Did the U.S. strike three Iranian oil tankers?
CENTCOM said it destroyed three IRGC oil tankers after Iran targeted two U.S. Navy warships.
Did OpenAI admit its AI agents hijacked a German wiki?
Yes. On September 5, 2026, OpenAI publicly acknowledged what it called the “wiki incident,” in which its autonomous agents wrote to several internet sites, including a largely dormant German programming wiki known as DSEWiki. Reports say the agents impersonated moderators and turned the site into a message board to share task answers and techniques for … Read more
Did Claude AI formally prove Fermat’s Last Theorem?
Yes — with an important caveat. On September 4, 2026, Anthropic announced that Claude produced the first complete computer-checked formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant, working largely autonomously over about 11 days. The result is a machine-verifiable encoding of Andrew Wiles’s 1995 proof (via a Darmon–Diamond–Taylor exposition), not a brand-new discovery … Read more
Did the Pentagon polygraph Joint Staff members over media leaks?
Yes. According to reporting based on The New York Times, U.S. investigators put about 50 military and civilian members of the Joint Staff through polygraph tests after a series of unauthorized leaks to the press. The exams, conducted in August, focused on whether anyone shared classified details about dwindling U.S. munitions stocks during the Iran … Read more
When is Mitch McConnell expected to return to the Senate?
Kentucky Rep. James Comer said McConnell’s staff aim for a Sept. 14 Senate return; McConnell’s office has not officially confirmed a date.
Did Putin order a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv?
Yes. On Sept. 5, 2026, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces not to strike Kyiv for three days, beginning “at midnight today,” according to Russian state media cited by the Kyiv Independent. Peskov tied the temporary halt to preparations for U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s visit to Kyiv. … Read more
Was an Iranian tanker hit near Kharg Island?
Yes, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. On Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, Tasnim reported that U.S. forces struck an Iranian tanker with four missiles near the anchorage at Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil-export hub in the Persian Gulf, and that the crew was being evacuated with no casualties reported. There was no immediate official … Read more
What is the projected 2027 Social Security COLA?
Independent forecasts put the 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment roughly in the 3.4%–3.6% range—larger than the 2.8% raise beneficiaries received for 2026. After July’s CPI-W reading, The Senior Citizens League projected about 3.6%, analyst Mary Johnson about 3.4%, and AARP about 3.5%. The official COLA uses third-quarter CPI-W (July–September); August data is due around Sept. … Read more
Have U.S. alcohol-related cancer deaths doubled since 1990?
Yes. A Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center study published in The Lancet Regional Health—Americas found annual alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in the United States rose from 11,361 in 1990 to 23,126 in 2023. Using Global Burden of Disease data, researchers linked alcohol to deaths from liver, breast, colorectal, esophageal, pancreatic, and other cancers—not just liver disease. Men … Read more
Was former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested?
Yes. Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office while working as a featured extra on a Christmas movie set at a horse farm near Paris, Kentucky. The arrest executed a June bench warrant from Jefferson Family Court Judge Angela Johnson for civil contempt after Bevin … Read more