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The president said Monday that Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries and blue-state energy policy — not the seven-month Iran war — are driving pump pain, with diesel hitting a record near $6.50 a gallon last month. He's preparing an executive order to widen access to tax-exempt diesel. With the election four weeks out, fuel costs have become the administration's sharpest political liability.
Trump announced he'll draw on Congress's $2 billion Medicare Improvement Fund to send roughly $90 to more than 20 million Part B enrollees to offset premium costs. The move is being framed as relief against rising senior health costs. Critics question using a reserve fund for direct payments weeks before voters go to the polls.
Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday prohibiting federal immigration agents from using city-owned property as staging or processing sites, as the administration moves National Guard units into Illinois. Los Angeles passed a comparable ordinance. Up to 1,700 Guardsmen are mobilizing across 19 states to handle clerical and logistical work at ICE facilities.
Democrats lead the generic congressional ballot 52 to 46 in new Fox News polling — their best showing of the cycle — and are tied or ahead in Senate races across Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas. Cook Political Report now projects a Democratic House. Cost of living tops the issue list, flipping the 2024 playbook on its head.
All twelve B-1 bombers were withdrawn from RAF Fairford after commanders received fresh intelligence on an Iran-linked plot against the installation. The evacuation was urgent enough that some aircraft lifted off while refueling tankers were still scrambling. Fairford had been a launch point for strikes on Iran.
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro took 47.03 percent to President Lula's 45.16 in Sunday's first round, badly beating private polls that had Lula up three. His Liberal Party also captured the largest bloc in both chambers of Congress. Abstention hit 21 percent, the highest since 1998.
The chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council announced comprehensive military operations to seize control of the entire country from the Houthi movement. The timing matters for global shipping through Red Sea lanes already strained by the Iran conflict. Iran, meanwhile, warned it will target every US base and vessel in range if Washington attempts a ground invasion.
A gas giant orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, about 270 light-years out, is the first confirmed second-generation planet — a world assembled from the debris of a star that already died. Previous white-dwarf planets were survivors, not new builds. It suggests planet formation can restart after stellar death.
The company says it ran an end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder on off-the-shelf processors, a milestone on the road to fault-tolerant machines. Error correction has been the central bottleneck in making quantum computers useful. Doing it without exotic custom hardware lowers the cost of scaling.
Officers stopped a motorized sofa on a public road and issued a public reminder to put "safety first." No word on whether the cushions were properly restrained. Separately, a black bear strolled into a Pennsylvania restaurant and spent quality time inspecting the host stand.