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The administration petitioned the Supreme Court after a federal judge blocked new U.S. Postal Service restrictions on mail-in ballots, with roughly two months to go before the midterm elections. The case lands as the Court prepares a term already loaded with immigration and election-law fights. A ruling on the emergency application could reshape how millions of ballots move in November.
Canada's 15 to 50 percent counter-tariffs on nearly 20 billion dollars of American goods take effect today, answering the 50 percent U.S. tariffs imposed since August 22. On Sunday, President Trump said he would ban American sales of Canadian aviation giant Bombardier unless the company builds its aircraft in the United States. Trade talks between Ottawa and Washington collapsed on August 21 and have not restarted.
A 32-year-old Boeing 767 operated by 21 Air overran runway 30 at Miami International by about 1,300 feet Sunday afternoon, killing five members of an airline cleaning crew and injuring five more. Investigators have recovered both black boxes; the pilot and co-pilot survived and have not yet been interviewed. A key question is why the crew did not go around, and whether the runway lacked an arresting system that could have stopped the jet.
The national average sits above four dollars a gallon, roughly 40 percent higher than earlier this year, with diesel near 5.90 and freight costs feeding into grocery prices. Headline inflation is running firmly above 3 percent, pushing the Federal Reserve toward a rate hike even as the July jobs report showed a surprise loss of 23,000 jobs. Polling shows 53 percent of Americans say their financial condition has worsened.
Washington is pushing a Security Council resolution demanding Iran urgently remedy its nuclear non-compliance and restore IAEA inspector access, days after U.S. forces destroyed one Iranian tanker and disabled two others in the Strait of Hormuz. That strike answered IRGC missile fire at a U.S. carrier and destroyer, both of which came through unharmed. Iran's parliament speaker warned any further hits would draw a faster, heavier and more painful response.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles at four Saudi energy installations, injuring more than 70 people and setting off fires at multiple sites. It is a sharp widening of the Gulf conflict beyond the Hormuz shipping lanes and straight into Saudi production capacity. Pakistan's prime minister condemned the strikes as cowardly and pledged solidarity with Riyadh.
The Alternative for Germany took 43.8 percent in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, its best result in the party's 13-year history and 39 of the 43 seats needed for a majority. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats collapsed from 37.1 percent to about 18.5 percent in a state they have governed since 2002. Rival parties say they will not work with the AfD, meaning the CDU may need partners on the far left to keep it out of government.
MIT engineers injected liver cells alongside uniform hydrogel microspheres and supporting cells, forming pockets of working tissue that hook into the bloodstream. In mice, the transplanted cells survived at least two months and kept producing liver enzymes and proteins. More than 10,000 Americans with chronic liver disease are waiting on transplants, and many are too sick to survive the surgery at all.
Scientists identified a protein called SET that appears to shield glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers, from treatment. Blocking SET prevented tumors from forming in preclinical models, and targeting related proteins made cancer cells markedly more vulnerable. It is early-stage work, but glioblastoma has resisted almost everything thrown at it for decades.
University of Vienna researchers report that the gut microbiome spreads between people far more readily than scientists assumed, sharing strains through ordinary close contact. That means the bugs shaping your digestion, immunity, and possibly your mood may be partly inherited from your roommates. It reframes the microbiome as something closer to a social network than a private ecosystem.
