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2026-08-25 evening edition

🌍 IRAN / WAR

• Tehran May Have Little to Lose as USA Tries to Squeeze Its Economy
• Is Mojtaba Khamenei Dead?

⚖️ CONTESTED Sanctions

• US economic D-Day sanctions: 'Repeated bombing attacks across Iran failed to change the calculus'
• US’ latest anti-Iranian sanctions fail to instill promised awe — media

🤖 AI / TECH

• OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
• Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
• FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

💵 ECONOMY

• Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%

📅 LOCAL EVENTS

• MSU vs. Oklahoma State- Soccer
• MSU vs. Troy-Volleyball
• Team Trivia at Dave’s
• Starkville Library: Miss Rainey’s Storytime and Toddler Time

⚖️ CONTESTED Israel, Palestine and Syria · day 3

• Uganda Pledges 1,200 Troops as Burundi Eyes Gaza Force
• Board of Peace demands Israel comply with Gaza ceasefire, calls for end to kite attacks
• Livestream: Iran guts US drone fleet as Ireland shuts out Gaza students

⚔️ WAR MOVEMENT 10 items

• A US military transport plane arrived at Vnukovo. Who it brought is unknown.
• Dutch Navy to equip fleet with Destinus C-UAS interceptor drones

🏛️ GOV / WORLD

• Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton dies aged 80: ‘Thank you, Lord, for Dolly’ – latest updates
• Nigeria's president orders manhunt after kidnappers upload victim video
• Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania

📍 LOCAL MS NEWS

• Tupelo Police make an arrest in an April domestic violence case
• Lowndes eyes improvements to Charles Younger Landing
• SNAP restrictions cut soda purchases but raise stigma concerns, study finds
• Chickasaw County mourning death of longtime public official

⚖️ CONTESTED Ukraine · day 3

• Update 363 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
• Ukraine’s Newest USV Is A Super Sized Mothership Packed With Anti-Drone Interceptors
• One civilian killed, eight others injured in Ukrainian attacks on DPR during past day
• On the front - 173 clashes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine neutralized over 70 occupiers in the Pokrovsk direction

🔥 ESCALATION 104 items

• Gaza Media Office: Israel has killed 21,500 children, targeted 1,244 mosques since October 2023
• In a village in Dnipropetrovsk region, people are being evacuated due to an explosion and fire - one dead, 11 injured.
• A fire occurred at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex. A Chinese citizen died. More than 100 people were injured.

🇺🇸 TRUMP WATCH

• The Radical Left Democrats are going CRAZY with Fake Polls. They’re putting them out at levels never seen before. They’re called, “Demoralization Operations,” where they try to…
• Air Force officer who called for Trump impeachment criminally charged
• Trump administration threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if renovations are blocked

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