Our read of America.gov's code: a new federal site launches Tuesday at 9 a.m. CT
Also in this update: Trump expects more Iran talks as oil jumps; diesel export ban under review; Court response due today. DOT still set to finalize lower CAFE targets Monday; Starship Flight 14 window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT from Starbase.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 6 AM World Brief for Monday, September 28. Trump expects more Iran talks this week. Araghchi: ready for war or diplomacy. Brent up more than 3%. Russian strikes killed 8 Sunday; Kharkiv bomb injures 22 Monday. Zelenskyy: Krasnodar oil facilities hit. Trump: White House still very seriously considering a diesel export ban; diesel near $6.50 a gallon. DOT set today to finalize ~34.5 mpg CAFE target by 2031, down from Biden's 50.4. SCOTUS: third-country deportation response due 4 p.m. Eastern; no new overnight order on the docket. Starship Flight 14 window opens 7:15 a.m. CT from Starbase — first planned orbital try; 26 Starlink V3s. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Hurricane Nolo, with top winds near 155 mph, may bring impacts to parts of Hawaii. A strong Nor'easter off the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast will bring coastal flooding, rip currents, strong wind gusts, and heavy rain to the region through Monday evening. Our opinion. Real enrichment limits before Hormuz relief. Ukraine needs an endgame. Expand supply, don't blunt-ban diesel. Full stories and sources are at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale. Thanks for watching.
President Donald Trump told Axios on Sunday he expects more talks with Iran this week after rejecting Tehran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying Iran “overplayed” its hand and wants a deal he will not accept, Fox News and Reuters reported. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that Iran is “fully prepared for the war to be resumed” — “even if it comes to a doomsday war” — while remaining open to diplomacy, and that Trump’s public rejection had not yet been delivered through mediators. Brent crude rebounded more than 3% on Monday, rising $3.98 to $108.30 a barrel at 0959 GMT, Reuters reported, after the stalemate.
Russian attacks across Ukraine on Sunday killed eight people and injured dozens, Al Jazeera reported citing Ukrainian officials, including three killed in Sumy — among them a 16-year-old girl — after air strikes damaged a children’s centre. Early Monday, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a guided Russian aerial bomb hit an apartment building, injuring at least 22 people including children; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 2,200 attack drones, 1,630 aerial bombs and 38 missiles in the past week. Separately, Zelenskyy said Monday that Ukraine’s military had struck Russian oil facilities in the Krasnodar region, Reuters reported, as traders weighed energy-market fallout from both the Ukraine war and the Iran stalemate.
Our reading of America.gov's own code points to a new federal website set to go live when its countdown hits zero on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET). That is our prediction, not an official announcement: the page itself says nothing about what is coming. The clock went viral on X over the weekend and drew theories we found no evidence for, while news reports of a Tuesday-morning unveiling line up with our read.
President Donald Trump told a Fox News reporter on Sunday that the White House is still “thinking about it very seriously” regarding a diesel export ban as U.S. fuel prices soar ahead of the November midterms, CNBC reported Monday. “That can oftentimes lead to a little bit of an increase on gasoline for cars, so we’re looking at it very seriously. We may do it,” Trump said while attending the Presidents Cup in Illinois. Average U.S. diesel prices hovered around $6.50 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA, just below a record $6.53 on Sept. 22; Energy Secretary Chris Wright has favored restrictions over an outright ban, and the American Petroleum Institute has warned that export limits could hurt supply and consumers.
The Transportation Department remains set Monday to finalize sharply lower Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards after President Donald Trump said Saturday he approved new rules that terminate what he called the Biden administration’s EV mandate, the New York Post reported. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the administration would formally announce the change Monday. Under Biden, automakers faced a 50.4 mpg standard; a December proposal would lower the fleetwide average to about 34.5 mpg for cars and light trucks in model year 2031. AAA had the national average for regular gasoline at $4.48 a gallon on Saturday.
The Trump administration’s pocket rescission of about $810 million in congressionally approved spending — announced Friday and still pending as the federal fiscal year ends Wednesday, Sept. 30 — includes some $567 million aimed at Health and Human Services programs supporting refugees, asylees and other noncitizens, Fox News reported. The White House also targets education programs for migrant students and what it labeled “Woke International Education” grants. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, called the move an unlawful attempt to undermine Congress’s power of the purse, citing a Government Accountability Office view that pocket rescissions are not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act; OMB Director Russ Vought has argued the statute does not forbid end-of-year rescissions.
As of Monday morning, the Supreme Court’s public docket for Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., No. 26A406, still showed only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Sept. 24 order directing respondents to file a response by 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 28, with no further order listed overnight. Solicitor General D. John Sauer’s emergency application seeks a stay of lower-court limits on third-country removals and an immediate administrative stay; SCOTUSblog reported Jackson set the Monday response deadline without granting that interim stay when the application was filed. After today’s filing, Jackson may act alone or refer the matter to the full Court while nationwide third-country removals remain constrained by the lower-court judgment.
SpaceX is targeting Starship Flight 14 this morning from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, in a 75-minute window that opens at 7:15 a.m. CT (8:15 a.m. EDT / 1215 UTC), Space.com reported, with a live webcast about 30 minutes before liftoff. If the profile holds, Ship is expected to reach orbit for the first time, deploy 26 Starlink Version 3 satellites, fly about six orbits over a nearly 10-hour mission, and splash down in the Pacific west of Chile; Super Heavy is planned to splash down in the Gulf about seven minutes after liftoff. World Brief Now published a full before-liftoff World News Update at 5:29 a.m. CT with pad, cargo and booster details; the after-liftoff update will publish only after SpaceX confirms the booster result.
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