President Trump authorized strikes on Iranian oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz after the IRGC attempted attacks on US ships and troops, with CENTCOM confirming three vessels disabled, one sunk, and two boarded. Iran's parliament speaker warned that any further hits on Iranian interests will draw a "faster, heavier and more painful response." CENTCOM also says it redirected 92 commercial vessels through the contested chokepoint.
An Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300 arriving from San Juan overran a diagonal runway at Miami International around 2 p.m., striking multiple vehicles and catching fire. More than 60 fire units responded, with multiple patients reported and runways and taxiways shut down.
The administration petitioned the Supreme Court for a third time after a federal judge blocked new US Postal Service restrictions on mail-in ballots. The filing lands with roughly two months until the midterms and with North Carolina ballots already in the mail.
The national average for regular sits near $4.10 a gallon, up from $2.98 just before the Iran war began on February 28, and it has topped $4 every single day since August. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that New York, Connecticut, California and other blue states declined to adopt new refinery specifications that would boost gasoline and diesel output.
Germany's Alternative für Deutschland took a projected 44.5 percent in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election, more than doubling its 20.8 percent from 2021 and marking the party's best result ever. The CDU collapsed to about 18.5 percent, but its long-standing "firewall" against coalition with the AfD means the winner may still be locked out of governing.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Ukraine Sunday, one day after a three-hour sit-down with Vladimir Putin in Moscow that the Kremlin called "constructive, frank and useful." Witkoff described the Kyiv round as "substantive" and "important," with British, French and German representatives also taking part. Putin has ordered a 72-hour pause on strikes against Kyiv.
Iran fired missiles and drones at Kuwait in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait, widening the conflict beyond the waterway. Separately, the Israeli military took operational control of the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon after an offensive against Hezbollah positions.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched August 30, can see about 100 times more sky than Hubble and has now begun its mission mapping dark matter and dark energy. NASA science chief Nicky Fox says it should find thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies and tens of billions of stars.
Revolution Medicines' daraxonrasib won approval for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who failed chemotherapy, after trials showed it nearly doubled survival versus chemo. It works by blocking the growth signal that tells the body to make more cancer cells. It is not a cure, but in a disease this lethal, more time is the whole ballgame.
Off the Greek island of Andros, divers uncovered an ancient merchant wreck carrying hundreds of pointed-bottom amphorae dating to the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C. Archaeologists identified three distinct jar types — Mende, Peparethos and Solokha 2 — plus part of a lead anchor stock and ballast stones.
