Monday night in Park City, outside Wichita, Trump campaigned for Sen. Roger Marshall — a Kansas Senate race Cook now rates a toss-up, in a state that has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. The news he brought: USDA will launch a "harvest fuel relief program," $8 billion in one-time payments to farmers to offset diesel costs this harvest season, run through the Farm Service Agency on a proportional formula (USDA confirmed the structure after the speech; eligibility and payment timing not yet published). He told the crowd to "pretend I'm on the ballot," warned the US will "burn" like France if Democrats win, and had hecklers ejected as "paid protesters." The backdrop, same day: the Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed Monday puts his approval at 31% — a record low for either term — and the generic ballot at Democrats 47, Republicans 35, a 12-point gap, widest of this cycle (n=1,679 adults). That is the second record-low poll in two days, after Sunday's WaPo/ABC/Ipsos 33%. Reuters also reports internal GOP worry about soft support among rural men 55 and under — the bloc the Kansas stop was built for. The truck-stop sign over the rally parking lot read $5.78 for diesel. Sources: Reuters — $8B program · Reuters — Kansas rally · Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Tuesday Asia: Brent eased 49 cents to $109.06 early (0010 GMT), then climbed back to about $110.10 by 0319 GMT — hovering at the five-month high ($110.70, hit Monday, highest since May 20). The cap: Trump's Friday executive order waiving some Russia sanctions/tariffs could bring more Russian diesel to market — though he still says his final decision is not announced and Rubio wants more review time. The floor: Yemen's Houthis claimed Monday attacks on Saudi energy and airport targets (Aramco at Yanbu, the Shaybah field, Riyadh and Abha airports) — Saudi authorities have not confirmed any of it and Reuters could not verify it; treat as claim, not damage. Kpler counted at least 18 vessels attacked in the Gulf over two weeks, which is what is keeping the risk premium in. Sources: Reuters · Hindu BusinessLine.

Defense Secretary Hegseth met Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz in Israel Monday evening — an unannounced trip, reported by Axios, with the Pentagon declining comment; Hegseth's own post only placed him with US troops in the CENTCOM region. It lands eight days before Israel's election (its first since Oct 7, 2023), two days after Trump gave Netanyahu his "Complete and Total Endorsement," with polls projecting Netanyahu's coalition loses its majority. The split: Vance, asked Monday, refused to play — "I endorse American candidates… I'm not getting involved in Israeli elections" — despite having flown to Budapest this year to endorse Orbán (who lost). So the administration's top two are running opposite plays in public: Trump and Hegseth visibly backing Bibi, the VP pointedly neutral. Sources: Reuters · CNN.

DOJ's "Operation Protect the Vote" charged 28 California green-card holders Monday with registration/voting crimes; 11 are in custody, and prosecutors say 21 of the 28 actually cast ballots. Every defendant comes off the list of 20,000+ "likely noncitizen" registrants DOJ handed California last week — the same list behind DOJ's suit to segregate those voters' mail ballots pending citizenship checks. Monday evening at the LA courthouse, the human side surfaced: defendants like Ana Domínguez, 60, of Long Beach — accused of registering in 2006, which she says she has no memory of doing, while awaiting her naturalization ceremony — said they were stunned. Secretary of State Weber calls the list's methodology undisclosed (DHS first floated 190,000 names, then 20,000); DOJ's own McCotter conceded some names on it "may ultimately be citizens." Charges are allegations, unproven. Scale, which neither lane leads with: 28 charged out of 23M+ California registered voters. Sources: USA Today · LA Times · PBS.

Overnight updates on Monday's car attack in Wangaratta, Victoria: independent MP Helen Haines, 65, is critical but stable after emergency surgery in Melbourne; Reuters reports she lost one leg and doctors are working to save the other. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Tuesday morning witnesses describe the driver doing a U-turn to ram her against her own car, then reversing and hitting her a second time. Barber Ricky Jefferies ran from his shop next door, pulled the driver out, took a knife from his pocket, and held him until police arrived — he says he "had no choice." The 43-year-old driver from Tarrawingee is in custody. Police say the ramming appears to be an isolated incident with no further threats. A Joint Counter-Terrorism Team (AFP, Victoria Police, ASIO) is on the investigation, but no motive has been established — Albanese: "This wasn't an accident," and too early to say more. Sources: The Times · BBC · CNN.