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Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potentially catastrophic risks<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&utm_campaign=BN22326&utm_content=signup&utm_term=standfirst&utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Sign up for US Breaking News emails</a>Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today, ahead of a three-day visit that will undoubtedly see artificial intelligence (AI) high on the agenda.Speaking at the UN general assembly, Donald Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/22/donald-trump-unga-speech-iran-middle-east-ukraine-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6ab293298f088c606cb658fd#block-6ab293298f088c606cb658fd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">re-issued</a> his threat to “annihilate” Iran and “drive them into Hell” if the regime didn’t capitulate and make a deal.” He also said he was “working closely with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine” to end the disastrous war, defended his administration’s actions in Latin America – including the midnight raid to arrest former Venezuelan president Nicólas Maduro, defended his drone strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, accused Mexico of being effectively controlled by the cartels, and said it was “unacceptable” for the US to share a border with a nation under such conditions, pointed to regime change in Cuba and said he would reject any calls for a “globalist scheme” to control artificial intelligence.Shortly after his UN address, Trump signed a Greenland deal, which Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederick Nielsen said “underlines the importance of the Nato alliance.” In tricky, carefully worded paragraphs, she said the agreement “recognises the US defining historical and ongoing contributions to the security and defence of Greenland,” but it also “respects the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark, as well as Greenland’s right to self-determination.”Trump told a CNN reporter at the UN general assembly on Tuesday that he was “surprised” the outlet was covering him, saying it ‘shouldn’t be here’ after he banned the network alongside Politico and MS Now from the White House on Friday.At a joint press conference on Tuesday, vice-president JD Vance and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced that the federal government was removing 760,000 enrollees from Affordable Care Act insurance marketplaces. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/23/donald-trump-xi-jinping-ai-china-us-politics-latest-news-updates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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