{"id":225871,"date":"2026-09-28T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-trump-to-announce-plans-for-new-steel-plant-in-iowa-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:36:21","slug":"live-updates-trump-to-announce-plans-for-new-steel-plant-in-iowa-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-trump-to-announce-plans-for-new-steel-plant-in-iowa-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump to announce plans for new steel plant in Iowa – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Bailey, who became \u201cco-deputy director\u201d of the FBI last September, is stepping aside, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Another top FBI official is leaving the bureau after just a year on the job.
Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI in the newly created position of \u201cco-deputy director\u201d in September 2025 to work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
An email sent internally at the FBI stated that Bailey was leaving for family reasons, the two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
Trump will announce a plan for a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa today.
Mesabi Metallics is building the plant with the aim of starting production by 2030, a White House official said. The facility is expected to produce 10 million tons of steel a year and create as many as 1,750 permanent jobs in the state, the official said.
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China and the United States have agreed to cut tariffs imposed on $60 billion worth of goods imported from each other, on an array of products ranging from U.S. corn to cosmetics, and from Chinese household appliances to toys.
Under the U.S.-China Board of Trade, both countries have each recommended $30 billion of trade in non-sensitive goods for more favourable tariff treatment, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement yesterday.
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Trump rejected a new ceasefire proposal from Iran that would\u2019ve reopened the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the next steps in the conflict uncertain as the war enters its eighth month. NBC\u2019s Garrett Haake reports for “TODAY.”
WASHINGTON \u2014 Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. The Marines were not seriously injured, but they sustained smoke inhalation and possibly traumatic brain injuries, as they had symptoms of concussions, such as headaches, the officials said.
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A farmer\u2019s predawn alert about a group of hooded and masked men appears to have sparked a massive security operation around a British base<\/a> the U.S. Air Force used to facilitate strikes on Iran<\/a>.
\u201cWhen they saw me, they ran ahead of me \u2014 some into the field and some towards the neighboring village,\u201d the farmer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC News today. \u201cI then realized that something highly unusual was taking place.\u201d
<\/span>An image circulating on social media shows handcuffed suspects yesterday near RAF Fairford air base.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>via X<\/span>
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Amid warnings that artificial intelligence<\/a> could soon wipe out humanity<\/a>, some lawmakers are not confident that Congress has the expertise or ability to regulate AI.
\u201cA lot of them can\u2019t spell it,\u201d Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., quipped. \u201cThey just don\u2019t have the experience.\u201d
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., was equally skeptical. \u201cThey still don\u2019t know how to get on the internet,\u201d let alone understand AI, he said.
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British police arrested several men on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offenses yesterday and evacuated homes near an air base that the U.S. Air Force had been using to facilitate strikes on Iran.<\/a>
A major incident was declared, with a massive emergency presence seen around RAF Fairford, which is about 90 minutes outside London, close to the village of Whelford in western England.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country is prepared to resume fighting with the United States but has not yet abandoned diplomacy after Trump publicly rejected a proposal <\/a>to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
\u201cWe are fully prepared for the time for the war to be resumed, and I repeat, we stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war,\u201d Araghchi told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d yesterday, when asked about a Wall Street Journal report <\/a>that Trump could seek to resume bombing after the U.S. midterm elections. \u201cAt the same time, we stand ready for diplomacy. It is up to President Trump to choose.\u201d
<\/span> Meet the Press<\/span>
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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework could be \u201cmore difficult\u201d than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons.
\u201cThis is more difficult than that was,\u201d Gates told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d during a wide-ranging discussion on AI that aired yesterday.
<\/span> Meet The Press<\/span>
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The Trump administration put out a new ad this weekend as part of its \u201cPSA\u201d campaign, this time showing the president walking down a hallway as he asks people to join him in his fight to \u201cexpel the warmongers from our government.\u201d
The ad<\/a> \u2014 which at the end says it was \u201cPaid for by the U.S. government\u201d \u2014 is nearly identical to an ad put out by Trump\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign.
Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
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Andrew Bailey, who became \u201cco-deputy director\u201d of the FBI last September, is stepping aside, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.Another top FBI official is leaving the bureau after just a year on the job.Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI in the newly created position of \u201cco-deputy director\u201d in September 2025 to work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}