Australian PM Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorized access to a government Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing public and non-public files.

No personal information is currently believed to have been accessed, but the investigation is ongoing.

Albanese said he raised Australia’s “extreme concern” directly with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Israel’s Central Elections Committee voted to bar the United Arab List (Ra’am), led by Mansour Abbas, from running in the Oct. 27 Knesset election.

The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court, which is expected to review it before the election.

Ra’am won five seats in the 2022 election, and polls suggest it could win a similar number or slightly more this time.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić:

Do you know, esteemed friends, what was in fact the reason, the sole official and formal reason for the attack on the territory of the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia carried out by 19 NATO countries?

You will not believe it. They told us that they had attacked a sovereign, free, and independent country in order to prevent a potential humanitarian disaster.

The humanitarian disaster did not occur, and I have still not managed to hear or see where a similar example has happened anywhere in the world.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić:

Not a single soldier or a police officer from Serbia had set foot on the territory of any other country, yet the decision was made to bomb Serbia.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić:

The most difficult thing for us in Serbia is seeing, in our surroundings, the resurgence of Nazism elevated to a position of social prominence, especially in the Republic of Croatia, which is proud of its Nazi past and of the use of Nazi slogans and symbols today.

Eight U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a deployment that included combat operations against Iran, according to acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao.

The figure covers sailors from the carrier, air wing, escort ships and other units in the strike group.

No sailors died by suicide during the deployment, which involved 6,000–7,000 personnel and kept the carrier at sea for more than six months.

Source: CNN

Xi Jinping arrives in the U.S.

Trump rolls out the red carpet for Xi Jinping.

NOW: Trump personally greets Xi Jinping as he arrives in the U.S.

Trump and Xi react as a B-1 aircraft flies overhead.

Bessent on Iran:

The external flights from Iran, probably more than 80 or 90% of them, got shut down. I'm not sure how the Iranian representatives at the UN are going to get home.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Iran:

You heard that speech from my president yesterday. All but called for genocide of 93 million people. Nothing normal about that.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom:

I am proud to represent a state that’s 27% foreign-born, where we practice pluralism. We don’t tolerate our diversity, we celebrate it.

That’s what has allowed us to become the fourth-largest economy in the world.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom:

We’re the most un-Trump state in the United States of America. That’s important.

The White House press pool is boycotting Trump, and the alternatives are struggling with the broadcast.

Trump:

We’re the most respected country in the world by far. Two years ago, we were like a bunch of fools.

A large fire broke out in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike, with bright flashes seen over the city.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić:

A stable and integrated Europe, of which Serbia is a part, and our European path do not mean renouncing the traditional friendship thanks to which Belgrade is one of the few European capitals from which one can fly directly to the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation.