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NEWSNATIONNOW (Ryan Mancini and The Hill) - Trump floats idea to 'stay and keep the oil' in Iran, noting Venezuela deal

The president previously made similar comments about the conflict ending after the midterms.

NEWSNATIONNOW (Rob Taub) - Americans shopping secondhand again: What's behind the boom?

Higher prices and a hunt for unique finds are sending more Americans to thrift stores and secondhand marketplaces.

NEWSNATIONNOW (Nathaniel Weixel and The Hill) - CDC director's 'unusual' silence draws scrutiny

Just a month into her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Erica Schwartz is missing in action. The country is heading into respiratory virus season, and public guidance on COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines has been muddled, at best. The worst measles epidemic in more than 30 years [...]

NEWSNATIONNOW (Ryan Mancini and The Hill) - Centcom commander 'not concerned at all' about munitions stockpiles

"I'm not concerned at all," Cooper said. "We're armed and ready for any contingency."

NEWSNATIONNOW (Rebecca Beitsch and The Hill) - Maine’s lobster industry finds itself squeezed on all sides amid Canada trade war

The war with Iran has sent diesel fuel prices soaring at a time when warming waters mean lobstermen are traveling further offshore to look for lobster.

DAILYCALLER (Spencer Lombardo) - Iranian Strike Which Killed Three Americans Reportedly Received Chinese Boost

The unnamed officials did not accuse the Chinese government of being directly involved and declined to identify the suppliers

AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - New Mexico man livestreamed himself ripping down Flock surveillance cameras — then drove straight to the sheriff's office

A 44-year-old New Mexico man filmed himself tearing down ten Flock Safety surveillance cameras worth $16,500, loaded them into his truck, and was arrested at gunpoint outside the very sheriff's office whose contracts with the camera company had just been canceled. Jevon Martinez of Rio Rancho spent September 2 dismantling automated license plate reader systems […] The post New Mexico man livestreamed himself ripping down Flock surveillance cameras — then drove straight to the sheriff's office appeared first on American Almanac .

A 44-year-old New Mexico man filmed himself tearing down ten Flock Safety surveillance cameras worth $16,500, loaded them into his truck, and was arrested at gunpoint outside the very sheriff's office whose contracts with the camera company had just been canceled. Jevon Martinez of Rio Rancho spent September 2 dismantling automated license plate reader systems across Bernalillo County, broadcasting the whole operation on Facebook Live. He told viewers he was doing the sheriff's deputies a favor, removing equipment they no longer needed after the county sheriff ended the department's relationship with Flock Safety. Deputies saw it differently. They surrounded his pickup outside their own headquarters, drew their weapons, and put him in…Open

AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Mercury shrinking 30 percent faster than scientists believed, new study finds

The smallest planet in our solar system is contracting far more rapidly than researchers estimated, with a new study revealing that impact debris has been hiding the true scale of Mercury's slow collapse for billions of years. Scientists at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that Mercury's diameter may have shrunk […] The post Mercury shrinking 30 percent faster than scientists believed, new study finds appeared first on American Almanac .

The smallest planet in our solar system is contracting far more rapidly than researchers estimated, with a new study revealing that impact debris has been hiding the true scale of Mercury's slow collapse for billions of years. Scientists at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that Mercury's diameter may have shrunk by as much as 14 miles, roughly 30 percent more than previous estimates suggested. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters, upend decades of assumptions about how quickly the solar system's innermost planet has been cooling and contracting since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. The key discovery came down to what researchers could not see.…Open