An altercation broke out Sunday at a New York Fashion Week show between a PETA protester and a fashion executive.

As the animal-rights protester was about to walk onto the runway to protest the Cos show, Steve Kolb, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, stopped her, ripping her sign from her and guiding her to the ground between his legs. A video of the altercation shows that Kolb then wrapped his legs around her and covered her mouth, seemingly to keep her from screaming or shouting. Kolb also covered the face of another protester, seemingly to also stop him from yelling.

In a statement provided to The New York Times, Kolb said he “reacted inappropriately” and “should have let the security team handle the situation.”

Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech earlier this month during one of his sets.

“As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans,” Messina Touring Group told Rolling Stone in a statement Monday. “After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates.”

Macklemore made the comments on Sept. 4 during his set at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.

“Free Palestine,” Macklemore said before his performance of “Hind’s Hall,” which he said was inspired by the protests at Columbia University. “I want those words to be loud and clear, so the people from Gaza all the way to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten them.”

Macklemore’s speech was met with some backlash, including from singer Pink.

Echoing his boss, Vice President JD Vance told reporters Monday he’s uncertain about regulating AI companies, calling the prospect “a trojan horse.”

“I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them,” Vance said ahead of an event in Olathe, Kansas. ”It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse.”

The comments come as AI leaders at OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have publicly discussed creating a regulatory body to establish industry guardrails.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, said that the “only” guardrails the industry needs is Trump himself.

The “only” guardrails needed for AI is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” which the U.S. already has, Donald Trump said Monday, dismissing increasing concerns about the technology’s rapid, unregulated growth.

“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so,” he said in a Truth Social post.

Trump’s post follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying AI development must be slowed to allow risk prevention safeguards. If not, he cautioned of losing control of AI systems, AI being misused for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.

Trump criticized Amodei in his post, saying his administration has already stopped “AI ‘people’” like Amodei “from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things.’”

Actor Hayden Panettiere died perhaps after taking a single oxycodone pill that was laced with fentanyl, TMZ reported Monday, citing sources connected to the case and with direct knowledge.

The 36-year-old suffered a suspected overdose in an apartment in South Carolina on Aug. 16 after reportedly meeting with her “long-term drug dealer” in Los Angeles, who is now the target of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Her official cause of death has not yet been released, as local officials have said the toxicology results could take up to 12 weeks to be received.

Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward the recent wedding of President Donald Trump’s son Don Jr. in the Bahamas, ProPublica reported Monday, citing a review of records and interviews with people familiar with the private islands event.

Kremlev, who speaks limited English and had been traveling with Putin in China days before the May nuptials, was described as “a personal friend of Don,” a Trump Jr. spokesperson told ProPublica, though the report says the pair appeared to have met only recently.

Only around 50 guests attended, according to the report. Trump Jr. described it as a small gathering of “really close friends.”

Over three days, they rented out two islands, one of which Kremlev paid for, and enjoyed fireworks shot off a boat, also paid for by Kremlev, according to the report.

Why Kremlev footed part of the wedding’s bill wasn’t established.

Read more from ProPublica here:

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.

Read more at The Associated Press:

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.

Read more here:

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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