The names of all 2,977 victims were read aloud at Ground Zero this morning, with Vice President JD Vance, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and former Presidents Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden in attendance. President Trump spoke at the Pentagon observance, telling the crowd that on days like September 11, "we learn what a country is truly made of." Families at the memorial again pressed the administration to release unredacted files they believe point toward Saudi involvement.
The high court suspended a federal judge's order for a second time, keeping the Trump-backed Missouri congressional map out of play ahead of November's midterms. The ruling lands with roughly eight weeks to go before Election Day, and it scrambles Republican seat math in a state the party had counted on.
After Trump floated a $5,000 "Trump dividend" for every adult American at the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas, the White House is now negotiating with lawmakers over how to actually move it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insists the checks would not come from taxpayer dollars or the deficit, saying the administration would "earn the money."
AAA clocked the national diesel average at $6.06 today, up from $5.98 yesterday and $5.85 a week ago, as the Iran war chokes global supply. Brent and WTI hit three-month highs, Saudi crude output fell to a 30-year low of six million barrels a day, and every trucked good in America now rides on a more expensive tank.
Yemeni and Iranian officials tell Fox News that Tehran pushed the Houthis to grab key Red Sea ports and strike Saudi Arabia, with hundreds of IRGC officers now operating alongside them. The Houthis have taken Mokha and are advancing on Dhubab near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, while Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline was shut down after repeated attacks. Nearly 46,000 Yemeni civilians were displaced in a single week.
The leaders of Russia, China and Iran descended on India for a high-stakes BRICS summit as two wars pull the bloc in different directions. Prime Minister Modi used his sit-down with Iranian President Pezeshkian to press the case for freedom of navigation and the safety of seafarers, with Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb both under threat.
The vessel Ocean Melody caught fire while undergoing repairs at the busy port of Qingdao, killing 25 of the 42 people aboard and injuring five more. It is one of the deadliest shipyard accidents China has seen in years, and investigators are examining the repair work underway at the time.
The administration closed a loan to reopen the shuttered Duane Arnold plant in Iowa, putting roughly 615 megawatts back on the grid — enough for close to 500,000 homes. It's the third decommissioned US nuclear plant the administration has funded for restart, after Palisades and Three Mile Island.
Archaeologists in Roskilde, Denmark, located the 13th-century St. Clare's Convent about three feet beneath a soccer pitch during a survey ahead of an underground parking project. The eastern wing is described as exceptionally well preserved, with clearly defined rooms and vault pillars still readable on the scans.
Newly surfaced documents reveal the intelligence community received more detailed warnings about Osama bin Laden and an impending plot than the public record had reflected. Released on the 25th anniversary, the memos are already reshaping arguments about what was known, when, and who failed to connect it.
