Category: World
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Blasts were heard near Kharg Island this morning. One Iranian agency says the origin is unknown and no smoke was visible; another says the US hit a tanker. Nobody has confirmed anything — which is the story worth understanding.
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The House passed a bill stripping federal funding from universities that take part in boycotts of Israel, 237 to 169, with 33 Democrats voting yes. The constitutional question splits between two Supreme Court cases that point in opposite directions.
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Israel’s national security minister has set out a timetable for removing the population of Gaza and called for a government ministry to carry it out. He does not have the authority to do it. The reason to report it is what the numbers concede.
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UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot report, published on 2 September, treats exceeding 1.5°C as settled and asks a different question: how high the peak goes, how long it lasts, and whether temperatures can be brought back down. The best case it offers is 1.8°C.
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The World Meteorological Organization says there is a nearly 100 per cent chance El Niño lasts through February 2027 — the most unequivocal wording it has ever used. What that certainty covers, and what it does not, are two different things.
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A Justice Department legal opinion says states that do not report undocumented residents could lose federal money for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income. The constitutional question it runs into is nearly forty years old.
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Tyson shut its beef plant at Joslin, Illinois with effect the same day, ending about 2,500 jobs in a village of 56 people. The company blames a historic cattle shortage. The dates on the closure letter tell you something the statement does not.
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A third consecutive weekly deportation flight landed at Cap-Haïtien on Thursday. It lands there because Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous for the aircraft. The same judgement does not appear to apply to the people on board.
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Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive in a Saipan lockup on 23 August, a day after being taken into immigration custody. He was the 57th person to die in ICE or Border Patrol custody since March 2025. The Chinese government is asking questions almost nobody else is.
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Explosions at an army barracks near La Paz killed somewhere between two and fifteen people and injured about sixty. The defence ministry and the local health director are giving different figures, and the material that detonated was fireworks.