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U.S. Edition · Morning Edition · Monday, September 7, 2026

Miami

Labor Day Monday opens on a wreck. Five dead at Miami. The NTSB briefs today.

Prime Air 7598 is still on the grass. Homendy’s go team is in. FlightAware: 187 canceled, 266 delayed. The holiday still has to fly.

The Rocket News · Miami · September 7, 2026

Video · CBS Miami

Desks

Politics More

The Supreme Court of Missouri Building, Jefferson City: red brick, gray slate roof, U.S. and Missouri flags on the lawn. News photograph of the building, no portraits.

The Court

Missouri asks the Supreme Court to put a Trump map back on the ballot

Kavanaugh wants answers by noon today. The state already ran a primary on lines a unanimous state court threw out Thursday.

Video · KMBC 9

The White House

Trump calls the Iran war “small potatoes.” The pump, and the dead, disagree.

Video · Associated Press

An empty hotel ballroom after a Washington dinner: white tablecloths, a darkened podium, flags at the stage.

The Court

Trump asks the Court to let the Postal Service restrict mail voting

Video · PBS NewsHour

Midterms

Missouri’s high court blocks a Trump-backed House map

Video · KMBC / Yahoo

A vast empty warehouse of ballot-style boxes under sodium lights.

U.S.More

A color gas-station canopy and $4.09 board; the man at the pump printed in black and white.

The Weekend

Labor Day Sunday is still the first $4 gasoline holiday on record.

AAA’s Sunday print is $4.15. The old Labor Day mark was $3.82, in 2012. Diesel is $5.88. Overnight, CENTCOM hit three Iranian tankers.

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

The Country

As SNAP shrinks, the school cafeteria is next

Video · NBC News

An empty office floor after hours, a few screens still lit in a dark glass building.

Washington

A suspect is stopped outside the correspondents’ dinner

Video · PBS NewsHour

World More

An oil tanker in a narrow dusk strait between arid mountains, a distant column of smoke on the horizon.

The Gulf

Iran says it will draw an exclusion zone outside Hormuz. The details come later.

Mohsen Rezaei: ships that try the strait go on a sanctions list. Tehran claimed an unmanned U.S. hull. CENTCOM called that a lie.

Video · CBS Evening News

Europe

AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt and not a majority. Europe still has to count.

Video · CBS Evening News

An empty carrier flight deck at dusk: ranked jets, a wake, no faces.

The Gulf

CENTCOM hits three Iranian tankers after missiles at two U.S. ships

Video · CBS Evening News

Nuclear

Trump says Pickaxe Mountain is next. Tehran says a strike would be a new war.

Video · NDTV

Economy More

The Pump

Wright spent Sunday saying the pump is fine. Labor Day is $4.15.

The energy secretary did four morning shows after a weekend of strikes. Brent was $96.28 on Friday. AAA did not watch the shows.

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

The Pump

Diesel hits a record $5.85. The war is now a number on the pump.

Video · Firstpost

Prices

Nine drugmakers sign. The price at the counter is still a negotiation.

Video · The Hill

A glass office tower at dusk, a few floors lit, the rest dark.

Technology

Musk loses OpenAI case as a California court cites the clock

Video · BBC News

Rows of server racks in a dim data center, blue status lights receding into the dark.

Science More

A night sky over water, a pale object caught in a grainy frame.

Machines

The stock market is closed for Labor Day. The models are not on holiday.

NYSE and Nasdaq dark Monday. Banks and the mail too. Grocery is open. The Science desk files what still computes.

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

Machines

Musk puts a taxi on the street with no steering wheel

Video · YouTube

National security

The Pentagon starts unsealing the U.A.P. drawer

Video · CBS News

Night view of a pentagon-shaped government building under floodlights, a pale light in the overcast sky.

Mexico More

A border crossing at dusk, freight lanes and a river, lights coming on in two countries.

Mexico City

Sheinbaum: no Mexican president answers to another country. Fox and Alito are a souvenir.

The mañanera rejected dual nationality for the executive and called a Fox meeting a memory of old corruption. The INE wants 13 billion pesos for 2027.

Video · CBS Evening News

Mexico City

Sheinbaum says Washington is meddling. The river does not care who is right.

Video · GBS

Foreign desk

American factories keep voting with their trucks — for Mexico

Video · GBS

Dusk landscape of the U.S.–Mexico border: rail, desert scrub, fence line, and city lights on both sides.

Sports More

An empty stadium at dusk, floodlights coming on over a vacant field.

Baseball

Ohtani may DH on Labor Day. He will not pitch this year. The math closed.

Roberts: if the knee and biceps hold, he’s in against Cincinnati. Four starts missed. The throwing program is on ice.

Video · Los Angeles Dodgers

Baseball

Ohtani sits. The biceps and the pennant do not.

Video · Yahoo Sports

Football

The president vs. the halftime show

Video · BBC News