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A cargo ship reported being hit by an unknown projectile off Oman in the Strait of Hormuz. No source identified the vessel, its cargo or who fired. The incident matters because about twenty million barrels of oil per day—roughly a quarter of global seaborne oil trade—passed through the strait in twenty twenty-five, while alternative pipelines could redirect only a fraction of that. Iran and Oman say they are making progress on safer shipping lanes, but the routes, fees and control remain unsettled.

U.S. states sued to block Trump tariffs imposed on dozens of countries over alleged failures to combat forced labor.

Also in NEWS NEWS, a federal judge temporarily blocked New York from enforcing its mask and identification rules against federal immigration officers.

NOT NEWS NEWS.

More than forty-three hundred FEMA employees left in fiscal twenty twenty-five, fifty-five percent more departures than the year before. The G A O says FEMA made staffing cuts without testing them against mission needs, even as officials warned that the losses drained experience and institutional knowledge. The agency averaged about twenty-five thousand employees that year.

A proposed Sixty Minutes segment on Jeffrey Epstein's banking ties never aired before CBS fired correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Senator Ron Wyden says CBS pulled the piece; CBS says it was not ready and calls suppression claims categorically false. Wyden's report says Bank of America reported one hundred seventy million dollars in Epstein-linked transactions, while J P Morgan processed more than one billion dollars for him despite internal concerns.

A representative LabPOP survey found thirty-two percent of Puerto Rico's adult residents supported statehood, thirty-one percent opposed it and thirty-seven percent were neutral. That is not directly comparable with the fifty-eight-point-six percent of completed ballots supporting statehood in the twenty twenty-four plebiscite: one measured all adult residents, including nonvoters, while the other measured people who cast ballots.

In another Quick Bite, deputies arrested an armed man who allegedly monitored preparations at Trump's Los Angeles-area golf course, although authorities said there was no credible threat to the visit.

And a spent SpaceX Falcon Nine rocket stage is headed for an impact on the moon.

And the Trump administration revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to the United States.

In the election markets, traders put Democrats around eighty-four to eighty-seven percent to take the House and about forty-five percent to take the Senate. These are market prices, not polls.

Ohio governor: Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is around fifty-two percent against Democrat Amy Acton at forty-nine.

Maine Senate: Democrat Troy Jackson is around sixty-four percent against Republican Susan Collins at thirty-seven.

Texas Senate: Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico are nearly even.

Alaska Senate: Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan are also nearly even.

Iowa Senate: Republican Ashley Hinson is around fifty-five percent against Democrat Josh Turek at forty-three.

Michigan Senate: Abdul El-Sayed leads the Democratic primary, while Mike Rogers is the Republican nominee.

Ohio Senate: Democrat Sherrod Brown is narrowly ahead of Republican Jon Husted.

Wisconsin governor: Francesca Hong and Tom Tiffany lead their respective nomination markets.

Georgia governor: Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is around fifty-nine percent against Republican Rick Jackson.

Nevada governor: Democrat Aaron Ford is around fifty-eight percent against Republican Joe Lombardo.

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