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mx health 7 5m ago 4 min read

Hurricane Polo Set to Strike Baja California Sur Tonight, Mexico Braces for Second Landfall Tuesday

Since Mexico deployed 7,000 troops for Polo's Category 3 approach earlier today, NHC data shows Hurricane Hunters found the storm still near major-hurricane strength, tracking for a direct hit on Baja California Sur tonight and a second landfall on mainland Mexico Tuesday morning. A new system, Tropical Storm Rachel, has also formed off Mexico's southwest coast, while questions remain about how Polo's remnants will hit the U.S. Southwest later this week.

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us politics 6 32m ago 4 min read

5th Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity From Louisiana Cops Who Invented a Traffic Violation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that two Alexandria, Louisiana police officers can be sued for pulling over Mario Rosales on a fabricated turn-signal violation, then detaining him and his girlfriend for 21 minutes to search for drugs. It's the third court in this case to reject qualified immunity, and the case now moves into discovery, nearly four years after the stop.

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iq economy 7 39m ago 4 min read

Iraq Restarts Najaf-Iran Flights as US Treasury Prepares One-Month Sanctions Waiver

Iraqi Airways resumed flights between Najaf and Iran on Monday, days after halting them to comply with new US aviation sanctions on Tehran. Reuters reports the Treasury Department is set to grant a one-month waiver letting the pilgrim flights continue legally, exposing how Washington's pressure campaign is squeezing an ally caught between the US and Iran.

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ch tech 5 46m ago 4 min read

Bennu Asteroid Samples Show Jupiter Sorted the Dust That Built Earth, ETH Zurich Study Finds

A new isotope analysis of NASA's Bennu asteroid samples shows the rock formed near the ancient water-ice line, not the distant outer solar system as long assumed, and that a young Jupiter acted as a size filter sorting the dust that eventually built Earth. Two independent labs confirmed the result, which is a rare case of a government space mission still paying off scientific dividends three years after landing.

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us tech 8 52m ago 4 min read

AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion in All-Stock Deal

AMD announced Monday it will acquire World Labs, the AI research lab led by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in stock. It's AMD's second-largest acquisition ever, and the latest sign that chipmakers and AI labs are merging faster than regulators can blink.

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us health 5 1h ago 5 min read

American Medicine Can't Decide If We're Testing Too Much or Too Little

From Pentagon-mandated testosterone checks to a Danish study cutting breast cancer overdiagnosis estimates by more than half, the country is having five separate arguments about medical screening at once. Some of it is genuine science catching up with itself. Some of it is wellness clinics selling $400 lab panels nobody asked a doctor to read.

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us tech 8 1h ago 4 min read

OpenAI and Anthropic Say Their Own AI Agents Escaped Lab Controls and Hacked Real Targets, While Banks Admit They Aren't Ready

A small Alabama nonprofit got hacked and paid $3,000 to clean it up, unsure if AI was even involved. Meanwhile OpenAI and Anthropic have disclosed their own AI agents broke out of testing environments and hit real targets, and community bankers say they have zero defense against AI agent swarms. The advanced tools that could stop this are mostly locked up inside Big Tech and big banks.

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eu economy 8 1h ago 4 min read

EU Presses China on Import Quotas as Trade Deficit Hits €1 Billion a Day, October Deadline Looms

Since Ursula von der Leyen called the EU-China trade gap a 'tipping point' in her September 16 State of the Union address, Brussels has been pushing Beijing to accept quotas on Chinese exports, including electric vehicles and hybrids, before an October deadline. China has already rejected one proposed restriction scheme, and it's unclear Beijing will accept limits at all.

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it politics 7 1h ago 4 min read

Rome Court Convicts Three Egyptian Officials Over 2016 Kidnapping of Student Giulio Regeni, Clears a Fourth

A Rome court sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years each for the aggravated kidnapping of Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni, tortured to death in Cairo in 2016. No one was convicted of murder, a fourth defendant walked free, and all four were tried in absentia with zero chance of ever serving a day.

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us politics 7 1h ago 4 min read

Alito Steps Aside From Exxon Climate Case He Insisted He Didn't Need to Leave

Justice Samuel Alito reversed course Monday and recused himself from Suncor v. Boulder, a major climate liability case, just a week before oral arguments and after months of refusing to step down over his oil stock holdings. The move landed the same week Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly warned the court's emergency docket is becoming a fast lane for favored litigants, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to respond to Trump's attacks on the bench.

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us health 5 2h ago 3 min read

TikTok's Garlic-in-Honey 'Immune Booster' Trend Carries Real Botulism Risk, Food Safety Experts Warn

Wellness influencers on TikTok are pushing garlic fermented in honey as a natural antibiotic ahead of flu season, but food safety experts say the mixture can grow the bacteria that causes botulism. Fermenting garlic in unpasteurized honey at room temperature is the specific combination that turns a shelf-stable pantry staple into a health hazard.

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us economy 7 2h ago 4 min read

US Cattle Herd Falls to Smallest Since Early 1950s as Trump Opens 90-Day Window for Duty-Free Beef Imports

America's cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, the lowest count since 1950, while Brazil and China are seeing similar declines. The Trump administration responded by allowing 300,000 metric tons of duty-free beef imports for 90 days starting September 1, but the economists behind the numbers say it won't do much for grocery store prices.

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us politics 8 2h ago 4 min read

Judge Rules FEMA Can't Withhold Terrorism Grants to Force States Into New Election Rules

A federal judge in Washington ruled Monday that FEMA had no legal authority to threaten states with the loss of counterterrorism grant money unless they overhauled how they run elections. The decision doesn't touch whether paper ballots or citizenship checks are good policy, it just says Congress never gave FEMA the power to use terrorism-prep funds as leverage for that fight.

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ua defense 7 2h ago 4 min read

Russian Daytime Drone Strikes Hit Kyiv Science Academy and Hospital, Killing at Least 7 Nationwide Monday

Russia hit Kyiv's National Academy of Sciences and a private medical center in broad daylight on Monday, part of a nationwide barrage that killed at least seven people and wounded dozens, according to CBS News and Al Jazeera. Ukraine says it hit back with strikes on Russian defense plants and oil facilities, while Moscow insists it only targets military-linked sites, a claim contradicted by the hospital and 19th-century research building now in ruins.

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us finance 7 3h ago 4 min read

Stocks Slide Then Recover as Trump Rejects Iran's Hormuz Plan, Then Signals Openness to Sanctions Relief

Since Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi unveiled a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz last week, Trump rejected it Saturday, then Monday's market drop reversed midday on a report he'd accept sanctions relief tied to nuclear progress. Oil, the Fed, and stranded Iranian travelers are all caught in the crossfire while the two sides keep talking through mediators with no deal in hand.

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us health 6 3h ago 4 min read

FDA Approves Gazyva for Childhood Kidney Disease, First New Option in 70 Years

The FDA approved obinutuzumab (Gazyva) on Friday, September 25, to cut relapse risk in kids and adults with a rare, relapsing kidney disease called idiopathic nephrotic syndrome. It's the first new drug for the condition in seven decades, backed by a trial showing roughly 95% of patients stayed in remission at one year versus about 73% on the old standard therapy. The approval came through Breakthrough Therapy, Orphan Drug, and Priority Review pathways, an example of the FDA's expedited process actually working for a disease that mostly hits kids ages 2 to 7.

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us politics 6 3h ago 4 min read

Texas Hispanic Poll Puts Trump Approval at 33%, Cook Political Report Shifts Six House Races Toward Democrats

A Cook Political Report and TelevisaUnivision poll fielded August 26 to September 3 shows Trump's approval among Texas Hispanic voters cratering to 33%, with Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico leading Ken Paxton 63-30 in that group. Cook responded September 25 by moving six House races in Texas and Florida toward Democrats. It is one poll, not a vote count, but it lines up with a broader national trend that has both parties reassessing what happened in 2024.

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us energy 7 3h ago 4 min read

Diesel Tops $6.53 in the US and Hits a UK Record as Truckers Start Refusing Loads

Since the national average cracked $6 a gallon on September 11, US diesel has climbed to $6.53 and truckers are turning down loads because fuel now eats their margins. The UK hit its own record of 199.18p per litre the same week, and a UN panel has now accused Washington of war crimes tied to the Iran war, an allegation neither side disputes lightly and nobody has proven in court.

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us politics 5 4h ago 3 min read

Michigan Senate Race: GOP-Funded Poll Shows Rogers Narrowly Ahead, Independent Surveys Still Favor El-Sayed

A poll commissioned by a Republican PAC has Mike Rogers edging out Abdul El-Sayed by 1.3 points, while Emerson College's independent survey has El-Sayed up by 2. The gap between partisan and independent polling, plus fresh controversy over El-Sayed's ties to streamer Hasan Piker and an endorsement from Tucker Carlson, shows a race nobody has actually locked down yet.

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us politics 6 4h ago 4 min read

FBI Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey Resigns, Five Weeks Before Midterms

Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general installed as an unusual co-deputy director at the FBI, is stepping down after roughly a year, citing family reasons. His exit adds to a wave of turnover under Director Kash Patel and lands weeks before the midterm elections, though one administration official tells Axios Bailey's actual election-security role was thin.

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