Trump will meet New York City Mayor Mamdani at Gracie Mansion on Monday to discuss issues affecting the city and residents, the mayor’s office said. No agenda or schedule was released. The White House confirmed the meeting. It is the mayor’s third face-to-face meeting with Trump since taking office.

Sept 20 — A Houthi spokesman said if Saudi Arabia continues military escalation in Yemen, the Houthis will mount stronger retaliatory attacks, describing their approach as "responding to escalation with escalation, and blockade with blockade" and invoking self‑defense. He denied Saudi claims that Yemen attacked Mecca and said Saudi forces have carried out 732 airstrikes recently, with aircraft operating from Khamis Mushait and Taif bases. He accused Saudi strikes of causing civilian casualties, violating Yemeni sovereignty and attempting explosive attacks on civilians in Sanaa.

Qianwen said it open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 today. The 7B-parameter image model combines text-to-image generation and image editing, is optimized for inference efficiency and low cost, and natively supports generation and editing of transparent images. Main features include a compact, inference-optimized architecture that balances quality and compute cost; native transparent-image generation with transparent-layer editing and matting; multi-reference editing support (up to 10 reference images) to boost local edits, portrait and product fidelity across multiple edit tasks; and improved text layout, lighting and fine-detail rendering.