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US forces struck Iranian targets near Larak over the weekend in the first direct American strike on Iran in weeks. Iranian forces retaliated within hours against US positions across the Gulf, and CENTCOM said further operations may follow.

Brent crude jumped above $90 on the Monday open — its biggest single-session gain since July's airstrikes — as traders repriced Strait of Hormuz risk. Analysts warned any strike on Kharg or Bandar Abbas would push crude toward $110 and trigger a broader war-risk rerating in equities.

Aaron Donald ended his retirement Sunday and signed a $20 million deal with the LA Rams for the 2026 season. Donald said in a statement he was "100% committed" to a title chase after 18 months away from the game.

Donald retired in 2024 as a three-time Defensive Player of the Year and an eight-time first-team All-Pro. His comeback reshapes the NFC playoff picture as the Rams enter Week 1 with what analysts are calling the most fearsome defensive line in football.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched successfully from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, the largest US astrophysics mission of the decade. Engineers confirmed the observatory reached its transfer orbit within four hours and unfurled its primary mirror without incident overnight.

Roman is designed to identify roughly 100,000 exoplanets by transit alone — more than sixteen times the entire known catalog today. Astronomers said a single month of its Milky Way survey would take Hubble roughly a century to reproduce.

A ferry capsized between Turkey and Cyprus over the weekend, killing at least eight passengers and leaving 18 missing. Rescue crews continued searching Monday morning as investigators tried to determine what caused the vessel to go down.

Mount Sinabung erupted on Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday morning, sending ash plumes into the sky and forcing evacuations across surrounding villages. Aviation authorities issued warnings to regional flights and closed nearby airspace.

A Seoul court sentenced Hak Ja Han to two years in prison Monday for political funding violations, bribery and embezzling church funds. Han, 83, is the widow of founder Sun Myung Moon, and prosecutors who had sought 13 years now have one week to appeal.

A flash flood in the Grand Canyon's Bright Angel area killed one hiker and left several more unaccounted for as search-and-rescue crews continued working. Park officials closed multiple trails on the Colorado River corridor while conditions stabilize.

Trump called on the FCC to punish NBC News anchor Kristen Welker after a promotional clip from "Meet the Press" drew his objection. Broadcasters and civil-liberties groups said the demand deepens a pattern of the White House pressing regulators to sanction reporters over routine editorial choices.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a billboard reading "Lake Ontario — Now and Always" after Google agreed to show "Lake America" to US users under Trump's order. Ford said the response was meant as light retaliation in an escalating US-Canada tariff war.

Aon is in talks to acquire USI from KKR for roughly $17 billion including debt, in one of the largest insurance-brokerage deals of the year. Talks accelerated over the weekend and could formalize into an announcement this week.

French 10-year bond yields climbed near their 2008 highs as political gridlock over the 2027 budget spooked investors. Sovereign-debt anxiety is now spreading into core eurozone paper for the first time in more than a decade.

Reliance's Jio Platforms has won regulatory approval for a listing expected to raise about $3.9 billion, which would be the largest offering in India's history. Meta holds nearly 10% of the telecom operator and Google 7.7%, and neither company is selling into the deal.

Timekeepers are moving to scrap the leap second as soon as October, before Earth's rotation forces the first negative one in the system's history. Member states vote outside Paris from 13 to 15 October on a replacement that would wait for the gap to reach a full 3,600 seconds.

Researchers found that BRAF, a protein already targeted by cancer drugs, may help drive chronic nerve pain. Existing therapies reduced pain sensitivity in preclinical models. Repurposing known drugs is the fastest path to the clinic.

English Heritage has reconstructed the face of a man buried in 1079 at Barton-upon-Humber, combining osteology, ancient DNA and isotope testing. Curators had studied the skeleton for five decades before the digital model finally gave them someone to look at.`

Mariano Navone beat Djokovic in five sets — 7-6(5), 5-7, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 — in a four-hour, 36-minute marathon that ended just before midnight. Djokovic, 39, had been 19-0 in US Open first rounds and made 70 unforced errors before admitting, "I didn't enjoy myself."

Sofia Kenin ended Venus Williams' tournament 6-2, 7-6(6) in an all-American first round that did not begin until after midnight. Williams, 46, has now lost 14 straight singles matches, and she declined to discuss retirement before doubles with Serena this week.

Daniil Medvedev opened with a straight-sets win over Hugo Gaston, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, after going just 1-3 in his North American tuneups. Seven matches went unfinished because of rain, and one stalled inside covered Louis Armstrong Stadium when a roof sensor malfunctioned.

The Yankees beat the Red Sox 16-1 Sunday night at Fenway after replay upheld a controversial no-catch ruling on Ceddanne Rafaela's diving attempt. Boston unraveled from there, giving up runs across the middle innings and pulling regulars by the seventh.

Producer and Billie Eilish’s co-writer Finneas O'Connell married YouTuber Claudia Sulewski after getting engaged during a sunset proposal last year. Grammy season just got a plus-one.

Sandra Bullock appeared to tease that Olivia Rodrigo and Stevie Nicks will contribute music to the Warner Bros. sequel, sharing a video of the pair performing together. The witches, apparently, will sing.

Dolly Parton was laid to rest Sunday in Nashville alongside her late husband Carl Dean, closing a week of tributes across country music and Broadway. Family members held a small private service after larger celebrations of her life earlier in the week.

What it is: Mike Moore — the former Mississippi attorney general who led the 1998 tobacco Master Settlement — is now heading a multi-state coalition applying the same legal template to Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube. Moore's strategy is to force each platform into a national settlement covering youth mental-health harms, addictive design patterns, and predatory advertising to minors, rather than pursue state-by-state jury verdicts that could take a generation to grind out.

The detail: The 1998 tobacco deal delivered $206 billion over 25 years, mandatory advertising restrictions, and a permanent public-education fund; Moore is targeting similar structural remedies for social media, including forensic transparency into internal design decisions, funded state-level youth mental-health programs, and hard limits on algorithmic amplification for minor accounts. His coalition already has 40-plus attorneys general aligned in some form, and Meta's recent $18 billion settlement with 48 states over child safety is being framed as an opening chapter rather than the resolution of the fight.

Why it matters: If Moore succeeds, social media companies would face structural obligations that persist independent of any individual administration's regulatory stance, functionally locking in youth-protection standards that no future Congress or FTC can quietly reverse. Tobacco-model settlements also generate decades of dedicated funding for public education and independent research — the same institutional counterweight that reshaped how a generation of Americans understood smoking risks.

What to watch: Whether the remaining major platforms move toward negotiated settlements before hostile discovery brings out internal documents in trial. Any indication that Moore's coalition is willing to accept structural remedies without cash payments would signal a durable framework is coming; a break-up of the coalition or a rush to individual settlements would suggest platforms see more upside in fighting than settling.

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