U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction Sunday barring the Postal Service from enforcing its tightened mail-in voting regulation, finding USPS likely exceeded the authority Congress gave it. The rule would have required states to hand over lists of mail ballot recipients, mandated unique barcodes on ballot envelopes, and let USPS refuse non-compliant ballots. It's the second such block this month, and the administration has already petitioned the Supreme Court with the November 3 midterms closing fast.
Asked by reporters in Ireland about requests from victims' families, President Trump said he might release additional records tied to the September 11 attacks, adding "I'm going to look at it when I get back." The administration has already put out more than 100 pages of pre-attack intelligence documents. The comments land days after the 25th anniversary ceremonies.
Producer price inflation climbed six-tenths of a point to 5.4% for the year ending in August, piling pressure on the Federal Reserve even as consumer inflation eased to 3.4%. Analysts tie the bulk of the 2026 run-up to energy prices that have soared since the Iran war began. Meanwhile the U.S. is projected to pump a record 13.8 million barrels a day this year.
Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said a 40-year-old woman died Saturday from complications associated with measles, the state's third death this year involving the virus. The announcement follows weeks of dispute over how Pennsylvania counts measles fatalities, including a Lancaster County case the coroner attributed to a ruptured spleen. The CDC has been excluding "measles-associated" deaths from its official tally.
Speaking Sunday at the Irish Open at his Doonbeg golf club, Trump said Ukraine's strikes on Russian refining capacity are driving a global diesel shortage that's hurting everyone. It's a blunt public break with Kyiv's deep-strike campaign, which Ukraine views as its most effective pressure lever. Diesel supply is already strained by the Gulf shipping crisis.
Houthi forces captured the strategic port city of Mokha and Mayyun Island, displacing roughly 80,000 people, while Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline stayed offline after drone strikes. Brent crude jumped 3.46% to $108.23 a barrel, and U.S. Central Command has now redirected 101 commercial vessels enforcing the Iran port blockade. Trump separately said the U.S. could ultimately remain in Iran and "keep the oil," citing the Venezuela arrangement as a model.
Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats and their allies are projected to take 175 of 349 parliamentary seats, unseating Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's governing coalition. The campaign turned on migration, crime, and cost of living, with Andersson holding a restrictive line on immigration while promising more take-home pay and shorter healthcare waits. A one-seat margin means coalition talks could drag for weeks.
Iran obtained high-resolution commercial satellite imagery from Chinese entities before and after its July 17 missile strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which killed three U.S. service members, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Officials called it the strongest evidence yet of Chinese involvement but stopped short of blaming Beijing directly. Trump shrugged it off Sunday, saying China "spies on us" just as "we spy on them," ahead of his September 24 summit with Xi Jinping.
A Missouri circuit judge begins considering Monsanto's proposed $7.25 billion settlement covering tens of thousands of claims that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The deal would be one of the largest mass-tort resolutions in U.S. history and could finally cap Bayer's long-running legal exposure. Approval is not guaranteed, and objecting plaintiffs are expected to be heard.
Manteno, Illinois, population roughly 9,000, watched a $2 billion Gotion battery plant move into a shuttered Kmart distribution center with a $536 million state incentive package and a property tax cap of $2 million a year locked in for 30 years. Residents who wanted to reverse it discovered the Illinois Constitution allows voters to recall exactly one official: the governor. No mayors, no trustees, no county board members, and almost no town has written its own recall rule.
