Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios the climb in Treasury yields tracks a global move rather than an American panic, and brushed off talk of an AI bubble. The bond market has not been asked for its opinion.
Term-preview coverage puts Second Amendment cases near the top of the Supreme Court's new docket, six years after two justices warned that the Court was looking the other way on gun rights.
Okinawa police have arrested a 20-year-old Marine from Futenma on suspicion of robbing and killing a woman at a Naha hotel. Japan lodged a protest and summoned the U.S. ambassador, who pledged full cooperation.
In a rare television interview, Justice Samuel Alito said there has been a "concerted effort to intimidate the court" and that he is concerned about its future. He also addressed the Dobbs leak, retirement talk and proposals to add justices.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned the Indian pilot who was attacked by his own copilot on a flight to Tel Aviv and still got the cockpit door open. "You are a hero of Israel, you are a hero of India, and you are a hero of the entire world," Netanyahu told him.
New York's mayor released what his office calls the first municipal strategy against antisemitism, with $7.4 million for security and no definition of the hatred it targets. The city's largest Jewish organizations answered with a joint statement saying the plan ignores the mayor's own rhetoric.
President Trump says more than 20 million Medicare Part B enrollees will get one-time $90 payments in early October, drawn from a $2 billion fund the White House says has never been tapped. The money is scheduled to go out about four weeks before voters go to the polls.
CBS Sports says it and Tony Romo have "mutually agreed to part ways" after nine years, closing out a saga that began with a July OWI arrest in Milwaukee. J.J. Watt keeps the lead analyst chair for the rest of the season.
A New York Post report says Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman pledged to bar transgender students from girls' bathrooms and locker rooms in New York schools. The article could not be retrieved for this report, and the pledge remains unverified — but the state's standing order blocking two Long Island districts is already on the books.
Warner Bros.' climate satire "Digger" opened to roughly $8 million and a C+ CinemaScore, reported to be Tom Cruise's softest debut since 2007, while a $40 million romantic thriller took the weekend with $33.6 million.
The Justice Department sued the University of Delaware over in-state tuition for illegal aliens, the 26th such suit in a nationwide campaign. Six of those cases have produced favorable orders, though two of the six were resolved by proposed consent decrees.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau has rebuilt its aging technology backbone and grown to more than 140 internal uses of artificial intelligence. Nearly all of it rests on his own word.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told comedian Theo Von the United States should join the International Criminal Court and enforce its warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, while conceding his own office has no power to do it.
Trump declared on Truth Social that Europe agreed to release a "massive amount" of diesel immediately. The European Commission says negotiations are still underway, and diesel sat at $6.38 a gallon.
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeff Merkley rolled out the Ban Flock Act, which would bar federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers and cut off grant money to states and towns that do. Nearly every claim behind it comes from the sponsors themselves.
A U.S. official says Marco Rubio ordered Iran's foreign minister and his team out of New York once talks stalled. Iran says the flight was already booked, and Washington followed up with new sanctions.
Treasury says every eligible child under 18 now has a Trump Account, more than 60 million of them created automatically this week. The $1,000 federal deposit for the youngest children still does not arrive until a parent claims the account.
