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Republicans opened their unprecedented midterm convention in Dallas today, with President Trump slated for a 9 p.m. ET primetime keynote and Vice President JD Vance headlining night two. Party officials are framing the November contest as a "competition with communism," even as Republicans face energized Democrats and stiff political headwinds. Trump is expected to return Thursday evening to close the convention out.
The Supreme Court turned away Missouri Republicans' emergency request to use their redrawn congressional map in the upcoming midterms. The ruling means the state's existing lines stay in place for November, a meaningful setback in a cycle where a handful of seats could decide House control. Missouri joins a growing list of redistricting fights that courts are resolving right up against the election calendar.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to revise its payroll jobs estimate downward by roughly 79,000, complicating an otherwise strong picture after August's blowout 162,000-job gain and 4.1 percent unemployment. Futures markets now put the odds of a Fed rate hike at next week's meeting near 58 percent, with the 30-year Treasury recently hitting a 19-year high of 5.31 percent. Cleveland Fed models still see core inflation drifting toward 2.3 percent.
Flight recorder data shows the crew of the 21 Air Boeing 767 weighed going around before the jet overran the Miami runway by some 1,300 feet on September 6, killing five and injuring five more. Both pilots survived; most victims were in a van struck on airport grounds. Investigators are also examining Miami International's lack of an Engineered Materials Arresting System, the crushable concrete bed designed to stop runaway aircraft.
Central Command destroyed five Iranian crude carriers after the IRGC targeted a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice in two days, and Iran answered by firing roughly 20 ballistic missiles toward Jordanian territory and claiming hits on ten ships. Brent crude punched above $100 a barrel as Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Tehran would keep losing tankers. Separately, the IAEA referred Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in twenty years.
Ukrainian drones hit Novy Urengoy, sparking a fire in Russia's premier natural gas region some 1,740 miles from the Ukrainian border. Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews he'd just spoken with Putin and called it "a great conversation," saying the Russian leader "is wanting to make a deal." He also acknowledged the obvious obstacle, describing Putin and Zelenskyy as "two people that hate each other."
Torrential early-September rains triggered landslides in Suichuan County, burying homes in Mingkeng Village and killing at least three there, with nine still unaccounted for. A separate slide in Yangfen Village left one dead and another missing. Rescue crews are working through unstable terrain as more rain moves across the province.
Launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now settling into the most ambitious sky survey NASA has ever attempted — more than two billion galaxies. It will also deliver the first statistically significant census of Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zone. Trump hailed the launch as evidence of a "Golden Age of America."
The FDA approved Moderna's mRNA influenza vaccine for adults 50 to 64, based on a roughly 40,000-participant phase 3 trial that showed a 27 percent reduction in flu cases versus a standard shot. The agency also signed off on updated COVID-19 vaccines for higher-risk Americans. Meanwhile the CDC has issued no recommendations for the 2026-27 respiratory season, its advisory process still stalled since a March court ruling invalidated the overhaul of the vaccine panel.
Chairman James Comer and Rep. Eric Burlison have sent letters to the FBI, the Department of War, NASA and the Department of Energy seeking answers about a cluster of researchers who died or went missing. The trigger was retired Air Force Gen. William Neil McCasland — nicknamed the "UFO general" — who vanished from his Albuquerque home in February. Burlison says four or five people doing advanced aerospace research "walked out their front door and never returned" inside a five-month window, and Comer says it looks like "something sinister."
