The Rocket News

U.S. Edition · Evening Edition · Tuesday, September 8, 2026

A gray unmanned underwater vehicle on a concrete dock at a Persian Gulf harbor. Turquoise water, two distant oil tankers, arid mountains. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

The Gulf

Strait of Hormuz Shockwave

Tehran claims a prize catch: the Revolutionary Guard says it trapped a U.S. unmanned submarine at the mouth of the strait. The Pentagon says the drone broke.

The Rocket News · Strait of Hormuz · September 8, 2026

Desks

Politics More

The American Airlines Center in Dallas at dusk: brick arches, an empty plaza, no figures in the frame.

Midterms

“Trumpapalooza” opens in Dallas. The Senate is now a toss-up.

Two nights at the American Airlines Center. Trump speaks both. Decision Desk HQ: the upper chamber is 50–50. The House, Democrats 67 percent.

Video · CBS News

The Court

The White House is back at the Supreme Court over mail ballots.

Video · CBS News

The Supreme Court of Missouri Building, Jefferson City: red brick, gray slate roof, U.S. and Missouri flags on the lawn.

Midterms

Warning signs for Trump’s Republicans. Labor Day opens the last sprint.

Video · CBS News

President Donald Trump descending Air Force One stairs, looking down, right hand on the rail. Figure in black and white; tarmac, sky and metal stairs in color.

The Court

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

Video · KMBC 9

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.

U.S.More

Miami

NTSB in Miami: five dead in a cleaning van. The recorders are in Washington.

Homendy: 1,300 feet past the runway. A Ford Econoline, seven inside. “Utter devastation.” A second briefing is due today.

Video · NTSBgov

The Weekend

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

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

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

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

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

World More

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

Europe

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

Exit polls: the far right first in a German state vote, short of an absolute grip. Berlin will spend the holiday doing arithmetic.

Video · CBS Evening News

Diplomacy

A peace signed in June, already fraying by summer’s end

Video · Kompas.com

An empty diplomatic table after a signing: blotters, fountain pens, water glasses in a marble hall.

War More

Black smoke and orange fire at a southern Saudi energy site after Houthi strikes. No figures in the frame. News photograph, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

The Gulf

Houthis set Saudi oil ablaze. 73 wounded. Brent tests $100.

Missiles and drones on four southern cities. Aramco sites on fire. Trump says the pump will fall when America wins.

Video · Firstpost

Kyiv

Witkoff and Kushner went to Kyiv after Moscow. They brought no breakthrough.

Video · CBS Evening News

The Gulf

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

Video · CBS Evening News

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

The Gulf

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

Video · CBS Evening News

Economy More

Freight trucks queued at night under the lights of a snowy northern border crossing. No faces.

The Border

Canada’s 50 percent tariffs take effect. $27.6 billion of American goods.

Midnight. Steel and aluminum doubled. Dairy, furniture, clothing, appliances. Ottawa calls it dollar for dollar.

Video · BBC News

The Pump

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

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.

Science More

Humanoid robots in Delta Robots livery holding Democratism flags outside a Warsaw ministry. No people in the frame. Photograph, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026.

Machines

Thirty robots marched on Warsaw. They asked Poland to regulate A.I.

Humanoids and quadrupeds outside the digital ministry. “Don’t wait, regulate.” The minister came outside.

Video · KPIX / CBS News Bay Area

Machines

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

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

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

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. No faces.

Mexico City

Sheinbaum: Mexico is not a colony. Trump posted a flag over the map.

“No es ni será colonia ni protectorado.” The mañanera, in the month of the patria, answered a Truth Social graphic.

Video · GBS

Mexico City

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

Video · CBS Evening News

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

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.

Kickoff

The NFL opens with a Super Bowl rematch. Champions League starts tonight.

Patriots at Seahawks, Wednesday, 8:20 p.m. Eastern. Real Madrid and Inter at the Bernabéu this afternoon. Melbourne on Thursday.

Video · NFL on NBC

Baseball

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

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