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
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
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
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
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
A mistrial is a trial that ends without a verdict or judgment on the merits. In U.S. courts, that usually happens when a jury cannot agree (a hung jury), or when a serious procedural error or misconduct would make a fair trial impossible and the judge stops the case and orders a new trial. Common … Read more
Pickaxe Mountain is a deep underground complex near Natanz that Trump threatened to strike “very soon” in September 2026.
Yes. In early September 2026, a miles-long Mediterranean microalgae bloom temporarily knocked offline five of Israel’s six coastal desalination plants, which supply most of the country’s drinking water. Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, called it an extremely rare event; scientists linked the bloom to algae believed to have traveled from the Nile Delta, with high … Read more
Yes — according to Israeli officials. On September 3–4, 2026, the Israeli military said it had taken operational control of the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and cleared Hezbollah fighters from tunnels there that included command centers and weapons storage. Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday the mission was completed and the tunnels … Read more
Yes. On September 4, 2026, Massachusetts Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked for a third time following seven days of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial. Clancy, charged with first-degree murder in the 2023 strangling deaths of her three children, had pleaded not guilty and argued she was not criminally responsible … Read more