Thursday, September 10, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1897, London taxi driver George Smith became the first person arrested for drunken driving after crashing his cab into a building. The 25-year-old pleaded guilty and was fined 20 shillings.

For nearly 20 years, the airport security line has meant one fate for your water bottle: chug it or toss it. That security rule is now being reconsidered for some travelers. See who catches a break in Politics. And today's poll keeps us up in the air: Have you ever flown first class? Let us know below.

There has been no shortage of noise around the Lindsay Clancy trial. Conspiracy theories, hot takes, and bad legal analyses have drowned out the actual facts. So we stripped away the bias and the agenda and laid out what really happened, including the courtroom decision everyone was talking about last week. Plus, what three jurors just revealed about the chaos inside that deliberation room. Join Ayla on The Flyover Podcast for the story without the spin. Tune in here!

Later today, watch for an email from our partner, Insurify, about a quick way to compare car insurance rates from more than 100 companies and potentially save up to $1,100 a year.

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Trump Vows $5,000 Checks if GOP Wins

President Trump pledged Wednesday night to send every U.S. citizen a $5,000 check, but only if Republicans keep control of both the House and Senate in November.

He made the offer at the Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, urging supporters to "pretend that I'm on the ballot" so he can "finish the job."

Trump likened the checks to a company paying its shareholders, but added one catch: the money would have to be spent in the U.S. "We don't want you going to Canada," he said.

He offered few details on how the payments would work, and vowed to campaign in roughly 35 competitive House and Senate districts before Nov. 3.

Iran Hits Back After US Sinks Tankers

Iran said Wednesday it attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz, including two U.S. Navy warships and eight oil tankers, and fired ballistic missiles toward a U.S. base in eastern Jordan.

The U.S. military said no warship was hit and that every attempted attack by Iran's Revolutionary Guard failed, calling Tehran's claim "completely FALSE."

The exchange followed Tuesday's U.S. strikes that sank five Iranian tankers, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Iran will lose tankers every time it targets an American warship.

Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, topped $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since July. President Trump brushed off the spike earlier this week, arguing prices will drop significantly once the war ends.

AI Insider Quits, Warning: It 'Could Kill Us All'

A researcher at AI giant Anthropic resigned Tuesday, warning the technology "could kill us all by the end of the decade." Jacob Coxon, who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, wrote on X that "neither company is acting responsibly." Read his full resignation thread here.

He says the labs are racing to build AI that improves its own code, each version writing a smarter one, until the result is "superhuman systems that can hack anything" and "acquire real power and resources."

It has happened on a small scale. In July, an OpenAI model went rogue during testing and hacked Hugging Face, another AI company, on its own. Coxon called it a "warning shot."

Anthropic's alignment lead, Evan Hubinger, responded that "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," putting the odds above 10% within a decade, though he said today's models pose little risk.

A bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act in the House would let the Department of Homeland Security shut off models that threaten the public.

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The following stories are featured exclusively on The Flyover Podcast—a daily show that gives you the most important headlines in under 15 minutes.

➤ Jurors from the Lindsay Clancy trial are breaking their silence about what really derailed a verdict. (Hear Breakdown)

➤ Today marks one year since Charlie Kirk's assassination, as his wife Erika reflects on a year of grief. (Hear Details)

➤ Newly released disclosures show that President Trump gave tens of thousands of dollars in holiday cash gifts to four White House aides. (Listen Now)

➤ Republican former Sen. John Sununu and Rep. Chris Pappas, a Democrat, won their respective New Hampshire Senate primaries on Tuesday, setting up a competitive general election for retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's open seat. (More)

➤ A federal judge reinstated Missouri's GOP-friendly congressional map for the November midterms, issuing a temporary restraining order minutes after Justice Kavanaugh separately declined to intervene. (More)

➤ The Transportation Security Administration is considering allowing TSA PreCheck travelers to bring full water bottles through security at airports equipped with newer CT screening technology. (More)

➤ The Trump administration permanently filled four key Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leadership roles, including directors for drug, vaccine, and tobacco regulation, following months of turnover. (More)

➤ The Seattle Seahawks rallied from a 10-0 deficit after quarterback Sam Darnold exited on the season’s opening drive, sealing a 13-10 win over the New England Patriots with an end-zone interception in the Super Bowl LX rematch. (Watch Play)

➤ Ben Shelton upset defending US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz in five sets early Wednesday morning, with the quarterfinal ending at 3:33 a.m., setting a record for the latest finish in tournament history. (More)

➤ LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with $500 million to $1 billion in liabilities. Officials said they plan to restructure before returning to competition in 2027. (More)

➤ The NCAA established a standard timing protocol after Michigan’s disputed 13-12 win over Western Michigan, directing replay officials to use the program-feed clock when adjusting time. (More)

➤ The Professional Women’s Hockey League secured its first season-long U.S. national broadcast deal, with Scripps Sports airing a Saturday game each week on ION and two additional national games weekly. (More)

➤ Yesterday’s Results: NFL | US Open | MLB | Soccer | FIBA Basketball

Daily Market Report 09/09/2026

▼	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	26,253.34	-0.64%
▼	SPX S&P 500	7,636.45	-0.48%
▼	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	52,381.02	-0.77%
▼	BTC Bitcoin	$78,199.36	-0.30%
▲	GOLD Per Ounce	$4,444.30	1.15%
▲	SILVER Per Ounce	$67.88	2.39%
▲	OIL West Texas Intermediate Crude	$96.57	3.81%
▼	TTAN ServiceTitan, Inc.	$57.11	-29.98%

Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil are traded 24 hours a day.

➤ Big Stock Move: ServiceTitan stock dropped nearly 30% on Wednesday after the software maker delivered a third-quarter revenue outlook that fell short of Wall Street’s estimates. (More)

➤ The Treasury Department will buy back up to $6 billion in longer-term government debt, tripling its normal size, as officials look to stabilize bond markets amid rising yields. (More)

➤ Target will open eight new stores across six states this fall, creating more than 2,000 jobs as part of its plan to add over 300 locations by 2035. (More)

➤ Google announced at least $15.1 billion in AI infrastructure investment in Finland, its largest single European commitment, including three new data centers and an expansion. (More)

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➤ Apple unveiled its first foldable iPhone, the Duo, which opens into a 7.6-inch screen and folds down to pocket size. It starts at $1,999 and ships Oct. 23. (See Features)

➤ OpenAI says 10,000 of its AI agents solved Navier-Stokes, a 90-year-old, $1 million math problem about fluid flow, in 88 hours. A NYU mathematician is questioning the claim. (More)

➤ The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their volleyball-sized eggs without crushing them. New research suggests titanosaurs kept their eggs warm as crocodiles do: buried in piles of rotting plants. (See Eggs)

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Throwback Thursday is brought to you by:

➤ A mom set out to buy a couple of vintage playhouses and drove home with 21 of them. She's restoring the old Little Tikes and Fisher-Price sets into a backyard village for her kids. (See Village)

➤ Rare photographs capture what daily life actually looked like in the 1800s, from a mobile photo booth to families hauling buffalo chips for fuel. One reader: "Not a cell phone in sight." (See Photos)

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➤ A snake audition at New York's Metropolitan Opera was won by Princess, a boa constrictor, who will take the starring reptile role in a Mozart classic reset at a 1950s Coney Island carnival. (Meet Princess)

➤ A 30-foot sinkhole swallowed the driveway of Nicolas Cage's Malibu beach home early Tuesday after days of heavy rain. Officials declared at least five homes on the street unsafe. (See Photos)

➤ The Girl Scouts announced its first-ever cookie made specifically for dogs, a blueberry muffin-flavored treat named Patch Pals that goes on sale online in January. (More)

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Yesterday's Results:

Where would you go barefoot in nice weather?

Beach/pool/my yard: 28%
Beach/pool only: 28%
Everywhere I can: 21%
Never, shoes stay on: 20%
Other: 3%

Daily Quote

"Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources."

— Jacob Coxon, in the resignation thread he posted this week after quitting AI company Anthropic over safety concerns