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Florida adopted binding rules governing artificial intelligence and educational technology across school districts, charter schools, and Florida College System institutions. Schools must notify parents about approved AI instructional tools, identify the courses and intended student interactions, obtain parental opt-in for student use, and provide a non-AI alternative. The rules require additional review of tools used in VPK through fifth grade and prohibit AI intended to meet students’ social or emotional needs, simulate companionship, secretly monitor behavior, conduct social scoring or psychological profiling, sell student data, or use student data to train agentic models. Schools must establish academic-integrity protections, while educational technology procurement and renewal must consider demonstrated instructional value, effectiveness, implementation, and student performance. Florida will also update its K–12 computer science standards and Digital Classrooms Plan to prepare students to use AI responsibly while preserving critical thinking, teacher-led instruction, parental involvement, student privacy, and human judgment. https://www.fldoe.org/newsroom/latest-news/florida-sets-national-standard-for-responsible-ai-in-classroomsfrom-vpk-through-college.stml

Florida and Texas filed an amicus brief supporting the Supreme Court challenge to methods used by the Census Bureau in the 2020 Census. The challenge maintains that the Bureau’s use of statistical imputation violated the constitutional requirement for an “actual Enumeration” and federal law prohibiting statistical sampling for congressional apportionment, causing Florida and other states to lose congressional representation and Electoral College votes. Florida and Texas maintain that imputation amounts to prohibited statistical sampling, that Florida was directly harmed by the resulting population count, and that the Supreme Court’s 2002 decision in Utah v. Evans, which upheld “hot-deck imputation,” should be overruled. The underlying case was dismissed by a three-judge federal district court in July 2026 and is now on direct appeal to the Supreme Court as University of South Florida College Republicans v. Lutnick, No. 26-205. https://aflegal.org/press-release/florida-and-texas-file-brief-at-u-s-supreme-court-supporting-america-first-legals-landmark-census-case

Attorney General Todd Blanche said the FBI uncovered new information about Thomas Crooks, including previously unknown details about his background and history, but did not disclose the specifics. Crooks fired eight shots at Donald Trump’s July 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s ear, killing Corey Comperatore, and seriously wounding James Copenhaver and David Dutch before a Secret Service counter-sniper killed him. President Trump alleged that the Biden-era FBI mishandled the investigation and claimed the assassination attempt was a Democratic plot, but investigations have found no evidence of accomplices or Democratic involvement, and FBI Director Kash Patel said the evidence showed Crooks planned and carried out the attack alone. Investigators examined more than 1,000 interviews, approximately 2,000 tips, 13 digital devices, 500,000 files, hundreds of hours of video, financial records, and online accounts without establishing a motive. Separate federal reviews found significant security failures surrounding the rally, including missed local-police radio transmissions, failure to detect Crooks’ drone, and planning and communications deficiencies that contributed to a preventable attack. https://archive.ph/VRCO5

King Charles rejected an allegation by Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, that he said, “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough,” in the days following Diana’s death in 1997. Spencer says the remark occurred during an argument over whether Princes William and Harry, then 15 and 12, should walk behind their mother’s coffin, a decision he considered barbaric. Buckingham Palace responded that grief can affect reason, judgment, and memory even decades after a loss, while a source close to Charles said the alleged remark was contrary to his nature and that he was grief-stricken at the time. Prince Harry previously recalled a heated dispute over whether he and William should participate in the funeral procession in his memoir Spare. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/king-charles-hits-back-book-late-princess-dianas

Rep. Rosa DeLauro declined to answer repeated questions asking her to give reasons President Donald Trump should be impeached, despite voting to impeach Trump in 2019 and 2021 and urging House members to support impeachment after January 6, 2021. The encounter followed Rep. Al Green’s latest unsuccessful attempt to impeach Trump, which ended in a 232–147 vote, with 18 Democrats joining Republicans to stop the effort and 47 Democrats voting present. Green has pursued impeachment multiple times during Trump’s first and second terms and lost his Democratic primary runoff to Rep. Christian Menefee in May. Trump was impeached twice during his first term, while the latest effort demonstrates declining Democratic support for pursuing another impeachment and a need to focus instead on the economy, immigration, and the war in Iran. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/exclusive-video-far-left-democrat-rosa-delauro-couldnt

Washington state House Democrat candidate Krista Perez was arrested on suspicion of DUI after Tacoma police said her Chevrolet Silverado struck a parked vehicle shortly after midnight on August 11, triggering a chain-reaction crash that damaged five vehicles; no injuries were reported. Police body-camera footage shows Perez acknowledging that she drank wine, rating her sobriety a four on a zero-to-ten scale, declining voluntary field sobriety tests, repeatedly asking to go home, and later crying and praying in the patrol car. Police documented a strong odor of alcohol, slurred speech, red eyes, mood changes, and an unsteady gait, and prosecutors subsequently charged Perez with DUI with a refusal enhancement related to a breath test at police headquarters. Perez had finished first in the August primary for Washington’s 29th Legislative District, Position 1, and advanced to the November election against incumbent Democratic Rep. Melanie Morgan. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/watch-washington-democrat-house-candidate-admits-she-drank

A Texas Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed in rural Michigan on Thursday while participating in a routine training exercise. The aircraft, assigned to the 149th Fighter Wing, was operating from the Air National Guard’s Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena when the incident occurred. The pilot safely ejected and was taken to a local hospital for medical treatment, with details about the pilot’s identity and injuries withheld. An evacuation order was issued near the crash site in Grand Traverse County, and witnesses reported hearing a loud crash before seeing a large plume of smoke. The cause of the crash remains unclear. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/f-16-fighter-jet-crashes-giant-fireball-michigan

Emergency room nurse Yanira Eguileor was attacked at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on May 30 after intervening when patient Wenyou Rubin was assaulting another hospital employee. Surveillance footage shows Rubin striking Eguileor in the head three times and throwing her to the floor before other hospital employees restrained him, with hospital security arriving after staff had already subdued him. Eguileor required medical evaluation and filed a $5 million lawsuit alleging inadequate workplace security, while her attorney filed a second lawsuit to obtain surveillance footage of the attack. Charges against Rubin were initially dropped after prosecutors were unable to make immediate contact with the hospital staff victims but were later refiled following publicity surrounding the incident. Rubin faces one count of battery and is being held in jail pending transfer to a psychiatric unit, and he also has a pending 2024 criminal case involving an alleged battery on a police officer. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/shock-video-unhinged-patient-violently-assaults-er-nurse

Reginald Andre Wilson Jr., a 30-year-old home health worker in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was arrested after police say he poured bleach into a water bottle and gave it to 48-year-old Marshal Huntsberry, a physically and mentally disabled man who cannot care for himself. Huntsberry immediately noticed the water tasted like bleach, and Wilson admitted putting bleach in the bottle after being confronted by a relative. Home-security video shows Wilson retrieving a large jug from the laundry area, pouring a substance into a water bottle, shaking it, and handing it to Huntsberry while telling him to drink it. Wilson was charged with aggravated battery, cruelty to persons with infirmities, mingling harmful substances, and theft under $1,000, with bond set at $70,000. Heaven on Earth Network Inc. removed Wilson from the property, took Huntsberry to the emergency room, and is cooperating with authorities and state agencies during the investigation. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/sickening-lake-charles-caretaker-caught-camera-pouring-bleach

Vickie Lynn Williams pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the 2022 fatal stabbings of Darryl Getman, 83, and Sharon Getman, 80, inside their Mount Dora, Florida, retirement-community home. The Getmans allowed Williams into their home after she asked for help and to take a shower, and prosecutors say she stabbed them with a kitchen knife before fleeing in their car. Williams’ DNA was found on the murder weapons, and her fingerprints and bloody footprints were found at the scene, while surveillance footage and witness testimony showed her behaving erratically beforehand. Her defense maintains that she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia months earlier and was experiencing severe psychosis and delusions that caused her to believe the Getmans intended to harm their children. Florida prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, while the defense is asking the jury to find Williams not guilty by reason of insanity. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/woman-who-stabbed-elderly-florida-couple-death-pleads

A legally armed concealed-carry permit holder shot an armed robbery suspect at a Shell gas station in Orland Park near Chicago after the suspect attempted to rob the customer while they were pumping gas. The customer quickly drew a firearm and shot the suspect, who fled before being taken to a hospital for treatment; the customer remained at the scene and cooperated with police. Awareness of one’s surroundings, proper firearms training, knowledge of applicable laws, and being prepared to react quickly are key elements of personal safety when legally carrying a concealed firearm. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/concealed-carry-permit-holder-shoots-would-be-robber

President Donald Trump withdrew Lance Schroyer’s nomination to serve as ICE director after the nomination stalled in the Senate. Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine with 29 years of law-enforcement experience, was nominated in June to replace acting ICE Director Dave Venturella and previously served on Markwayne Mullin’s security detail. Sen. Rand Paul stalled the nomination, and the White House notified the Senate on Thursday that Schroyer’s nomination was being withdrawn. ICE has gone 11 years without a Senate-confirmed director. ICE personnel had expressed surprise at Schroyer’s nomination because he lacked experience in immigration enforcement or leading a large law-enforcement agency. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/just-president-trump-abruptly-withdraws-nomination-ice-director/

President Donald Trump said progress is being made toward establishing a permanent U.S. Army base in Poland and that a location could be announced soon if an agreement is reached. Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Poland is prepared to strengthen defense cooperation and provide a location for the base. Poland has sought a larger allied presence on NATO’s eastern flank since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and the U.S. Defense Department indicated in June that it was open to discussing a permanent American military presence, although no final decision had been made. U.S. troops currently serve in Poland on a rotational basis, while the Pentagon is conducting a broader review of American troop deployments in Europe. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/trump-announces-major-progress-toward-new-us-army

America First Legal filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling and allow Washington parents to challenge state laws governing runaway minors seeking gender-transition services or abortions. Washington normally requires youth shelters to notify parents when a minor runs away, but the challenged laws prohibit parental notification in these circumstances and instead require notification to the state and referrals for the requested services regardless of parental consent. AFL maintains that the parents have already suffered injuries through the loss of their previous right to notice, changes in how they parent and communicate with their children, and concerns that the laws create incentives for their children to run away. AFL maintains that the Ninth Circuit incorrectly treated some of these injuries as self-inflicted and that losing the legal right to information about a runaway child’s whereabouts and condition is itself sufficient injury. AFL is asking the Supreme Court to reverse the ruling and reaffirm parents’ right to direct the upbringing of their children. https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-urges-u-s-supreme-court-to-protect-parents-right-to-challenge-laws-that-hide-their-childrens-gender-transitions

America First Legal filed an amicus brief opposing ABC’s effort to stop the Federal Communications Commission from reviewing license renewals for eight Disney-owned ABC affiliate stations. AFL previously petitioned the FCC to deny the renewals based on alleged discriminatory DEI employment practices that it maintains bear on ABC’s qualifications as a public broadcaster. AFL maintains that the FCC has possessed authority to order early license renewals since 1948, that ABC cannot seek district-court intervention before the FCC takes final agency action, and that challenges to FCC licensing decisions belong in the courts of appeals. AFL also represents 15 local viewers seeking denial of the renewals and maintains that an injunction would end the FCC proceeding and prevent those viewers from being heard. ABC’s lawsuit alleges that the FCC review constitutes First Amendment retaliation, while AFL seeks to allow the FCC process to continue to a final decision. https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-files-brief-defending-fccs-authority-as-abc-attempts-to-block-license-renewal-review/

A Phoenix middle-school physical education teacher was arrested after police said he sent sexually explicit videos and messages to a 14-year-old former student. Reno Ferris, a seventh- and eighth-grade PE teacher at Global Academy of Phoenix, faces two felony counts of furnishing obscene material to minors after the Department of Child Safety alerted police that the girl was possibly being groomed by a former teacher. The girl said Ferris had contacted her through several social-media platforms since mid-August, and investigators reviewing her devices with parental permission found sexually explicit videos sent from an account linked to Ferris. Police said Ferris knew the girl’s age and admitted having inappropriate sexual conversations with a teenage former student but said they never met in person. Ferris was arrested Wednesday and was being held on a $75,000 bond. https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/middle-school-girl-in-phoenix-arizona-groomed-by-physical-education-teacher-court-documents-say/75-871ce9bf-b8a9-4619-9be1-d99f8d4346a7

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office Cold Case Unit and Pinal County Sheriff’s Office are seeking the public’s help solving the 2005 death of Zuraida “Bee Bee” Lewis of Oro Valley. Lewis left home around 6:45 a.m. on January 28, 2005, to work at the Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Hotel and Resort but never arrived for her shift; coworkers later found her vehicle in the hotel parking lot in an unusual space. The following morning, hunters discovered her nude body in a desert area near Willow Springs Road and State Highway 77 in Pinal County. More than 21 years later, the investigation remains active, and authorities are asking anyone with information about Lewis’s disappearance or death to contact the Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit or submit an anonymous tip to Silent Witness. https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mayes-seeks-publics-help-investigation-death-oro-valley-woman

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights reached a resolution agreement with Virginia Beach City Public Schools after finding Title IX violations involving the district’s handling of sexual-misconduct allegations. Records from the 2017 through 2020 school years included roughly 117 incidents of sexual harassment, 88 incidents of indecent exposure by students, one forcible rape, and eight incidents involving inappropriate touching by an employee or sexual intercourse between an employee and a student, while the district could produce only 12 investigation reports. The district handled sexual-misconduct allegations primarily as school-level disciplinary matters without adequate grievance procedures, support measures, or notification of outcomes and stopped investigating allegations against employees who resigned. The agreement requires updated Title IX policies, a districtwide record-keeping system, employee training, clearer information for students and parents, a designated Title IX coordinator, and investigations of all sexual-harassment complaints consistent with Title IX even when an accused employee resigns. The action follows a July 2026 national K–12 initiative that initiated 20 investigations into districts over potentially inadequate responses to staff-on-student sexual misconduct. https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-secures-resolution-agreement-virginia-beach-city-public-schools-restore-protections-against-sexual-misconduct

Owen Anderson points to what he considers a contradiction in an ASU employee’s defense of diversity training: the employee acknowledged that white people were specifically discussed but maintained that his race was not unfairly criticized and that historical facts were presented without assigning blame or judgment. Anderson contrasts that statement with the employee’s reference to white Americans enslaving, raping, torturing, and lynching Africans for three centuries. Anderson maintains that singling out white people for those acts constitutes racial blame and that regarding such treatment as historically justified does not eliminate the racial distinction. He contends that Arizona law does not permit racial discrimination simply because employees consider it fair and says the exchange demonstrates contradictions in DEI approaches to racism and blame. https://drowenanderson.substack.com/p/it-was-fair-racism-says-asu-employee

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed an EU-wide ban on social media for children under 13, parent-supervised “mini accounts” with restricted features and usage for ages 13 to 15, and safer platform designs for users ages 15 to 18. The proposal seeks to address addictive features, exposure to extreme content, and AI-generated sexualized images involving children, but would require debate and approval by EU member states and could take years to implement. France, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain have pursued restrictions of their own, while Australia has implemented a ban for users under 16. Age-verification requirements have raised concerns about increased collection of personal information and the potential expansion of digital identification systems, while other concerns focus on social-media business models built around prolonged engagement. The EU is also considering allowing users to disable social-media algorithms and cooperating with countries including Canada and Britain on evaluating, monitoring, and improving the safety of advanced AI systems. https://archive.ph/tlr2a