The Trump administration plans to announce that the Environmental Protection Agency will stop placing limits on the greenhouse gases created by power plants, The New York Times reported, citing two people familiar with the proposal.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is reportedly expected to announce the lifted restrictions on carbon dioxide and other planet-warming pollution during a meeting on Monday in Houston.

The power sector is the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., behind transportation.

President Donald Trump earlier this year called climate change “a scam” and the “greatest con job ever perpetuated.” The EPA last year proposed eliminating greenhouse gas emission reporting until 2034, calling it “burdensome” and “costly.”

Three AI giants — OpenAI, Google and Anthropic — had been in talks about setting up an AI industry standards body even before Dario Amodei published a more than 3,000-word essay over the weekend calling for an AI development slowdown and industry-wide coordination, according to multiple reports.

The Information reported that representatives from the three companies have been holding regular meetings since July about establishing the body.

A draft White House executive order that would have created the testing and auditing organization for the industry was reportedly scrapped earlier this summer amid internal opposition. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had also allegedly argued against it in a call with President Donald Trump, per Politico.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a recent town hall he endorsed the idea of a standards group, while conceding that AI companies would likely have to proceed on it without support from the U.S. government, The Information noted.

Joe diGenova, a former federal prosecutor who was brought on by the Justice Department to lead the probe into President Donald Trump’s political rivals, had a tense call with Attorney General Todd Blanche a day before resigning from his post, CNN reported on Monday.

DiGenova and Blanche allegedly clashed because diGenova did not want lawyers from the DOJ’s headquarters to assist in the probe, per CNN.

The report notes that diGenova had also requested the creation of a high-security room at the Florida office his team worked out of, but the DOJ suggested they use the secure room at an FBI office miles away.

DiGenova abruptly resigned on Thursday — the same day prosecutors were presenting a witness to a grand jury in the investigation, the network reported.

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China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday hit back at a call from the head of Anthropic for the U.S. to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, which he issued as he argued for a global slowdown on AI development.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI governance, among other topics, at a meeting planned on Sept. 24.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a lengthy essay published on Saturday warned that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.” He called for continuing restrictions on sales of cutting-edge AI chips and chipmaking equipment to China in order to keep the U.S.’s AI edge.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for “pacing” the development of artificial intelligence, while warning that there is a real danger that humans “could lose control of the future to AI.”

“When we talk about ‘pacing,’ we do not mean ‘stopping’. Progress has been rapid and will continue to be. But it should be slower than it otherwise could be; interventions like safety cases and monitoring have significant costs,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring.”

Altman said AI companies will still need the government’s help when it comes to establishing an international AI framework.

“But first we should do what we can ourselves,” he said.

In a follow-up post, Altman noted that “there are two ways AI progress could go very badly.”

“First, we could lose control of the future to AI,” he said.

“Second, we could end up in a world with too much concentration of power. If an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impress their worldview onto everyone else, the results could be extremely dystopian,” he continued.

Altman’s posts come after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay, calling for an AI development slowdown. Altman, xAI CEO Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, who chairs Google DeepMind said they agreed with Amodei.

Amazon said on Sunday it was pausing operations with Miami-based 21 Air, the cargo carrier that operated the aircraft for Amazon Air that crashed in Miami last weekend, killing five people.

“After the tragic incident last weekend, we’ve spent time supporting the investigation and reviewing some of the surrounding circumstances, and we’ve decided to pause our operations with 21 Air, the operator of Flight 7598,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement to Reuters.

“We’ll continue working to support the investigation and everyone affected.”

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A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials — including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden — passed through, Ukraine’s state rail operator said.

According to Ukrzaliznytsia, a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had purposely left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule. The visitors were on their way back from a security conference in Kyiv.

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The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board took a new swipe at Donald Trump on Sunday, accusing him of going easy on Russia while lecturing Ukraine over its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.

The board drew a stark contrast between the president’s recent rhetoric toward the two countries, which have been at war since 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Sweden’s next government remained uncertain on Monday as the national election inched toward a final result, with a thin lead for the left-wing opposition and an underwhelming performance by a hard-right anti-immigration party.

Preliminary results showed a narrow advantage for the opposition and former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s bid to return to office at the head of a left-wing coalition, although her own center-left Social Democrats lost support.

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