Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home Monday morning as part of a criminal fraud probe into immigration paperwork filed when she was a child. One day later, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed a separate investigation into Omar's financial disclosures and her reported multimillion-dollar assets, while investigators subpoenaed her sister and others in her family circle. Omar called the raid an attempt to "target political enemies" and said she will not be silenced.
Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned Tuesday as U.S. Ambassador to Greece after the White House asked her to step down amid allegations she solicited a $100,000 payment from a donor before her 2025 confirmation hearing and accepted luxury travel funded by Greek businessmen. New press secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed the request from her first podium appearance. Guilfoyle called the allegations untrue and said serving was "the honor of a lifetime."
The Social Security Administration announces the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment today, timed to the release of September inflation data. Forecasts cluster between 3.4 and 3.6 percent, which would top this year's 2.8 percent bump. For the average retired worker collecting roughly $2,084 a month, a 3.6 percent adjustment works out to about $75 more per check.
A 42-year-old Atlanta Public Schools employee riding the Goliath coaster with his son at Six Flags Over Georgia was ejected from his seat and killed Monday afternoon, prompting an evacuation of the Mableton park. Six Flags has since shut down nine similar rides across six parks in California, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina and Canada. Cobb County police are investigating, and several other guests were injured.
A ballistic missile struck Saudi Aramco's Dhahran complex Tuesday, setting fire to an administrative tower that houses oil operations infrastructure, with no casualties reported. Houthi forces claimed 104 drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia in 24 hours, and Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport is now closed through October 17. Trump told an Alaska rally that "we're going to do a number" on Tehran, while Iranian naval commanders threatened U.S. warships near the Strait of Hormuz.
A pre-dawn landslide dammed the Budhi Gandaki River in Nepal's Gorkha district over the weekend, unleashing a flash flood that swept away bridges, trails and more than 200 homes along the popular Manaslu circuit. Over 100 foreign trekkers remain stranded at scattered points on the route, with helicopters having already evacuated more than 200 people. No deaths have been confirmed, though five villagers are still out of contact.
Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung warned European nations that leaning on Chinese manufacturing threatens both their economic security and their political freedom. He accused Beijing of using state subsidies and unfair trade practices to undercut European industry and lock the continent into Chinese supply chains. Lin pitched deeper industrial partnership with Taiwan as the alternative.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has measured a galaxy cluster called XLSSC 122, more than 10 billion light-years away, and found a startling concentration of dark matter packed into its core. It is the most distant cluster ever confirmed to act as a strong gravitational lens. Standard cosmological models say massive structures should have assembled far more gradually than this, so something in the early-universe playbook needs revising.
A SpaceX Dragon lifted off Tuesday carrying more than 6,300 pounds of cargo and science experiments on the company's 35th commercial resupply run for NASA. Riding in the capsule's unpressurized trunk is the last pair of ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays, which will shore up power generation on the aging orbital lab. The arrays complete an upgrade campaign that has been running for years.
Oxford researchers used a hybrid quantum computer to recreate the Aharonov-Bohm effect, halting a particle's movement entirely using a simulated magnetic flux the particle never passed through. The result, published in Nature Physics, confirms a prediction made back in 1959 that a charged particle traveling around a magnetic region still carries a measurable trace of it. The setup pairs qubits with quantum oscillators to simulate interactions conventional computers choke on.
