What Happened Today – September 18, 2026

Toni Morrison reading documents at a National Council on the Arts meeting, black and white NEA file photo

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison served on the National Council on the Arts in the 1980s, decades before a Georgia superintendent pulled her novel from school libraries after reading only excerpts. (NEA file photo)

Donald Trump announced three big wins on Friday and oversold every one of them. He banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately.” By evening nobody had left, and his own press office didn’t know the details. He said Denmark gave America “permanent control” of Greenland. Denmark says it agreed to … Read more

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