Today’s Both Sides

Mexico asks U.S. for evidence of border shooting at Coast Guard

Mexico's president said her forces detected no shots from Mexican soil and asked Washington for its evidence, as both countries move about 500 troops each to the Texas–Tamaulipas border.

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Quick hits

• Technology Chemistry Nobel goes to Kagan and Soai for cracking a mirror-image molecule puzzle — Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how reactions can strongly favor one "handed" form of a molecule. The work helps explain how life's building blocks…
• Technology OpenAI posts hundreds of AI-made math results, and mathematicians ask for proof — OpenAI released 722 math papers, grouped into 372 results, that it says an unreleased internal model produced, including claimed progress on famous open problems. Many proofs are machine-checked, but outside…
• US News Tropical Storm Isaias forms in the Gulf and is forecast to hit the U.S. coast as a hurricane — Tropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday in the southwestern Gulf. Forecasters expect it to strengthen quickly into a hurricane with winds near 110 mph and approach the northern Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to the…
• US News Ex-CIA official found with nearly 300 gold bars pleads guilty in $194 million fraud — David J. Rush, a former senior CIA official, pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud. Prosecutors say he invented secret programs to take about $194 million in government money, including gold bars that cost about $46…
• Politics Collins and Jackson clash over Trump, abortion and ICE in first Maine Senate debate — Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson met Tuesday in the first of four debates in one of the country's most closely watched Senate races. Jackson tied Collins to President Trump, while Collins…