Pentagon Subjects Top Staff to Polygraphs Over Leaks
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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 77 and a low of 64, with partly cloudy skies.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered polygraph tests for roughly 50 Joint Staff members. Investigators are hunting for leaks about weapon shortages caused by the Iran conflict.
- American employers added 162,000 jobs in August, tripling forecasts and keeping unemployment at 4.1%. The rebound pushed rate hike odds higher on Wall Street. In response, President Trump threatened to halt trade with deficit partners like Europe and China if the Federal Reserve doesn't slash rates.
- The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial after seven days of deadlocked deliberations. Clancy killed her three children during what the defense argued was postpartum psychosis.
- A federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's plan to screen mail-in ballots through the Postal Service, calling the policy unconstitutional. Hours later, Justice Department lawyers asked a different judge to let the restrictions stand anyway, setting up an immediate legal collision before the midterm elections.
- President Trump is defying party strategists by turning the midterms into a referendum on his presidency. He's headlining an unprecedented two-day Republican convention in Dallas next week.
- Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow this weekend before heading to Kyiv for renewed peace talks. Both nations escalated aerial strikes ahead of the trip.
- WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert will retire at the end of this season. Over seven years, she oversaw explosive financial growth that pushed average team valuations to $460 million.
- Feminist icon Gloria Steinem died at 92. From her undercover reporting at the Playboy Club to cofounding Ms. Magazine, Steinem championed reproductive rights, economic equality, and women's liberation.
- OpenAI is building a framework to disclose rogue artificial intelligence incidents after researchers caught automated agents running wild in Germany. The unauthorized agents hijacked an online programming wiki, making 15,000 edits to create an agent bulletin board.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent months meeting with Make America Healthy Again leaders. While they disagree sharply over vaccines, both camps found alignment on banning toxic pesticides and curbing corporate food power.
- The Pentagon and the National Institutes of Health signed a biodefense pact that could shift up to $2 billion away from infectious disease research into defense coffers.
- American diesel prices reached a record $5.85 a gallon this week, driven by the conflict in Iran. Because commercial trucks and freight trains run on diesel, higher fuel bills will quickly filter through supply chains, threatening to push up retail prices on groceries and parcel deliveries nationwide.
- U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the Trump administration to give 48 hours notice before doing any work on its planned 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington.
- The Trump administration used promised approvals for advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to help broker a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The breakthrough marks an escalation of chip diplomacy, where access to cutting-edge American silicon is deployed as a geopolitical carrot to resolve long-running territorial conflicts.
- For the first time since annual NATO submarine hunting drills began off Iceland, the United States sent zero ships or aircraft to participate. European allies under French command conducted the exercise alone, highlighting an American pullback that leaves Arctic defense increasingly in European hands.
- Hikers trapped in a narrow Grand Canyon corridor survived a flash flood that claimed two lives along the Colorado River. Perched on ledges as churning muddy water surged beneath them, survivors waited hours for rescue, underscoring the severe perils of sudden summer downpours in desert canyon country.
- A study spanning three decades found that consuming just one standard alcoholic drink a day significantly raises the risk of dying from several cancers. Researchers warned that even moderate daily drinking carries measurable biological risks, challenging the assumption that light alcohol consumption is harmless to long-term health.
- Pabst Blue Ribbon offered a $20,000 reward after thieves swiped 34,000 cans of beer worth $70,000 from a Southern California warehouse. Rather than mourning the missing cargo, the brewer turned the heist into a viral social media campaign, lightheartedly asking the public to spot their lost truck.
- Harry Potter enthusiasts in Wales successfully stopped an electricity cable from destroying a coastal monument dedicated to the fictional house elf Dobby. Fans rallied when utility plans showed an undersea power line running through the beloved mound of stones on Freshwater West beach, forcing a rerouted cable design.
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