Rubin Observatory found a possible dwarf planet beyond Pluto, hidden near the Milky Way since at least 2016. Its size is still a guess: 600 to 1,500 km.
Iran’s tanker campaign pushed oil to $110 and inflation to 3.7%. But the Fed looks set to skip Iran’s Oct. 28 deadline, and bond traders did the hiking.
Q4 check-in: September added just 29,000 jobs, CPI rose to 3.7%, the 10-year sits near 5.2% and mortgage rates hit 7.4% as the Fed eyes one more hike.
Ukraine hit five Russian refineries and six other oil sites by Oct. 15, with a three-day pause for Trump’s truce. What is confirmed, and what it costs.
Declassified emails show State weighed pulling Andriy Telizhenko’s visa a month before Kyiv revoked it in 2020, and what Treasury’s sanctions rested on.
Pentagon UFO files include 1962-64 memos on who would collect fallen space debris. A NASA official said the Pentagon wanted to use NASA as its “cover.”
Hormuz and a wave of export bans left the world short – squeezing fertilizer, nickel and copper. While Alberta holds the world’s biggest stockpile.
Rubio urged Cubans to seek a “discrete partnership with the CIA,” and the agency posted contact steps. Its last Cuban recruits mostly worked for Havana.
DNI Clayton’s memo to Rubio warns Iranian plots against Americans are advanced, and the intel behind it is too classified for most staff at risk to see.