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Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing

By Kate Turton

Hello. In the US, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is yanked off air after remarks about Kirk, and Kennedy accelerates vaccine policy changes. Over in the UK, Starmer and Trump will discuss foreign affairs and investment.

Plus, the unwitting travelers who wound up as cyber scam slaves.

 

Today's Top News

 

Jimmy Kimmel arrives at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/File Photo

United States

  • Disney's ABC is pulling "Jimmy Kimmel Live" off the air, after the late-night show's host commented on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Lisa Richwine joins the Reuters World News podcast to talk what Kimmel actually said and what the fallout could be for networks - listen now. In response, Hollywood blasted the White House for targeting free speech.
  • Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. is accelerating efforts to remake the nation's vaccine policies, pushing past the objections of government scientists and lawmakers, as well as mounting calls for his removal.

In other news

  • Donald Trump arrived at British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's country residence for talks designed to focus the US leader's unprecedented second state visit firmly on global affairs rather than domestic political problems. Follow live.
  • Pope Leo will keep Pope Francis' signature policies to welcome gay Catholics, discuss women's ordination and give China input on bishop appointments, but is not planning big changes to Church teaching, he said in his first interview.
  • It's the million dollar question that may decide the fate of French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu: how to tax France's billionaires? The Macron loyalist who last week became France's fifth prime minister in less than two years, is racing to draft a budget. Meanwhile, French unions strike against austerity.
  • Some of the most senior US diplomats focused on Syria have been abruptly let go from their posts in recent days, according to five people familiar with the matter, a shake-up that comes as Washington seeks to integrate its Syrian Kurdish allies with the central administration in Damascus.
  • Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact, significantly strengthening a decades-old security partnership a week after Israel's strikes on Qatar upended the diplomatic calculus in the region.
  • Congo's army and Rwandan-backed rebels are reinforcing military positions and blaming each other for flouting peace accords in an escalation that experts say risks reigniting the simmering conflict, which Donald Trump claims to have ended.
 

Business & Markets

 
  • Investors look set to face a volatile few months ahead after the Federal Reserve resumed interest rate cuts and opened the door to further easing but tempered its message with warnings of sticky inflation, sowing doubt over the pace of future policy adjustments.
  • Meta launched its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, seeking to extend the momentum of its Ray-Ban line, one of the early consumer hits of the artificial intelligence era.
  • Huawei outlined its long-term chip plans for the first time and said it would launch some of the world's most powerful computing systems - underscoring China's drive to wean itself off foreign semiconductor suppliers like Nvidia.
  • For more on markets, watch our daily rundown.
  • Anglo American’s $50 billion agreed merger with Teck Resources reignites the fitful quest by big extractors to join forces in the hunt for metal essential to the energy boom. In this week’s Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists debate the likely consequences.

Tariffs

  • Automakers have been absorbing billions in added expenses since President Trump’s tariffs took effect in April, sparing American car shoppers from sticker shock. So far.
  • Swiss goods exports to the US dropped by more than a fifth in August, the month in which Trump imposed 39% tariffs on the country, official data showed.
  • Trump's trade war is helping to push US clothing and footwear acquisitions to all-time highs this year, with some companies merging to help offset tariff costs while others go private to weather the next 3-1/2 years of his presidency outside of the public market, dealmakers say.
 

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