For: July 8, 2026
>>Watching Wall Street
(New York, NY) -- The opening bell rings this morning after a down day on Wall Street that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average sink back below 53-thousand. A selloff in tech stocks along with a surge in oil prices pressured markets. This, after the Treasury Department revoked its authorization of Iranian oil sales Tuesday following a series of attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. At the closing bell, the Dow lost 130 points to 52-925. The S&P 500 slid 33 points to 75-03. The Nasdaq dropped 302 points to 25-818.
>>SpaceX Sends First Nuclear-Powered Commercial Satellite Into Orbit
(Miami, FL) -- The first ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite is now in orbit. The Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability, or BOHR, satellite, was launched Tuesday morning on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The satellite uses the radioactive decay of tritium [[ trit-ee-um ]], a hydrogen isotope, to power itself. Designed by Florida-based City Labs, the satellite is a test of the new technology's feasibility.
>>USPS To Raise Forever Stamp Prices Sunday
(Washington, DC) -- The cost of mailing a letter is expected to go up. The USPS will raise the cost of a Forever Stamp to 82 cents starting Sunday pending approval by the Postal Regulatory Commission. That's a four-cent increase. Other services will also see price jumps, including mailing postcards and international letters. The increases come after the USPS warned earlier this year that could run out of money within a year.
>>St. Louis City Committee Advances Data Center Regulations
(St. Louis, MO) -- Officials in St. Louis, Missouri are one step closer to enacting new regulations on data centers. A city committee has advanced a proposal that would regulate noise levels, add renewable energy requirements, and put restrictions on water usage. The proposal now goes to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen for consideration.
>>Fiat EV For Sale In U.S.
(Hoofddorp, Netherlands) -- Stellantis is offering the Fiat Topolino [[ Toh-poh-lee-no ]] electric vehicle in the U.S., with orders starting at 14-thousand dollars. The tiny vehicle looks like a car and works more like a golf cart, capable of top speeds of 19 miles per hour. A conversion kit can crank that up to 25 miles per hour to make it street-legal on roads with a 35 mile per hour speed limit. There's also a convertible version that comes with a rope instead of a door.
>>Toyota Expansion Brings Mexico Truck Work To Texas
(San Antonio, TX) -- Toyota is bringing production of its popular Tacoma pickup truck back to Texas. The automaker announced a three-point-six-billion dollar expansion to build a second assembly line at its San Antonio plant, shifting that work out of Mexico. The move is expected to create two thousand jobs and more than double the size of the existing South Side facility by 2030. Local production of the Tacoma will phase in over the next four years, while Toyota's second factory in Guanajuato [[ gwah-nah-HWAH-toh ]], Mexico, will keep running.
