NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 11-18, 2026

NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Future of Terrorism’ – How cheap, accessible technology is making potential attacks even easier.

The Terror Threat No One Saw Coming After 9/11 

New technologies have both increased the ability of militants to carry out attacks and expanded the number of potential targets.

AI Is Giving Physical Therapy a Robotic Makeover

AI-powered robots are transforming physical therapy, helping patients recover faster and reshaping the future of rehabilitation.

What Leavitt, AOC and Vance’s Decisions Reveal About Parenthood

It is women who need to make compromises if they want a career and children.

Trump Threatens Iran With ‘Biggest Attack of Them All’ After New US Strikes

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – SEPTEMBER 4, 2026

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Swept Away’ – After the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster…

Over the last week, the world has watched with horror the scenes from the Tibet-Nepal border where a devastating torrent of mud, water and ice tore along the Bhotekoshi River, destroying entire communities and leaving more than 1,000 people dead and several thousand more missing.

From the Nepali town of Devighat, our south Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen describes a nightmarish scene of overflowing mortuaries and unidentifiable bodies, as shellshocked survivors of the flood slowly return to the ruins of their homes.

The disaster happened after the collapse of a glacier – and while global heating has not been definitively attributed as the cause, it is undeniable that steep mountain slopes and valleys are especially vulnerable to flooding and landslides, while extreme weather events such as monsoons and melting glaciers have become more common because of warming due to human-caused climate breakdown, as our global environment writer Jonathan Watts explains.

Then columnist Nesrine Malik paints a wider picture and argues that while for many people these floods may feel as though they have happened a world away, the climate crisis is coming for us all, one way or another.

Spotlight | Mark Carney shows combative nature in face-off with Trump
The Canadian PM is one of the few world leaders to stand up to the US president. Former colleagues say they are not surprised. Leyland CeccoHeather Stewart and Kalyeena Makortoff report

Science | The robots are coming!
 Or are they? As entrants at the World Humanoid Games lurched from triumph to farce, Robert Booth finds that a robotics revolution may not be as close as it first appears

Interview | Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and a better Britain
The former UK prime minister is still shaping politics (even if he doesn’t want to interfere). He tells Charlotte Edwardes about keeping his temper, staying fit – and why he won’t splash out for a Scotland football shirt

Opinion | The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon
Those who said Meta harms children struck a blow, but the ability of big tech to gouge profits and cause harm is barely diminished. That’s the battle to come, argues Jonathan Freedland

Culture | Dolly Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out
Beneath the wig and rhinestones, the late US country singer was the genius behind strings of classic songs that continue to inspire new artists, says Alexis Petridis

THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 2026

A Spiral of Escalation for Russia and Ukraine, With No End in Sight

Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken.

The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine

In a Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy

The bomb was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.

Oil Jumps for Fourth Straight Day and Diesel Nears Record High

Trump Puts Tariffs of Up to 100% on Foreign-Made Drones

In addition, the F.C.C. is weighing stiff restrictions on common drone technology such as thermal imaging and aerosol spraying.