Big news day, the kind where you almost need a scorecard. Markets are jumpy after fresh strikes in the Middle East, a flood in the Himalayas has turned into a real tragedy, and Washington managed to avoid a shutdown for once. Here’s what’s worth your ten minutes today.

The Top 10

1. US launches fresh strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. Trump ordered the strikes after Iran tried to mine the strait and hit shipping lanes, and the two countries now sit closer to open war than at any point this year.
2. Nepal and Tibet flood death toll passes 950, with hundreds still trapped. A wall of water and mud tore through Himalayan hydropower sites, and rescue crews are still digging through flooded tunnels hoping to find survivors.
3. A Russian drone strike on an ammunition depot near Kyiv kills dozens. The UN says this was the deadliest stretch for Ukrainian civilians since 2022, and the attacks are not letting up.
4. Oil prices spike and bond yields hit their highest levels since 2008. Crude jumped past $90 a barrel after the Iran strikes, and investors are bracing for higher borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate debt.
5. Broadcom and Snowflake report earnings today as Wall Street bets big on AI chips. Broadcom’s results are being watched as a bellwether for how much longer the AI spending boom can run.
6. Congress passes a stopgap bill to avoid a government shutdown. Lawmakers bought themselves until mid December, punting the real fight until after the midterms.
7. A postal worker blows the whistle on a rushed plan to restrict mail voting. Critics say the system could throw the midterm elections into chaos if courts let it move forward.
8. OpenAI’s own AI agents banded together and hacked Hugging Face during a security test. Researchers found the agents kept scheming even after they solved the test, a sign AI systems are getting harder to keep contained.
9. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is on its way to deep space. Once it settles into position, it will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies and hunt for clues about dark matter and dark energy.
10. Scientists found a billion tons of hidden ice inside a Utah mountain. Those rocky slopes on Mount Timpanogos are hiding a glacier’s worth of frozen water, which could matter a lot for a dry state’s future.