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White House Restores Access For Banned Media Outlets After Judge's Ruling

Update (1230ET): Following US District Judge Timothy J. Kelly's earlier decision, the Trump administration said in a legal filing that it has restored access for now to three media outlets the president had banned from White House grounds last week.

Reporters from CNN and MS NOW started returning to the White House grounds after a federal court had ordered a suspension of the ban.

The networks made announcements during their broadcasts on Thursday.

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As Melanie Sun reported earlier for The Epoch Times, a federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico while they challenge the revocation of their press passes in court.

Federal Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a temporary restraining order against the White House ban, reinstating hard pass access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in the early hours of Sept. 24.

Trump announced on Sept. 18 that he was banning the three news outlets from White House premises over their "constant 'reporting' fake news."

The White House revoked their access the following day.

In letters to the outlets dated Sept. 22, the White House said the organizations had violated "the standards of professionalism and decorum expected of those given access to the White House Complex, including by trafficking in verifiable falsehoods about national security and other issues, and publishing sensitive or classified information."

The outlets subsequently filed for a temporary restraining order, and a remote hearing was held on Sept. 23.

The judge issued the order hours after the hearing, saying the court's decision was "dictated by the application of well-known D.C. Circuit precedent that this Court must faithfully apply."

Kelly pointed to two prior court decisions. A 2019 decision sided with reporter Brian Karem, whose White House press pass was restored because the government failed to provide prior notice.

The other decision was the landmark 1977 Sherrill v. Knight case, which held that once the White House makes press facilities available to bona fide journalists, it cannot deny access arbitrarily or for less than compelling reasons. Denied applicants are entitled to notice of the factual basis for the decision, a chance to respond, and a written statement of reasons.

The Trump administration has argued that these precedent cases were wrongly decided.

Kelly said the media outlets and the three journalists listed as plaintiffs had shown that without the court's relief, they were likely to suffer irreparable harm, and that at a minimum, their procedural due process claim under the Fifth Amendment had a "likelihood of success."

Plaintiffs are also likely to succeed in showing that their hard passes were revoked without constitutionally adequate due process.

They did not "receive fair notice" of either the "conduct" that would lead to a sanction or of "the magnitude of the sanction that the White House might impose," Kelly said.

Balance-of-hardships and public-interest arguments also favor the plaintiffs, Kelly said.

In a filing after the hearing, the government submitted an MS NOW report dated Sept. 23 to support its case. The article claimed that unnamed administration officials were considering attaching Trump's name to Ford's Theatre in Washington.

Trump dismissed the report as "a ridiculous lie" in a Sept. 24 post on Truth Social.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2026 - 12:30

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FERC Rejects ComEd's Cancellation Of $20 Billion Data Center Contract

By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday rejected Commonwealth Edison’s “notice of cancellation” of a transmission security agreement, or TSA, for a 1.8-GW, $20-billion data center PowerHouse Hillwood Holding is developing in Joliet, Illinois.

In part, the contract dispute centers on the TSA’s credit support requirements. PowerHouse Hillwood contends it met the agreement’s initial credit requirements via a $1 posting, according to FERC’s decision.

The dispute is pending in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, according to the decision. In declining to take jurisdiction over the dispute, FERC said the courts can work it out just as well as the federal agency.

“Though we decline to assert primary jurisdiction over the interpretation of ambiguous contract terms involving credit support, our commitment to fair cost allocation, ratepayer protection, and regulatory clarity remains unwavering,” FERC Chairman Laura Swett and Commissioner Lindsay See said in a joint concurrence.

FERC’s decision highlights the “criticality” of the potential reforms that the agency proposed in large load interconnection show cause orders it issued in June to regional transmission organizations and independent system operators, the commissioners said. RTOs and ISOs have until mid-November to respond to the show cause orders.

Developing “clear and consistent” terms for connecting large loads with the transmission system is crucial, Swett and See said.

“It is also more important than ever that RTO/ISOs and their transmission owners may propose pro forma Cost Recovery Agreements,” they said. “And finally, it is more important than ever that any such agreements contain strong, consistent language that both protects customers from improper cost shifting and provides certainty to contracting parties.”

FERC Commissioner David Rosner said the dispute shows why the agency in its show cause orders directed RTOs and ISOs to develop pro forma cost‑recovery agreements for large loads. 

“Requiring security deposits helps ensure both project viability and transparency,” Rosner said. “Cost-recovery agreements matter because they enable efficient and accurate planning, and ensure that project risks stay where they belong: with the developer, not the public.”

FERC Commissioner David LaCerte lambasted the $1 letter of credit posted by PowerHouse Hillwood.

“The idea that $1 may provide appropriate security to any such agreement strikes me as an embarrassing legal fiction: insulting to the underlying ratepayers, stakeholders, and the grid itself that bear the real risk of this project,” LaCerte said. “Treating that risk as collateralizable for less than the price of a cup of coffee to me trivializes the very obligations that such a guarantee purports to secure.”

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2026 - 12:25

Kirk Cousins’ response to questions about his arm strength comes with a request: Consider everything that happens before the ball leaves his hand. The play call. The coverage. The progression. The responsibility to pass up a tempting throw when the defense has something else in mind. A short completion, the Raiders quarterback argues, does not...

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The Israel Defense Forces said that it had eliminated Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad, a Hamas commander who, according to the military, held seven hostages in a Gaza tunnel during the war.

NatGas Spikes As Major West Virginia Pipeline Declares Force Majeure

TC Energy's Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline system issued a notice requiring an "immediate pressure reduction" on Mountaineer XPress Line 100 between the Mt. Olive Compressor Station in Jackson County and the Saunders Creek Regulator Station in Cabell County, West Virginia, warning that an "expected mechanical issue" would reduce scheduled volumes.

Columbia Gas Transmission moves Appalachian NatGas to markets across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast, with connections carrying supplies deep south to export terminals on the Gulf of America.

The affected Mountaineer XPress (MXP) pipeline in West Virginia feeds two main outlets:

• Regional markets: Columbia's TCO trading pool, serving Midwest, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic customers.
• Southern markets: The Leach interconnection in Kentucky, where gas enters Columbia Gulf Transmission for transportation toward the Southeast and Louisiana's Gulf Coast.

NatGas research firm Criterion Research provided clients earlier today with an update on the outage:

TCO declared force majeure this morning following an unexpected mechanical issue on its Mountaineer XPress (MXP) system between the Mt. Olive Compressor Station and Saunders Creek Regulator Station in West Virginia, with the pipeline set to cut the MXPSEG MA42 constraint to zero beginning with the Sept. 25 Timely Cycle.

TCO estimates 1.8 MMDth/d of firm service will be affected, roughly matching the 1.88 MMDth/d currently scheduled through MXPSEG.

MXP is a 2.7 Bcf/d Appalachian takeaway system moving Marcellus/Utica supply south through West Virginia into TCO's broader system. Upstream MXP receipts have not yet materially responded, with Sherwood flowing ~714 MDth/d, Corral ~267 MDth/d and Viking ~5 MDth/d today, but the full restriction should begin showing up in tomorrow's nominations and could force significant rerouting or production cuts if the roughly 1.8 Bcf/d cannot find alternate paths. TCO has not provided a restoration timeline and expects to issue another update Friday morning.

October gas futures climbed 4.5%, or 13.6 cents, to $3.159 per million British thermal units on Nymex as of 11:00 a.m. ET. Prices have jumped more than 12% since early Wednesday. 

Flow restrictions can tighten downstream supplies even when natural gas remains abundant at producing wells across Appalachia.

 

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2026 - 12:10

Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.

Anthropic CEO (Again) Warns Poorly Managed AI Could Be 'Risk To Humanity'

Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times,

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could "be a risk to humanity as a whole" during a briefing before the United Nations Security Council on Sept. 23.

Amodei was among the top AI executives who spoke at the meeting - organized by France during the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders - which also included statements by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clément Delangue.

Amodei urged the 15-member council to advance U.N. agreements that ban the use of AI to form biological weapons, and encouraged the council to build evaluation and verification systems allowing nations to hold each other accountable, establish global standards to test AI models for loss of control risks and misuse risks, and add a notification system for AI incidents that are significant to global security.

"We will slow down as much as necessary in order to make sure that every successive AI technology that we release is actually safe," Amodei said during his video remarks.

"But regardless of what we do, managing these risks is ultimately bigger than any one company, and it has an industry-wide and global scale."

Amodei suggested there's a chance AI could become a "country of geniuses in a data center" in fewer than two years.

Meanwhile, Altman warned in his speech that humans "could lose control of the future to AI."

"The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed," Altman said. "This would obviously be terrible. The industry must not accept too much technological risk just because the benefits are too great and they feel too important to slow down."

Altman said no person, company, or country should be able to use the most powerful AI models to impose their worldview on everyone else.

Calls to slow the advancement of AI have surged after Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI researcher who resigned from Anthropic, said on Sept. 8 that people building AI think it could kill us all "by the end of the decade."

OpenAI acknowledged an incident involving rogue AI agents who were able to breach the open-source AI community Hugging Face.

Delangue, the Hugging Face co-founder, told the council on Wednesday that he believed fear-based narratives are not the way to make the right decisions about the technology's future.

"We were attacked by AI, but more importantly, we defended ourselves with AI," Delangue said.

"The same systems that helped us during this attack are now helping us against cyberattacks we were already facing. It's also helping us fix the bugs and weaknesses in our systems before the attack."

The meeting came one day after U.S. President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that the United States "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" artificial intelligence, which he attempted to rebrand as "super intelligence."

Trump said he wanted to change the name because "artificial" made the technology sound fake.

The U.S. State Department ordered diplomats to use "super intelligence" in all communications following Trump's speech at the UN, according to an email sent Sept. 22 by Michael Drager, deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.

The president has endorsed the technology and urged its expansion, insisting that the United States needs to beat China in the AI race.

"We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins," Trump said while speaking with reporters at his golf course in Ireland on Sept. 13.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/24/2026 - 11:40