Good Sunday morning. This is Artificially Intelligent News for September 27th, 2026. I’m Mark Ellison.

This program is AI-created and independently fact-checked using reporting and official records available as of Sunday morning Eastern time. We begin with dangerous weather on both sides of the country and a fast-moving set of developments from Washington to the Middle East.

A powerful nor’easter is continuing to batter the Northeast today. The storm has brought heavy rain, damaging winds and coastal flooding from the Mid-Atlantic into New England. The National Weather Service has warned that flooding could worsen through repeated high-tide cycles, especially along the coasts of New Jersey and Delaware.

On Saturday, more than 70,000 customers were without electricity across the region. Tens of millions of people were in the storm’s path. Communities along the Jersey Shore reported flooded streets and water entering some homes and businesses. Forecasters said gusts could approach 60 to 65 miles an hour around Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, with near-60-mile-an-hour gusts also possible along parts of the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.

Travel has been affected as well. More than 200 flights involving Boston, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and New York were canceled over Friday and Saturday. Ferries were suspended or disrupted, and the storm forced changes to the Red Sox-Cubs weekend schedule. If you are in an affected coastal area, local emergency guidance matters more than a general forecast. Avoid flooded roads and do not assume a route is passable just because it was open a few hours earlier.

Hawaii is also preparing for a serious tropical threat. Hurricane Nolo was south of the Big Island on Saturday with maximum sustained winds near 105 miles an hour. Forecasters warned that the system could strengthen while bringing extreme surf, damaging winds, flash flooding and mudslide risks through the weekend.

Parts of the Big Island could receive as much as 20 inches of rain. The threat is particularly acute because many residents are still recovering from earlier storms. The governor has issued an emergency proclamation, National Guard members have been activated and shelters are being prepared for flood-prone communities. President Trump approved an emergency declaration, allowing FEMA to coordinate federal assistance and support emergency measures.

The central message from state and federal officials is straightforward: prepare before conditions deteriorate. Residents have been urged to assemble emergency supplies, keep devices charged and follow evacuation or shelter guidance if it is issued. Hurricane conditions can make roads impassable quickly, especially where heavy rain falls on steep terrain.

In Washington, the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to continue operating an expanded federal system for checking voter citizenship while the underlying legal challenge proceeds. The emergency order puts on hold a lower-court ruling against the modified SAVE program, formally known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements.

SAVE has long been used by government agencies to verify citizenship and immigration status for public-benefits purposes. The administration expanded access after a 2025 executive order so state and local election officials could use it to check the citizenship status of registered voters and applicants, including through additional records held by the Social Security Administration.

The Court’s order does not resolve the case on its merits. It permits the federal government to continue the program during the appeal. The opinion also distinguishes between individual citizenship inquiries and systematic voter-roll removals close to an election. Federal law generally limits broad voter-list maintenance during the final 90 days before a federal election.

The administration says the system helps states identify ineligible voters. Voting-rights and privacy groups argue that federal data can be incomplete or inaccurate and that lawful voters could be wrongly flagged. States decide whether to participate, and any voter who receives an eligibility notice should respond promptly through official election channels.

Another dispute over the role of the press in presidential coverage remains unresolved. CNN says it was left off Air Force One for President Trump’s Saturday trip to Knoxville, where he attended the Texas-Tennessee game. CNN had been scheduled to fly as part of the rotating television pool that records and distributes coverage of the president for the wider press corps.

The White House instead listed Real America’s Voice, a conservative outlet that is not part of that regular pool. The change came after CNN, MS NOW and Politico had returned to the White House grounds under a federal judge’s temporary order. The judge had restored their hard-pass access while litigation continues, but the order did not directly address pool assignments or Air Force One travel.

The White House did not immediately explain the switch to the Associated Press. CNN declined comment. The broader lawsuit centers on the administration’s earlier decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds over coverage the president criticized. The outlets contend the restrictions violate the First Amendment. The administration has argued that White House access is a privilege rather than a right. The courts will now have to draw the legal line between access decisions and impermissible retaliation for coverage.

Health coverage is another major domestic policy story this morning. The Trump administration says it is removing 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act exchange coverage after identifying what it describes as fraudulent, unauthorized or otherwise ineligible enrollments. Officials say the cancellations will save an estimated 2.2 billion dollars in subsidy payments.

Federal records say CMS canceled approximately 315,000 2026 policies on August 31st. Those policies covered more than 760,000 people enrolled with agent or broker assistance without verified citizenship or immigration documentation, where insurers could not establish consumer contact or identify claims. The administration has also suspended new broker enrollments for six months while it addresses suspected abuse.

That is a substantial action with direct consequences for consumers. Anyone who uses marketplace coverage should not assume a cancellation notice is correct or ignore it. Check an account through the official marketplace or insurer, verify contact information and appeal or seek help quickly if coverage appears to have been terminated in error. The administration says the effort protects consumers and taxpayers. Critics are expected to scrutinize the procedures used to distinguish fraud from enrollment errors.

A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The civil verdict came after a two-week trial in Santa Fe brought by the New Mexico attorney general’s office.

The case focused on a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million Facebook profiles. The data was later provided to Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm that used voter-profiling tools for clients that included Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. New Mexico argued that Facebook misled users about how their personal information would be protected and shared.

The jury found for the state. A judge will determine the financial penalty. State attorneys have sought the maximum civil penalty of 5,000 dollars per violation, so the stakes could be large. Meta has argued that it improved its privacy and safety protections after the scandal. The verdict is separate from earlier New Mexico litigation involving alleged harm to children on Meta’s platforms, but together the cases show the company remains under heavy legal pressure in one state.

Meanwhile, Washington and Beijing have announced a narrow but notable effort to reduce the risk of misunderstandings around artificial intelligence and military activity. Following a three-day summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, both governments said they will establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications.

China’s Foreign Ministry said the countries plan to sign a memorandum aimed at strengthening communication and preventing military crises. An AI-specific dialogue is scheduled for November. The initiative does not create a broad AI treaty or settle the intense competition over advanced chips, technology exports and national security. But it sets up a direct mechanism for discussing an incident that could otherwise be misread as a hostile cyberattack or military action.

The summit also extended the U.S.-China trade truce by two months. China said the two sides will continue reducing reciprocal tariffs on about 30 billion dollars in goods. The White House said China agreed to import at least 10 million metric tons of U.S. coal in 2027 and 2028. Both governments cited fentanyl-precursor controls and rare-earth supply as continuing areas of work. The practical test will be whether the promised talks and shipments occur, not the ceremony surrounding the summit.

Outside the United States, the most immediate geopolitical concern remains the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States. Iran says diplomacy is the only way out after President Trump said he rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the fighting.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran’s conditions for reopening the waterway remain in place and that Iran is awaiting formal word through mediators. Iran’s proposal, delivered through Qatari intermediaries, called for a seven-day path toward reopening the strait and wider talks. It reportedly sought an end to the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, sanctions relief for Iranian oil sales and a ceasefire that would include Lebanon.

President Trump said Saturday that he had rejected the proposal. The administration has imposed an economic blockade on Iran and says it is pressuring Tehran to end attacks on vessels in Hormuz. The waterway is critical to global oil flows, and traffic through it has been sharply reduced during the conflict.

There is an important caution here. Public statements from the two sides do not necessarily describe the same diplomatic position, and Reuters reports that mediators had not formally conveyed a definitive U.S. rejection to Iran as of Sunday. What is clear is that neither a ceasefire nor a durable reopening of the strait has been secured. The consequences reach far beyond the region through energy prices, shipping costs and the risk of a broader confrontation.

A longer-term realignment is taking shape in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney is deepening ties with the European Union after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU’s first associate member. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed the idea.

Associate membership would not make Canada an EU member state. But Carney has described a deeper partnership across defense, energy, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, research and trade. The goal is to reduce Canada’s historic dependence on a single market and build resilience through a wider set of alliances.

The proposal has clear relevance for Americans. Canada and the United States remain deeply interconnected in trade, energy and security. But a Canada with closer formal links to Europe could alter investment patterns, supply-chain choices and diplomatic coalitions. Carney has said a more independent Canada can be a stronger partner to the United States. President Trump has suggested that a closer Canada-EU relationship could be a hostile act, underscoring how politically sensitive this shift may become.

Now to the economy and markets. Friday was the most recent completed U.S. trading session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 51,828.62, up 478.64 points or 0.9 percent. The S&P 500 closed at 7,743.41, up 39.28 points or 0.5 percent. The Nasdaq Composite finished at 27,068.72, up 129.34 points or 0.5 percent. Those are final Friday closes, not futures or intraday figures.

Stocks were helped by a pullback in oil prices. Brent crude fell below 98 dollars a barrel on Friday, easing some of the pressure created by disruption around the Strait of Hormuz. The move helped the major indexes finish their first winning week in three weeks. But the bond market remains a warning signal for borrowers, businesses and Washington.

The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose to about 5.217 percent Friday afternoon and briefly reached 5.2297 percent, its highest level since 2007. The 30-year yield rose to 5.5252 percent, its highest level since 2004. Higher Treasury yields feed into the rates households and companies pay for mortgages, business loans and other credit. They also raise the government’s cost of servicing debt.

Investors are balancing enthusiasm about artificial intelligence and resilient growth against concerns about inflation, elevated energy costs and further Federal Reserve tightening. The Fed raised its benchmark rate this month for the first time in three years and projected median inflation of 3.7 percent this year. Friday’s market rally was real, but it did not erase the underlying tension: cheaper oil may help, while higher long-term borrowing costs can still slow the economy.

In sports, top-ranked Texas stayed unbeaten with a 20-17 road victory over number 14 Tennessee in Knoxville. The Longhorns are now 4-and-0 overall and 1-and-0 in SEC play. It was Texas’s first trip to Neyland Stadium and one of the weekend’s most closely watched college football games.

Quarterback Arch Manning completed 14 of 19 passes for 201 yards and an interception. Raleek Brown ran for two touchdowns. Texas’s defense made the difference late, preserving the win by breaking up Tennessee’s final Hail Mary attempt in the end zone.

The game drew unusual national attention because President Trump attended, and because Manning was playing at the school where his uncle Peyton Manning became a college star. But the football result was earned at the line of scrimmage. Texas recorded a strong defensive performance, and Colin Simmons tied a school record with five sacks. Tennessee fell to 3-and-1 and 0-and-1 in the conference.

At Medinah outside Chicago, the International team takes a 10-and-a-half to 7-and-a-half lead over the United States into the final singles session of the Presidents Cup. The Americans did make up ground in Saturday morning four-ball matches, winning that session two-and-a-half to one-and-a-half. But the International side retained a three-point advantage after Saturday’s afternoon play.

That lead is striking because the United States has dominated the Presidents Cup historically, winning 13 of the 15 previous editions. The Internationals’ only outright victory came in 1998. Their Friday sweep of all five foursomes matches gave them the foundation for this weekend lead.

Sunday brings 12 singles matches. The International team needs five points to reach the 15-and-a-half needed to win outright. The Americans need eight points to retain the cup in a tie or win it outright. Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns, Hideki Matsuyama, Tom Kim and the rest of the field will decide whether this becomes one of the event’s biggest upsets or another American comeback.

A quick look at notable results from Saturday. Texas beat Tennessee 20-17 in college football. Oklahoma State defeated West Virginia 41-24. In Major League Baseball, the Mets beat the Nationals 7-1, the Dodgers edged the Giants 4-3, and the Padres defeated the Diamondbacks 10-7.

Finally, in entertainment, Saturday Night Live opened its 52nd season with New York Knicks champion Jalen Brunson making his hosting debut. Brunson helped the Knicks win their first NBA championship in 53 years and was named Finals MVP. Pop group KATSEYE made its debut as the musical guest.

The booking gives the show a distinctly New York opening after the Knicks’ title run. It also continues a familiar SNL tradition of bringing athletes into the studio after a major championship moment. Brunson joins a short list of basketball stars who have hosted the long-running NBC comedy program. The episode was broadcast live from New York and streamed on Peacock.

That is the briefing for this Sunday. We covered severe weather in the Northeast and Hawaii, major court and policy developments, U.S.-China talks, Iran and Hormuz, markets, Texas football and the Presidents Cup.

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