsj.com)
09-11 Vice President JD Vance’s Thursday night convention speech had the crowd looking to the future. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
09-11 JD Vance delivered a future-looking speech on the second night of the GOP midterm convention that showcased his vision of America and will intensify speculation about his presidential aspirations (on.wsj.com)
09-11 After years of inaction, Congress is suddenly waking up to the AI doomsday threat. But there’s little indication it will produce the first federal AI laws overseeing models. (on.wsj.com)
09-11 California is cracking down on social-media features aimed at teens, while new laws impose safety rules on AI chatbots and other online platforms (on.wsj.com)
09-11 Cryptocurrency billionaire Fred Ehrsam has emerged as a surprise contender in President Trump’s push to revitalize Venezuela’s run-down oil industry (on.wsj.com)