News & Current Events

The Missouri Supreme Court found Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in civil contempt for directing local election authorities to use the 2025 congressional map on September 8, in violation of its September 3 injunction requiring use of the 2022 map. After the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a competing federal order on September 10, Hoskins reversed course and directed authorities back to the 2022 map, which the court accepted as a purge of contempt with no fine or commitment imposed. Missouri's November 3, 2026 general election will proceed under the 2022 congressional districts, though federal litigation over the underlying map dispute remains pending.

U.S. Central Command conducted two operations on September 5 and 8, disabling or destroying eight Iranian crude-oil carriers in response to IRGC ballistic missile attacks on U.S. Navy warships, with independent maritime records confirming disabling actions on four vessels and the sinking of one. Iran claimed retaliatory missile strikes on a U.S. airbase in Jordan and attacks on U.S. vessels, but Jordan intercepted 18 of 20 missiles fired and CENTCOM denied any warship was hit. The exchanges follow the August 17 expiration of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, with no confirmed replacement diplomatic channel and the Strait of Hormuz threat level rated severe.