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Britain's royal family has taken the unusual step of publicly challenging claims made by Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, in his upcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, excerpts of which were published by Britain's Daily Mail , Departing from the monarchy's traditional never complain, never explain approach, Buckingham Palace responded Wednesday to Spencers recollection of phone calls between himself and King Charles in the wake of Diana's death in 1997 According to Spencer, Charles sounded giddily elated like a lottery winner in a call immediately following her passing. He let me know he had informed William and Harry of their mothers death, first thing that morning, in their bedrooms at Balmoral. It all sounded strangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster, Spencer writes in the book. Looking back now, I suspect the princes first reaction must have been to think more of how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not. Spencer also recalled another conversation he had with Charles about Dianas funeral arrangements. Spencer had objected to the idea of William and Harry, then 15 and 12, walking behind their mother's coffin at her funeral. He unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death, Spencer recalls in the book. 'Rest assured,' he hissed, 'we'll forget her soon enough.' While the palace didn't directly address whether the comment was made, the statement questioned the reliability of Spencer's recollection, saying, While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss. The statement echoes the palace's reaction to claims made by Harry and Meghan Markle during their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey that an unnamed royal had made a remark about their son's skin color before he was born and that the monarchy failed to help a suicidal Meghan. A response issued on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II at that time said that recollections may vary. Royal correspondents described Wednesday's statement as highly unusual. Sky News's Laura Bundock called it a really remarkable intervention and a very robust response that is beyond punchy. Bundock added that the royal family simply cannot stay silent. The BBC's former royal correspondent Jennie Bond described the statement as 'recollections may vary' with bells on. [It] suggests they are going to hit back on this, she said , adding, It's a right mess. What is the 'never complain, never explain' motto? Rather than a formal palace rule, the never complain, never explain phrase is an unofficial code of conduct, often credited to the Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying was later linked to Elizabeth II's mother and subsequently became a mantra that Elizabeth herself followed. Britain's former monarch almost never responded to criticism, political disputes or reports about her family during her 70-year reign. Charles has also stuck to the same approach and has not responded to Harry's 2023 memoir Spare , despite numerous allegationsabout Charles, Queen Camilla and William. Similarly, the palace declined to comment on Tom Bower's book Rebel Prince and Omid Scobie's 2023 book Endgame . Harry commented on the phrase during a 2023 interview with CBS's 60 Minutes , claiming the reality was more complicated. The family motto is 'never complain, never explain,' but it's just a motto, he said. [Buckingham Palace] will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting. Katie Nicholl, a Vanity Fair correspondent and author of Uncensored Royals , explained why the royal family upheld the motto on most occasions. Dignified silence is a tried and tested format, she told Time magazine in 2023. ...The palace is reluctant to engage at any level because once they do, it just fuels the narrative. She added, The Queen only responded when she absolutely had to and it was often short and succinct. When else has the royal family publicly defended itself? Aside from the Oprah interview and Spencer's new memoir, the royal family has publicly responded on several other notable occasions. Diana's death, 1997 After facing heavy criticism for not returning to London from the family's Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland immediately after Diana's death, the Queen eventually addressed the U.K. in an extraordinary live speech five days later. She referred to herself as your Queen and a grandmother, paid tribute to Diana and said she had remained at Balmoral to help William and Harry come to terms with the devastating loss that they and the rest of us have suffered. Andrew's Newsnight interview, 2019 Andrew attempted to explain his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and rebut Virginia Giuffre's allegations. The BBC interview was met with intense criticism, and Andrew soon withdrew from royal duties. In 2025, Buckingham Palace announced that Andrew had been stripped of his prince title and would be moving out of his Royal Lodge home in Windsor, England. A statement from the palace read, These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that [Andrew] continues to deny the allegations against him. Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse. Bullying accusations against Meghan, 2021 After The Times of London reported that some former staff members had accused Meghan of bullying, the palace said it was clearly very concerned and said its HR team would look into how the complaints were handled. Meghan's representatives denied the allegations. The Princes and the Press documentary, 2021 The three main royal households Buckingham Palace (which represents the British monarch), Clarence House (Charles's home and communications team) and Kensington Palace (William and Kate's London office and household base) joined forces to issue a rare rebuttalto a BBC documentary about William and Harry's relationship with the media, calling claims overblown and unfounded. Lady Susan Hussey, 2022 The royal aide sparked uproar after repeatedly asking Ngozi Fulani, the founder and chief executive of a U.K. domestic abuse charity, where she really came from at a palace reception. Buckingham Palace called the comments unacceptable and deeply regrettable. Hussey subsequently stepped aside from her honorary role the same day. Harry's BBC interview, 2025 Buckingham Palace responded to allegations made by Harry after he lost an appeal over his U.K. security arrangements. Harry said the process had been used to control him and that the royal household had influenced the decision. The palace responded, All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion. This article originally appeared on Yahoo Entertainment at https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/never-complain-never-explain-buckingham-palace-broke-its-own-golden-rule-over-princess-diana-claims-123328191.html
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There's not much the American people agree on these days. From Trump Steaks to plastic straws, from vaccines to Teslas, it's hard to pinpoint a topic that hasn't been polarized by politics. But a series of new surveys suggest Americans may have finally found some common ground, at least for the moment: growing concerns about artificial intelligence. Last week, a long-running industry debate about AI safety broke containment and went viral after an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon quit his job and revealed that the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade . Soon, dozens of lawmakers had responded with calls to regulate AI and the top executives of the major artificial intelligence companies had all come out in favor of a global slowdown in AI development . But as polls show, Americans would be fine with that. A full 63% including 70% of those who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 and 60% of those who voted for President Trump believe there is at least a moderate risk that advanced AI will destroy humanity, according to the latest Politico poll . Only 7% say there is no risk at all of an AI apocalypse. Thirty-seven percent say the risk is significant or almost certain. This is wild. (I would have said very small risk.) https://t.co/Mkxj5ifPw5 pic.twitter.com/zXAcFx4ybQ Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) September 17, 2026 The same survey, which was conducted from Sept. 13 to 15, also found that nearly half of U.S. adults (48%) think AI is now good enough, and we should pause the development of more advanced models to reduce any risks coming from them while nearly a third (31%) believe we should continue developing more advanced AI because [new models] could still bring significant benefits. As AI continues to dominate the stock market, Trump has insisted in recent days that additional guardrails are unnecessary and that those who say otherwise are Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers . The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! he wrote on social media . Yet Americans seem to see things differently. According to a snap YouGov survey conducted on Tuesday, 28% now say they approve of how the president is handling the issue of artificial intelligence. About twice as many (55%) say they disapprove. President Trump is in one galaxy, and the American people are in a completely other galaxy, CNN's Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten told viewers on Monday. They're just simply not anywhere close together on this one. Sep 14-15 poll of 3,564 U.S. adults (1.9 points) Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling AI? 28% of U.S. adults approve 55% disapprove, including 44% who strongly disapprove (Link in reply) pic.twitter.com/7KpzpuATOb YouGov America (@YouGovAmerica) September 15, 2026 Catastrophic AI fears aren't fringe Earlier this week, YouGov asked 18,238 U.S. adults to say how concerned they are, if at all, about the possibility that AI will cause the end of the human race on Earth ? Half said very (23%) or somewhat (27%); fewer said not very (21%) or not at all (17%). These fears are not new. In fact, they were festering even before Coxon kickstarted the current wave of existential panic. Last November, Yahoo partnered with YouGov to poll on artificial intelligence . At the time, 10% of Americans predicted that AI's impact on humanity would turn out to be mostly positive; while (47%) expected it to be mostly negative. To find out why, Yahoo and YouGov asked Americans to read four predictions about AI and say how likely it is that each will come true at some point in the future. Here's how they responded: 61% of Americans said it was somewhat or very likely that AI will continue to improve, but it will never surpass human intelligence. 64% of Americans said it was somewhat or very likely that AI will be able to perform any intellectual task a human can. 60% of Americans said it was somewhat or very likely that AI will become so intellectually advanced that it will help us solve complex problems like curing cancer and stopping climate change. 63% of Americans said it was somewhat or very likely that AI will become so intellectually advanced that humans won't be able to control it anymore. And 53% of Americans say it's somewhat or very likely that AI will destroy humanity. In other words, roughly six in 10 Americans said they believed that AI would someday exceed human capacity and human control. AI's rapid progress is freaking people out It's not just potential AI extermination that worries Americans. Most simply don't feel that the technology's upsides outweigh its downsides at least not yet. According to the new Politico poll, for example, just 19% of Americans think the development of AI has benefitted them personally. In contrast, the vast majority say AI's impact on them has either been neutral (49%) or negative (16%). The Politico poll also asked Americans if they would be comfortable with AI being used for various cutting-edge tasks. Across the board, majorities said no: to provide an initial diagnosis for medical symptoms (51% uncomfortable); to track people's movements to aid police in finding criminals (52% uncomfortable); to grade children's homework (53%); to manage administrative tasks in the government (59% uncomfortable); to make predictions about who is likely to commit a crime (62% uncomfortable); and to make judgments on who is guilty or innocent in a court of law (70% uncomfortable). Ultimately, 25% of U.S. adults think AI will create more jobs than it replaces over the next decade, according to the Politico poll. As a result, even more Americans say they're concerned about the possibility that AI will cause mass unemployment (73%) than say they're concerned about AI ending humanity (50%), according to YouGov. Meanwhile, seven in 10 Americans say they are afraid AI will weaken human bonds, according to a poll released this week by Elon University, and about six in 10 say AI's potential to take over most human tasks will undermine an individual's sense of purpose. Most American adults also think AI is going to do more harm than good in education, according to this month's NBC News Decision Desk Poll while a growing share say schools that shun the technology will help students more than schools that embrace it. So it's no surprise, in the end, that two-thirds of Americans (67%) believe that AI is advancing too quickly versus just 21% who believe it's progressing at about the right pace. For most U.S. adults, the risk-reward ratio of unfettered AI just isn't adding up. YouGov Data centers aren't helping, either Data centers have existed in some form since the dawn of the computer age. Until recently, most Americans didn't have a strong opinion about them. AI has changed that. To keep up with the technology's massive processing demands, thousands of new data centers are being built all over the country especially in rural areas . They tend to be much bigger and more powerful than older data centers. The climate-focused media outlet Heatmap has been gathering public opinion on data centers for the last year. In August 2025, Americans were divided on whether they would support (43%) or oppose (42%) a new data center being built near where you live. Now, just twelve months later, support has cratered to 15% and a full three-quarters of Americans (75%) say they would oppose data center construction in their communities . More than six in 10 (61%) say they would strongly oppose it (up from 24% a year ago). Weve got exclusive new polling on local data center development at @heatmap_news . Over the past year, weve asked Americans whether they would support or oppose a data center being built near where they live. We havent changed the wording. When we first polled the question pic.twitter.com/G1LCfuriMw Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) August 20, 2026 Heatmap's executive editor has described this as a swift, massive shift in US public opinion on a scale that I wouldn't have once thought possible. The shift is being driven, in part, by concerns about water and electricity usage as well as increases in noise, heat and the disruptions of construction. According to a new Associated Press poll , a majority of Americans (53%) now say they are extremely or very concerned about artificial intelligence's environmental impacts, up from 41% last year. But broader skepticism about AI is also playing a role; as Yahoo recently explained , it's a tough sell to ask people to tolerate the downsides of having a data center in their community when they don't want the products that the facilities are being built to support. As a result, the new AP poll found that about 6 in 10 Americans now want to limit the number of new data centers that can be constructed including most Democrats and Republicans. Bipartisan backlash That bipartisan backlash is key. Among Harris voters, 70% say there's at least a moderate risk of AI destroying humanity, according to the Politico poll, versus just 22% who say there's no risk or a very small risk. The numbers among Trump voters? 61% and 29%, respectively. That's still a clear majority. And almost exactly the same number of Trump voters say AI is advancing too quickly (60%) rather than at about the right pace (29%), according to YouGov. This sort of consensus is rare. Even rarer is the fact that political figures on both sides of the aisle are publicly saying very similar things about AI. On Tuesday, both Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (the country's elder democratic socialist) and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon (a leading architect of the MAGA movement) spoke at a Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C. and both of them urged Americans to demand tighter restrictions on artificial intelligence before its capabilities exceed human control, according to the New York Times . When you are racing towards a cliff, you hit the brakes, Sanders said. We are at a dangerous and unprecedented moment in world history. And it is imperative for all of us to stand up. American citizens are not going to be supplicants to the oligarchs anymore, Bannon added. This is a hinge in history. On Wednesday, data journalist Nate Silver pointed out that while it's been widely predicted that AI would devolve into a highly partisan issue once it hit the mainstream and while there's certainly been a lot of vitriol on Twitter this conspicuously hasn't been true in the polling so far. In fact, neither party seems to have an advantage on the issue. According to a new New York Times / Siena College poll released this week , 42% of voters say they trust Republicans to do a better job handling AI while basically the same number (40%) say they trust Democrats. Whether the current AI consensus can last long enough for Congress to pass substantive regulation remains to be seen. Inside the White House, there has been a quiet freakout over AI policy, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal , with a group of senior aides gathering almost daily to discuss risks in the sector and potential guardrails while trying to persuade Trump to take a more hands-on approach. So far, the president seems unpersuaded. AI, and Data Centers, will be the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet, Trump wrote Monday on social media. It will not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces during the Term of President DONALD J. TRUMP! But YouGov polled that post, too . Just 26% of Americans said they agreed and more than twice as many (57%) said they disagreed. This article originally appeared on Yahoo Tech at https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/article/new-polls-show-that-americans-finally-agree-on-one-thing-opposing-ai-192334474.html
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President Donald Trump with Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 22. - Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/File The Federal Reserves first rate hike in three years has ushered in a new twist to the already unusual relationship between President Donald Trump and the worlds most powerful central bank. Trump raised eyebrows on Wednesday evening by appearing to suggest that he gave Kevin Warsh, his handpicked Fed chairman, permission to raise rates even though it was the wrong move. The president implied that Warsh had no choice but to embrace a rate increase because the Fed chief was outnumbered on the hostile rate-setting committee he oversees. I talked to Kevin and I said you might as well vote with the board because its not going to matterI said, Do what you want because it doesnt matter because he doesnt have the votes, Trump told reporters. The remarks raise plenty of questions about how much if at all Warsh is consulting with a president who has been willing to cross red lines in his quest for dramatically lower interest rates. Those questions are especially sensitive because the Fed is designed to be insulated from the political winds in Washington. Central bankers are required to make trillion-dollar decisions on whether to raise or lower interest rates based on whats best for the economy, not for the political party in power. Tellingly, some Fed watchers and former officials reacted to the remarks with disbelief. Its an unusual and unfortunate comment to make. Clearly, the Fed chair does not need the presidents permission to raise rates, Eric Rosengren, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, told CNN on Thursday. The implication is that the chair got a hall pass. I have no idea how truthful the comment was. Krishna Guha, vice chairman and head of economics and central bank strategy at Evercore ISI who criticized Warshs initial stumbles, dismissed Trumps claims. The market believes and with good grounds that Kevin Warsh owned this decision and that the committee was strongly united behind him, Guha said. There is no evidence here or to the market at large that Warsh was dragged into this by colleagues or permissioned by the president. We stay in our lane The risk is that Trump fuels suspicions that swirled on Wall Street this summer that Warsh may not be truly independent. Thats dangerous because a Fed doing the White Houses bidding could lose control of market-set interest rates , dramatically increasing the cost of mortgages and car loans. And a loss of faith in Fed independence could unhinge inflation expectations among investors and consumers. The Fed declined to comment to CNN about Trumps remarks. For his part, Warsh tap-danced around questions related to the man who nominated him. Im not a Wall Street newsletter. Part of the independence of the Federal Reserve is we stay in our lane. Independence is a two-way street, Warsh said during the press conference on Wednesday. Well let people that do trade policy and fiscal policy stay in their lane, too. Thats how we can stand up here and call them the way we see them. Asked by a reporter when he last spoke with the president, Warsh said : I dont have anything for you on discussions with the president. Tim Mahedy, CEO and chief economist at research firm Access/Macro, said he found that response from Warsh strange. The right answer is, I didnt talk to the president. I dont think the president is talking to Warsh beforehand. That would be shocking, said Mahedy, a former official at the IMF and San Francisco Fed. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh leaves after speaking at a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2026. - Mark Schiefelbein/AP The day the Fed became Warshs The other risk is that, intentionally or not, Trump diminishes Warsh as an ineffectual leader just as he appeared to be starting to find his footing. It makes it seem like Warsh has no control over this committee, like he was completely ineffectual in convincing his colleagues, said Mahedy. Warsh emerged from the meeting looking independent. Not only did he preside over a rate hike the White House did not want, but he explained it clearly and with the unanimous support of his colleagues including former Fed Chair Jerome Powell. It felt like the day the Fed became Warshs Fed, Evercores Guha said. He was a lot more assured, coherent and credible yesterday. What hes saying basically adds up. But now if Warsh and a majority of his colleagues on the committee decide against a rate hike, he will face questions about whether the president put his finger on the scale. In the past, most presidents have gone out of their way to even avoid the appearance of interfering with the Fed because it was widely accepted that an independent Fed builds confidence. Trump praises Warsh for now None of this is to say Trump unleashed on the Fed in a way that would have unnerved investors. In fact, Trumps initial reaction to the first rate hike under Warsh was relatively mild, especially compared with his relentless and deeply personal condemnation of Powell, his last handpicked Fed chair. While Trump bashed Warshs colleagues as very hostile and very political, he singled out the Fed chief for praise. Hes a good man, Kevin Warsh, Trump said. People were fearful of a fierce backlash from the president against this decision to raise rates and a resumption of the conflict between the White House and the Fed, Guha said. Of course, the Warsh-Trump relationship will continue to evolve, likely guided by what happens next to inflation, borrowing costs and the path of the S&P 500 and all-important Treasury rates. Mahedy said he worries that the relationship will break down if the Warsh-led Fed continues to raise rates as many suspect it will be forced to. Its not hard to see more blame being put on the Fed and Warsh and then it will start to look a lot like Powell, said Mahedy. Its kind of a train wreck but a slow-moving one. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com This article originally appeared on CNN Business at https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/17/economy/fed-trump-rate-hike-warsh
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