A powerful coastal storm crawled up the Northeast seaboard, cutting power to more than 100,000 customers and forcing the cancellation of over 400 flights. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for New York City plus Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties, with gusts of 45 to 65 mph and major coastal flooding from the Outer Banks to southern New England. Organizers scrapped the Global Citizen Festival on Central Park's Great Lawn rather than risk tens of thousands of attendees.
The national average for regular gas has pushed past the $4.10 mark — roughly 96 cents higher than a year ago — while diesel topped an all-time high above $6 a gallon. California leads the pain at $5.78, followed by Washington and Hawaii. Analysts tie the spike directly to the Iran conflict and disrupted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and diesel's climb is quietly reprising itself in grocery and freight costs nationwide.
Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee dropped a sprawling 26-article impeachment resolution, a preview of what Democrats may attempt if they flip the House in November. The articles target nearly every pillar of the second-term agenda — military operations off Venezuela, federal deployments to American cities, the birthright-citizenship executive order and mass deportation policy. It has no path forward in the current chamber, which is arguably the point.
The administration approved a rewritten set of federal fuel economy standards that dismantles the Biden-era framework designed to accelerate electric vehicle adoption. Supporters call it a return to consumer choice and relief for domestic automakers; critics say it locks in higher long-run fuel consumption. The timing lands squarely in the middle of a record-gas-price news cycle.
President Trump turned down Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying Tehran "overplayed their hand" and that the terms were what Washington might have accepted a year ago. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the pressure campaign is choking Iran's access to global markets. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is prepared for fighting to resume even if it becomes a "doomsday war," while still leaving the door open to talks Trump says he expects this week.
Gloucestershire Police arrested five men on suspicion of explosives offences, with bomb disposal teams searching vans near RAF Fairford — a base the US military uses for strategic bomber operations. The site's role has taken on new weight during the Iran conflict. Authorities have not released a motive and the investigation is being handled as counter-terrorism.
Overnight Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine, coming just hours after Moscow publicly rejected German calls to ease its escalation toward NATO. The Council on Foreign Relations' 2026 Preventive Priorities Survey now counts more active armed conflicts worldwide than at any point since 1945, with a Taiwan Strait crisis and a Russia-NATO clash topping its list of severe-consequence scenarios.
The FAA has greenlit Starship Flight 14, teeing up liftoff Monday at 8:15 a.m. Eastern from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas — the first orbital attempt after a long run of suborbital tests. The 407-foot stack will deploy 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites, orbit Earth six times, then splash down in the Pacific off Chile nearly ten hours later. It doubles as Starship's first revenue-generating mission and a prerequisite for NASA's Artemis III moon landing.
New research finds caffeine degrades sleep architecture even in people who fall asleep without trouble — meaning "coffee doesn't keep me up" is not the same as "coffee doesn't affect me." The measurable damage shows up in deep and REM stages, the phases separate large-cohort research has tied to lower long-term risk of dementia and heart failure. Translation: the cutoff time matters more than whether you feel wired.
In a detail that got buried under the week's harder news, Trump is reported to have taken Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the National Archives to view historic US-China treaties. It's an unusual bit of diplomatic stagecraft — using 19th- and 20th-century paperwork as a negotiating prop. Whether it moved anything on trade or Taiwan is anyone's guess, but it's a genuinely novel entry in the annals of summit theater.
