The president unveiled agreements with nine additional pharmaceutical firms — Alcon, Astellas, BeOne Medicines, BridgeBio, CSL, Kyowa Kirin, Sun Pharma, Teva and UCB — to sell prescription drugs in the US at prices matched to what other wealthy nations pay. Trump called them "the largest price reductions in the history of medicine," and the White House says roughly 90 percent of major manufacturers are now on board. Critics note the deals are voluntary and the savings timeline is still fuzzy.
The president meets Tuesday with US refiners and fuel distributors to press for expanded domestic refining capacity and lower gasoline prices. The sit-down comes as Brent crude pushed past 91 dollars a barrel on the back of the Iran conflict. Gas prices are shaping up as a defining pocketbook issue heading into November.
The White House says Guardsmen will handle processing tasks for DHS — fingerprinting, DNA swabs, photographing and data entry on detainees — so ICE agents can stay in the field. Officials stressed this rollout is separate from the DC crime operation. It lands while the Supreme Court's 6–3 order blocking a Chicago Guard deployment is still fresh, with Justice Alito calling the majority's move unwise.
A Las Vegas jury took less than three hours Monday to find the 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips leader guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, with a gang enhancement. Prosecutors argued Davis planned the drive-by and supplied the gun as revenge for a casino beatdown, even though he never fired a shot. He faces life without parole — the only person ever charged in the killing.
Iran fired at least eight ballistic missiles at US forces in Jordan after American strikes destroyed rocket launchers loaded with sea mines on Larak Island — the first direct US strikes on Iran in a month. Trump is now weighing a hit on Kharg Island, Iran's main oil-export hub, and posted AI-generated video of it being blown apart. Oil climbed more than two percent, with Brent touching 91.40 a barrel as the conflict enters its sixth month.
Jet-powered drones and missiles battered the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region overnight, with repeated strikes on warehouses leaving supermarket shelves bare in parts of the city. Zelenskyy said every signal from Moscow points to Putin personally wanting a wider war. It's one of the heaviest sustained aerial campaigns Kyiv has absorbed this year.
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathering in Kyrgyzstan, all three leaders met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and voiced support amid his country's war with the United States. Modi separately pressed Putin to "move away from endless war" in Ukraine, while also warming to Xi after Washington's 50 percent tariffs on India. Pakistan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan were also at the table.
The bus-sized observatory, named for NASA's first chief astronomer, launched from Cape Canaveral and will spend more than three months reaching its observing post. It captures panoramic views roughly 100 times wider than Hubble, and is expected to find thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies and tens of billions of stars. Both reusable side boosters landed tail-first back at the Cape with sonic booms.
The administration is moving toward a mineral lease sale in federal waters off American Samoa, where surveys have already pulled up nodules rich in nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. Backers frame it as the way to break China's grip on refining without swapping one foreign dependence for another. Environmental groups sued in August, and American Samoa's own government opposes the leasing.
Prosecutors say the con artist impersonated a San Francisco 49ers player to build romantic relationships and then drain his victims financially, netting about 1.3 million dollars across 26 women. The scheme leaned on the assumption that nobody double-checks an NFL roster. It's a reminder that the oldest fraud in the book still works when the story is flattering enough.
