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FinanceSep 12, 2026

Oil Surges Past $100 a Barrel as Middle East Chaos Sends Fed Rate Hike Odds Soaring

US crude oil jumped above $100 a barrel for the first time since May 2026 after Houthi rebels seized Yemen's Red Sea coast and a drone attack shut down a major Saudi pipeline. The turmoil pushed Treasury yields to their highest level since 2023 and lifted the odds of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike to about 88 percent.

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Houthi Fighters Seize Yemen's Last Red Sea Island as Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Its Main Oil Pipeline

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Oil Surges Past $100 a Barrel as Middle East Chaos Sends Fed Rate Hike Odds Soaring

Houthi Fighters Seize Yemen's Last Red Sea Island as Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Its Main Oil Pipeline

Marble Slab at Hadrian's Villa Reveals How Romans Marked a Lightning Strike as Sacred

New Study Finds Dry Ice, Not Water, Is Carving Mars's Mysterious Gullies

Brock Purdy Throws Three Touchdowns as the 49ers Rout the Rams in the NFL's First-Ever Game in Australia

Tencent-Backed Chipmaker Enflame Triples in Blockbuster Shanghai Stock Debut

US Treasury Launches New Sanctions Wave Against Hezbollah's Financial Networks

Scientists Find a Molecular Switch That Rebuilds Bone and Could Reverse Osteoporosis

Ancient Builders Hauled Twenty Five Ton Stones Eighteen Kilometers to Raise Britain's Tallest Stone Row

Aryna Sabalenka Chases a Historic Three Peat Against New World Number One Elena Rybakina

Wall Street Rallies as Sticky Inflation Data Cements Bets on a Federal Reserve Rate Hike

Navy Secretary Admits Iranian Strikes 'Blew the Hell Out of' the US Fleet's Bahrain Base

A Road Crew in Brazil Dug Eight Metres Down and Found a Twenty Metre Dinosaur

The Justice Department Is Investigating Nvidia's Twenty Billion Dollar Agreement With the Chip Startup Groq

Stevie Wonder Will Perform All of Songs in the Key of Life on a Fifty Year Anniversary Tour

DeepSeek Hires One of China's Biggest Banks to Prepare a Stock Market Listing in Shanghai

America Marks Twenty Five Years Since September 11 as Families Read Nearly Three Thousand Names

Astronomers Find Evidence That Comets Are Delivering Water to a Baby Solar System

Scientists Just Learned Diamonds Can Make Electricity, Overturning a Hundred Year Old Rule

Elena Rybakina Ends Coco Gauff's Run and Will Face Aryna Sabalenka for the US Open Title

Kroger's New CEO Faces His Biggest Test Yet as the Grocery Giant Reports Earnings Today

Pentagon Confirms What Trump Denied: Iran's Missile Strike Left a US A-10 Warthog With a Missing Wing

Astronomers Find a Giant Ten Sided Shape Circling Saturn's South Pole, and No One Expected It

Google Commits Thirteen Billion Euros to Finland and Signs a 22 Year Deal to Power AI Centers With Nuclear Energy