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Hawaii hunkers down Hawaii is bracing for the worst of Hurricane Lowell, with the storm expected to make its closest approach to the islands early today. Lowell is forecast to remain offshore and weaken, but its expanding wind field could bring tropical storm-force winds to the western islands, while more than a foot of rain in some areas raises the risk of dangerous flash flooding and mudslides. Lowell is the third storm in just over three weeks to target Hawaii as El Niño supercharges the Pacific hurricane season. A hurricane warning is in effect for the islands of Kauai and Niihau. + Read more: Hurricane Lowell lashing Hawaii with flooding rain and massive waves + Video: Meteorologist explains Hurricane Lowell’s path

Canada’s counter-tariffs on US goods take effect Canada’s new counter-tariffs on hundreds of American products went into effect at midnight. The duties range from 15% to 50% on about $20 billion worth of US goods, in response to the Trump administration’s levies on Canadian imports. The steepest tariffs on US steel and aluminum could ripple across American industries, analysts say. And the impact may extend well beyond metals, with paper products, construction materials, home appliances and agricultural goods facing fresh duties. On Monday, President Donald Trump also threatened to ban sales of Canadian-made Bombardier jets unless the company begins manufacturing them in the US, escalating an already bitter trade dispute between the two countries. + Latest: Canada’s retaliatory tariffs take effect + Video: Former Trudeau advisor: ‘Canada must stand up for itself’

👢 Republicans roll into Dallas Photo: Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 100 Republican House members and candidates are expected at the American Airlines Center in Dallas for the party's first-ever midterm convention tomorrow and Thursday, running for six hours each night, 4-10 p.m. ET. (with competition from NFL season openers). Lots of lawmakers in competitive races are taking a pass or hedging about their plans. Organizers have scheduled 50+ speakers or presentations each night, with many of the slots kept brief for easy online sharing. Everyday Americans, including former Democrats, will take turns onstage talking about how they've benefited from Trump policies. President Trump will speak each night. Vice President JD Vance will keynote Thursday. 📺 C-SPAN plans gavel-to-gavel coverage, and C-SPAN2 will be on the campaign trail with Democrats. Speaker lineup.

💥 Inside the mission to de-mine the Strait of Hormuz A U.S. Navy Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) drone boat navigates during a NATO exercise off the coast of Poland in June. Photo: Omar Marques/Getty Images The U.S. military has covertly engaged in a risky four-month operation to de-mine the Strait of Hormuz with Navy SEAL divers, robot boats and specialized underwater craft, the Financial Times reports. Navy divers — working in small teams on inflatable craft — located Iranian mines with the help of sonar arrays towed by robot boats and submersibles, allowing them to see objects in the ocean at high resolution. Bill Hamblet, a retired U.S. Navy captain who often operated in the Gulf, told the FT that it's "usually followed up by a navy diver who's got to get in the water and approach the mine, and then put a charge on it and destroy it." Keep reading (gift link).

🏀 Summer of sports warfare Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios The WNBA, Major League Baseball and even a golf startup spent the summer as unlikely proxies in some of the country's fiercest national conflicts, Axios' Noah Bressner writes. Why it matters: American culture has shattered into thousands of tiny shards of glass. Sports remain one of the few forces powerful enough to pull much of the country into the same moment — making it a prime target for political fights. 🥊 This summer's fights have blown up far beyond the fan bases: Caitlin Clark, the WNBA's biggest star, spent the season absorbing hard fouls. The fight over whether refs were protecting her quickly became a fight about race. Eleven House Republicans wrote to the league, and the topic has become a staple on conservative media. Clark's Indiana Fever teammate Sophie Cunningham told ESPN in July that girls shouldn't have to compete against "biological men." Competing activist groups have clashed outside WNBA games, with Cunningham's words and photos appearing on signs held by her supporters. Three San Francisco Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on their rainbow caps for Pride Night in June. The Justice Department referred the league to the EEOC for possible religious discrimination after it warned the players about violating uniform rules. Good Good Golf, a popular YouTube channel and apparel brand, posted an ad last month showing its co-founder shoving a female golfer to the ground. Callaway responded to the uproar by ending a three-year partnership, and Good Good withdrew as the title sponsor of a new PGA Tour event. President Trump's shadow hung over this summer's World Cup. Keep reading.

GOP's Latino gains fade Data: Hart Research/TelevisaUnivision. Table: Russell Contreras/Axios Democrats have gained sharply with Latino voters in some of the country's most competitive House districts since 2024, Axios' Russell Contreras writes from a new Hart Research/TelevisaUnivision poll. Democrats are gaining ground with Latino voters across a survey of 17 competitive House districts, opening a 58%-35% lead on the generic congressional ballot. That 23-point margin is double the 11-point edge Kamala Harris held over Trump in the same sample's self-reported 2024 vote. The intrigue: 11% of Latino voters who say they backed Trump in 2024 now support Democratic congressional candidates. More from the poll.

🔮 Scenarios: 4 ways AI could play out Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images In his weekly C-Suite newsletter, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei walks through the four most plausible emerging AI scenarios: The techno-optimists are right: So far, AI capabilities have advanced faster than almost anyone predicted. Yes, the tech is imperfect — but it would be foolish not to assume it keeps getting meaningfully better with each passing month. This is my dominant assumption. An AI catastrophe hits: I work under the assumption that something big and bad will hit in the next 18 months, most likely a widespread cyberattack or bio-engineered virus set loose by a bad actor. This will instantly reset politics and AI advancement. Assume swift, severe backlash. Shut-it-down politics explode. If something bad happens — or even if data centers keep rising in unpopularity, or job losses start to mount — Democrats seem ready to turn hard against AI. Bernie Sanders, the dominant voice of the left, has already called for a pause. He introduced legislation that would imprison anyone building superintelligence. The messy middle persists. This is a very plausible — and some think most likely — outcome. AI keeps advancing, but not so fast or transformationally as the optimists think. Our employees use it more and more, but it simply takes longer to connect to existing data, systems and security layers to truly upend work and life as we know it.

Hakeem Jeffries' next fight Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) faces mounting behind-the-scenes frustration from progressive lawmakers and candidates that's likely to burst into public view after the midterm elections, Axios' Andrew Solender writes. Why it matters: An influx of Democratic Socialists of America-aligned members in January will compound latent distrust of Jeffries that's festering in some corners of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 🔎 Zoom in: Jeffries has made several recent moves that left Progressive Caucus members fuming, according to multiple lawmakers, candidates and aides. Medicare for All: Jeffries said on NBC's "Meet the Press" last month that Medicare for All is "not legislation ... that I support." He said in a later radio interview that he supports universal coverage, but there are "different paths" to get there. Kushner meeting: Jeffries' sit-down with President Trump's son-in-law rankled progressive groups. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told reporters: "I don't know what that was about." Rule change: A proposal to penalize members who don't pay their dues to the party's campaign arm, or who break with leadership on procedural votes, was seen by progressives as a preemptive attempt to cut off dissent from the left.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 8 1974 Ford pardons Nixon President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as part of the Watergate scandal while in office. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1960s 1965 Delano Grape Strike begins American Revolution 1781 Bloody battle begins at Eutaw Springs, South Carolina 1776 Nathan Hale volunteers to spy behind British lines Arts & Entertainment 1504 Michelangelo’s statue of David is unveiled to the public 1966 “Star Trek” premieres 1993 “The Joy Luck Club” premieres 2003 Recording industry begins suing individual sharers of copyrighted mp3 files 1907 Gertrude Stein meets great love Alice B. Toklas 1986 Oprah goes national Black History 1968 First Miss Black America crowned Civil War 1863 Rebels thwart Yankees at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass Cold War 1945 American troops arrive in Korea to partition the country Colonial America 1664 New Amsterdam becomes New York Crime 1935 Louisiana senator Huey Long is shot European History 2022 Queen Elizabeth II dies; Charles becomes King 1941 Siege of Leningrad begins LGBTQ+ History 1975 Gay sergeant challenges the Air Force Natural Disasters & Environment 1900 Deadly hurricane batters Galveston, Texas Sports 1957 Althea Gibson becomes first African American to win U.S. Open tennis title Vietnam War 1954 SEATO established World War I 1915 German airship hits central London World War II 1943 Italian surrender is announced

Thieves steal 4 Renoirs from a French museum. 2 of the paintings are still missing PARIS (AP) — Two thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window and stole four valuable Renoir paintings Tuesday from a small museum on the French Riviera, but abandoned two of the artworks as they fled, authorities said. Investigators launched a national search for the perpetrators. https://apnews.com/article/france-renoir-heist-paintings-riviera-4f5a9a3ece4f973c73721232fb917282?

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‘Ferris Bueller Gone Bad’ The alleged ringleader of one of the largest cryptocurrency heists in the US is due in court today for his plea agreement hearing. Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean citizen in California, stands accused of siphoning more than $240M worth of bitcoin with the help of 17 others. Lam and his network met in online gaming forums and allegedly began scamming people out of cryptocurrency in 2023. In one instance, they targeted a cryptocurrency investor through two phone calls, each warning about security threats to his cryptocurrency wallet, in order to access his security codes. Defendants allegedly spent the ill-gotten gains on luxury cars and watches, private jet rides, rented mansions, and nightclub benders. Lam allegedly spent more than $569K in one night at a Los Angeles nightclub. One judge likened the case to “Ferris Bueller gone bad.” Cryptocurrency fraud reports jumped up last year, with Americans reporting losses of more than $11B. See tips to avoid phone scams.

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Trump Official Ripped Over Labor Day Gas Price Fail The Trump White House has yet another broken promise to explain. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s big boast about gas prices is coming back to bite him. Bessent promised in July that “inflation is going to come back down” and that gas prices would “maybe” return to $3 by Labor Day. Now that the holiday has arrived, MS NOW has the receipts that prove Bessent’s prediction was way off. The network aired the months-old clip of Bessent on Monday before cutting back to host Peter Alexander, who said with a smirk, “It is Labor Day.” “Gas prices, as you are well aware, are nowhere closer to $3 than they were a month ago,” he continued. “Right now, the national average is $4.15 per gallon—that’s not three bucks. It’s way higher than prior to the Iran war, when they were sitting below $3 a gallon.” AAA reports that the average gallon of gas in the United States was $3.83 on July 2, the day Bessent made his claim in an interview with CBS News. Instead of gas decreasing by at least 83 cents, as Bessent promised, the average gallon has become 32 cents more expensive since then. At $4.15 a gallon, AAA reports the price is a record high for Labor Day. The previous high of $3.83 per gallon was reached in 2012, when tensions in the Middle East also disrupted supply. Experts tell CNN that gas prices could climb even higher if the wars in Iran and Ukraine continue to roil global energy markets. Patrick De Haan, a petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, told MS NOW that even more expensive months are on the way.“We’ll probably see our most expensive September, October and November, until something shifts with these geopolitical tensions,” he said. Vice President JD Vance was confronted with Bessent’s failed promise during a press briefing this week. He pointed out that Bessent hedged his prediction by saying “maybe” by Labor Day, which offers little solace to Americans who are grappling with higher prices in nearly every facet of their everyday lives. MS NOW highlighted AAA figures that show domestic flights are up 20 percent from this time last year, while hotels are nine percent more expensive. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-ripped-over-labor-day-gas-price-fail/? ps:That's why you don't take anything with these guys as being honest! This administration are the biggest liars ever, and if people didn't realize that from this man's first 4 years, they need extra help!!

The poorest in the US can't find housing even as low-income units sit empty Mathew Davis, who lives in a homeless shelter in Austin, Texas, would love an apartment of his own. But with the little money he makes donating blood plasma, even a $450-a-month tiny home with no running water and a communal bathroom would be a stretch. Read More.

Russia and North Korea open the first road link across shared border Russia and North Korea opened the first road bridge across their shared border on Monday, a development Russian officials hailed as boosting the nations' deepening ties. Read More. Russia-North Korea Road Link Russia and North Korea opened the first road bridge across their shared border yesterday. The new link over the Tumen River comes as the countries have expanded a strategic partnership amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (scroll for map). The two-lane bridge is 0.6 miles long and will allow up to 300 vehicles to cross per day, beginning with cargo trucks. The countries agreed to the construction during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to North Korea in 2024. Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also signed a defense pact that year requiring each country to provide military assistance if the other is attacked. North Korea has supplied Russia with ammunition, missiles, and thousands of troops for the war in Ukraine. The bridge adds a third form of transport between the countries, joining existing air and rail routes. Direct flights offer rare travel opportunities to Russian tourists, including access to a North Korean beach resort (see inside, via YouTube).

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New Hampshire’s state primary Two former Republican U.S. Senators eyeing a return to Washington will compete in New Hampshire’s state primary Tuesday for a seat they’ve both sought previously with mixed results. In the Democratic primary for the same U.S. Senate seat, a four-term congressman faces an increasingly competitive challenge on his left flank from a democratic socialist candidate. Read More. AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Rhode Island’s state primary Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee faces a tough Democratic primary challenge Wednesday in his bid for a second full term. Ocean State voters will also choose nominees for a full slate of federal, state and local offices. Read More.

👽 1 science thing: The search for speck Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios In a new study, researchers propose searching for microscopic evidence of long-dead alien civilizations in lunar soil samples. The idea is that tiny particles from collapsed civilizations could drift through space, perhaps settling on the Moon like flotsam and jetsam washing up on a beach. 📡 Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a study co-author, tells The New York Times: "If you concede that looking for alien intelligences is a legitimate part of science ... then looking for the technological products ... ought to be just as scientifically valid as looking for their radio emissions." (Gift link.) Reality check: The Moon is littered with microscopic junk from human spaceflight, and finding something alien in origin would be a long shot, to say the least. Read the study.

🏆 Hollywood icon Rob Reiner was honored with a posthumous Emmy for his performance in the hit FX series "The Bear." Keep reading.

🇬🇱 The European Commission unveiled a $232 million investment package for Greenland as the European Union seeks to boost relations there. Go deeper. EU seeks to reassure a Trump-rattled Greenland with promise of a new partnership and investment The European Union on Monday sought to reassure a jittery Greenland with the promise of a stronger partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment following repeated threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to take control of the island. Read More.

Iran war's energy bill: $100B and rising Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Stock: Getty Images The war with Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, Axios' Ben Berkowitz writes from a real-time Brown University estimate. The bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes. 🤑 By the numbers: The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker from Brown's Watson School says higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. (Latest numbers.) Most of that is gas, though the diesel burden is rising faster lately. Stunning stat: The average national price of a gallon of regular gas was $4.15 today, per AAA. That's nearly a dollar higher than last year, and well above the previous Labor Day weekend record of $3.82 from 2012. ☢️ President Trump insists Americans are willing to pay higher prices to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Yet voters consistently say inflation is the most important issue. Go deeper.

Increasing SNAP error rates could be good news for Florida (really) Florida’s anticipated error rate in the federal food security program called SNAP appears to be on the rise — a move that could wind up helping the state avoid costly penalties in the short run. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/07/increasing-snap-error-rates-could-be-good-news-for-florida-really/?