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US destroys five Iranian oil tankers; Iran hits Jordan base as oil tops $100

BBC/CENTCOM (Sept. 8–9): U.S. forces struck five IRGC-linked tankers after missile attempts on a Navy warship; Iran fired on a U.S. base in Jordan; Brent briefly cleared $100.

Impact — Tit-for-tat tanker and base strikes sustain Gulf risk premium for fuel and power costs.

Russia resumes Kyiv missile/drone barrage after U.S. envoys leave, killing five

Reuters (Sept. 8): After a three-day capital pause for Witkoff/Kushner talks, Russia hit Kyiv with drones and missiles; Klitschko said five dead, dozens injured; Ukraine again pleaded for interceptors.

Impact — Resumed capital strikes raise winter air-defence and energy-infrastructure pressure.

Pappas and Sununu win New Hampshire Senate primaries for open Shaheen seat

NHPR (Sept. 8): Rep. Chris Pappas (D) and former Sen. John E. Sununu (R) nominated; both parties see the Nov. 3 race as pivotal to Senate control.

Missouri map fight in chaos after SCOTUS denial and conflicting federal TRO

STLPR (Sept. 8–9): Justice Kavanaugh declined to revive GOP 2025 map; minutes later a federal judge ordered use of that map for Nov. 3—clerks caught between state and federal orders.

Oil nears $100 as Middle East strikes deepen supply-risk fears

Reuters (Sept. 9): Brent +1.3% to ~$99.22; WTI ~$94.13; fourth straight up session after Houthi Saudi strikes, U.S. tanker hits, and Iran’s Jordan/ship attacks.

Impact — Higher crude lifts operating costs for buildings, fleets, and capital projects.

BBC: Brent briefly clears $100 after overnight U.S.–Iran escalation

BBC (Sept. 9): Global benchmark topped $100 then eased to ~$99.90; war since Feb. 28 had already pushed prices from ~$70 and disrupted Hormuz flows.

Nature Neuroscience: Alzheimer’s disrupts bone-marrow myeloid production

Research briefing (Sept. 8): AD type-I interferon signaling in marrow blocks protective monocyte-derived macrophages from reaching the brain; blocking the signal helped 5xFAD mice.

NIH to divert NIAID funds to Defense for pandemic/CBRN countermeasures

Ars Technica (Sept. 8): Decade-long NIH–DoD agreement signed ~a month earlier; money from NIAID’s $6.6B FY2026 budget would fund DoD medical countermeasure work NIH leadership had deprioritized.

OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes Millennium breakthrough amid credit dispute

The Verge (Sept. 8): Internal model plus ~10,000 agents allegedly solved Navier-Stokes; NYU’s Buckmaster and Anthropic’s Alpöge allege OpenAI raced after learning of their related Euler work.

Meta launches Muse personal AI agent for U.S. users amid trust questions

TechCrunch (Sept. 8): Muse connects to email, calendars, payments and more via Secure VM + Sentinel; free tier plus $20/$100 plans; available on iOS, Android, muse.ai, WhatsApp.