Reuters World News - America remembers 9/11, Vance and Uganda's succession drama

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

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Hi, I'm Carmel Crimmons in Dublin. It's Friday, September 11th. Today, Vice President J.D. Vance ceases the spotlight in Dallas. AI threats raise alarm bells on Capitol Hill. Americans mark 25 years since the 9-11 attacks. And Uganda's Royal Succession Drama. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. Where some see heroes and others see egos. Bloomberg sees the era of billionaire athletes. While others follow the noise, we follow the money. Learn more at Bloomberg.com.

Vice President J.D. Vance took center stage at the Republican convention in Dallas, delivering a 40-minute speech that had some supporters chanting 48-48. A reference to Vance becoming the country's 48th president, in 2028. His message was nationalistic pride, but it was an unscripted moment that grabbed everyone's attention. We just had a protester

interrupting us and waving the Mexican flag. Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get your ass over there, I'll buy you the plane ticket. The two-day event was designed to boost voter enthusiasm at a time when polls suggest Democrats are more eager to turn out in November's midterms. Republican candidates were hoping for

a compelling message on the economy and the war with Iran. Instead, what dominated the headlines was Trump's promise to send out $5,000 checks to every U.S. adult if Republicans hold on to Congress. Reporter Andy Sullivan has more. It's a lot of money. That's about 240 million people, which would come to about $1.2 trillion. Now, is this legal? This kind of sounds like a bribe, right? The surprising answer is that this is probably legal. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled back in 1982 that candidates can promise things to voters

and they can try to deliver those things to voters as long as they do that through normal government processes. So what do voters make of the offer? Here's a New Yorker's perspective from Mack, a 74-year-old shoe-shiner. Anybody who believe that they're gonna get $5,000 from Trump if the Republican win, they can believe a whole bunch of bullshit

that you have sold them down the pipe. And that dividend is not the only check Trump is promising. The administration says it'll issue $500 payments to nearly a million Americans, citing what it calls Obamacare overcharges. The payments for people who purchased health insurance through the Federal Affordable Care Act are expected to be sent in October, just before the midterm elections. As the convention wrapped up, energy prices in the US hit a new milestone. The average price of US diesel surpassing $6 a gallon,

for the first time ever. The jump comes as oil trades above $100 a barrel on fears conflict in the Middle East will cause more supply disruptions. For more details on this and everything else moving markets, check out our sister podcast Morningbid. You'll find a link in today's pod description. Now to a day of remembrance across the United States.

President Trump and Vice President Vance will attend ceremonies later today to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes hit New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and crashed in Shanksville. In New York, the annual tribute and light returned, with twin beams illuminating the skyline. The FDNY has also been honoring the 343 firefighters killed on 9-11.

Since then, more FDNY members have died from illnesses linked to their response. The CDC estimates roughly 400,000 people were exposed to toxic dust in debris, in the aftermath. Among them is retired FDNY Paramedic, Lieutenant Conrad Matos, who spent months working at Ground Zero and was later diagnosed with the brain tumor linked to his exposure there. We need to stop losing our people, you know, because whoever we didn't lose that day, we're losing now, and it's not right. After brain surgery and chemotherapy, he believed the cancer was gone. This year, it returned. Dr. Michael Crane, who leads the World Trade Center Health Program at Massacre.

Mount Sinai says treatment and monitoring are improving outcomes for many responders. We think we can at least fight it to withdraw, so we have better than even chances of having our responders come out on the other side. The program now serves about 150,000 people, even as the health effects of 9-11 continue to surface a quarter century later. AI giant Anthropic says it's disrupted a suspected Russian cyber espionage campaign and efforts by Chinese AI companies to secretly steal its tech, saying hackers are now using AI to run entire cyber attacks almost without human involvement. And it's not just outside threats

that are sounding alarm bells. Stark warnings this week from Inside Anthropic itself, as one of its AI researchers warns that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity within the decade. It's alarmed lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and now members of both parties are calling for new rules to govern this technology. Courtney Rosen is on Capitol Hill. What's different with this moment with the Anthropic researcher and his accusations against OpenAI and Anthropic

is we're seeing lawmakers that haven't typically been very vocal on AI way in. It really seems to have spread across both parties, across both chambers of Congress, looking for some kind of regulation or looking for Congress to step up on AI. Most of the calls for new issues, AI rules are coming from Democrats, both in the Senate and the House. But we are also seeing a

handful of Republicans way in here, notably Ted Cruz, who's a senator from Texas, and also Nathaniel Moran, who is from Texas as well. There's been a couple of bills that have been floating around for a couple weeks now, most notably one between Senate Majority Leader John Thune and then leading Democrat Amy Klobuchar. They've been negotiating some kind of bill on regulating AI risks. But now it appears that this whole disclosure from the anthropic researcher has kind of raised hopes that this legislation is going to move forward and add a new juice to the effort. Russia is resuming its airstrikes on Kiev, injuring several people and setting an apartment block on fire this morning, just days after a brief pause for visiting U.S. peace envoys,

and Ukraine is striking back, hitting Russian logistics and infrastructure deep inside the country. But Moscow's attacks aren't limited to the sky. Beneath the ocean, NATO allies have uncovered a covert operation. Russian submarines training with a secret weapon designed to disable undersea cables in Arctic waters near Tvalbard. A joint US, British and Norwegian operation tracked and confronted the Russian vessels, forcing them to leave before completing the exercise. Russia's Defence Ministry didn't respond to a request for comment on the incident. Western intelligence officials fear Moscow's ramping up sabotage operations in Europe, and preparing for potential conflict with NATO.

And severing undersea cables could be a key part of that strategy. Now to Africa, and a bitter succession battle over the future of Uganda's traditional kingdom of Toro. King Oya Nimbab died of cancer last month at the age of 34.

The kingdom's succession committee has named his cousin, Prince Edward Rokidi Kijangoma, a television news anchor, as the next king. But Oya's family is pushing back. They say the late king's will names a biological son

whose existence hadn't been publicly disclosed as the rightful heir. Reuters Deputy Bureau Chief for East Africa, Aaron Ross, has more. The Succession Committee and people who are affiliated with the Royal Clan are saying that no information has been provided to them

about who this son is. They ask for a photo. They say they ask for details about who the mother is because the late king was not married and that they didn't get that information. So there is this dispute with the family objecting to the process that name the successor as illegitimate.

The burial, the Lake King Oyo is scheduled for Saturday, but the new king needs to be in place for that burial to take place. So if the family's objections end up delaying the New King's installation, that could mean that the burial will not take place on Saturday as planned. For more on any of the news from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting people. pure news straight from the source. Don't forget to follow us on your favourite podcast player.

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