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Claim: A video authentically shows a 104-year-old woman named Mabel Rose Thompson chiding U.S. President Donald Trump. Rating: In September 2026, Snopes readers searched this website for information about a video allegedly showing a 104-year-old woman named Mabel Rose Thompson chiding U.S. President Donald Trump. A search located a Threads post (archived) from Sept. 15 displaying the clip with the onscreen caption, “At 104, I’ve Seen 18 Presidents. Trump Was the Most Unforgettable.” That Threads post featured the TikTok watermark for a user who previously posted (archived) the video and garnered more than 2 million views. The video begins with…

Government has promised to fully investigate after 37 miners died while being held in police custody in Niger state.Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026Security forces in Nigeria have opened fire and deployed tear gas during protests over the deaths of 37 miners in custody.Demonstrators rallied in their hundreds in the mineral-rich city of Minna in Niger State during a second day of protests on Friday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIt was not immediately clear whether troops fired live ammunition or anti-riot pellets, but a witness told the Reuters news agency that bullets had been used and the…

“The situation we face is serious. It is serious due to the international situation and the consequence of wars that we endure,” Macron said. “In this context we need to stay united.” France’s dire fiscal outlook, which has prompted the government to pursue a €54 billion budget squeeze next year, will make it difficult for the state to massively subsidize increasingly expensive energy bills. Macron told reporters, however, that the government was working on targeted assistance proposals. Macron also said he was seeking to firm up French access to oil and gas supplies during recent meetings with leaders from Saudi…

The world’s poorest countries were worst hit by British aid cuts under Keir Starmer’s government, while higher-income countries saw their share of aid increase, new figures reveal.The latest figures released by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office show a 6.7% decrease in funding to the least-developed countries and low-income countries, amounting to cuts of £118m.The UK’s overall Official Development Assistance budget in 2025 decreased to 0.44% of gross national income (GNI), compared with 0.5% in 2024, a drop of £987m. Further cuts are expected as part of the plans announced last year by Keir Starmer, who said money would be…

Reform UK’s new mega-donor Ben Delo gave a £350,000 loan to a conservative writer fighting a legal case in which a judge later found she had engaged in online bullying and regrettable conduct with a “whiff of threat and antisemitism”.Nina Power and her friend, the writer Daniel DC Miller, brought the legal action for defamation against the performance artist Luke Turner, who they had accused of falsely calling them antisemitic. At the same time, Turner brought a counter-claim against the pair accusing them of harassment.Their libel action failed on the grounds that Turner’s online reach was not big enough to…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Berkshire Hathaway has named Howard Buffett as chair, replacing his father Warren, who will become chair emeritus of the company he spent six decades building into America’s best-known conglomerate.The elevation of Howard comes less than a year after Greg Abel became chief executive, capping the biggest shake-up at the top of the company since the elder Buffett took control of Berkshire in 1965, when it was a struggling New England textile mill.The 71-year-old Howard, the second of Warren’s three children and a…

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images ZDNET’s key takeaways A new study finds 62% of organizations are ill-prepared to tackle surging storage needs. Organizations must lean in to AI’s growing data demands and infrastructure readiness. “Sustainable scaling” may be the key to optimizing AI growth, according to Seagate’s study. Artificial intelligence is forcing organizations to evaluate increases in data storage like never before, but less than 40% of businesses believe their infrastructure is equipped to handle the expansion, according to new research from Seagate Technology. Seagate Technology’s 2026 Data Infrastructure Readiness Report found that 99% of IT leaders expect AI to increase their…

 An ongoing malware campaign uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories to impersonate well-known software firms to push a previously undocumented information stealer called Rapuncel. LastPass and Delphos Labs uncovered the campaign, which they report impersonates the password manager brand and at least 39 other companies. Alongside the Rapuncel infostealer, the repositories deliver a Microsoft-signed kernel driver that can disable 145 antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) products. The attack chain begins when victims search for LastPass Authenticator or other popular software and follow links to fake GitHub repos. There, clicking download buttons triggers a series of redirections before reaching payload-delivery servers,…

Hyperliquid has launched native manual borrowing, extending its trading infrastructure into credit as HYPE climbed to a fresh all-time high above $90.The Sept. 18 rollout lets users pledge HYPE or Bitcoin as collateral to borrow USDC or USDT directly through HyperCore. Hyperliquid said $269 million in assets were borrowed Friday, giving the new product immediate scale.The launch comes as Hyperliquid broadens the financial functions available inside its core infrastructure, allowing users to move between trading, collateral and credit without relying on separate lending protocols.HYPE has risen roughly 15% this week and traded above $90 on Friday, with CryptoSlate’s data recording…

Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has struck a two-decade-long deal with Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra, for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a U.S. project under development in Jefferson County, Texas. Port Arthur LNG; Source: Sempra Sempra Infrastructure has signed a 20-year sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Petrobras to supply approximately 0.8 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG, which will be sourced from the developer’s contracted liquefaction capacity at the Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 project, currently under construction in Jefferson County, Texas. Justin Bird, CEO of Sempra Infrastructure, commented: “We are pleased to…