The Friday, September 4, 2026 Mega Millions drawing produced white balls 6, 26, 34, 59, and 61, with Mega Ball 24. No ticket matched all six numbers, so the estimated jackpot rolled from about $177 million to roughly $193 million for the next drawing on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 11 p.m. ET. Source: Colorado … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on September 5, 2026, for three hours and 10 minutes, according to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov. Ushakov described the talks on ending the war in Ukraine as substantive, constructive, extremely frank, and trusting, saying serious issues were discussed both … Read more
ESPN’s College GameDay opened its 40th season on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, live from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on LSU’s campus ahead of Clemson at No. 11 LSU. The stop was also the show’s 500th road broadcast, with the three-hour program airing 9 a.m.–noon ET on ESPN, ESPNU, Disney+, and the ESPN App before the 7:30 … Read more
Yes. On September 4, 2026, the AAA national average price for diesel reached a record $5.85 a gallon, edging past the prior high of about $5.82 set in June 2022. The average rose from $5.78 the day before and is nearly 60% higher than a year earlier ($3.71). Regular gasoline averaged about $4.15 the same … Read more
Yes. On September 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Istanbul-based Golden Global Yatırım Bankası Anonim Şirketi (Golden Global Bank) and two subsidiaries under Operation Economic Outcast. Treasury said the firms facilitated tens of millions of dollars in transactions for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force and … Read more
John Ternus. The longtime Apple hardware engineering leader became the company’s chief executive officer on Sept. 1, 2026, succeeding Tim Cook after Cook’s 15-year run as CEO. Apple had announced the succession in April 2026, with Cook moving to executive chairman of the board. Ternus joined Apple in 2001, later served as senior vice president … Read more
CENTCOM said it destroyed three IRGC oil tankers after Iran targeted two U.S. Navy warships.
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
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
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