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https://timesquarejournal.com/politics/trump-threatens-to-end-trade-with-canada-altogether-and-ottawa-declines-the-figh2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/316b55ed1d1c8e23.jpgDonald Trump has floated cutting off commerce with America's largest trading partner entirely, and the Canadian government's answer has been to refuse the terms on which the argument was offered. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/lindsay-clancys-lawyer-asks-trump-to-consider-a-pardon-which-the-president-canno2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/6386abf4aadf7725.jpgKevin Reddington made the appeal in a television interview days after his client's murder trial ended in a hung jury, in a case being prosecuted by the state of Massachusetts. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/an-appeal-court-has-ruled-that-calling-someone-a-bad-boss-is-not-implying-abuse2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/7fc1bdedcf8c1c42.jpgDan Schneider won the opening round against the producers of Quiet on Set, and a three-judge panel has now reversed that decision unanimously. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/ubss-chief-executive-says-the-calm-in-markets-is-the-thing-to-worry-about2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/653562cc3778f78e.jpgSergio Ermotti argues that volatility should be considerably higher given the state of the world, and that new risks keep arriving before old ones are resolved. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/france-has-built-an-emergency-service-for-independent-cinemas-and-signed-up-twen2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/825b9f3e697d3759.jpgIRIS is designed to intervene quickly when a cinema, distributor or nonprofit network is at risk, on the argument that exhibition cannot relocate the way production can. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/aaron-rodgers-says-the-sports-media-turned-on-him-over-covid-and-one-analyst-has2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/741eaedc0ad6afe9.jpgThe quarterback argues that people who were friendly stopped being friendly once he took a position, and the analyst he named says that was never what the criticism was about. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/a-co-hosted-podcast-has-come-back-with-a-new-co-host-six-weeks-after-the-hosts-d2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/0edcc36d1d72055a.jpgSophie Cunningham's show returns under a new name with a basketball trainer in the second chair, and neither she nor West Wilson has explained the change. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/the-executive-who-built-nbc-news-now-is-leaving-eleven-months-after-being-layere2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/78923a96e6eb69a3.jpgJanelle Rodriguez launched the streaming service and handled the Nightly News succession, then spent a year reporting to somebody who had not previously been above her. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/brent-gained-nearly-seven-per-cent-after-the-houthis-took-a-port-fifty-miles-fro2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/2bf9653d0d17bbe5.jpgStocks fell and ten-year yields topped 4.96 per cent while the European Central Bank raised rates on the same day, citing the war as continuing pressure on prices. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/jpmorgan-has-upgraded-meta-to-buy-and-forecast-negative-free-cash-flow-of-65-to-2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/f335dc614adeacb7.jpgThe bank sees roughly 30 per cent upside on the back of Meta's new AI agent, while modelling two consecutive years of cash burn on the infrastructure needed to run it. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/three-clancy-jurors-have-described-the-deliberations-and-what-the-holdout-said2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/49efa197dc3aabfc.jpgThe foreperson says the panel was never deciding whether Lindsay Clancy killed her children, but whether she knew it was wrong. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/tsmc-now-holds-72-5-per-cent-of-the-global-foundry-market-and-august-was-its-bes2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/ad230a532a8fc2c4.jpgRevenue rose 53.3 per cent year on year while its nearest competitor holds under six per cent of a market on which the entire AI buildout now depends. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/a-texas-band-teacher-has-been-arrested-a-second-time-over-alleged-relationships-2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/010618eab7a8969d.jpgJesse Orta faces allegations involving two 17-year-old pupils at the San Antonio school where he taught, and investigators say the first relationship continued after he resigned. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/the-hitman-she-met-on-tinder-was-a-confidential-informant2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/e1583062ff877ff0.jpgJaclyn Diiorio has been indicted federally over an alleged plot to have a Philadelphia police officer and his 19-year-old daughter killed, more than a year after her state arrest. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/rate-hike-odds-climb-above-70-percent-as-oil-and-treasury-yields-keep-rising2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/dcd7851796059473.jpgFutures pricing moved sharply on Thursday after the European Central Bank raised its own benchmark and crude extended a run driven by the conflict in the Gulf. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/playstation-cancelled-kojimas-next-game-in-june-and-xbox-has-picked-it-up2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/cc5a0d0bc6086965.jpgPhysint moves to Microsoft after three decades of work between Hideo Kojima and Sony, and the new deal extends into film and television. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/fewer-than-one-in-ten-enterprise-applications-is-fully-observable-and-agents-are2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/98d9a1032bd72e1c.jpgMissing visibility used to slow human teams down, but agents now deploy at machine speed into estates that nobody can fully see, which turns a cost problem into a control problem. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/kimmel-says-the-fcc-threatened-his-network-over-a-guest-booking-so-the-interview2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/6b65b4f5c261e587.jpgA sitting senate candidate will appear on a late-night show that cannot broadcast him, after what the host describes as pressure aimed at his affiliates. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/the-cost-of-software-is-no-longer-the-licence-it-is-the-number-of-places-people--c53a2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/5aa490ca6c0b2a96.jpgEvery switch between an app, a device and a workflow asks a person to reorient, repeat themselves or make another small decision, and the bill for that arrives as fatigue. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/the-supreme-court-did-not-say-the-demolition-was-legal-only-that-nobody-could-su2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/bc7de984063927c6.jpgFive justices left the East Wing question unanswered and dismissed the case on standing, while a 250-person crew worked 20 hours a day to make the ruling irrelevant. https://timesquarejournal.com/politics/the-republicans-held-a-convention-with-nobody-to-nominate-and-half-the-arena-was2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/367c0a221bbf1d80.jpgDonald Trump told the party's first midterm-year convention to imagine his name was on the ballot in November, and several of the candidates who need those votes did not turn up. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/la-la-land-went-back-to-venice-with-a-live-orchestra-and-cartier-paid-for-the-ro2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/a457dacb447b2017.pngThe film premiered at the festival ten years ago; on September 5 it returned to a Rococo opera house with its composer conducting and a jeweller's name on the programme. https://timesquarejournal.com/business/a-mortgage-holding-company-says-the-industry-digitised-the-paperwork-and-left-th2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/132bcc1a777c41fa.jpgSwish Holdings argues that twenty years of lending technology turned documents into PDFs without removing a single step, and it is building a stack to test that claim. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/a-mistrial-a-deadlocked-jury-and-the-father-who-asked-everyone-to-forgive-his-wi2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/b3a795b22f56cd52.jpgThree years after Lindsay Clancy strangled the couple's three children, Patrick Clancy has remarried and is threatening to sue the people accusing him online. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/the-smart-brevity-people-have-a-new-mantra-and-this-one-is-about-ai2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/fe5968e873db2903.pngThe Axios co-founders have written a book arguing that the useful application of AI is subtraction, and that the only person who can do it is the reader. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/washington-has-started-sanctioning-the-companies-that-service-irans-aircraft-whe2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/96d2681c56850a24.jpgThe Treasury has designated 27 Iranian airlines and nine firms outside Iran that kept them flying, which is the part that changes the calculation for everyone else. https://timesquarejournal.com/politics/trumps-senate-pick-in-texas-got-five-minutes-at-five-oclock-in-his-own-state2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/666e6c816e3b0976.jpgKen Paxton is trailing in the polls, and the convention his party staged in Dallas gave him a slot most delegates were still in traffic for. https://timesquarejournal.com/business/there-is-45-billion-dollars-of-demand-for-climate-resilience-and-almost-nothing-2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/0a96eeb7f12ede74.jpgInsurers have been pricing this risk with real money for years, and the money that arrives after a disaster is still structured to rebuild exactly what burned down. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/public-transit-is-the-best-available-blueprint-for-software-that-has-to-survive-2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/a972a11fbbcf9736.jpgA bus network cannot pause while the cloud comes back, and the engineering that follows from that is the discipline most technology companies are missing. https://timesquarejournal.com/politics/coinbases-chief-executive-says-crypto-rules-are-coming-whether-the-senate-votes-2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/16c129bc073dae4d.jpgA procedural vote on the CLARITY Act falls on September 15, and Brian Armstrong argues the regulators are ready to move either way. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/ai-is-eating-the-tasks-that-used-to-train-people-and-the-payroll-data-already-sh2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/2a4bea8b7835acd3.jpgBetween 27 and 43 per cent of the hours in entry-level professional work have gone, and most of what disappeared was the work that taught juniors how to judge. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/enterprise-data-rules-assume-a-human-makes-the-final-call-and-that-assumption-ha2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/0ec2624a6e9611d3.jpgAI agents are already drafting communications, updating customer records and approving transactions inside large organisations, under governance written for people. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/global-ad-spend-grew-8-6-per-cent-last-year-and-the-holding-companies-still-shra2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/cc013afa992ab719.jpgBrands are pulling work in-house and platforms are automating the rest, so agencies have quietly started buying delivery from each other under white-label arrangements nobody discloses. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/the-crypto-godfather-has-been-given-fifteen-years-for-a-daylight-kidnapping-in-c2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/197bb49088517b1b.jpgAdam Iza admitted financing an attempt to steal 50 million dollars in Bitcoin, and disputed his role in the carjacking that followed, which his lawyer thinks cost him. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/cbs-studios-has-moved-to-strike-a-former-matlock-writers-discrimination-suit2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/69fba8e1e69125bb.jpgThe studio has filed under California's anti-SLAPP statute, backed by declarations from the three producers named, and says an investigation found the accusations demonstrably inaccurate. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/hbo-has-committed-a-decade-to-hogwarts-and-that-is-the-real-story2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/c5411d53a487ae3a.jpgThe streamer has released an extended teaser for its Harry Potter series, but the number that matters is not the view count, it is the ten years the company has signed up for. https://timesquarejournal.com/media-and-influence/macron-wants-the-screen-industries-to-organise-before-the-images-win2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/408ad476245dbac6.jpgThe French president has written that the world built a civilisation of images and should not sit back while it degrades, and he has convened a summit to do something about it. https://timesquarejournal.com/politics/at-a-ceremony-for-the-first-responders-the-president-talked-about-himself2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/a9ee65248b13dca8.jpgDonald Trump used an event honouring the victims of September 11 to repeat claims about his own conduct that year for which there is no supporting evidence. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/the-couple-who-spent-two-decades-trying-to-undo-a-murder-conviction2026-09-12https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/cc6620f8a39e8662.webpEileen and Keen Umbehr were strangers to Dana Chandler when they took up her case, and they have now outlasted three verdicts in it. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/sec-censures-otc-link-and-fines-it-575-000-over-policies-it-never-finished-writi2026-09-23https://timesquarejournal.com/uploads/3cf74315d4d64c204acb.jpgThe Securities and Exchange Commission censured the operator of OTC Link ATS on 22 September, finding that an access control policy first flagged as a draft after a 2016 examination had still not been formally established seven fiscal years later. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/ftc-files-against-the-processor-it-says-banked-more-than-a-thousand-shell-mercha2026-09-23https://timesquarejournal.com/uploads/4b8c514ada4601fbf671.jpgThe Federal Trade Commission has accused 5967 Ventures, LLC, trading as Humboldt Merchant Services, of processing payments for more than a thousand shell merchants, and filed a proposed order that would impose a $12,000,000 judgment. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/justice-department-decree-would-cut-one-of-americas-largest-landlords-off-from-p2026-09-23https://timesquarejournal.com/uploads/f1bc28dd31d31a2811c3.jpgA proposed consent decree published in the Federal Register on 18 September 2026 would stop Pinnacle Property Management Services from using rental pricing software that runs on or was trained with other landlords' nonpublic data. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/manipulation-counts-dropped-a-90-000-penalty-ordered-how-a-swaps-case-quietly-en2026-09-23https://timesquarejournal.com/uploads/598e558e8b5b9c9abec4.jpgA federal judge in Manhattan ended the market manipulation case against swaps trader John Patrick Gorman III on 1 September with a $90,000 penalty over false statements to investigators, dismissing both manipulation counts with prejudice and giving no reason. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/sec-lifts-data-tagging-rules-that-no-firm-had-yet-had-to-follow2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/a8d201a58c487846.jpgThe Commission's order of 11 September removes Inline XBRL requirements from five market-intermediary filings, every one of which it had already pushed twelve months into the future a year earlier without notice and comment. https://timesquarejournal.com/tech/amazon-prime-refund-fund-reopens-over-the-gap-between-money-issued-and-money-tak2026-09-23https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/b8f8aa3ac467e909.jpgA stipulated order entered in Seattle on 14 September 2026 raises the per-consumer cap from $51 to $200, widens eligibility to Prime subscribers who used up to 20 benefits, and runs the payout programme into September 2027. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/five-regulators-rehearsed-a-clearing-house-failure-then-published-four-sentences2026-09-22https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/f76b238dc0e0fc24.jpgSenior officials from five American and British financial authorities worked through the hypothetical resolution of a central counterparty on 3 September 2026, and the joint account they published eight days later names no attendee, records no finding and commits to nothing. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/sec-proposes-four-cuts-to-its-proxy-rules-a-fifth-it-does-not-list-and-one-new-r2026-09-22https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/d19ac5fd95f0f5bb.jpgThe Commission puts the package at approximately $7.7 million a year in benefits against approximately $450,000 a year in costs, and none of it is in force. https://timesquarejournal.com/markets/sec-proposes-crypto-offering-rules-after-cancelling-the-meeting-called-to-consid2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/a8d201a58c487846.jpgThe Commission called off the public open meeting scheduled to take up Regulation Crypto Assets, issued the 146-page proposal four days later over the signature "By the Commission", and published no vote tally. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/nuvei-to-pay-4-85-million-over-merchant-screening-and-the-ftc-adds-a-knowledge-t2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/7fe742ca563ddb5e.jpgA federal judge in Arizona entered the order on 9 September 2026 and closed the case, and the two Commissioners who brought it used the filing to announce that the agency must now plead a processor knew of its merchants' wrongdoing, or avoided knowing. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/federal-trade-commission-proposes-to-treat-undisclosed-personalized-pricing-as-l2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/7fe742ca563ddb5e.jpgThe agency concedes it has no power to ban the practice and argues instead that setting a price from a shopper's own data, without saying so, is likely deceptive or unfair under the law it already enforces. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/ftc-moves-to-bar-beretta-from-putting-its-own-people-on-rugers-board2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/a16d2a0faa0c4909.jpgThe proposed consent order does not stop the Italian gunmaker buying up to a quarter of its American rival, but it requires that whoever takes a seat on that board be independent of Beretta. https://timesquarejournal.com/law/the-funding-theory-the-consumer-bureau-argued-lost-in-two-courts-and-then-stoppe2026-09-21https://desk-production-5af6.up.railway.app/i/20632b043ecf558d.jpgTen months after telling a federal court it could not lawfully draw money from the Federal Reserve, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has requested and received three payments, and no appeals court has ruled on the statutory phrase at issue. https://timesquarejournal.com/business/dr-kirk-sanford-wants-more-honesty-in-regenerative-medicine2026-09-18https://timesquarejournal.com/uploads/835c73d1d32b2fe70c28.pngSpend a little time reading about longevity medicine, and the terminology can start piling up quickly.