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A Boeing 767-300 operating as 21 Air Flight 7598 for Amazon Prime Air overran a runway at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, struck multiple vehicles and caught fire. At least five people were killed and five more injured, with victims trapped in cars that had to be cut open by rescue crews. The jet had flown in from San Juan, Puerto Rico; investigators are now working to determine what went wrong.
Thirty-eight-year-old Patrick Havas forced his way through a crowd toward Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton at the Canfield Fair Sunday, knocking two older adults to the ground. State Highway Patrol troopers on Acton's detail stopped him, and deputies recovered two holstered handguns and a set of brass knuckles. Acton was unharmed; Havas faces two assault counts and disorderly conduct.
The administration filed its third emergency appeal Sunday asking the justices to lift a preliminary injunction blocking new Postal Service requirements for election mail. The rules, flowing from Trump's March 31 executive order, would mandate official Election Mail markings and intelligent barcodes on ballot envelopes. Timing is the pressure point: North Carolina ballots are already in the mail, Alabama starts September 9, and at least five more states follow the week of the 13th.
US diesel prices have stayed above five dollars a gallon since mid-July, putting 2026 on track to be the most expensive diesel year in American history. Crude that traded near sixty-five dollars a barrel before the Iran conflict has pushed past one hundred, and gasoline set a Labor Day record. Because diesel moves nearly everything on shelves, economists warn the freight cost is still working its way into consumer prices.
Under Trump's "tanker for tanker" policy, US forces disabled a crude carrier off Kharg Island, hit another near Jask, and destroyed an unladen tanker in the Gulf of Oman after the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at two American warships. CENTCOM says it has struck roughly one hundred targets across Iran and redirected ninety-two commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's parliament speaker promised a "faster, heavier and more painful response," while a senior Iranian source told Reuters the country has about two months of gasoline left. Overnight, Israeli airstrikes on a southern Lebanese village killed nine and wounded thirteen.
The two US envoys met Zelensky Sunday, one day after a closed-door Kremlin session that Putin aide Yuri Ushakov called "constructive, frank and useful" but that produced no announced breakthrough. Both capitals agreed to a three-day pause on strikes so the delegation could travel safely. Witkoff said he was "very encouraged," though Kyiv still flatly rejects Moscow's demand that it withdraw from Ukrainian-held parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Germany's Alternative for Germany party more than doubled its 2021 showing in Sunday's state election, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU collapsed from 37.1 percent to 18.5. It is the strongest state result any nationalist party has posted in postwar Germany. The AfD still fell just short of an outright majority, and the CDU's longstanding refusal to govern with it means the establishment may keep the winner out of power anyway.
NASA's 4.3 billion dollar Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on a Falcon Heavy, is now on a three-month journey to the same gravitational parking spot that hosts the Webb telescope. It surveys the sky more than a thousand times faster than Hubble, meaning a one-month Roman survey would take Hubble a century. The mission targets over two billion galaxies plus the largest exoplanet census ever attempted.
Researchers have unveiled the most complete prehistoric marine reptile skeleton ever found in Scotland — an ichthyosaur that swam Jurassic seas around 170 million years ago. Amateur fossil hunter Norrie Gillies spotted the bones on an Isle of Skye beach in 1966; they then sat in storage for half a century until Edinburgh scientists and energy firm SSE funded the extraction. The ten-to-thirteen-foot predator lived on fish and squid, and could illuminate the poorly understood Middle Jurassic.
The White House amplified a Truth Social image showing New Mexico's map with "Mexico" struck through in red and replaced with "America," days after an executive order renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America" for federal use. No policy explanation accompanied either post, and a president cannot unilaterally rename a state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham fired back that the name "isn't up for debate — it's been ours since before the United States existed."
