Police in southern England have arrested five men on suspicion of terrorism, after they allegedly approached a military base carrying explosives. The men were arrested after a farmer called police to report three vans blocking her driveway near the Royal Air Force’s Fairford base and “a large group of hooded and masked men” who ran away when she spotted them. Dozens of people were evacuated from nearby homes as a bomb squad deployed robots to search the vehicles. In a statement, counterterrorism police said all five men are British nationals in their twenties and from London. It’s not clear whether others were involved in a plot to attack the base, and a motive remains unknown. The U.K. has allowed U.S. bombers to launch long-range strikes on Iran from RAF Fairford since March 1, a day after President Trump ordered the U.S. to join Israel in its war on Iran.

At their summit in Washington, D.C., last week, President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he would like to buy U.S.-made weapons. That’s according to David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China, speaking to Fox News on Sunday.

David Perdue: “We sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some, at one point.”

In a statement to The New York Times, the State Department said, “U.S. law prohibits arms sales to China and there is no offer or plan to sell arms to China.”

The White House on Friday night blocked CNN from Air Force One, preventing the network from covering President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee. The four other major television networks — NBC, Fox News, CBS and ABC — agreed to resume their pool coverage of President Trump on Sunday, even though the White House continued to block CNN from participating in the pool. This comes after President Trump banned MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House earlier this month. Soon after, a Trump-appointed federal judge ordered the White House to reinstate the outlets for two weeks.

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence reportedly went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the company’s knowledge. This comes as OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic. That’s according to Axios, which reported Saturday that the massive number of incidents dwarfs the dozens of previously reported cases of frontier AI models escaping containment and hijacking websites.

In an interview that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called on lawmakers to regulate AI.

Bill Gates: “AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths.”

In Yemen, the Houthi-run health ministry said seven people were killed in airstrikes and 40 injured, including children, in Taiz province on Sunday. ​Yemen’s ​government said its forces had targeted ⁠a Houthi military camp and vehicles in the area. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 700 people have been killed in Yemen since fighting escalated last month. Government forces are attempting to reverse recent Houthi advances along the Red Sea Coast.

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Since the so-called ceasefire last October, 1,145 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks. On Sunday, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on downtown Gaza City.

Here in the U.K., Foreign Minister Ed Miliband has called the actions of the Israeli government a “stain on the conscience of the world.” Miliband drew a standing ovation for his comments as he addressed the Labour conference in Liverpool earlier today.

Ed Miliband: “And I want to say to the millions of people in this country, and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: We hear you. You were right. … We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank. We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza. We call out Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. And we match words with action. We will ban the import of goods from illegal settlements. We will disrupt the supply lines of British finance, British construction and British services for illegal settlements. And when it comes to the attempt to destroy the two-state solution, this party, this movement, this government says: We will not let you succeed.”

Miliband’s speech came a day after police arrested more than 50 protesters outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, with demonstrators nonviolently urging support for the banned direct action group Palestine Action. Among them was Robert Del Naja, frontman of the British trip-hop group Massive Attack. They were arrested for holding home-made banners reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

In the Democratic Republic ​of the Congo, the number of confirmed Ebola cases has topped 8,000 for the first time. This comes as the World Health Organizations confirms that the virus has spread to two additional regions of the northern DRC. This is the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “Then there is no also incentive for people to come forward because there is no vaccine, there is no treatment. But there are now advances in trials also, vaccine and treatment. Without incentives, it’s very difficult to attract people to the centers, because, 'OK, why would I come? You isolate me, and then I die alone.'”

The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to roll out a large database of sensitive personal data, including citizenship status and Social Security numbers, that states can use to identify ineligible voters. In a dissent to the court’s unsigned emergency ruling on Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take.” States can use the database on a voluntary basis. Current law also prevents states from purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election.

In Chicago, the former lead prosecutor assigned to a high-profile case against six anti-ICE activists has resigned in protest, accusing the Trump administration of ignoring her legal advice as it pushed unwarranted felony charges. In a scathing resignation letter obtained by the Chicago Tribune, the prosecutor, Sheri Mecklenburg, accuses U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros of threatening to discipline or fire her if she attempts to defend herself against misconduct allegations. She writes, “You sent an office-wide email laying responsibility at my feet for a felony prosecution that you personally directed over my objection that the case was better suited to misdemeanor charges.” The “Broadview Six” were indicted for protesting outside an ICE jail last year during President Trump’s immigration crackdown known as Operation Midway Blitz. They faced felony charges for allegedly blocking an ICE vehicle, with a maximum sentence of six years in prison. The case was eventually thrown out by a U.S. district judge, who cited gross misconduct by prosecutors during grand jury proceedings.

A federal judge in New York has issued a permanent injunction condemning the “dreadful” treatment of immigrants detained at the ICE jail at 26 Federal Plaza. The order prohibits ICE from indefinitely detaining people in overcrowded holding cells, saying detainees often had to sleep standing. It also requires ICE to provide adequate medical care, sanitation and hygiene, proper meals, as well as free and unmonitored phone calls to lawyers and access to counsel. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in the ruling ICE imposed inhumane conditions “to inflict punishment on detainees and induce them to self-deport.” This comes as ICE arrests soared to record highs this summer with more than 50,000 immigrants detained in August alone. Meanwhile, Amnesty International has called on ICE to be abolished amid widespread human rights violations.

In Ukraine, a guided Russian aerial bomb injured 22 people, ​including children, striking an apartment building ​in Kharkiv. This is a resident of the damaged apartment building.

Yulia Baldzhy: “Glass scattered, and a column of smoke began to rise. The children were asleep in the other room. My husband and I — I realized there was glass everywhere and doors, so somehow we managed to squeeze through. We grabbed the children and got out of the apartment. Thank God the door hadn’t jammed.”