The House of Representatives will try to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on Wednesday. It will vote on a stopgap funding package to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.

Northern Lights may dazzle again tonight as a severe geomagnetic storm reaches peak intensity across regions. Follow live.

China is grappling with a glut of soybeans after months of record imports, curbing prospects for U.S. exports despite a recent trade truce that Washington said includes a pledge by Beijing to resume heavy purchases.

Soybeans have been a flashpoint in the trade war between the US and China, the world’s largest importer of the oilseed. To begin the new harvest season, the East Asian nation boycotted American soybeans.

The Coast Guard breaks all-time record with 510,000 pounds of cocaine seized in fiscal year 2025, three times the annual average and equivalent to 193 million lethal doses.