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The Senate failed to advance a Democratic attempt to pass an Iran war powers resolution, falling short on a 47-50 vote after Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana flipped to block it following a White House Iran briefing. The vote came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain, where he said there is "zero support" among Gulf nations for any tolls on international waters.
A group of House conservatives is vowing to grind floor action to a halt until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act, with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida declaring "There's going to be no votes this week, and it's going to be as long as it takes." The sprawling bill would impose voter ID requirements, crack down on mail-in voting, and ban sex-change procedures for minors.
A progressive wave swept New York's primaries, with all three congressional candidates endorsed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani winning their races, including Brad Lander ousting incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in the deep-blue 10th District. Nine Democratic incumbents lost their seats overall, and Attorney General Letitia James openly bristled at Mamdani's surging clout as the new Democratic kingmaker.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose to 4.1% in May, its highest reading since April 2023, driven largely by energy disruptions from the war with Iran. The Warsh-led Fed held its rate target steady at 3.50%-3.75% in a unanimous vote and now projects inflation running at 3.6% by year's end, well above its earlier 2.7% forecast.
Israel reacted furiously to a new UN Commission of Inquiry report accusing the Jewish state of the "deliberate targeting of Palestinian children," denouncing it as a "political blood libel." The clash unfolds even as Rubio touted a diplomatic breakthrough — the first direct Lebanon-Israel government talks in 30 years, now in their third day in Washington.
Ukraine's drone forces commander reported striking the main substation at the Sevastopol power plant, cutting power across Crimea's largest city. The strikes are part of a deep campaign that recently hit a refinery in Tyumen, Siberia — nearly 1,900 kilometers from the front and the deepest confirmed Ukrainian strike of the war — leaving stations across Moscow rationing fuel.
Turkish and Egyptian air forces conducted multiday combat training across multiple Egyptian bases in June, flying F-16s in coordinated operations that analysts warn signal a deepening military axis. Commentators argue Washington must confront the emerging alignment, which could reshape the balance of power across the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.
China has approved a brain-computer interface called NEO for commercial medical use in certain patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries, developed by Tsinghua University and Shanghai-based Neuracle Technology. Unlike implants that pierce brain tissue, NEO rests on the brain's protective outer layer, pushing the technology out of trials and into real-world care — and intensifying the global race with Neuralink.
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — estimated at about 20 kilometers across, larger than Manhattan — shows an unexpected glow in front of it rather than trailing behind, which Harvard's Avi Loeb says can't be explained by sunlight reflection or normal cometary outgassing. NASA classifies it as a comet, but Loeb notes its trajectory is so aligned with the planets that only one in 500 random objects would match, and it reaches its closest approach to the sun on Oct. 30.
A 15,000-square-foot space hidden beneath the Lincoln Memorial for 100 years has finally opened to the public, free of charge. The cavernous undercroft, long sealed beneath the feet of the seated Lincoln statue, now welcomes visitors into a century-old secret in the heart of Washington.
