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Trump calls the Iran war “small potatoes.” Diesel is $5.85. Eighteen Americans are dead. · Paco Baca: “Demencrazy” on the road to the Strait of Hormuz · Washington approves a $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia · Labor Day drivers face the highest holiday gas prices on record · Trump asks the Supreme Court to green-light USPS limits on mail ballots

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The Rocket News

The Rocket News · U.S. Edition · English

Editor

Paco Baca

Editor, publisher, and cartoonist. The cartoon on Page One is his, and it runs when he files the plate — not before.

Desks

  • PoliticsPower in Washington, and the argument that follows it.
  • U.S.The country, beyond the capital.
  • WorldForeign affairs, as seen from the U.S. Edition.
  • EconomyMarkets, labor, and the price of policy.
  • ScienceWhat governments would rather keep in a drawer.
  • MexicoThe foreign desk covering the other shore of the same river.
  • SportsThe games the country actually watches.
  • OpinionEditorials from Paco Baca.
  • The CartoonDrawn by the editor. Today’s plate is Demencrazy.

The Rocket News is an American daily. It is printed in English for a U.S. Edition. Top Stories leads the paper. Mexico is a foreign desk, not a sister title. Opinion is signed. The Cartoon is held for the editor’s hand.