The FBI disrupted an alleged terror plot targeting Saturday's UFC Freedom 250 fight on the White House South Lawn, arresting five American citizens across California, Missouri and Nebraska. Investigators say the plan involved explosive-laden drones striking nearby buildings to trigger an evacuation directly into a pre-positioned sniper. One suspect allegedly told agents the goal was to hit "capitalist elites" and politicians backed by AIPAC, and a phone review flagged at least 23 Signal users discussing pre-operational activity.
Three children were wounded by gunfire near the John Cain Aquatic Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas, when officers responded to reports of shots fired just before 5 p.m. local time. One child suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, and all three were rushed to a local hospital. A suspect was taken into custody within minutes with help from the Arkansas County Sheriff's Office.
Georgia Republicans head to the polls Tuesday to settle a bruising Senate runoff between Trump-endorsed Rep. Mike Collins and Gov. Brian Kemp-backed Derek Dooley. Collins led the May primary at 40.5 percent to Dooley's 30.2 percent, and polling averages show him as the strongest GOP challenger to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff this fall. The contest has become a proxy fight between Trump's MAGA base and Kemp's establishment wing of the party.
The rift between President Trump and Tucker Carlson has hardened into an open break, with Trump declaring the former Fox host "not MAGA" and a "Low IQ person" over Carlson's relentless criticism of the Iran war. Carlson has disavowed his 2024 support, telling Piers Morgan he feels "tormented" and accusing Trump of betraying America First voters. The clash is exposing a real fault line in the coalition just as Trump touts his Iran deal as a triumph.
The division between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spilled into open view at the G7 in Évian, France, as Israeli leaders publicly bashed the U.S.-Iran deal. Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed Israeli troops would stay in Lebanese security zones "without any time limit," directly defying a deal that was supposed to end fighting on every front. Trump, for his part, said Netanyahu "has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon."
At a G7 news conference Tuesday, Trump declared Iran would face "ultimate consequences" if it ever tries to develop, buy or otherwise acquire a nuclear weapon. Iran's Supreme National Security Council confirmed Tehran and Washington had finalized a memorandum of understanding ending the war, with all military operations set to cease "immediately and permanently." Trump also met with Qatar's emir as world leaders weighed the durability of the tentative agreement.
Sudan's civil war is being reshaped by a surge in drone strikes, with the U.N. warning of a sharp rise in civilian deaths and the conflict's total toll reaching as high as 400,000. Iran has been accused of supplying Mohajer-6 attack drones to Sudan's armed forces, fueling strikes that have hit weddings, markets and the haven city of Port Sudan. A single strike on the Darfur town of Kutum killed at least 30 civilians, including women and children.
Researchers at Oxford have created an entirely new type of "Schrödinger's cat"-like quantum state, built from components that are themselves deeply quantum in nature. The advance could pave the way toward more resilient quantum computers that hold their fragile information longer. Beyond hardware, the work offers physicists a fresh window into the strange boundary between the quantum and everyday worlds.
Scientists used genome editing to switch off red-pigment production in lettuce, and discovered the plant compensated by stockpiling other beneficial compounds instead. The edited lettuce grew normally, pointing toward a new path for designing crops with customized nutritional properties. It's an early sign that turning off one trait can unlock unexpected benefits elsewhere in a plant's chemistry.
Andy Lewis, the slackline pioneer who appeared alongside Madonna at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, died in a BASE jumping accident near Moab, Utah, over the weekend. Lewis, who once set a highline record 480 feet above Las Vegas and held a Guinness record for a slack-rope walk above a Chinese waterfall, was killed during a tandem jump in Mineral Bottom. His final Instagram clip, posted Sunday, showed him flipping off a desert cliff not long before he died.
