What changed the week of Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2026

Week by week

Where

World 99 · National 35 · Salt Lake City, UT 20 · San Francisco, CA 20 · Boston, MA 14 · Grand Rapids, MI 11 · Detroit, MI 3 · Holt, MI 1

Rule Changes 67

laws, rulings, regulations, approvals

• Boston judge orders immigrant freed, finds ICE has 'culture of outright lying' in court · Boston, MA
• Boston police appeal order forcing gun license for man who impersonated an officer · Boston, MA
• Federal safety oversight of MBTA returns to Massachusetts · Boston, MA
• Massachusetts bars debt collector who seized cars to coerce payments · Boston, MA
• More Massachusetts towns drop Flock license plate cameras · Boston, MA
• Supreme Court upholds counting of mail ballots that arrive after Election Day · Boston, MA
• Wu names tough tech incubator chief to lead Boston's economic development · Boston, MA
• Detroit probes Polymarket water tower as Michigan seeks to block prediction app · Detroit, MI
• Acquitted brothers sue FBI and Michigan officials over Whitmer kidnapping case · Grand Rapids, MI
• ArtPrize 2026 expands to 22 days with new preview week · Grand Rapids, MI
• Court voids DOE order keeping Michigan coal plant open · Grand Rapids, MI
• Grand Rapids launches new clinic to restore suspended driver's licenses · Grand Rapids, MI
• Michigan Supreme Court limits sex offender registry law to post-2011 cases · Holt, MI
• 2026 primary season closes with record congressional turnover · 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
• End of protected status for Haitians brings deportations and family separations · National
• House holds Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein probe · National
• House passes bipartisan bill to shield ratepayers from data center electricity costs · National
• Income hit a record and poverty fell in 2025, with safety net cuts looming · National
• Judge blocks DHS retaliation over harsh email to ICE official · National
• Judge orders Fox to hand over documents in shareholders' case · National
• Massie forces House vote on impeaching Hegseth over Iran war · National
• Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions for midterms · National
• Trump withdraws ICE director nominee after Senate confirmation stalls · National
• Trump's Kennedy Center overhaul · National
• Salt Lake City considers zoning change to allow more housing types across a third of the city · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City makes daily nonresidential water cap permanent · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City requires e-scooter riders to park in designated zones downtown · Salt Lake City, UT
• University of Utah dismisses cases against College Republicans over Kirkiversary cake post · Salt Lake City, UT
• University of Utah renews Utes name agreement with Ute tribe through 2031 · Salt Lake City, UT
• Utah Transit Authority drops fares for a weekend as it prepares to raise them · Salt Lake City, UT
• Utah supreme court expansion heads to final Senate vote · Salt Lake City, UT
• California funds free legal counsel for SF domestic violence survivors · San Francisco, CA
• Judge blocks University of California from punishing conservative group for misgendering · San Francisco, CA
• Judge dismisses all charges against 18 arrested at Stud Alley Pride party · San Francisco, CA
• Lawsuit accuses SF Standard CEO Griffin Gaffney of gender discrimination and harassment · San Francisco, CA
• Lawsuit challenges fast-track approval for Marina Safeway housing plan · San Francisco, CA
• Lurie declares rent emergency as San Francisco rents surge · San Francisco, CA
• Lurie's Youth Commission slate includes no public school students · San Francisco, CA
• The Office SF Built to Stop the Next Mohammed Nuru Just Got Smaller · San Francisco, CA
• Urban Alchemy expands street ambassadors to San Francisco's Outer Richmond · San Francisco, CA
• Bank of Japan raises rates to 31-year high · World
• C++26 makes trivial infinite loops well-defined · World
• China's new exit rules take effect, giving officials power to bar citizens from leaving · World
• Colombia bans new mining and oil projects across its Amazon · World
• Colombian prosecutors charge ex-foreign minister over nanny's lie detector test · World
• Congress moves to tariff the biggest buyers of Russian oil · World
• EPA repeals limits on power plant climate pollution · World
• FDA launches pilot to speed up early-stage drug trials · World
• FTC blocks Beretta from seating directors on Ruger board · World
• FTC settles Amway deception case for largest MLM recovery ever · World
• Greater one-horned rhino population hits record high · World
• Iranian banks lose SSL certificates as U.S. sanctions expand · World
• Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue · World
• Missouri governor orders 30-day data limit on Flock license plate cameras · World
• Newfoundland's Northern cod deemed healthy for first time since 1992 collapse · World
• Second Circuit allows warrantless cellphone searches at the border · World
• Spain blocks Archive.today and all its mirrors without a court order · World
• Swedish PM Kristersson resigns after centre-left wins narrow election majority · World
• TSA brings back gate access for non-ticketed travelers 25 years after 9/11 · World
• Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety features · World
• Trump administration overhauls nuclear safety regulations · World
• Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House · World
• UN backs new world map that corrects Africa's distorted size · World
• US restricts visas for South African officials over land, discrimination policies · World
• Yamanashi to charge Mount Fuji climbers for off-season rescues · World

New Capabilities 63

first deployments, launches, discoveries, measurements

• Boston free flu and COVID vaccine clinics begin against December funding deadline · Boston, MA
• Yemeni coffee and bakery C'Yool opens in Boston's South End · Boston, MA
• Grand Rapids tests evening and weekend homeless outreach during ArtPrize · Grand Rapids, MI
• Autism rates hold steady across birth cohorts, pointing to detection rather than epidemic · National
• Custom RNA drug improves rare ALS in first personalized case · National
• Four-week diet change shifts biological age markers in older adults · National
• NASA moon orbiter finds 728-foot crater that wasn't there before · National
• Ocean biology naturally brightens marine clouds, new research confirms · National
• Psilocybin trial misses primary endpoint in treatment-resistant depression · National
• Smart contact lens measures serotonin in tears non-invasively · National
• Stanford records first real-time quantum jumps of sound · National
• Study finds human brain grows from two separate cell lineages · National
• Teclistamab shows deep remissions in high-risk smoldering myeloma trial · National
• San Francisco's repair cafe movement expands to Mission District · San Francisco, CA
• ARPA-H launches SPECTRA, an AI-driven initiative to transform autism diagnosis · World
• Ancient DNA shows plague returned to Europe for centuries after Black Death · World
• Astronomers confirm youngest known planet, a baby Jupiter still forming · World
• CERN finds strong evidence of quantum entanglement in Z bosons from Higgs decays · World
• Chile first in South America to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies · World
• Coral reef presumed dead for 60 years found alive off West Africa · World
• DNA analysis identifies ancient Maine tree as a lost ancestor of American apples · World
• Diamond membranes generate voltage when bent, overturning a century-old assumption · World
• Diplodocus fossils found in Spain, first outside North America · World
• FDA approves Telix's Pixclara, first FET-PET imaging drug for glioma · World
• FDA approves first gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome type A · World
• FDA clears LigaSure vessel sealer for Medtronic's Hugo surgical robot · World
• FDA grants Aptitude first 510(k) clearance for next-gen Metrix COVID test · World
• Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies during safety test · World
• Hidden immune hubs in the skull may fight brain cancer · World
• JWST finds Chariklo's rings changing in opposite directions · World
• LSD-based pill clears late-stage anxiety trial · World
• Laser-etched panels desalinate seawater without producing brine · World
• Mathematicians prove graph sandwich conjecture after two decades · World
• Mexico reintroduces bison to desert reserve, ecosystem begins recovering · World
• Mice with human brain cells open a new path to studying brain disease · World
• Microscopic plant traces reveal 25,000 years of ritual burning in Australian cave · World
• NIST's 10-year measurement of gravity's constant deepens a 225-year puzzle · World
• New Horizons finds signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto · World
• New wild cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century · World
• Papal cipher from 1542 cracked with simulated annealing · World
• Paper claims proof of the 38-year-old k-server conjecture · World
• Papua New Guinea launches national HPV vaccination for girls · World
• Paradromics brain implant lets patient communicate in real time · World
• Plague killed hunter-gatherer families 5,500 years ago, study finds · World
• Plugin4Shell flaw hits top AI coding agents; two major vendors unpatched · World
• Pre-auth bug in 32-year-old GNU telnetd enables remote code execution on unpatched systems · World
• Researcher recovers hidden verification keys from driver's license barcodes · World
• Researchers identify new blood group MAL, ending 50-year search · World
• Roche-backed lung cancer drug clears phase 3 but trails GSK rival on survival · World
• Scientists find cells that survive their own death program to rebuild tissue · World
• Scientists reconstruct movies from mouse brain activity alone · World
• Scientists restore brain protein Menin, reverse aging signs in mice · World
• Studies find brain cell axons are strings of pearls, not smooth tubes · World
• Study confirms T. rex was warm-blooded with a human-like temperature · World
• Study maps sweeping brain genome changes between ages 50 and 75 · World
• Supermassive black hole winds are 100 times more powerful than thought · World
• Tanzania fossil discovery suggests oldest dinosaur fossils are younger than believed · World
• The great energy flip · World
• Two high school students crack an open math problem with AI assistance · World
• Waymo opens public robotaxi service in Las Vegas · World
• World's first solar ambulance completes Kenya real-world test · World
• World's largest battery-electric ferry arrives in South America after Pacific crossing · World
• Xenon pauses Phase 3 depression trials after psychosis events · World

Money Moves 28

deals, funding, acquisitions, cuts

• Judge freezes Barbara Lynch's bank accounts over unpaid Boston taxes · Boston, MA
• Landlord sues Groupon founder over shuttered WNDR museum · Boston, MA
• Books & Mortar reopens under new ownership after community effort · Grand Rapids, MI
• Wendy's franchisee Meritage files for bankruptcy · Grand Rapids, MI
• AI data centers push grid batteries past the 4-hour ceiling · National
• China cuts US Treasury holdings to lowest since 2008 amid global bond sell-off · National
• DOE launches $58 million push to scale up chemical production from waste feedstocks · National
• Treasury triples long-term debt buybacks as yields hit 2007 levels · National
• Trump-aligned super PACs launch late ad blitz in Republican midterm races · National
• Hines lists historic Kearns and Daynes buildings for sale in Salt Lake City · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City moves to sell airport-adjacent land to protect Great Salt Lake wetlands · Salt Lake City, UT
• Silverside Deli doubles Sugar House space, plans menu expansion · Salt Lake City, UT
• University of Utah plans layoffs after consulting reviews · Salt Lake City, UT
• Corgi's 24/7 cafe expansion faces health permit setback · San Francisco, CA
• Muni seeks state exemption to buy cheaper diesel-hybrid buses · San Francisco, CA
• Q Specialty Coffee expands downtown with tea-focused second location · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco Opera orchestra strikes, cancelling opening night over pay cuts · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco chocolate shop Topogato closes as cacao prices stay high · San Francisco, CA
• San Francisco committee advances OpenGov permitting contract without recommendation · San Francisco, CA
• Yank Sing closes one of two dim sum locations as lease expires · San Francisco, CA
• Amazon raises minimum starting pay to $20 an hour for US operations workers · World
• Berkshire Hathaway begins post-Buffett era under Greg Abel · World
• Fed hikes rates for first time since 2023 as Iran war drives inflation · World
• FleetCor to pay $100 million for hidden fuel card fees · World
• Longeveron's stem cell therapy misses pediatric heart trial goal, company launches strategic review · World
• North Carolina settles PFAS contamination claims with DuPont and Chemours · World
• Remittances to developing nations nearly double in a decade · World
• Wisconsin conservation groups protect nearly 2,000 acres along Sugar River · World

Built World 29

openings, construction, infrastructure

• BPDA approves housing near MBTA stations in Dorchester, Brighton · Boston, MA
• Fenway developers slash affordable units in revised Park Drive plan · Boston, MA
• New England's first soju distillery opens in Boston's Mission Hill · Boston, MA
• Belle Isle's century-old fountain set to reopen after $6M restoration · Detroit, MI
• Detroit building first BMX bike park at Dorais Park; a resident says it is open · Detroit, MI
• Global oil shock as Iran war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz · Grand Rapids, MI
• Grand Rapids Public Museum opens its archives to the community · Grand Rapids, MI
• Grand Rapids planning commission approves housing plan for shuttered Stocking school · Grand Rapids, MI
• US gasoline tops $4 on Labor Day for first time as Iran war tightens fuel supply · Grand Rapids, MI
• Costco rations motor oil as global shortage drives prices up · National
• Courts restore $5 billion EV charging program after Trump administration froze it · National
• US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts squeeze global supply · National
• Audit finds Salt Lake City can't cover water project debt, property tax recommended · Salt Lake City, UT
• First Utah farmers market to accept food stamps closes after 20 years · Salt Lake City, UT
• Pioneer Trail construction closes State Street near Utah Capitol · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City opens permanent supportive housing for people leaving homelessness · Salt Lake City, UT
• Salt Lake City proceeds with scaled-down sewage odor filter after west-side backlash · 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
• Tower Theatre sign removed in first step of 1928 facade restoration · Salt Lake City, UT
• Utah Capitol adds bronze sculptures fulfilling century-old art plan · Salt Lake City, UT
• Corey's Pizza opens in the Mission as lowriders and library branch plan returns · San Francisco, CA
• Uniqlo returns to downtown San Francisco after five-year absence · San Francisco, CA
• AWS cannot restore data lost in Iranian-struck Middle East data centers · World
• Indonesian ferry capsizes in Java Sea, leaving more than 100 missing · World
• Mesa approves $3B desert project with lake barred from municipal water · World
• Tennessee approves record interstate toll lane partnership · World
• US solar capacity now powers more than 50 million homes · World
• War-damaged Gaza City building collapses, killing displaced families · World

Force in Play 16

military and security actions

• Ex-CIA chief subpoenaed in federal probe of officials who investigated Trump · National
• Iran conflict shuts down the world's most important oil chokepoint · National
• US charges Russian intelligence operatives with murder plots in America and Europe · National
• US confirms for first time it has weapons deployed in orbit · National
• California security guards strike over wages at AI companies · San Francisco, CA
• Army Secretary Dan Driscoll steps down, leaving Army without confirmed top leaders · World
• Chess.com data leak exposes millions of accounts; evidence points to scraping · World
• Dozens of suspected illegal miners die in Nigerian custody · World
• Houthis strike Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery, reopening a front held quiet since 2022 · World
• Japan's centenarian population tops 100,000 for first time · World
• Screwworm returns to the US for the first time since 1966 · World
• Trump's Greenland gambit · World
• Turkey detains LGBTQ+ activists in nationwide raids tied to family-values push · World
• UN finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran school strike · World
• US allows Iranian delegation to attend UN General Assembly amid ongoing war · World
• US and Israel launch joint military campaign against Iran · 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.

55 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.