Saturday, September 5, 2026 · 1:01 AM NY · Evening Edition

U.S. Edition · Vol. III No. 247

Headlines

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

Desk

Science

What governments would rather keep in a drawer.

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

The bet is that New Yorkers will sit in a car that cannot be grabbed back.

The Rocket News · New York · September 3, 2026

Video · YouTube

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

National security

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

One hundred sixty-two files — blurry photographs, old cables, an Apollo still — and a presidential dare: decide for yourselves.

Video · CBS News