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Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A man has been arrested in connection with the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman whose body was discovered hanging from a tree behind a vacant house in Jackson, Mississippi, last month. Authorities have now classified Fortune’s death as a homicide, intensifying an investigation that has attracted widespread public attention because of both the circumstances of...

Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Ben Shelton has moved within one victory of ending a long wait for American men’s tennis after reaching his first Grand Slam final with a determined comeback victory over fellow American Frances Tiafoe at the US Open. The 23-year-old Shelton recovered from losing the opening set to defeat the 11th-seeded Tiafoe 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 in a gripping...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online New York has marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a powerful aerial memorial, using 2,977 illuminated drones to recreate the outline of the Twin Towers above New York Harbor. Each light represented one person killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, turning the night sky above the city into a visual remembrance of...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online More than two decades after the September 11 attacks, the consequences of the World Trade Center disaster continue to emerge in the lives of people who survived it. For one British journalist who reported from New York in the immediate aftermath, returning to the Ground Zero memorial this year carried a deeply personal significance. He was no longer...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Donald Trump has never been a conventional political campaigner. He has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to discard established political habits, challenge traditional campaign messaging and turn major political events into highly personal appeals to voters. Yet his latest promise may be one of the most striking examples of that approach. Speaking at the Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Anthropic says it has disrupted attempts to misuse its artificial intelligence systems for activities that could contribute to the development of biological and conventional weapons, highlighting the increasingly difficult challenge of controlling powerful AI tools while preserving their legitimate scientific uses. The California-based company said its Claude models had been misused in a wide range of activities during...

Published: 10 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how Facebook user information could be harvested and exploited for political purposes, the social media company is facing a major trial in New Mexico over allegations that it failed to protect hundreds of thousands of residents from misuse of their personal data. The case, which opened in Santa Fe,...

Published: 10 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks transformed the United States and reshaped global security policy, experts are warning that the country’s counter-terrorism capabilities are facing renewed pressure as resources are redirected, experienced officials leave government service and terrorism receives less attention within the broader national security agenda. The warning comes as the United States marks a quarter-century...

Published: 10 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US President Donald Trump has pledged to give every adult American citizen $5,000 if Republicans retain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections, making the extraordinary promise during a lengthy speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. The proposal, which could cost the federal government more than $1...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A year after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the organisation he founded is still grappling with grief, political pressure and deep questions over how to move forward without the man who built it from a small youth movement into a powerful force within American conservative politics. Turning Point USA, the ultraconservative activist organisation founded by Kirk in...