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American forces resumed strikes across Iran Tuesday, and Tehran answered within hours by firing missiles at US positions in Jordan. Central Command tied the operation to Revolutionary Guard attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on American troops nearby.

Iran's Red Crescent says shrapnel tore into a home in Sirik that was hosting a wedding, killing four people including a young child. More than 50 others were wounded, and both sides traded fire again in a war now grinding through its seventh month.

Nepal's flash-flood death toll has climbed past 1,000, and rescuers are still hunting for hundreds of missing people a week after the water came down. Crews have concentrated on roughly a dozen Himalayan hydropower plants where workers are believed to be trapped underground.

One tunnel worker described running for 20 minutes as the Trishuli River chased him through a shaft he was helping to line with concrete. Pemba Dundu Tamang said a gust of air sent plywood flying and shifted heavy machinery seconds before the flood reached him.

The House voted Tuesday to fund the government through December, pushing the next spending fight safely past November's midterm elections. Money had been set to run out Sept. 30, and the Senate cleared the same stopgap back in August.

Bipartisan talks on full-year appropriations collapsed weeks ago, which left lawmakers with a flat extension and nothing much to campaign on. President Trump is expected to sign it, and the House followed up with a symbolic vote condemning socialism.

Sir Keir Starmer is standing down as an MP, leaving Parliament for an international affairs role weeks after his July exit from Downing Street. His departure triggers a by-election in Holborn and St Pancras, the north London seat he had held since 2015.

Russia was behind a drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4, parked near Ukrainian cargo planes, German investigators said Tuesday. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said a faulty detonator kept it from exploding, and a third drone turned up nearby ten days later.

A confidential IAEA report seen by AP concludes that Syria was building a reactor at Deir el-Zour under ousted president Bashar Assad. Inspectors visited several Syrian sites in August, and their findings have now circulated to agency member states.

Texas hospitals expect to lose $27 million a day in supplemental Medicaid money as the state's new fiscal year begins. Behind the gap is a Trump administration decision to withhold about $9.8 billion across three programs, most of it hospital reimbursement.

A whistle-blower report raised grave concerns that the Postal Service is quietly rushing a new mail-ballot processing system into service before the midterms. The complaint warns that millions of ballots could be delayed or misrouted if the rollout stays on schedule.

Two new studies find federal judges varying their commutes, hiring private security and fitting homes with panic buttons amid a surge in threats. One judge, speaking anonymously, admitted weighing an alternative ruling to spare their family the vitriol that would follow.

Palo Alto Networks stock climbed after an earnings beat powered by surging enterprise demand for AI cybersecurity. CEO Nikesh Arora called the trend a source of "durable tailwinds" as companies race to defend against AI-driven attacks.

Britain's 30-year gilt yield climbed to 5.89% on Tuesday, the highest since 1998 and an ugly backdrop for October's Budget. Pressure lands on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, whose first Budget arrives as the US, Japan and Europe hit similar highs.

Dell beat on both lines and raised its fiscal 2027 forecast, sending shares up about 9% in after-hours trading. Quarterly revenue grew roughly 58% year over year, and net income reached $4.13 billion against $1.16 billion a year earlier.

OpenAI says Astra is the first model to cross the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold in the company's own Preparedness Framework. Astra can find unknown security flaws and exploit them without human direction, so OpenAI will restrict access to that capability.

Physicists are excited by a single unexplained energetic flash recorded inside a tank holding 10 tons of ultra-pure liquid xenon. Signal shape matches what a nucleus struck by a massive dark-matter particle should produce, which would finally point to the long-theorized WIMP.

Researchers rewrote nearly every single nucleotide of bacteriophage ΦX174, the first time a complete genome has been mutated position by position. Most changes hurt the virus's survival, but the team could not explain why for a great many of them.

Arte Moreno has agreed to sell controlling interest in the Angels to Stan Kroenke, at a $4 billion valuation for the team and its network. Kroenke already owns the Rams, Nuggets, Avalanche and Arsenal, and the sale should close in early 2027 pending MLB approval.

Premier League clubs spent £3.198 billion this summer, beating last year's record with hours left on deadline day. Iliman Ndiaye's £60 million move from Everton to Manchester City pushed the total past the old mark.

Tottenham have signed Mykhailo Mudryk on loan from Chelsea, with a £75 million option to buy at the end of the season. Spurs' ninth signing of a window nearing £400 million, Mudryk is the first player to cross between the rivals since Carlo Cudicini in 2009.

Colin Kaepernick says he now shuns the NFL, watching college football instead of a league he says is still actively blackballing him. Kaepernick, 38, has not played since the 2016 season finale, four years after taking the 49ers to a Super Bowl.

Ariana Grande closed her Eternal Sunshine tour in London on Tuesday, a run she had already called her last hurrah. Near tears during "One Last Time," she knelt at the edge of the stage and asked the crowd to carry the song for her.

Spanish master conjuror Juan Tamariz died at 83, leaving behind a body of card work that shaped nearly every serious magician of the last half-century. He was a philosopher of misdirection who preferred sharing wonder to fooling audiences.

A group backing Paramount is using AI to generate letters pressuring California Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust suit. Co-founder Tanner Kelly insists the campaign is "AI-assisted" rather than AI-generated, and a press conference is planned outside the Paramount gates Thursday.

What it is: A high-stakes clash is unfolding across Pennsylvania between AI-hungry tech giants and residents who don't want massive data centers next door. What started as a permitting story has become a proxy fight over America's energy future.

The detail: Hyperscalers are racing to lock down land near the state's power grid, drawn by cheap electricity and proximity to Northeast fiber lines. Local hearings that used to draw a dozen people now pack school gyms, with residents citing noise, water use, and strained transmission capacity. Utilities are quietly planning new gas plants to serve the projected load. Developers say the projects can deliver tax revenue and construction jobs, but opponents increasingly question whether those benefits justify decades of additional energy demand and industrial development.

Why it matters: Data centers are the physical footprint of the AI boom, and Pennsylvania is fast becoming the front line. If communities keep saying no, the industry's growth curve slams into a very physical ceiling — one made of zoning boards, transformer shortages, and skeptical voters. The fight also complicates climate goals because rapidly rising electricity demand could extend the life of fossil-fuel generation just as states are trying to clean up their grids.

What to watch: Whether Governor Josh Shapiro's administration steps in to streamline approvals, and whether any of the current proposals get blocked at the local level. The Pennsylvania outcome will set the template for Ohio, Virginia, and every other state where the same fight is starting to simmer. Watch utility bills, too: opposition could intensify if households are asked to absorb infrastructure costs associated with powering enormous new facilities. Developers may respond by offering communities larger tax agreements, grid investments, or guarantees that residents will not subsidize their expansion.

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