Tuesday’s UN General Assembly opened with a threat of annihilation and closed with a signed Arctic security deal. A Mississippi grand jury cleared everyone in Nolan Wells’s death without resolving how he died. And a synagogue in Ontario took gunfire on Yom Kippur.
The View From Everywhere Else | September 22, 2026 Weekday morning and evening editions. Saturdays once. Good news on Sundays. All sources labeled. THE HEDGE For nine months, the countries that have anchored American power since 1945 have been quietly building an exit door. Not out of the alliance itself. None has left NATO. None […]
Israel struck three fronts at once, Russia’s Duma vote came with Kremlin insiders detailing how it was rigged, and five US networks went dark rather than replace CNN’s press pool.
Trump cut short Camp David after a Houthi missile hit Riyadh. Gaza’s “yellow line” isn’t holding, and Iran just handed Washington six conditions to end the war, not three.
Bhutan just beat rabies. Two Nigerian engineers are about to power 230,000 homes off a $44,521 grant they never forgot. And New Zealand’s rarest parrot just had the best breeding season of its life.
Trump says he has a Greenland deal, but nothing is signed. Syria told the UN this week that Israel is the region’s greatest threat. And a war between two Sudanese generals just crossed into a third country.
Six Defense Department officials told the Washington Post the Pentagon’s public casualty count is short by at least four dead soldiers. Pakistan just reaffirmed a mutual-defense pact its own government can’t yet operate. And satellite imagery says Russia has been sabotaging its own nuclear plant to blame Ukraine for it.
Iran claims another tanker strike in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after the first Saudi civilian died in a spiraling second front with the Houthis. A close US ally just told Washington, in advance, that it won’t send troops to fight in that war. And Washington is welcoming Iran’s own leadership to New York next week while turning away the Palestinian Authority’s.
