Republicans denounced President Trump’s diesel agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing it amid mounting backlash. Following Trump’s claim of an “energy ceasefire” in the Ukraine war, diesel prices slipped. Iranian‑backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they carried out deadly attacks on a Saudi airport. Economists Robert Hall and Michael Woodford were announced as the winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in economics. Federal agents searched Representative Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a fraud investigation, and Paris’s oldest covered food market was gutted by a major overnight fire. In other news, Kelly Clarkson fired back at a Brooklyn curiosity shop, and Russell Brand went on trial facing rape and sexual