Monday, August 31, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1955, General Motors engineer William Cobb unveiled the world's first solar-powered car at an auto show in Chicago. The "Sunmobile" ran on 12 tiny solar cells and measured just 15 inches long. See the tiny car here.

Three years ago, Warner Bros. locked a finished Looney Tunes movie in a vault for a tax break. Fans howled, a tiny distributor swooped in, and this weekend Wile E. Coyote finally got his day at the box office. See how sweet the revenge was in Finance.

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Iran Strikes US Bases after Hormuz Raid

Six months of war with Iran flared back to life Sunday. U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers, and Iran answered with ballistic missiles aimed at American air bases in Jordan.

The launchers sat on Larak Island, where Revolutionary Guard forces were preparing to fire new sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz just one week after the U.S. finished clearing it.

Iran's retaliation targeted two U.S. air bases in Jordan. The Jordanian military said it intercepted all eight missiles that crossed into its airspace, and no damage was reported. Watch the report here.

The exchange was the first fighting in a month, and it lands as Washington presses its economic campaign. The Treasury secretary plans new bank sanctions this week, telling the media, "This is going to be financial violence if we have to."

Venezuelan Oil to Refill US Reserve

President Trump said Sunday that oil from the new Venezuela deal will refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which sits near a 44-year low. He called the crude a "Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States."

Details keep emerging two days later. Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez says the agreement will run 25 years, and the U.S. is reportedly taking a 35% stake in a Venezuelan oil mogul's private venture.

Sen. Ted Cruz praised the deal in an interview Sunday but said free elections in Venezuela must follow "no later than midway through next year," adding the administration is "working rapidly" toward them.

For drivers, relief may take a while. Gas averaged $4.07 a gallon Sunday, up from $3.19 a year ago, and Venezuela's battered oil fields need major investment before production can rise.

NASA Telescope Launches on Planet Hunt

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday morning aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. It now begins a three-month, million-mile journey to its deep-space post, with first images expected early next year.

The telescope was built around a donated mirror originally made for a spy satellite, and its wide-angle images are so vast that displaying one in full would take half a million 4K TVs. Watch the launch here.

The $4.3 billion observatory sees a swath of sky 100 times wider than Hubble's and surveys it 1,000 times faster. One month of its observations would take Hubble a century.

The mission honors Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, who was once told women could not be scientists and later became known as "the mother of Hubble." It is expected to find some 100,000 new planets.

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