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Photo: PBS NewsHourIndependents favor Democratic congressional candidates by 25 points in the PBS News/NPR/Marist poll, and 53% of voters strongly disapprove of Trump's job performance, the highest share Marist has recorded across his two terms.
Photo: Liberty TimesAt a mobile DPP Central Standing Committee in Taoyuan, President and party chairman Lai Ching-te backed mayoral candidate Huang Shih-chieh and said incumbent Chang San-cheng belongs in national, not city, office.
Photo: BBCDefence Secretary Wes Streeting says the Mauritius agreement must be reworked to win US backing, and no money will be paid to Mauritius 'at this stage'.
Photo: Japan TimesA government filing also cites national security ahead of a Wednesday ruling on whether to lift the ban, which legal experts say likely breaches bars on viewpoint discrimination.
Photo: Al JazeeraThe coalition's 15 governments said they intend to impose asset freezes and visa restrictions on members and supporters of the groups.
Photo: PTSDPP candidate Puma Shen heard residents' traffic concerns at a Beitou forum and called for grid and talent plans, while Mayor Chiang Wan-an said transport planning for the park is under way.
Photo: CNAAhead of the Legislative Yuan's Sept. 29 vote on 27 Control Yuan nominees, Chen said invoking abolition without actually amending the constitution would leave the body idle.
Photo: YonhapThe 30-minute New York meeting covered nuclear-powered submarines, wartime operational control and shipbuilding, and both leaders welcomed progress on strategic investment projects.
The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman called Xi an unelected, repressive dictator on the Senate floor and said he would have advised against inviting him to Washington.
Photo: Japan TimesThe roughly 20-minute meeting on the UN General Assembly sidelines produced no public mention of defense cooperation such as drones or air defense.
Photo: Bloomberg via Japan TimesJapan's prime minister called for UN reform, including deleting wartime provisions China has cited in its row with Tokyo, and said Japan will keep supporting the International Criminal Court.
Photo: Korea TimesYufang Rong fears Beijing plans to try Youlin Chen, arrested at Beijing's airport in November 2024, on fabricated espionage charges; Washington lists him as wrongfully detained.
Photo: Japan TimesThe 35-minute talks on the U.N. General Assembly sidelines, the pair's first formal summit since March, covered China and economic security after a typhoon delayed Takaichi's departure from Tokyo.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said officials were assessing whether a full or partial ban would work, as diesel topped $6.50 a gallon.
Photo: Korea TimesSouth Korea's president told the General Assembly he hopes long-suspended US-North Korea talks resume without delay; the State Department says Trump would consider meeting anybody if it serves US interests.
The YouTube stream went live Monday, the day ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox said they were suspending pool coverage over Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
Photo: Reuters via PBS NewsHourOvernight strikes killed four people in Dnipro and one in Russia's Samara region before Zelenskyy and Trump met in New York on Tuesday.
The July 10 purchase and July 17 sale were among more than 1,000 trades the president made that month and add a new financial link to Elon Musk's rocket company, a government contractor.
Photo: Korea TimesIn a roughly 40-minute General Assembly address, Trump also said AI would be renamed 'super intelligence' and called Cuba a 'failed state' as its delegation walked out.
Photo: CNATrump called the meeting on the General Assembly sidelines "very good" and said the two sides had set another meeting for the near future.
Photo: BBCThe US president and the new British prime minister met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, discussing trade, immigration and the Falklands.
Democratic attorneys general challenge deals that would hand energy companies $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars to cancel offshore wind projects.
Photo: Korea TimesThe accord, signed at the U.N. General Assembly, lets Washington set up defense areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig while keeping Greenland under Danish control.
Photo: PBS NewsHourUtah's John Curtis asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena both presidents' sons after a Russian oligarch helped fund Trump Jr.'s wedding party.
Photo: CNATaiwan's president received a Japan Innovation Party delegation led by former foreign minister Seiji Maehara, who said he wanted closer semiconductor ties with Taiwan.
Photo: CNAThe former president told a DevDays Asia event that human judgment still matters in the AI era, and shared an AI video of Mazu singing on Threads.
Photo: CNATPP figures called President Lai Ching-te's instruction a personal view after lawmakers froze Premier Cho Jung-tai's September-December salary, citing unbudgeted pay for military, police and firefighters.
Photo: CNAThe Taiwan People's Party caucus wants higher rent, long-term care and insurance deductions, a lifted staffing cap and legal surrogacy when the Legislative Yuan opens its session on Sept. 29.
Photo: CoinDeskU.S. users can now tap a cashtag and route to partner platforms to trade; Dogecoin briefly pushed through $0.10 before fading.
Photo: CNAThulisile Dladla, in Taiwan for the founding assembly of the World Alliance for Disaster Management, thanked Taiwan for increased rice aid and welcomed its pledges on social housing and tourism.
A National Security Council adviser said cancelling the US$14 billion package would amount to calling US security strategy wrong, as the DPP and KMT caucuses weighed in before Xi Jinping's Washington visit.
A Taipei Trust survey released Sept. 22 has the incumbent mayor at 41.7% and the DPP challenger at 40.5%, a gap within the margin of error, 67 days before the local elections.
Photo: PBS NewsHourAn 8th Circuit panel said Missouri must use its new Republican-drawn districts in November, then delayed its order a week to allow an appeal.
Photo: PBS NewsHourA Royal Air Force plane will refuel Saudi aircraft on 'defensive' missions against Yemen's Houthis, Britain says, as Burnham heads to New York for his first talks with Trump.
Photo: Korea TimesRepublican approval of Trump slid to 73% from 82% a week earlier, and only 17% of respondents backed his handling of the cost of living.
Photo: US Secretary of State (x.com/SecRubio) via CNAForeign ministers meeting in New York reaffirmed the US defense commitment to Japan and South Korea and backed Taiwan's meaningful participation in international organizations.
Photo: VarietyCBS and MTV said the new award, for artists who direct their own music videos, will go to Swift at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
Photo: CNATaiwan's president called the alliance, which draws participants from 21 countries, the first intergovernmental organisation Taiwan has initiated in 55 years.
Photo: Korea TimesThe three outlets call the ban a First Amendment violation; ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News suspend pooled coverage in solidarity with CNN while Trump and Vance defend the move.
Photo: PTSTaiwan's Mainland Affairs Council cited 'three unchanged', and deputy minister Shen Yu-chung said trade could see progress but cross-strait issues little when Xi meets Trump at the White House on Sept 24.
Photo: Korea TimesXi will visit from September 23 to 25 at Trump's invitation, the pair's second summit this year; the White House programme includes a 479-member honour guard, a B-2 and F-22 flyover and an East Room state dinner.
Photo: Japan TimesScott Bessent and He Lifeng met for about eight hours in New York, discussing an AI 'notification mechanism' and tariff cuts days before Xi Jinping's White House visit.
Photo: PTS 公視Residents of Hualien communities hit by last year's deadly barrier lake flood presented five demands on land expropriation and rebuilding; more than 200 million cubic metres of debris remain upstream.
The Hong Kong Economic Times says Beijing has been collecting assessments of Lee and his team; Lee has yet to say whether he will seek a second term, with the election due next March.
Photo: PTSLin Feng-cheng said the Supreme Administrative Court's reading turned the KMT's profits from sold assets into legal property; the court said it ruled according to law and the KMT said he should apologise.
Photo: CNAA test earthquake alert reached phones nationwide at 9:21 a.m., schools ran evacuation drills, and the president's pre-recorded remarks cut into television and radio.
The South China Morning Post says the announcement could wait until after November's APEC summit and the New York Times says China has pressed Trump to delay US$14bn in sales; Taiwan's foreign ministry says the US has repeatedly stressed the sales are still in progress.
Photo: PTS 公視Yemen's Houthis fired missiles and drones at the Saudi capital, the U.S. issued Middle East security alerts, and Trump said Iran's leaders should make a deal or be wiped out while holding off, for now, on joining Saudi strikes.
Photo: Korea TimesZelensky says he and Trump agreed after a call to meet in New York, and a Monday meeting with Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion is set.
Photo: Japan TimesWashington has so far sanctioned individual ICC judges and prosecutors; U.S. officials want the court to drop its warrants against Israeli leaders and a past Afghanistan probe.
Photo: Japan TimesUK prime minister welcomes the US-Denmark Arctic accord and seeks Patriot missiles for Ukraine before UN talks, as his aides privately blame Trump for economic headwinds.
The short-range missiles, launched about three hours apart from the Wonsan area, flew about 450 km and more than 600 km, after Trump scaled back a joint drill with South Korea last month.
Photo: CNAThe DPP's Taipei mayoral candidate campaigned for the party's Taoyuan candidate, saying Huang could meet the city's challenges.
Photo: CNAPresident Lai Ching-te backed DPP candidate Chen Ying at the opening of her Taitung magistrate headquarters with pledges on elderly subsidies, rail and healthcare, and thanked KMT incumbent Rao Ching-ling.
Photo: CNAHung Sun-han flew to Nanjing on Sept. 20 for the APEC human resources ministerial meeting, the first minister to travel to China since President Lai Ching-te took office.
Photo: PBS NewsHourTrump said the 250-foot triumphal arch would store sniper ammunition at the military's request; plaintiffs suing over the project and lawmakers from both parties pushed back.
Photo: CNAMore than 10,000 attended the launch in Yunlin County, where Lai, who chairs Liu's campaign committee, urged voters to back Liu on November 28.
Photo: Lee Szu-chuan campaign via CNAThe KMT candidate called his DPP rival's proposed bureau unnecessary a day after naming Mayor Hou Yu-ih campaign chair; Su launched a Penghu support group.
Photo: CNAChang met members of both houses of Japan's Diet and gave an interview to the Yomiuri Shimbun, saying the opposition KMT can achieve peaceful cross-strait development.
Photo: PTSPremier Cho Jung-tai urged the cultural sector to unite after two years of legislative cuts to the Culture Ministry's budget, while heritage groups across the road demanded reform of reviews.
