Wednesday morning news: September 10, 2025

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Israel strikes Hamas in Qatar » Israel struck the headquarters of Hamas’s political leadership in Doha, Qatar Tuesday. The attack came as Hamas leaders convened to discuss a new ceasefire for the war in Gaza floated by the Trump Administration.

Qatar, a U.S. ally, condemned the attack calling it “a flagrant violation of all international laws and norms,” and saying it was clearly designed to undermine peace talks. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres echoed those views.

GUTERRES: I condemn this flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar. All parties must work toward achieving a permanent ceasefire, not destroying it.

Hamas said its top leaders survived the strike, but five lower-level members of the terror group were killed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he and his team decided on the strike after a shooting by Palestinians left six dead in Jerusalem and an attack on Israeli forces in Gaza killed four soldiers Monday.

The White House says Israel did let it know the strike was coming, but the Trump Administration is keeping its distance from the attack. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

LEAVITT: President Trump believes this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for peace. The president also spoke to the emir and prime minister of Qatar and thanked them for their support and friendship to our country. He assured them that such a thing will not happen again on their soil.

She went on to say bombing inside Qatar does not advance Israel or America’s goals.

Iran, IAEA sign agreement to resume nuclear cooperation » Under economic pressure, Iran is signaling new openness to cooperating with international inspectors on its nuclear program.

SOUND: [Applause]

That applause, coming from onlookers in Cairo, Egypt as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, signed an agreement paving the way for resuming cooperation on the country’s nuclear program.

Officials released few details on the agreement. They say it is technical in nature but acknowledge it could lead to relaunched inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Back in July, Iran suspended cooperation with the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog after Israel and the U.S. struck key Iranian nuclear facilities.

Iran is facing new potential sanctions from several European countries for not complying with an agreement meant to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.

SCOTUS to weigh Trump tariff power in November » The Supreme Court is fast-tracking its hearing on President Trump’s tariffs.

The justices will hear the case in early November, a faster-than-normal timetable, agreeing to take up an appeal from the Trump Administration after lower courts ruled most of the president’s sweeping tariffs illegal.

States and businesses suing Trump say he exceeded his emergency powers authority when he imposed the tariffs. Attorney Jeffrey Schwab of the Liberty Justice Center represents the plaintiffs:

SCHWAB: What do we do about unfair trade practices? I don’t know, but not 10 percent across the board tariffs. And not by a unilateral president without any kind of input from Congress, who has the Constitutional authority to impose tariffs.

Schwab making his clients’ case in an interview with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy earlier this year.

The tariffs will remain in place until the justices issue a final ruling.

Also Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts allowed the president’s freeze on $5 billion dollars in foreign aid to stay in place as a challenge to that policy makes its way through the courts.

Missouri House passes redistricting » Lawmakers in the GOP-led Missouri House have okayed a redistricting plan that could potentially flip one of the state’s Democrat-held seats to the Republicans.

Democrats spent part of Tuesday blasting the move.

CLARK: The Republican Party, led by Donald Trump’s congressional Republicans and the GOP leaders in state legislatures across this country, are systematically working to rig the upcoming election.

That’s Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clark of New York, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, criticizing the Missouri redistricting push, along with similar GOP efforts in states like Texas and Florida.

President Trump has defended redrawing the maps as a matter of fairness, noting last month there are no Republican congressional seats in many Democrat-controlled states.

Democrats have also pushed back with plans to redraw election maps before next year’s midterms in states like California. Missouri’s redistricting plan now goes to the Republican-controlled state Senate.

North Carolina transit murder suspect to face federal charges » The man accused in the gruesome murder of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a Charlotte, North Carolina public transit train now faces a federal charge in addition to the first-degree murder charge filed against him by the state.

The Justice Department is charging Decarlos Brown Jr. with causing death on a mass transportation system, a federal crime that could carry a punishment of life in prison or the death penalty.

Police say surveillance video captured Brown, unprovoked, stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death last month. The FBI’s special agent in charge for North Carolina, James Barnacle, says the agency is focused on preventing similar crimes.

BARNACLE: Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, has empowered every field office to shift resources to violent crime to help keep our cities’ streets safe.

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Justice Department will -quote- “seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable act of violence.”

Apple unveils iPhone 17 lineup » At Apple, thin is in:

AUDIO: At 5.6 millimeters, it’s the thinnest iPhone we’ve ever made. And it’s also exceptionally light. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever held before and it’s packed with our most advanced features.

That’s from an Apple promotional video introducing the company’s new iPhone 17 lineup, including that super-slim iPhone Air you just heard described.

Apple says the new line of iPhones will have better cameras, longer-lasting batteries, and a new chip to power AI features.

Also, Apple is mostly sticking with the same price tag it’s had the past few years for new iPhones, despite new tariffs making the phones more expensive to produce. They go on sale a week from Friday.

I'm Mark Mellinger.

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