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Pressure is building in places that rarely collide: oil markets, the Fed, and America’s reckoning with 9/11. Beyond today’s biggest stories, OpenAI is making a massive bet on Patagonia, NASA wants to build a Space Academy, a remarkable Bering Sea rescue ended three days adrift, and an extraordinary surrogacy dispute has reached the Supreme Court.

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Iranian-backed Houthi forces seized 130km of Red Sea coastline in days, taking the port of Mokha on Thursday and the island of Mayun on Friday, stripping the anti-Houthi National Resistance of most of its Tihamah plain.

Riyadh answered by shutting down the East-West crude pipeline after Thursday's attacks in the Riyadh and Madinah regions injured multiple people. The kingdom built that 7-million-barrel-a-day line as its escape hatch from the Persian Gulf, then leaned on Bab el-Mandeb once Iran choked off Hormuz — this week the fallback and its fallback both went wobbly.

Consumer prices rose 3.4% over the past year in August, unchanged from July, as the Iran war lifted fuel costs, tariffs fed through, and the AI data-center buildout pushed up electronics. Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi called the result "uncomfortably high."

Households have stopped shrugging: Michigan's sentiment index fell to 47.8, the second-lowest reading since 1952, with one-year inflation expectations up at 4.6%. After three years of arguing about when the Fed would cut, traders now put roughly 86% odds on a quarter-point hike next week — a central bank tightening into a consumer this gloomy.

To mark the 25th anniversary, the CIA released dozens of intelligence documents it had sent to Presidents Clinton and Bush laying out what the agency knew about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The trove spans warnings from the late 1990s into the summer of 2001.

Inside are President's Daily Briefs, threat assessments, analytic memos tracing Al Qaeda's shift from a training-camp network into a global operation capable of hitting US targets. Several documents flag attack planning in the months before the towers fell. This isn't a revelation so much as a public accounting — historians have long known the warnings existed. But putting the raw paperwork in daylight lets Americans read, in the agency's own words, exactly what was on the desk.

Norway's Princess Astrid died at 94, two days after her brother's funeral, which proved to be her final public engagement; she was the last surviving child of King Olav V.

Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro, Lula's main challenger, is under investigation for corruption and laundering over millions paid by jailed banker Daniel Vorcaro, accused of defrauding Banco Master clients including state pension funds.

The UN Security Council extended Sudan's partial arms embargo by one month as the US presses for a countrywide ban, with Russia's deputy ambassador Anna Evstigneeva warning, "We will not allow even a hint of broadening."

A federal appeals court threw out Trump's order keeping Michigan's J.H. Campbell plant running, with Judge Cornelia Pillard calling the emergency power behind it "a narrow, last-resort backstop."

The largest US cyclosporiasis outbreak on record is officially over, the CDC said, after sickening 12,833 people across 21 states, traced to shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms in Mexico.

A 15-year-old Alaskan boy survived nearly three days clinging to a skiff capsized in the frigid Bering Sea near St. Lawrence Island; his brother and cousin were found dead after his rescue.

The Dow jumped 509 points, or 0.98%, to close at 52,573.29 on Friday, snapping a four-day slide as crude cooled — though the index still finished the week down 1.6%.

Dell surged nearly 12% Friday after RBC initiated coverage of the stock, extending a run that has more than quadrupled it in 2026; analyst David Paige cited a "multi-year AI infrastructure spending cycle."

OpenAI has picked Argentine Patagonia for a 500-megawatt data center worth $25 billion at the top end, even as local opposition disrupted roughly $130 billion of US projects in one quarter.

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Ten women with advanced osteoporosis got one infusion of their own cells, sugar-modified to home in on bone, and their fracture rate fell from roughly one every year or two to closer to one a decade.

The National Science Foundation is rewiring grantmaking around four initiatives drawn from the White House, a shift staff say they fear will squeeze the curiosity-driven research that has been the agency's core since 1950.

NASA is fast-tracking plans for a US Space Academy, modeled loosely on the service academies and intended to train a pipeline of engineers, astronauts and mission specialists.

Chicago locked up D'Andre Swift on a three-year, $33.75 million extension with $27.5 million guaranteed, two days before the opener at Carolina and a year after he cleared 1,087 rushing yards.

Tua Tagovailoa misses Atlanta's opener against Pittsburgh with an oblique injury, handing Cooper Rush the start, while Michael Penix Jr. stays inactive after telling the team he isn't ready.

Baylor starts Nate Bennett Saturday against Prairie View after DJ Lagway's injury, an ankle problem picked up in last week's 17-16 loss to Auburn, where he went 27-of-54 for 333 yards.

Russell Crowe wiped away tears at the Venice premiere of "What Love Builds", his self-directed documentary on 15 years of fronting his own bands, and slipped out before the ovation finished.

Jimmy Kimmel is in talks with ABC about renewing his show past the 2026-2027 season, a decision made in a genre where ad spending has collapsed to $209 million from $519.7 million in 2017.

AMC is reviving "Point Break" as an eight-episode series shooting in early 2027, with a fresh crew of ex-presidents' copycats and a mysterious ex-pro surfer sent in to infiltrate them.

What it is: A surrogate has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a custody fight over the baby she was hired to carry. McKenna West filed an emergency appeal seeking to halt a ruling that granted parental rights to the California couple who commissioned the pregnancy, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar.

The detail: A scan at 20 weeks found hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a defect in which the left side of the heart cannot pump enough blood. The couple asked West to end the pregnancy. She instead traveled to Texas, where nearly all abortions are illegal, and gave birth. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton then won an emergency order requiring the boy to receive care in the state, and he had surgery soon after.

The courts have since split. A California court granted parental rights to Ahmed and Gilkar, who named the baby Rumi, called him "our child" and "the love of our lives," and said West went to Texas without telling them and cut off their access to his medical information. A Texas court issued a restraining order keeping West away from him.

Why it matters: Surrogacy contracts are written on the assumption that one state's law will govern them. This one is being decided across two states with opposite abortion regimes, which have now reached opposite answers about who the parents are.

What to watch: whether the justices touch an emergency appeal this tangled — and West's argument that without it she loses any window into the child's condition.

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A squirrel got into the stands at Ohio State's game against Ball State, where a Perry Township sergeant contained it using a beer box and carried the "understandably a little scared and overwhelmed" animal out of the stadium.

A coyote turned into a Pittsburgh alley off Atwood Street and wedged itself between two walls, taking Animal Care and Control hours to extract before it was released, unharmed, into woods outside the city.

Saul Hafting solved 211 Rubik's cubes while bouncing on a pogo stick, and four years later has finally made the printed Guinness World Records: "It's awesome," the 21-year-old Nova Scotian said.

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