Portal:Current events/2017 September 26
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September 26, 2017 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2017 Har Adar shooting
- Three Israelis are killed and one other is wounded after a Palestinian gunman opens fire in an entrance to the Israeli settlement of Har Adar in the West Bank. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Mass surveillance in the United States
- The United States Department of Homeland Security plans to collect the social media information of all immigrants, including green card holders and naturalized citizens, beginning on October 18, 2017. (CNET)
- Social networking services
- Twitter is experimenting with doubling its 140 character limit to 280 characters for all languages except Japanese, Chinese and Korean. (USA Today)
- Economy of the United States
- The U.S. Commerce Department imposes preliminary anti-subsidy duties on Bombardier Inc. CSeries jets following American rival Boeing's claims of unfair Canadian subsidies. The penalty is on hold pending the U.S. International Trade Commission's final decision, expected in 2018. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
Law and crime
- Women's rights in Saudi Arabia
- The king of Saudi Arabia issues a decree allowing women to be issued driving licenses by June 2018. Saudi Arabia is the world's last sovereign state that does not allow women to drive. (The Guardian) (The Telegraph)
- 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball corruption scandal
- The office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announces that 10 individuals, including assistant coaches at four NCAA Division I men's basketball programs—Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State, and USC—have been arrested on federal corruption charges. The accused are alleged to be part of a scheme by which coaches accepted bribes to steer NBA-bound college players toward certain agents and financial advisers. Court documents also allege that an apparel company later identified as Adidas paid $100,000 to the family of an unnamed player to ensure his signing with an unnamed Division I school, which was later confirmed as the University of Louisville. (ESPN)
Politics and elections
- Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2017
- The result of a non-binding independence referendum by Iraqi Kurdistan will to be announced within 72 hours. The vote is widely expected to be in favor of independence. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran and Turkey have vowed that there may be military aggression if the result is independence. (Newsweek)
- Turkey's president has said Iraqi Kurds could go hungry as a result of the punitive measures it is considering after Monday's independence referendum. (BBC)
- United States Senate
- Senate special election in Alabama, 2017
- Justice Roy Moore and U.S. Senator Luther Strange face off in Alabama’s special election in what political analysts claim is a deepening rift between the Republican Party's establishment and anti-establishment factions. Moore is projected to win the primary runoff. (BBC), (New York Times)
- United States Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn), the senate's Foreign Relations Chairman, announces he will not seek reelection in 2018. He is the first senator to announce his retirement this term. (Politico) (The Washington Post)
- Senate special election in Alabama, 2017
- Politics of Russia
- Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses Nizhny Novgorod Oblast governor Valery Shantsev from his post, the second governor to lose his job in a week after Putin dismissed Samara Oblast governor Nikolay Merkushkin the day before. The dismissals come amid speculation that governors of several federal subjects will resign in anticipation of presidential elections in 2018. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
- Presidency of Donald Trump
- Acting U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg announces his resignation, effective Oct. 1, after more than two years in the position. (USA Today)
Science and technology
- Green wall
- Africa's Great Green Wall is successfully reversing desertification. (BBC)