The Rocket News

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

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.

Midterms

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

His unpopularity is dragging a 218–214 House. Reuters/Ipsos: a record low. Democrats lead by five. November 3 is eight weeks out.

The Rocket News · Washington · September 7, 2026

Desks

Politics More

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

The Court

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

Sunday filing: let the Postal Service enforce Trump’s order before November. States are already mailing. A judge had extended the block.

Video · CBS News

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.

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

U.S.More

Miami

NTSB in Miami: the 767 may have landed too late. The pilots never called mayday.

Homendy briefs today. CNN: no emergency call. Two of four runways closed until 7 p.m. FAA: 2½-hour delays.

Video · CBS Miami

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

World More

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

Kyiv

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

Trump’s envoys made their first wartime visit. Ukraine wants talks and air defenses. NPR: nothing new came off the plane.

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.

Europe

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

Video · CBS Evening News

The Gulf

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

Video · CBS Evening News

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