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Armed man rushed Ohio Democratic governor candidate Amy Acton at the Canfield Fair, knocking down two attendees; he faces two assault counts

Patrick Havas, 38, was carrying two handguns and brass knuckles — all legal to carry in Ohio — and drew none of them; he is held without bond.

Republicans who condemned the attack on the Democratic nominee: Mike DeWine (Gov-R Ohio) called Acton personally and said afterward that she is "ok"; he called the violence unacceptable Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH), her opponent, condemned the attack through his campaign; he was scheduled at the same fair that afternoon

ContextActon ran Ohio's health department under Mike DeWine (Gov-R Ohio) during the 2020 pandemic, when protesters gathered outside her home; she is now the Democratic nominee for governor against Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH), with the election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, about eight weeks after the attack. He never drew either handgun: witnesses say the gun only became visible when the brass knuckles slipped off his fingers, and officers took him down within moments. Attacks on a sitting governor or a nominee in person are rare. The closest recent case is the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, which led to 13 arrests. No national count tracks threats against governors. For members of Congress, the Capitol Police logged 8,008 threat cases in 2023, up from 7,501 in 2022.

AP12 sources

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Amazon cargo jet overran a Miami runway and hit vehicles, killing 5 people on the ground

Both pilots — the only people aboard the San Juan freight run — survived and are among the five injured; three are in critical condition.

What investigators know about the aircraft so far: Tail number N1997A: delivered new in 1994, converted from passenger jet to freighter in 2015 Operators before 21 Air took it in January 2025: six, including Vietnam Airlines, Air Europa and Kenya Airways Winds at Miami at the time: 17 knots gusting to 26, with a thunderstorm over the field

ContextThe jet carried Amazon Prime Air colors, but Amazon did not fly it: 21 Air, a contract carrier that supplies the plane and crew under another company's brand, operated the flight. That is why all five deaths were on the ground. Only two people were aboard — both pilots — and both lived. Investigators look at how far down the runway a plane touches down, how fast it lands, whether brakes and thrust reversers worked, and what the pavement and wind were doing. Neither the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates U.S. crashes and names causes, nor the Federal Aviation Administration has named one here.

FOX NEWS11 sources

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Iran says it hit an unmanned US vessel a day after the tanker strikes; Central Command calls the claim "a total lie"

Central Command named the three tankers it hit on Saturday, Sept. 5, and said no one was killed. No outside source has confirmed Iran's counter-claim.

On Thursday, Sept. 3 US drones hit two Iranian tankers under a new "tanker for tanker" policy while the Navy escorted a convoy. On Sunday, Sept. 6 we ran the strikes themselves — three Iranian oil tankers destroyed or disabled after Iran fired ballistic missiles at a US carrier and a destroyer, with Adm. Brad Cooper saying the US would take out three Iranian ships for every two of its own fired on.

ContextThe war began Feb. 28 and is now past six months. The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow sea passage every Persian Gulf oil exporter has to use. Wright puts flow through it at 9 million barrels a day. PBS and NBC report that his figure is higher than what the tracking firm TankerTrackers.com measured over the 28 days before Sunday, Sept. 6 — but neither outlet published the firm's own number, so how wide the gap is cannot be said. (TS: Wright hedged his own figure the same day.) Wright allowed the US is at "two-thirds or more" of pre-war flows, counting oil moved by pipeline instead of by ship. Betting on the Polymarket prediction site puts the chance of strait traffic returning to normal by Sept. 30 at 2.4%, and by Dec. 31 at 25.5%. Those are prices set by a small pool of traders, not a forecast from anyone measuring the shipping lanes, and no trading volume was disclosed.

AP12 sources

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Energy Secretary Wright says US controls Venezuela's outside oil sales, calling it "a lot of leverage" over the 65-billion-barrel deal

The 17 fields in the deal hold about a fifth of Venezuela's 303 billion barrels of proven reserves, and the two governments still disagree on whether the lease runs 25 years or 100.

What the campaign has cost taxpayers so far: U.S. spending on Operation Southern Spear, Aug. 1, 2025–Mar. 31, 2026: $4.7 billion, of which $3.8 billion is the naval deployment Peak daily cost, mid-Nov. 2025 to mid-Jan. 2026: over $20 million Gerald R. Ford carrier group alone: $11.4 million a day

ContextVenezuela has about 303 billion barrels of proven reserves on the books, more than Saudi Arabia. It still pumps under 1 million barrels a day, which ranks 21st in the world. The reason is the oil itself: most of it is heavy Orinoco crude, and Venezuela no longer has the upgrading equipment that turns it into something refiners can use. Chevron plans over $7 billion through 2031 to roughly double joint-venture output to about 600,000 barrels a day. Meanwhile the U.S. Energy Information Administration already forecasts Brent crude near $53 next year on supply that has nothing to do with Venezuela. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve stocks — the government's emergency oil stockpile — stand at 286.60 million barrels in 2026 (EIA, WCSSTUS1, annual last observation).

THE HILL5 sources