WASHINGTON — The Iran war directly cost the Pentagon $38 billion through July and is likely to consume $2 billion to $3 billion more per month if recent hostilities in the region continue, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.

The CBO report’s estimate of the war’s direct impact on the federal budget is made up mostly of the ...Read more

Federal drug agents in Los Angeles searched the home of actor Hayden Panettiere amid reports she’d been texting a drug dealer before dying from what may have been an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl.

TMZ said Drug Enforcement Administration officers were inside the “Heroes” star’s West Coast property shortly after she died in a ...Read more

The University of Missouri said it’s investigating a professor who was covertly recorded by a conservative advocacy group seeking to expose diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses.

The chair of the university’s Department of Sociology, Wayne Brekhus, was recorded in what appears to be a candid conversation with a ...Read more

A “nearly 100% fatal” disease is the rise across the United States, prompting federal officials to issue a nationwide health alert.

Since July, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seen a sharp increase in the number of people exposed to rabies.

Meanwhile, officials in several California counties have reported ...Read more

NEW YORK — There were lines along the sidewalk in Midtown Tuesday morning, though it wasn’t for the latest iPhone or sneaker drop — but for classic pastrami and corned beef on rye and matzoh ball soup at the reopening of the legendary Carnegie Deli.

After a 10-year hiatus, the iconic eatery has opened its door at a new NYC flagship ...Read more

NEW YORK — The fund that determines if NYPD officers get largely tax-free accident disability pensions needs better regulations to make sure the system doesn’t get scammed, the city’s Department of Investigation said in a report released Tuesday.

DOI Commissioner Nadia Shihata said the 19-page report “makes clear, the current manner in ...Read more

Underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries increased 13% in 2025, covering almost 5,000 more acres in Maryland’s portion of the Bay, the Maryland Department of the Environment reported.

“More underwater grass means more habitat for blue crabs and fish, cleaner water, and a more resilient Chesapeake Bay,” Maryland ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that his administration will be “reimagining” the hallmark street-safety plan of the Bill de Blasio administration, Vision Zero.

The plan, which aims to reduce annual traffic fatalities to none, has been in place since 2014. To date, Vision Zero has been credited with a 30% reduction in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Amid a reckoning on digital devices in the classroom, the New York City Council called for further reforms to reduce screen time in public schools during a hearing Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a sweeping education technology policy, including a one-year ban on artificial intelligence until high school ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States fired so many munitions at Iranian targets during the first few months of Operation Epic Fury that it “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply,” Pentagon officials acknowledged to the Defense Department’s independent watchdog.

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CHICAGO — Cook County Forest Preserves has used a $40 million yearly windfall from voters to buy up and conserve more land, pay for maintenance and add programming while bolstering its pension funds, the district reported Tuesday.

Voters overwhelmingly gave the preserves the OK to raise property taxes by 0.025% in a 2022 referendum. While at ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Massie read the articles of impeachment on the House floor Tuesday, saying Hegseth had violated the War Powers Resolution by going to war with Iran without approval from Congress.

He said Hegseth “has demonstrated that he will remain a ...Read more

CHICAGO — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent made the risky move Tuesday of taking the witness stand in his own rape trial, where he repeatedly denied sexually assaulting or robbing Chinese sex workers and said they threatened to frame him after he refused to help with immigration issues.

Luis Uribe, 45, is on trial at the Dirksen U.S...Read more

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace is calling for the public execution of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mom accused of killing all three of her children back in 2023.

“Her children are dead, she should be dead too,” the Republican rep told TMZ.

“She should get the death penalty. It should be public, it should be a public execution,” she ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said a system brewing in the Atlantic could become a tropical depression later this week.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, a trough of low pressure located about 800 miles east-southeast of Bermuda was continuing to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

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DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday told judges they can stop livestreaming court proceedings for the next 90 days — a move that directly contradicts state law and escalates an ongoing power struggle between the state’s highest court and its lawmakers, who have repeatedly mandated that most criminal court proceedings be streamed...Read more

DETROIT — The Gordie Howe International Bridge, in its first full month of operation, nearly became Michigan's busiest border crossing with Canada.

About 343,500 vehicle trips were made across the new public span in August 2026, according to data from the Bridge and Tunnel Operators Association. That fell just short of the roughly 345,500 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bold military push by Iran and its proxies to create a choke hold on global oil supplies has once again caught the Trump administration off guard, threatening a market shock and a steep political backlash in the U.S. midterm elections.

A drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s most crucial pipeline, which siphons crude oil from the ...Read more