A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Just after midnight, Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. — a Trump appointee — granted a two-week restraining order and told the White House to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” the press credentials of the three news outlets. Theodore Boutrous Jr., an attorney for the outlets, said, “This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law. We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action.” Meanwhile, the new news site Status is reporting that Vice President JD Vance was the unnamed “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House used to justify banning Politico from its grounds. Vance has defended Trump’s ban on the news outlets as “totally appropriate.”

Leaders of top artificial intelligence firms testified to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, urging nations to adopt international standards on the development of AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei touted the benefits of the technology, even as he warned the Security Council that it “could be a risk to humanity as a whole.” His competitor, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, also called for international regulations.

Sam Altman: “At the international level, this will require cooperation. In our history, there have been times where countries who compete and don’t always like each other very much still come together for shared interests and the collective good in the face of a powerful new technology. We believe this must be one of those times.”

Altman spoke as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website in June, where it accessed private data. It’s the first known example of an autonomous AI agent hacking a government network.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: “Today I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred, as well, was unacceptable.”

Albanese said investigators were considering whether to file criminal charges against OpenAI. This follows a series of incidents where frontier AI models escaped containment, self-organized into swarms, launched cyberattacks and attempted to cover their tracks.

In Washington, Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressmember Greg Casar on Wednesday unveiled the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. The legislation would establish a cabinet-level federal Department of Artificial Intelligence, pause advanced AI development until a new federal regulatory body is up and running, and would ban AI models that exceed human performance and capabilities across most domains.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a defiant speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, condemning President Trump’s threat to “annihilate” his country, while calling for diplomacy to end the war.

President Masoud Pezeshkian: “America and Israel attacked us equipped with the latest technology and weapon systems, and our people stood steadfast. Yes, they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee. We did not bow our head. We responded, but we did not hit civilian populations. They came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructures — all of it against international law.”

A lone U.S. delegate walked out of the U.N. hall in protest as President Pezeshkian spoke; Israel’s ambassador boycotted the speech entirely.

The U.S. Navy has admitted that eight service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted suicide during their lengthy Mideast deployment, when sailors spent 286 days at sea. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao made the admission in a letter to New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who accused President Trump of showing “open disrespect” to troops and their families. Senator Gillibrand added, “That this administration can find endless taxpayer dollars for bombs, ballrooms and billionaires but cannot take care of our service members is completely unacceptable.” In August, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted reports of deteriorating conditions and mental health struggles aboard the Lincoln were “completely misrepresented.”

France, Canada and the United Kingdom have called for Palestinian sovereignty at the U.N. General Assembly. On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron blasted the world’s inability to act on Gaza.

President Emmanuel Macron: “What credibility do we have if we continue to remain inactive in the face of Gaza? Some boast of a supposed peace, but this peace hasn’t reopened humanitarian routes for a single second. Must we stand by and watch this spectacle that shames us all? Never!”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Macron’s remarks, calling them a “grotesque absurdity.” Netanyahu is addressing the U.N. General Assembly this afternoon.

President Trump is hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, D.C., for a three-day summit. Xi skipped the U.N. General Assembly in New York. It’s the Chinese leader’s first trip to the U.S. since 2015. Trump and Xi are set to discuss artificial intelligence, the Iran war and Taiwan during the summit.

In Michigan, the Grand Rapids Police Department says a man died on Sunday after crashing his car into a tree while fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Guatemala’s consul general identified the victim as Mario David Coronado Juárez. Advocates say the 36-year-old was working in construction to provide for his wife and three young children in Guatemala. On Tuesday evening, immigrant rights advocates packed the Grand Rapids City Commission meeting, where they accused local police of collaborating with ICE. Mayor David LaGrand declared a recess as protesters chanted Coronado Juárez’s name and demanded, “Abolish ICE.”

In Louisiana, a 36-year-old immigrant from Costa Rica died last week inside the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield. According to ICE, Carlos Josué Marchena Marchena was declared dead after he was found unresponsive. He had Type 1 diabetes, and family members said he complained of deteriorating health as he missed meals and insulin shots while being shuttled between ICE jails in multiple states. He’s the 55th person to die in ICE custody during Trump’s second term, and the 25th this year alone.

In Texas, Congressmember Greg Casar on Wednesday visited Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at an ICE detention center, three days after the 28-year-old Venezuelan man was shot by an immigration officer in North Austin. Casar told reporters Garcés Pérez needs surgery to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his back. And Casar questioned why Garcés Pérez was discharged from an Austin hospital after just four hours, then taken to an immigration detention center 135 miles away.

Rep. Greg Casar: “Every single person should have a right to be fully cared for in a hospital bed and not to be dragged to a detention center while you are still bleeding. In fact, in talking to Wilber, he made it clear to me that he didn’t even know that this bullet was still inside of him until more than a day later after being shot.”

In Washington, D.C., family members of people killed by ICE testified to lawmakers on Tuesday at a hearing organized by House Democrats. Witnesses included Ronaldo Salgado and Lorenzo Salgado Jr., whose father was shot and killed by ICE while driving to work in Houston in July. Also testifying were relatives of Renee Good, shot dead in Minneapolis in January by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. This is Renee Good’s mother, Donna Ganger.

Donna Ganger: “I’m a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists, certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.”

Here in New York, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former TV production assistant Miriam Haley back in 2006. She testified that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in his Manhattan apartment. According to Haley, Weinstein had also hired private investigators to keep tabs on her. Weinstein has been in custody since his first conviction and has already spent more than six years in prison. He still faces resentencing in that case in Los Angeles, where he originally received 16 years for rape.