Trump named his intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, to lead a “Super Intelligence Force” on AI.
Trump announced the force in a Truth Social post on Sunday, Oct. 4. It will coordinate federal dealings with consumers, religious groups, infrastructure providers and AI companies. Clayton keeps his day job running 18 intelligence agencies.
Clayton’s first task is a three-month review of AI “risks and opportunities.” Starting Oct. 4, it would end in early January 2027.
October 5, 2026 · Seven stories, illustrated
- Answers toTrump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles
All of the leads report to them.
- In chargeJay Clayton, Director of National Intelligence
He keeps his day job running 18 intelligence agencies.
- Co-leadsAndrew Ferguson, Emil Michael, Scott Kupor
The FTC chair, the Pentagon’s technology chief and the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
- One outlet onlyJD Vance, Scott Bessent, David Sacks, Condoleezza Rice
Only the Washington Examiner reports that they are also members.
- It recommends only. Its reported charter limits it to improving the federal response “under existing authorities.”
- Enforcement power sits with Ferguson’s FTC, not the force. The FTC is already investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over AI agents that escaped test environments.
- Military AI is not in its stated mandate. Michael’s Pentagon AI portfolio and a June 5 national-security memo run on a separate track.
No executive order or published charter. The force follows the voluntary accord that the chiefs of 6 AI companies signed at the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 29. The White House has had no AI czar since March 2026, and the House left town on Sept. 20, not due back until Nov. 9, with no AI bill passed.
“Not being first increases the identified and unidentified risks, particularly from our adversaries.”Clayton, to the Wall Street Journal
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The Pentagon flew all 12 of its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford, the English base tied to a suspected Iran-linked plot.
They went back to home bases in the United States over the weekend of Oct. 3-4. The Pentagon gave no reason; a U.S. official said the base was under threat of Iranian attack. Fairford has been a launch point for long-range strikes in the Iran war.
A range is drawn as its low end, with the rest outlined. The peak counts every bomber type. The reporting does not account for each aircraft between the peak and the weekend, so the rows are not subtracted.
The plot: police stopped three vans near the base on Sunday, Sept. 27, and found petrol but no explosives. All six men arrested are out on bail, and none has been charged. Iran denies a part in it.
- Fairford
- Delta the highest U.S. force-protection level, used when an attack is imminent or has occurred nearby
- Lakenheath and Mildenhall, Suffolk
- Charlie the second-highest; armored vehicles now guard Lakenheath’s gates
- Ramstein, Germany · Aviano, Italy
- No change made public, though Israel warned Berlin in mid-September about Iranian-backed threats to U.S. bases there
- Without Fairford
- 36 hoursabout how long round trips from U.S. bases ran, per Air & Space Forces. Flying from Fairford halved that.
“Operations that launch and recover from the continental United States.”How the Pentagon says the bombers can still strike
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The Supreme Court hears Exxon and Suncor’s bid to end Boulder’s climate-damage suit, with eight justices.
The term opens with the case on Monday, Oct. 5. Justice Samuel Alito is recused, so a 4-4 tie would leave Colorado’s high court ruling for Boulder in place but set no national rule. Boulder filed in state court in 2018, bringing five state-law claims over extreme heat, wildfires and harm to local ecosystems.
Every figure is a minimum: “more than” or “at least.” Boulder’s is its own cost estimate, not a demand; it asks the companies to pay “their share,” with triple damages possible under Colorado consumer law. The Court decides none of these amounts.
Could decide dozens of suits
Including California’s 2023 suit. The justices decide only whether federal law bars Boulder’s claims, not whether they would win.
Boulder’s win stands
Colorado’s high court ruling stays in place, but it sets no rule for other courts.
Nothing settled
The Court asked both sides whether it can review the Colorado ruling at all. Dismissing on that ground would settle nothing nationally.
In 2011 the justices ruled 8-0 that the Clean Air Act ended climate suits brought under federal law, leaving state-law suits unresolved. Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on May 12, 2025, that the act does not block Boulder’s claims; the federal appeals court in New York took the opposite view in New York City’s suit against Chevron.
“It’s a judgment about whether folks get to make their case.”Jonathan Adler, a William & Mary law professor who backs Boulder
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Justice Samuel Alito says a “concerted effort” is trying to intimidate the Supreme Court into deciding cases differently.
Alito, 76, said it on Fox News Sunday on Sunday, Oct. 4, promoting his new book. He named no person or incident. Separately, he told CBS that political attacks, most recently Trump’s, “can be quite damaging.”
the rise in threats against the justices that the Court’s police project for 2026, after a 25% rise in 2025, Justice Elena Kagan told the House
- June 8, 2022
- An armed man was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home. He was sentenced in October 2025 to 8 years 1 month.
- Spring 2026
- Police were sent to Barrett’s Virginia home on a false report of gunshots, about six weeks before her July 14 House testimony.
“A concerted effort to intimidate the court”
He named no person or incident, and said he worries about “the escalation in public rhetoric” from “people in important positions.”
“I put all of that out of my mind.”
Trump has praised Alito while attacking three justices he appointed, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, who he told Time “voted against me too often.”
Sen. Ed Markey has a plan to grow the Court to 13 justices; it has had nine since 1869.
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Yemen’s government launched an offensive to retake all Houthi-held land, including Sanaa, under Saudi air cover.
The push began on Sunday, Oct. 4. Saudi Arabia gives it air cover, and the U.S. helps pick targets, supplying intelligence and targeting but no strikes “for now.” President Rashad al-Alimi sent tens of thousands of troops into the fight.
The dots are city centers. The dashed line only joins Taiz and Aden; it is not the road’s route, and the reporting gives no place for the cut. Nothing here shows who holds what.
The Houthis hit Saudi Aramco sites, citing 50 coalition air and missile strikes in 12 hours (BBC).
“Even if they haven’t fully taken control of it.”Analyst Farea Al-Muslimi, on how the Houthis have isolated Taiz from Aden
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Flávio Bolsonaro led Lula as Brazil counted its first-round presidential ballots; a runoff on Oct. 25 is likely.
Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, led President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, as ballots from Sunday, Oct. 4 were counted. If no candidate wins an outright majority, the two face a runoff on Oct. 25.
| Poll | Lula | Flávio Bolsonaro |
|---|---|---|
| Datafolha | 42% | 38% |
- Strategist Roberto Reis told Fox News that Datafolha underestimated Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 runoff number by 7%.
- A Bolsonaro win would extend a run of Trump-aligned victories in Colombia, Chile and Peru.
- In 2025 Trump put a 50% tariff on Brazil and explicitly tied it to Jair Bolsonaro’s trial.
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Trump’s approval among Latino voters is 27% in the NBC/Telemundo poll, with 69% disapproving.
Latino registered voters favor Democrats to control Congress by twice the margin the party had at this point in 2024.
- Which party should control Congress
- 59% Democrats, against 35% Republicans: a 24-point lead, double the 12-point edge at this point in 2024
- Disapprove of Trump on the cost of living
- 78% and 74% on the economy (Fox reports 75%)
- Trump’s deportation policies
- 66% about two-thirds, say they have gone too far
- A separate poll
- 60%–39% Hispanic likely voters for Democrats for the House, CBS/YouGov
NBC/Telemundo surveyed 800 Latino registered voters, Sept. 21-28; margin of error ±3.5 points.