⚠️ IRAN WARDay 222 · A third carrier group and 2,000+ Marines sail for the region ◆
🇺🇸 VANCEIran must do “something meaningful” on enrichment to end the war · Reuters ◆
🇸🇦 AIRPORTSHouthi strikes on Abha and Riyadh kill three, wound 36 · GACA ◆
🇬🇧 FAIRFORDUS bombers moved off the RAF base over a feared Iranian drone plot · Tehran denies ◆
🔥 SOCHIKyiv posts a tanker burning after a sea-drone strike · Perm, Samara, Astrakhan oil sites hit ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: the IRGC turns a tanker back off Khasab under threat of attack ◆
🚢 ON PEACETanker hit in Hormuz Tuesday · 12 crew hurt, 11 Indian ◆
🇶🇦 QATARTanker struck by multiple projectiles off the northern coast · UKMTO ◆
🇮🇷 NAQDIIRGC adviser: Iran will soon shut “illegal routes” off Oman’s coast ◆
🚢 TANKER WAR12+ tanker attacks near Hormuz in one week, the war’s most · Reuters ◆
🛢️ SHELLSawan: Mideast oil flows back near 80% of pre-war ◆
🇸🇦 RIYADHCoalition downs a Houthi ballistic missile north of the capital at dawn ◆ 🇾🇪 ADENTwo Houthi missiles target the international airport · no casualties reported ◆ 🇸🇦 JAZANAttacks on Jazan and Najran airports wound three · the Houthis claim them ◆
🇸🇦 KHAMIS MUSHAITCoalition downs an Ansarallah ballistic missile aimed at the air base city ◆
🛢️ EAST-WESTPipeline to Yanbu pumping 5.8M b/d · Prince Abdulaziz ◆
🇺🇸 CENTCOMDenies Iranian report of a downed MH-60R · “all U.S. military aircraft” safe ◆
🇾🇪 SAADACoalition says it destroyed a launch platform in Sanaa and a 20-missile store ◆
🚢 HORMUZGreek LNG carrier Maran Gas Mystras hit at the waterline · sails on, crew safe ◆
🇷🇴 BLACK SEATurkish-owned grain ship sinks in Romania’s waters · two dead · Kyiv blames Russian drones ◆
🇧🇬 BYALATwo more ships hit off Bulgaria · Radev: the drones’ origin “still being clarified” ◆
🇺🇦 PRYLUKYAbout 70 Russian missiles overnight · at least 19 dead, 13 in Pryluky · Reuters ◆
🏛️ WHITE HOUSETrump: MAGA Inc. or he will pay for the TV ads now · $1.5M in public money spent ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: a tanker hit Monday, engine-room fire · third in two days ◆
🇸🇦 RIYADHTürkiye and Pakistan agree to deploy forces to the kingdom ◆
🇵🇰 ISLAMABADGuterres hails Pakistan’s “pivotal role” · urges a return to diplomacy ◆
🇾🇪 MOCHAYemen’s government says its forces took the city from the Houthis ◆
🇸🇦 RIYADHHouthis claim King Khalid airport, Rabigh refinery strikes · no Saudi confirmation ◆
💰 TREASURYForeign banks dealing with Iran’s banks face sanctions without notice ◆
🛢️ SPRUS reserve at 283M barrels · lowest since 1982 ◆
🚢 HORMUZLipsi, six weeks old, left adrift after a hit to the engine room · crew safe ◆
🛢️ ARAMCONasser: 3B barrels lost · refilling stocks could take two years ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONVance: nothing conclusive yet on an Iranian role in Flydubai ◆
🛢️ KPLER40% of Gulf crude now bypasses Hormuz · exports back above pre-war ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANAraghchi: “no military solution, nor any solution based on new sanctions” ◆
🇺🇦 KYIVZelensky: the US wants three-way technical talks by end of October ◆
🚀 AIR WARRussia says it downed some 900 Ukrainian drones overnight · 650 aimed at Moscow ◆
🇲🇩 PALANCAA shell hits the border crossing · a Moldovan guard hurt, a bus struck ◆
🔥 REFINERIESKyiv says 51% of Russia’s refining capacity is out · AP ◆
🇪🇪 NARVAEstonia moves its 1st Brigade toward the Russian border ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: four tankers hit since Oct 1 · all on the Omani side ◆
🇮🇷 NOURNEWSHormuz “will not reopen until conditions are met” ◆
🇮🇷 ARMYAkramnia: Iran “absolutely must increase the range” of its missiles ◆
🛢️ OPEC+November quotas held flat · next meeting Nov 1 ◆ 🛢️ ARAMCONovember Arab Light for Asia cut $3 · widest discount since 2020 ◆
🇾🇪 ADENAl-Alimi announces strikes on “vital targets” in Sanaa and Saada ◆
🇾🇪 SANAAHouthis claim Sunday strikes on Aramco sites in Riyadh and Khurais ◆
🇮🇷 MAJLISGhashghavi: Iran is at a “post-negotiations stage” ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANGharibabadi: the US reply is under review · final word to follow ◆
🇮🇷 OIL MINISTRYPaknejad resigns · NIOC chief Hamid Bovard named acting minister ◆
🚢 RED SEAUKMTO: blasts close to a tanker 60nm south of Mokha · crew safe ◆
🇬🇧 FAIRFORDUS B-1s fly home after the suspected plot · Pentagon confirms ◆
🇮🇷 IRGCFadavi claims no US warships remain in or near the Gulf ◆
🇮🇷 FARSIRGC hit seven “violating” tankers in five days, agency says ◆
🛢️ LUKOILNYT: US–Russia talks now include Carlyle’s deal for Lukoil’s foreign assets ◆
🇺🇳 GENEVAUN: 15,280 civilian casualties in Ukraine, Jan–Aug · up 55% ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump on his Iran decision: “the easy way or the hard way” ◆ 🇺🇸 PENTAGONHegseth on Hormuz: “They don’t control it, we do” ◆
🇮🇷 MAJLISParliament advances a bill to charge ships for Hormuz passage ◆
🇮🇷 IRGCAny threat answered “more lethally” than the 2024 salvo on Israel ◆
🇾🇪 RED SEA COASTAFP: over 270 fighters killed in 24 hours · 115 government troops ◆
🇸🇦 MEDINACoalition: a Houthi drone hit a station powering the Prophet’s Mosque · Houthis: a “lie” ◆
⛽️ DIESELG7 agrees a 100M-barrel release over four months · diesel first ◆
⛽️ DIESELTrump order lets untaxed red-dyed diesel onto highways through Dec 31 ◆
🇺🇸 GRAND ISLANDTrump: war “essentially almost over,” costs “a very small price” ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: another tanker hit Friday · small fire, blackout · no casualties ◆
🚢 HORMUZNYT: about 30 drones, 10 anti-ship missiles a week at shipping ◆
🇸🇦 ASIRDebris from a downed Houthi missile injures a resident · prayer room hit ◆
🇾🇪 BAB EL-MANDEBGovernment claims the strait and Dhubab · fighting continues around Dhubab ◆
🇾🇪 SANAACoalition: 100 jets, 324 targets in a three-front push on the capital ◆
🇸🇦 RIYADHHouthis claim missiles and drones at an Aramco site near the capital ◆
🇾🇪 SANAAHouthi media counts 26 Saudi airstrikes on the capital Saturday ◆
🇮🇶 IRAQState tanker firm moves 2M barrels through Hormuz · a first in decades ◆
🇦🇪 ABU DHABI17 Iranian prisoners handed to Tehran, Iran’s judiciary says ◆
🇮🇶 BAGHDADIraq’s envoy in Tehran: Iran–Iraq flights resume soon ◆
🇺🇦 KYIVA jet drone hits the Northern Bridge · a second Dnipro crossing shut ◆
🇺🇦 KHARKIVGlide bombs wound 42 in the city · eight killed nationwide ◆
🇲🇩 MOLDOVAThree Russian missiles and two drones strike Moldovan territory ◆
🔥 VOLGOGRADRefinery fire after Ukrainian drones · a Samara tank farm burns too ◆
🗳️ OKLAHOMATrump: “If we don’t win, they’ll end up impeaching me” ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANCommanders weigh targets in countries backing US operations ◆
⛽️ DIESELG7 pledges to refrain from energy export restrictions ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANRezaei to Trump: “You can win every day in your own imagination” ◆
🇺🇸 NEW YORKUS officials: Rubio ordered the delegation out · Iran says it left on schedule ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: talks with Washington “meaningless” after three US attacks ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANBritain’s ambassador summoned · Fairford claims “false and ridiculous” ◆
✈️ TEHRANForeign flights into Tehran down 42% since the Sep 23 airline sanctions ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANKhamenei: the Arabian Sea will soon be cleared of enemy forces ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: a tanker hit by a projectile Thursday, fire aboard · crew safe ◆
💰 TREASURYBessent: Iran loaded zero crude onto tankers in September ◆
💰 TREASURYSanctions on Iran Khodro, SAIPA and the state railway ◆
🇬🇧 LONDONSeventh Fairford arrest: a British man, 22, held in central London ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump: Iran “ready to fold up” · over “very quickly” after the vote ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: three ships hit by unknown projectiles Tuesday · a crude tanker among them ◆
✈️ AIRSPACEEASA: avoid parts of Saudi airspace after Houthi strikes · through Nov 16 ◆
✈️ TABUKDubai–Tel Aviv flydubai jet diverts after cockpit stabbing · passengers safe ◆ ✈️ TABUKTrump on the copilot: “perhaps a terrorist, or perhaps a whack-job” ◆ ✈️ TABUKTrump: an IRGC link is “possible” · Israeli official: a lone wolf ◆ 🚢 GULFGoldman: Gulf oil exports back to 23.3M b/d · the 2025 average ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANGhalibaf: if Iran cannot sell oil, no one in the region will ◆
🇺🇸 NEW YORKUS official: no deal unless the nuclear file is addressed ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump, leaving the White House: “I reject their proposal” ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump: Iran “outsmarted themselves” by closing the strait ◆
🇺🇳 UNGASaudi FM: no party may use Hormuz as an instrument of pressure ◆
💰 TRANSIT FEESRiyadh rejects the fees Tehran would charge civilian ships ◆
🇴🇲 UNGAAlbusaidi: escalation has paralyzed navigation and trade through Hormuz ◆
🇴🇲 MUSCATOman urges self-restraint · pledges to safeguard the strait ◆
🇺🇳 UNGALavrov: Russia ready to help steady the Gulf ◆
🇺🇳 UNGAHan Zheng: Gulf sovereignty and security should be respected ◆
🏛️ WHITE HOUSEReadout: Trump urged Xi to raise refined-product output ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: no trust in the American side ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian to Al Jazeera: the US closed the routes before us ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANAraghchi takes the US reply to the cabinet · contents undisclosed ◆
🇮🇶 ERBILThe last US troops leave Iraq · al-Zaidi: “a new phase” ◆
🇮🇷 MASHHADTwo men hanged over January’s protest deaths · SNN via Reuters ◆
📺 NBCAraghchi: fully prepared if war resumes · diplomacy not over ◆
📺 CNNWaltz: Trump not confident Iran is coming in good faith ◆
🇶🇦 DOHAQatar hands Araghchi the US reply · the gap is sequencing, Reuters says ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: the agreement must rest on a win-win strategy ◆
💰 RIALAbout 2.7M to the dollar · the euro at a record 3M ◆
🇮🇷 IRGCOpen letter to US voters: “the Trump administration must be changed” ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump: “We blow them up or make a deal” · end “very soon” ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANRezaei: Trump “can neither negotiate nor fight” ◆
🚢 HORMUZIRGC Navy says it captured a US Remus 600 underwater drone ◆
🇮🇷 IRGC NAVY“The Strait of Hormuz is closed” · no evidence published ◆
🇺🇸 CENTCOMHawkins: positive control of every drone · claim “clearly desperate” ◆
🇬🇧 LONDONBurnham to the BBC: Iran “played a part” at RAF Fairford ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANAraghchi on Fairford: London is “barking up the wrong tree” ◆
🇪🇬 CAIROSisi: Suez has lost about $20B in revenue since Oct 2023 ◆
🇧🇭 MANAMABahrain joins CENTCOM’s Task Force Falcon Strike drone unit ◆
🇬🇧 RAF FAIRFORDFive suspects bailed; police say no explosive devices found in the US bomber base probe ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump posts a map renaming the waterway “Trump Strait” ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump, in all caps: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONWSJ: Trump does not intend to lift the maritime blockade ◆
🇺🇳 UNGAPezeshkian flies home from New York, no Trump meeting held ◆
🇮🇶 NAJAFUS waiver lets Iraqi airlines fly pilgrims to Iran · no schedule yet ◆
🇺🇳 UNGAAraghchi hands Washington a seven-day timetable through mediators ◆
🇺🇸 STATE DEPTRubio: positive, but the Iran meeting was not a breakthrough ◆
🇺🇸 NEW YORKUS official: positive and constructive, but Washington is not in a rush ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONWSJ: Trump tells aides he expects bombing to resume after November ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANAraghchi: the choice now rests with the United States ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian to CBS: UN nuclear inspectors can come in under a deal ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: the seven days start the day Washington accepts ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONPerdue: Trump told Xi any help for Iran is unacceptable ◆
🇨🇳 BEIJINGXinhua: Xi urged both sides back to the Islamabad memorandum ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump on Hormuz after meeting Xi: “I think we’ll be fine” ◆
🇸🇦 RIYADHMecca-pact talks · Pakistan sends Dar, Asif and its army chief ◆
🇺🇳 SECURITY COUNCILAnsarallah attacks on Saudi Arabia condemned in the strongest terms ◆
🇸🇦 RIYADHCoalition intercepts two Ansarallah drones, two missiles at Khamis Mushait ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian wants the deal closed before November’s midterms ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANBloomberg: officials privately doubt a deal before the midterms ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONVance: a deal is possible, but it needs “the Iranians to behave” ◆
✈️ GCAAAll Iranian airline flights to and from the UAE suspended ◆
🇦🇪 DUBAIIran Airtour’s Tehran service cancelled minutes before departure ◆
✈️ AIR LINKSSix neighbours now closed to Iranian carriers · Tehran seeks talks ◆
✈️ AIRSPACEMokhber: regional flights free for everyone, or for no one ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANSafavi: a new front on the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb ◆
🇺🇸 NEW YORKReuters: phase one ends the blockade and reopens Hormuz ◆
🇺🇸 WHITE HOUSEOfficial: Iran is desperate, Trump holds all the cards ◆
🇷🇺 NEW YORKLavrov and Araghchi meet · Moscow: no alternative to a settlement ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANSenior official: the chances of diplomacy are extremely low ◆
🇫🇷 PARISFrance sends soldiers, radars and defense systems to Yanbu ◆
🇮🇷 SARAVANIRGC base commander Zarifi killed near the Pakistan border ◆
🇨🇳 BEIJINGWSJ: 1,300 dual-use shipments reached Iran’s defense ministry ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: Iran will never bow its head ◆
🇺🇳 UNGATrump: a deal, or “annihilate the Islamic Republic” ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANHormuz reopens in seven days if the blockade lifts ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANRoad map offers a 60-day ceasefire and a phased Hormuz reopening ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump rules out lifting the blockade before Iranian goodwill ◆
💰 TREASURYBessent: Iranian carriers shut out worldwide from Wednesday ◆
💰 TREASURYTen sanctioned in China, Hong Kong, Pakistan for Iran arms procurement ◆
⚡ PYLONSKyiv: the first jet drone with a cutting warhead built for pylons and bridges ◆
🇷🇺 MOSCOWKremlin rejects the limited energy ceasefire · ISW ◆
🇷🇺 MOSCOWNovak: four refineries attacked overnight · “all attacks” repelled ◆
🇬🇱 GREENLANDTrump signs an Arctic pact with Copenhagen and Nuuk · no end date ◆
📋 POLLINGAP-NORC: Trump approval 31%, a record low across both terms ◆
🇷🇺 SAMARAKuibyshev refinery hit overnight · one dead, the governor says ◆
🇷🇺 UFABashneft-UNPZ refinery also struck, Kyiv says ◆
🇺🇸 WHITE HOUSEFive networks halt pool video over the CNN ban · Trump TV goes live on YouTube ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump to TIME on Iran’s Hormuz offer: “not good enough. Nearly.” ◆
🇪🇺 BRUSSELS€3.7B released · short of the €4.7B promised ◆
🇯🇵 TOKYOJapan’s foreign minister asks Tehran for “maximum flexibility” ◆
💵 TREASURY10-year closes 5.28% Friday · up four basis points ◆
💵 TREASURY20-year 5.67% · 30-year 5.63% · 2-year 4.83% ◆
📊 CRUDEDecember Brent settles $100.20 · WTI $88.28 · down 0.4% and 1.3% ◆
🛢️ IEAMembers agree to speed March stock releases · diesel first ◆
📈 JOBSSeptember adds 29,000 · unemployment 4.2% · hike bets fade ◆
🇨🇳 BEIJINGRefiners halt fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau, four sources tell Reuters ◆
📊 WTIDiscount to Brent $11.92 at Wednesday’s settle · WTI Nov, Brent Dec ◆
🚢 MIDEASTCrude exports 16.3M b/d in September · highest since the war began ◆
🛢️ SPRUp to 40M barrels offered in exchange · last of the IEA pledge ◆
⛽️ REFINERSWood Mackenzie: a diesel export ban could cut 2M bpd of runs ◆
📊 EIABrent physical print $125.44 on Oct 6 · about $25 above the screen ◆
🔭 RAPTURE INDEX182 · unchanged on the Oct 4 print ◆
🇧🇾 MINSK25 political prisoners for relief on two Belarusian firms ◆
🚢 HORMUZKpler: about 13.2M b/d over the past week · 77% of pre-war ◆
🚢 HORMUZUKMTO: an outbound LPG carrier takes debris · crew safe ◆
🚢 HORMUZCape Dao struck and abandoned · one Indian seafarer killed ◆
🇸🇦 TAIFCoalition blames the Houthis for six missiles at Taif and Yanbu ◆
🇾🇪 SANAASaree claims dozens of missiles and drones at Jazan bases ◆
🇴🇲 MUSCATOman’s navy lifts 27 crew off the burning bulker ◆
📡 IMO80 verified attacks on shipping since Feb 28 · 22 seafarers killed ◆
🇩🇪 BERLINDie Linke first at 25.7% · AfD wins Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, CDU at 4.9% ◆
☢️ PARCHINTaleghan 2 rebuilt under a tarp · Sep 13 imagery ◆
⛰️ PICKAXE MOUNTAINSoil piled over tunnel portals · Trump warns Iran not to get cute ◆
🇮🇶 ERBILIranian drone hits a KDPI base at Balisan ◆
🇮🇶 BAGHDADAl-Zaidi moves the factions’ disarm deadline to Jun 30, 2027 ◆
📈 WALL STREETS&P +0.7% to 7,722 · Nasdaq +1.2% · Dow +0.5% Friday ◆
⚖️ D.C. CIRCUITJudge: no memorials to anyone without Congress ◆
🇨🇳 BEIJINGWang Yi to Rubio: reopen Hormuz, return to the MoU ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: the strait reopens when the blockade lifts ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANPezeshkian: no war wanted, no yielding to force ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANAraghchi tells Wang Yi Iran has an Oman plan for the strait ◆
🇮🇷 STRAIT AUTHORITYFour more added Sep 28 · 81 vessels on the list · Windward ◆
🇮🇷 MAJLISSecurity commission: 20% of cargo value, plus seizure, for unauthorized transits ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANRezaei: conditions to end the war sent to Washington via Qatar ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANThe terms: war ends, funds released, blockade lifted ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANRezaei: seven conditions in all · the full list is not public ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANRezaei: US conduct could push Iran out of the NPT ◆
🇮🇷 KHATAM AL-ANBIYACommand says it was told Washington will resume action ◆
🇮🇷 KHATAM AL-ANBIYAAny new US attack draws sustained strikes on bases and interests ◆
🇮🇷 MAJLISRastineh: the armed forces plan an operation to break the blockade ◆
🇸🇪 STOCKHOLMSweden expels an Iranian diplomat · Tehran answers in kind ◆
🇫🇷 PARISFrance to summon Iran’s envoy over a shuttered language center ◆
🇾🇪 YEMENIOM counts 112,000 displaced inside Yemen · thousands reach Djibouti ◆
🇾🇪 YEMENWHO: 680 killed or wounded Sep 13–18 · 164 dead ◆
🇦🇪 ABU DHABICrown prince meets Pezeshkian, a first since the war ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANForeign ministry names Saudi Arabia as the capital that asked ◆
🇨🇳 BEIJINGAraghchi says Iran has reached a strait plan with Oman ◆
💰 TRANSIT FEESOman rejects the fees Tehran wants to charge ◆
🇧🇭 MANAMABahrain wants Hormuz open without fees or permits ◆
🇶🇦 DOHAQatar: the only solution will be through negotiations ◆
🇶🇦 DOHAAl-Ansari: mediators, with Pakistan, moving between capitals ◆
🇶🇦 DOHAAl-Ansari: a strait under one state’s sovereignty sets a dangerous precedent ◆
🇺🇸 PENTAGONInspector general: $33.4B through June · $22.3B munitions ◆
🇺🇸 STATE DEPT$2.8B in 2,000-pound bombs for Israel, Congress told informally ◆
💰 CBO$38B through Aug 1 · $2B–$3B a month from here ◆
💰 CENTCOM$43.6B through Sep 3 · $28.1B of it munitions ◆
🛡️ INTERCEPTORSHalf to two-thirds spent · five years to rebuild ◆
📈 PCEAugust 3.4% headline, 3.0% core · both under forecast ◆
🇺🇸 CAPITOL HILLMassie files impeachment articles against Hegseth ◆
🇺🇸 CAPITOL HILLHouse votes 220–204 to end hostilities with Iran ◆
🇺🇸 CAPITOL HILLSeven Republicans cross · Mace, Miller-Meeks, Nunn newly ◆
🇺🇸 CAPITOL HILLStopgap funds the government to Dec 11 · the fight waits for November ◆
🚢 GULF OF OMANEl Gaia under tow · 23 crew rescued, two missing ◆
📡 CENTCOM“This is FALSE” · no ship has hit a mine in Hormuz ◆
🇸🇦 COALITIONMaliki: the attacks met “responsibly and firmly” ◆
🇰🇷 SEOULLee rules out combat deployment · escort options left open ◆
⛽️ DIESELAAA: $6.32 a gallon Monday · off the Sep 22 record of $6.53 ◆
⚖️ SCOTUSMail-ballot rule stays blocked for November, 7–2 ◆
⚖️ SCOTUSKavanaugh: officials have no time left to implement it ◆
📋 GENERIC BALLOTD+8.1 · up from D+6.7 on Sep 1 · Silver Bulletin ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump blames Ukraine’s refinery strikes for US diesel prices ◆
🇷🇺 MOSCOWISW: the Kremlin threatens to seize European firms’ assets over sanctions ◆
🔥 ILSKYUkraine claims the Krasnodar refinery · three dead reported ◆
🇷🇺 MOSCOW2027 defense budget up 27% to 17.1tn roubles · most since 2022 ◆
🇷🇺 ST PETERSBURGPutin: the Moscow raid changed his mind on resuming talks ◆
📋 COOK REPORTFifteen races move to the Democrats · the House projected to flip ◆
⚖️ SCOTUSTrump may use the SAVE citizenship database for voter checks ◆
🗳️ MIDTERMSNov 3 · 27 days out ◆
🇮🇪 DOONBEGTrump: we get out unless we stay and keep the oil ◆
🇺🇸 ALASKA$54B in South Korean money for the LNG pipeline · Sullivan faces Peltola ◆
🏛️ WHITE HOUSE760,000 come off ACA coverage · $2.2B in claimed savings ◆
⚖️ MISSOURISupreme Court bars the new congressional map for November ◆
🇺🇸 SENATEBaldwin’s ACA resolution fails 48–51 · Collins votes yes ◆
⚛️ BERLINplanqc and LOGIQC picked for Germany’s neutral-atom error-correction race ◆
⚛️ PADERBORNCavity-tuned quantum dots lift photon indistinguishability to 90% ◆
⚾ MARINERSWilson out with four coaches · next manager comes from outside ◆
🇮🇷 TEHRANAraghchi: Iran will not back down · waiting on the mediators ◆
🚀 AIR WARISW: about 55% of the jet-powered Shaheds are stopped ◆
🇵🇱 WARSAWPoland offers to host the Patriot plant on “safe territory” ◆
🗺️ LYMANZelensky claims 10,660 Russian casualties in a week · unverified ◆
🇺🇳 UNITED NATIONSWadephul and Lavrov meet for twenty minutes · first since 2022 ◆
🏈 HUSKIES3–2 after a 25–21 loss at USC · Iowa visits Oct 9 ◆
🏒 KRAKEN2–2–0 after a 6–2 home loss to Vegas · at Detroit Oct 9 ◆
🏈 SEAHAWKS3–1 after a 30–23 win over the Chargers · the 49ers visit Oct 11 ◆
📱 WHITE HOUSEA second government-paid Trump ad airs · $362K and $920K in time ◆
🇺🇸 CAPITOL HILLKennedy, Tillis and Massie object to the taxpayer-funded ads ◆
📺 NBCAn Iranian cruise missile injured eight Marines on Sep 14 · undisclosed ◆
🇮🇷 NEW YORKAraghchi sees Qatar’s mediators, flies home · the US reply comes via Doha ◆
🇺🇸 WASHINGTONTrump on sanctions relief: “I offered them NOTHING!”
