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With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races--while virtually forfeiting the House. Trump White House aides see almost no paths to Republicans keeping control of the House in the midterm elections, and are more focused on redoubling their efforts to save the Senate majority. That has been the takeaway for officials in GOP groups who have been discussing the state of play with White House aides in recent weeks, according to three sources familiar with the situation. It all comes as the White House moves into damage-control mode after contemplating for the first time earlier this month, as previously reported, that Republicans could possibly lose both chambers of Congress. The general expectation is that the House has become a lost cause.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure despite Donald Trump's ceasefire announcement, accusing Vladimir Putin of rejecting peace efforts.

Image caption, Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor Rachel Jupp has been appointed the new director of BBC News, nearly a year after the previous CEO resigned. Deborah Turness announced last November that she would step down from the role following the fallout over how Panorama edited a speech by President Trump. Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor, but left several years before the controversial Trump episode aired. Jupp said she was honoured to be asked to lead BBC News, while the corporation's director-general Matt Brittin described her as an outstanding editorial leader. The appointment comes as the BBC continues to make sweeping cuts to its news division.

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President Donald Trump's push to rename AI may be behind an unprecedented rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry. The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian websites. She said the scale of activity in late September was unprecedented compared to the previous 12 months. President Trump called for the technology to be renamed during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 11 September. The use of the word artificial makes it sound fake, he said.

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Pakistan's new drone deal is with Trump-backed firm also selling to India Share Pakistan's new drone deal is with Trump-backed firm also selling to India on social media On September 16, a delegation from Powerus, a year-old United States drone company backed by two sons of President Donald Trump, was received by Pakistan's military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, at military headquarters in Rawalpindi. A day later, the company announced it had received a "limited procurement order" from Pakistan's Ministry of Defence for unmanned aerial systems. It also said it had signed a separate memorandum of understanding (MoU) with senior Pakistani defence officials. But for analysts studying Pakistan's venture in drone technology, even bigger concerns have arisen from information that has since emerged. Less than three months earlier, the same company had given an Indian defence manufacturer the exclusive right to make and sell its drone interceptor technology in India.

President Trump addresses the UN General Assembly as 73% of Americans say the UN does a poor job maintaining international peace and security, a new Gallup poll shows.

Xi Jinping should bring Jimmy Lai to Washington when he meets Donald Trump, releasing the Hong Kong democracy advocate as a good-faith gesture amid trade and tariff talks.