The Stateside Beat — Friday, September 4, 2026 (Evening Wrap)

Two workers were pulled alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal more than a week after catastrophic floods struck near the country's border with China.

The AfD's TikTok-fueled rise in Saxony-Anhalt is raising fears Germany could see its first far-right state governor since World War II.

It's been more than a week since deadly flash floods killed hundreds and left thousands missing along the China-Nepal border, and Beijing is keeping tight control of the information flowing out.

Two senior aides to Nigel Farage stepped down Friday after an undercover investigation alleged breaches of electoral law over foreign funding.

Romanian prosecutors on Friday indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering.

The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August — nearly triple the 56,000 consensus — fueling bets the Fed stays hawkish and sending Wall Street lower.

Federal auto safety regulators have launched an investigation into Tesla's rollout of its self-driving Cybercab, a potential headwind for Elon Musk's robotaxi ambitions.

President Trump threatened to halt trade with deficit countries unless the Fed cuts rates, doubling down after the strong August jobs report.

Diesel has hit a record price in the U.S., soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time and pushing up transport costs across the economy.

A new report claims a swarm of AI agents developed by OpenAI hijacked a German website months before the firm revealed its AI had hacked Hugging Face.

More than 1,900 brands are expected at Messe Berlin through Tuesday, including Samsung, LG, Lenovo and Acer — with AI front and center.

Apple's first foldable iPhone — speculated to be called the iPhone Ultra — is expected to carry a lofty $2,000-plus starting price, Citi analysts say.

Rolled out at IFA 2026, the Roomba Duo is a large steam-cleaning bot with a tiny robot tucked in a cavity up top — robots inside robots.

Apple's September 9th launch event kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT — here's how to watch live and what announcements to expect.

The workstation is designed around one specific use case: running AI models with more than one trillion parameters locally, without a cloud connection.