What changed this week

Week by week

Where

World 100 · National 33 · Boston, MA 26 · San Francisco, CA 19 · Salt Lake City, UT 18 · Grand Rapids, MI 11 · Holt, MI 2 · Detroit, MI 1 · Greenville, MI 1

Rule Changes 77

laws, rulings, regulations, approvals

• Appeals court backs due process for immigrants deported to third countries · Boston, MA
• Beacon Hill cocktail bar wins later weekend hours in quiet-trash deal · Boston, MA
• Federal safety oversight of MBTA returns to Massachusetts · Boston, MA
• MBTA begins camera enforcement of bus lanes and stops · Boston, MA
• Massachusetts high court orders new trial in 2014 J'ouvert killing over flawed gunshot-residue evidence · Boston, MA
• Grand Rapids expands community violence prevention as city reports mixed crime trends · Grand Rapids, MI
• Judge orders Moms for Liberty member to pay for harassing school librarian · Grand Rapids, MI
• Kent County approves childcare plan to close 20,000-slot gap · Grand Rapids, MI
• Michigan begins mailing absentee ballots for Nov 3 election · Grand Rapids, MI
• Stanton approves tax break to modernize apartments · Greenville, MI
• Lansing-area transit agencies offer free rides to polls through Election Day · Holt, MI
• Michigan limits renter fees, eases security deposit returns · Holt, MI
• Argentina and United States sign sweeping trade agreement · National
• Clean energy project cancellations sweep the US after federal rollback · National
• Congress confronts its war powers as US-Iran conflict escalates without authorization · National
• Court reinstates $7 billion 'Solar for All' program cut by EPA · National
• Missouri Supreme Court blocks new congressional map, sends it to voters · National
• Shale executives face antitrust suits over OPEC coordination · National
• Trump administration cancels ACA coverage for hundreds of thousands over fraud claims · National
• Trump freezes $28 billion in east coast wind farms · National
• Trump's national energy emergency faces widening court challenges · National
• US alcohol use falls for first time since pandemic as younger adults drink less · National
• eBay bans airbag sales after counterfeit inflators linked to deaths · National
• Court fight over Trump's federal voter list · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City adds first new justice court judge in two decades · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City airport to raise hangar rents in two steps · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City considers zoning change to allow more housing types across a third of the city · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City names Joel Long as its first poet laureate · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City's 1% arena sales tax lands on all purchases · Salt Lake City, UT
• University of Utah settles with fan ejected from BYU-Utah game · Salt Lake City, UT
• Utah pauses age-verification enforcement pending Pornhub lawsuit · Salt Lake City, UT
• California signs law raising penalties for sideshow participation · San Francisco, CA
• Lurie extends Mission BART plaza cleanup strategy indefinitely · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco approves Therapy store on Clement Street over merchant opposition · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco makes Thrive City a full-time entertainment zone · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco mayor strikes early union deal to avoid layoffs through 2029 · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco narrows César Chavez Street replacement to two names · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco passes law requiring contractors to pay street cleaners prevailing wage · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco sues Trump Media over early-access post subscription · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco supervisor bill would legalize home-kitchen food sales · San Francisco, CA
• A democratic socialist breaks through in New York City · World
• CBP suspends de minimis exemption for mail shipments, tightening prescription imports · World
• California adds penalties for influencers who hide paid political posts · World
• DoorDash settles NYC delivery worker pay dispute for $131.5 million · World
• EU ambassadors agree to lift sanctions on two Russian oligarchs, extend others for three years · World
• EU's €3 small-parcel duty ends tax-free shipping for US sellers · World
• FTC overhauls rules of practice, drops ethics clearance requirement · World
• Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by end of 2029 · World
• GSA official sentenced to three years for steering contracts for bribes · World
• German town of Heidenau votes to ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' · World
• Irish watchdog fines Google €403m over location data handling · World
• Italian parliament approves return to nuclear power · World
• Italy bans face veils in schools and caps non-Italian students per class · World
• Japan tightens permanent residency rules for foreign workers · World
• Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users about data privacy · World
• Jury orders Apple to pay record patent damages over iPhone haptics · World
• LinkedIn wins permanent court order blocking ProAPIs from scraping user data · World
• Lula bans online betting in Brazil, reversing 2023 legalization · World
• Meta restricts Lula's Facebook page and campaign ads before Brazil election · World
• Montreal adopts bylaw fining insults against municipal employees · World
• Ohio Supreme Court blocks ballot measure targeting AWS data center · World
• Pentagon threatens to blacklist Anthropic over military AI safeguards · World
• Seattle bans grocery 'surveillance pricing' based on personal data · World
• Seattle bans rental junk fees, requires upfront pricing · World
• Senate committee advances 2026 water bill with new pipe-funding renewal · World
• Serbia's Vučić resigns as president to run for prime minister · World
• Singapore makes bus nuisance behaviour a finable offence, aligning with rail rules · World
• South Sudan's president dissolves government ahead of first national elections · World
• Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over Easter Sunday bombings · World
• Supreme Court allows expanded citizenship-check database before midterms · World
• Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules, keeping sanctions and NATO options · World
• Texas shuts down Trinidad police department after audit finds no public benefit · World
• Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House · World
• U.S.-China diplomatic reset under Trump's second term · World
• UK brings first charges over 1994 Rwanda genocide · World
• US high schoolers' mental health improves from record lows · World
• WordPress patches critical flaw present in every version since 2016 · World

New Capabilities 61

first deployments, launches, discoveries, measurements

• Delta adds Boston-Venice nonstop as it expands Logan's European network · Boston, MA
• Board game café Kobold's Kitchen holds grand opening in Grand Rapids' Creston · Grand Rapids, MI
• Alpine peaks across Northeast U.S. and Canada are greening as shrubs move in · National
• FAA launches AI system to manage air traffic · National
• First feathers discovered in 66-million-year-old dinosaur dung · National
• Heatwave seasons have lengthened by about a month since 1979, global analysis finds · National
• Mammals produce cyclo-octasulfur rings to suppress ferroptosis · National
• Researchers identify five brain activity profiles in major depressive disorder · National
• Shinbone compression helps brains heal, mouse and pig study finds · National
• Solar panels from the 1980s still produce over 80% of original power, Swiss study finds · National
• Study finds human brain grows from two separate cell lineages · National
• Andreessen Horowitz launches SF academy for 'builders' with no grades or degree · San Francisco, CA
• SFUSD reveals temporary location for new Mandarin immersion school · San Francisco, CA
• 1.7-billion-year-old fossils show early complex life needed oxygen · World
• Acadia pushes Alzheimer's psychosis drug to phase 3 despite missed trial goal · World
• Alkermes unveils ADHD data for orexin drug, expanding the class beyond sleep disorders · World
• Amateur astronomer spots 390-million-year-old impact crater on satellite maps · World
• Amgen's dazodalibep clears phase 3 Sjögren's trial · World
• Ancient meteorite grains reveal magnetism helped build the solar system · World
• Astronomers find first stellar stream beyond the Milky Way · World
• Autonomous flight crosses the US for the first time · World
• Beacon's gene therapy for inherited blindness hits primary goal in pivotal trial · World
• Blood vessels preserved in a broken rib of the largest known T. rex show healing in progress · World
• Buried volcanic complex on Moon's far side points to ancient magnetic field · World
• CERN begins disconnecting Large Hadron Collider for high-luminosity upgrade · World
• Carbon-capturing concrete proves stronger than conventional mixes · World
• Cascadia subduction zone is tearing apart off Vancouver Island · World
• Celldex antibody hits phase 3 goals for chronic hives, setting up 2027 FDA filing · World
• Cue Biopharma's Xolair challenger clears phase 2 in chronic hives · World
• Diskless white dwarf powers 1,000-year shock wave that shouldn't exist · World
• FDA approves SELUTION SLR, first sirolimus drug-eluting balloon in the US · World
• Fragment of world's oldest peace treaty unearthed in Turkey · World
• GPT-6 Astra breaks 1941 Enigma message that resisted solution for 21 years · World
• Genetic study splits gentoo penguins into four species · World
• Kyverna touts year-long miv-cel data as Novartis, Bristol Myers pause autoimmune CAR-T trials · World
• LHC search narrows hiding places for quantum black holes · World
• Lead in ancient ink makes burned Herculaneum scrolls readable by X-ray · World
• Lutetium atomic clocks verified at the 19th digit · World
• Merck's remigromig meets main goal in pivotal eye disease trial · World
• Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that acts across personal apps · World
• Mexican gray wolves reestablish in Durango's forests after 50-year absence · World
• Mexico reintroduces bison to desert reserve, ecosystem begins recovering · World
• Needle-thin brain implant packs recording, stimulation, and drug delivery into one fiber · World
• Netherlands builds sovereign Linux workspace to replace Microsoft for government · World
• New wild cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century · World
• Non-Abelian anyons prove capable of universal quantum computing · World
• Norway's new car market is now almost entirely electric · World
• ORNL turns plastic waste into fuel with low-temperature molten salts · World
• One-time CRISPR therapy keeps cholesterol lower for a full year in early trial · World
• OpenAI agents accessed US government websites without authorization · World
• OpenAI pauses training of latest models after AI agents act beyond instructions · World
• Otsuka, Ionis ALS drug hits primary Phase 3 endpoint, heads to FDA · World
• Picosecond pulses push superconductors past their critical-current limit · World
• Researchers discover backup pathway for essential amino acid that may help tumors resist treatment · World
• Researchers turn Avast sandbox kernel bug into SYSTEM-level exploit · World
• Roche's dual GLP-1/GIP drug posts strong phase 2 diabetes results · World
• Roche's sefaxersen meets phase 3 goal, joining IgAN market battle with Novartis · World
• Solar system's first bodies built mostly from heat-forged rock, not ice · World
• Stanford records first real-time quantum jumps of sound · World
• Suntory engineers bluest rose yet using co-pigment strategy · World
• Time crystals synchronize across long distances in a semiconductor · World

Money Moves 32

deals, funding, acquisitions, cuts

• Beacon Financial names Sean Gray CEO as Paul Perrault retires · Boston, MA
• Blanchard's, decades-old Allston liquor store, confirms it will close · Boston, MA
• Boston licenses a six-seat Starbucks as the chain closes 250 stores · Boston, MA
• BostonPads launches private lending division with Roc Capital · Boston, MA
• Cunard Tavern closes in East Boston · Boston, MA
• Frugal Fannie's closing Westwood store after 43 years · Boston, MA
• Kappy's buys West Roxbury Blanchard's, keeps the manager · Boston, MA
• Massachusetts seizes Jamaica Plain pizza shop over unpaid taxes · Boston, MA
• UGG opens Newbury Street pop-up with Snoopy-themed boots · Boston, MA
• Wells Fargo forecloses on Boston's 100 Summer St. office tower · Boston, MA
• Yeanie's retro burger spot opens second Boston location · Boston, MA
• Grand Rapids firm Rockford becomes 100% employee-owned · Grand Rapids, MI
• Hope Network acquires Developmental Enhancement Behavioral Health · Grand Rapids, MI
• Wendy's franchisee Meritage files for bankruptcy · Grand Rapids, MI
• 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2004 as global bond selloff deepens · National
• Fed hikes rates for first time since 2023 as Iran war drives inflation · National
• Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion hostile bid ignites a fight for Warner Bros. Discovery · National
• Treasury triples long-term debt buybacks as yields hit 2007 levels · National
• Trump administration redirects $500M clean steel grant to coal furnace · National
• Venezuela opposition walks fine line over U.S. oil deal · National
• Foreclosed Granary District campus rebrands as Foundry43 under ACORE Capital · Salt Lake City, UT
• LiveSwitch expands in downtown Salt Lake City, offers free tech to small businesses · Salt Lake City, UT
• Rowland Hall's Lincoln Street campus to be sold to student housing developer · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City food nonprofit may pause meal service after funding shortfall · Salt Lake City, UT
• Trolley Coffee Company opens in Salt Lake City's Trolley Square · Salt Lake City, UT
• UFL expands to 10 teams with four new markets by 2028 · Salt Lake City, UT
• Raising Cane's opens first San Francisco location at Fisherman's Wharf · San Francisco, CA
• SF Girls Chorus lists Hayes Valley headquarters for sale · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco artists may lose studio as AI boom drives rents up sharply · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco pretrial diversion nonprofit files closure notice · San Francisco, CA
• Kentucky buys and cancels $250 million in medical debt for 130,000 residents · World
• Telix acquires isotope maker ITM in deal worth up to $2.35 billion · World

Built World 30

openings, construction, infrastructure

• Boston board approves scaled-down Dorchester apartment addition · Boston, MA
• Boston zoning board approves condo building atop ledge next to Dorchester cemetery · Boston, MA
• Dorchester parking lot to become ten-unit apartment building · Boston, MA
• Ed Sheeran cancels Gillette Stadium concerts as nor'easter hits · Boston, MA
• MBTA shifts from piecemeal repairs to prolonged shutdowns · Boston, MA
• Mission Hill nursing school conversion to 103 apartments approved · Boston, MA
• New Irish pub with live music approved for Adams Village · Boston, MA
• Rubin Rudman expands with 58,000-square-foot lease in Boston's Financial District · Boston, MA
• Detroit soup kitchen trades cafeteria lines for full-service meals · Detroit, MI
• Calvin University opens football stadium after two nomadic seasons · Grand Rapids, MI
• Grand Rapids seeks artist for gun violence memorial sculpture · Grand Rapids, MI
• New apartment building underway in Grand Rapids' Tapestry Square · Grand Rapids, MI
• 71.5% of U.S. coastal land is sinking, study finds · National
• DOE commits $1.9 billion to modernize aging US transmission lines · National
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve drains to lowest level since 1982 · National
• US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts squeeze global supply · National
• US solar module production passes 100 GW cumulative landmark · National
• Delta Center adds 1,500 full-view seats in dual-sport arena rebuild · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City's 'cat park' reopens after bond-funded renovation · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City, UDOT draft emergency plan for displaced flood residents · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake Temple to open to public for first time since 1893 · Salt Lake City, UT
• Inner Sunset sandwich shop expands to former Twitter HQ food hall · San Francisco, CA
• Market Street building fills with arts and media tenants, not tech companies · San Francisco, CA
• Ripley's Believe It or Not to close S.F. Fisherman's Wharf location after nearly 60 years · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco's Excelsior gets its first comic book shop, an arcade to follow · San Francisco, CA
• Dangote, Ethiopia, and Djibouti break ground on $660m fuel pipeline · World
• Former Memphis hotel becomes permanent housing for 110 homeless veterans · World
• HALO Trust completes 27-year landmine clearance in Kosovo · World
• Lake Powell hits record low amid Colorado River drought · World
• Poland, Westinghouse-Bechtel agree commercial terms for first nuclear plant · World

Force in Play 11

military and security actions

• Brigham nurses authorize open-ended strike in stalled contract fight · Boston, MA
• Brent crude nears $100 as Strait of Hormuz shipping halves · National
• Oil tankers halt Strait of Hormuz transit after US-Israel strikes on Iran · National
• Gauteng’s tavern killings: Bekkersdal massacre deepens a December pattern of public-space slaughter · World
• Nigeria investigates deaths of dozens of detainees in overcrowded cell · World
• Seven Ethiopian armed groups form coalition against Abiy's government · World
• Sri Lanka's largest mass grave uncovered in Jaffna · World
• Toxic haze from Indonesian wildfires sickens tens of thousands · World
• Trump's Greenland gambit · World
• United Russia keeps Duma majority in Russia's first wartime election · World
• Venezuela's opposition under continued pressure after Maduro's removal · World

How this is counted

A change is something that happened, not something that was said: a law passed, a ruling, a first deployment, a deal, an opening. Each one here is a published Newzino story with its sources.

We only count the 64 sources we were already reading on 2026-09-07. We add sources all the time, and more sources means more stories - that would make the world look faster when only our reading list grew. Keeping the list fixed means a change in this number is a change in the news, not in us.

57 of those 64 sources published something this week. A source that goes quiet lowers the count too, so check this line before reading a drop as a slow week. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, US Eastern time.