Politico reported a filing published Saturday shows Trump-linked super PAC MAGA Inc. will donate $10m to Ken Paxton's Senate campaign, marking the group's first midterm election contribution. Republicans had pressed Trump to deploy his campaign reserves to help Paxton in Texas. At a White House Oval Office briefing, Trump said he would commit possibly $400-500m to the midterms and that MAGA has raised close to $1bn and is under his control.

Sept. 5, Shenzhen — Former PBOC deputy governor Zhu Min told an Asia‑Pacific media forum that APAC should accelerate digital and intelligent transformation and regional connectivity. He urged deeper cooperation on frontier technologies, stronger collaboration on artificial intelligence, promotion of the digital economy, expansion of digital public services and efforts to improve standards interoperability.

CENTCOM said the U.S. retaliated after Iran fired ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships.