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Saudi Arabia’s 4-million-barrel-a-day Hormuz bypass could remain offline for up to five weeks, keeping Brent above $105, while Trump calls AI doomsday fears a “hoax.” Elsewhere, the EPA scraps power-plant carbon limits, the 10-year Treasury yield touches 5%, and the Kennedy Center warns it could close.

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Repairs to Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline could take three to five weeks, regional officials told the AP, after Riyadh shut the 746-mile Hormuz bypass Friday following a drone strike blamed on Iraqi militias. Up to 4 million barrels a day — about 4% of global supply — ran through it.

Brent settled up 1% at $105.68 after nearly touching $110 in intraday trading, and Kpler's Matt Smith figures a month-long closure pulls 120 million barrels off the market — "hugely supportive for prices." Lipow Oil's Andy Lipow thinks the fix "will take months."

"AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX," Trump posted Monday, dismissing a weekend of warnings from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Speaker Mike Johnson expects a White House AI summit within two weeks; Vice President Vance called the slowdown push "a bit of a Trojan horse."

Hours later, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC a third-party-verifiable AI kill switch is something society "might want to eventually pass rules around," noting "most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug" — his own included.

The EPA on Monday repealed limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants and proposed a separate finding to bar future administrations from regulating the sector at all. Utilities can now decide "based on cost and cost savings, instead of being required to shut down facilities," said Assistant Administrator Aaron Szabo.

The agency puts the industry savings at $310 billion plus lower energy prices, calling any public-health harms "too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted" to pin on power plants, which produce a quarter of US emissions. The Biden rules were projected to prevent 4,500 premature deaths a year; critics called the repeal "a giant step backward."

Serbia's protesting students formally entered the Oct. 25 parliamentary race Monday, filing a "Students win" ticket after nearly two years of protests, as President Aleksandar Vucic said he'll resign Sept. 27 to run for prime minister.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland's leaders signed a Cardiff pact affirming their right to leave the UK, declaring "Westminster's time is coming to an end" two days after Trump endorsed a united Ireland.

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, launched the continent's biggest-ever share sale Monday, offering roughly 3% of his 650,000-barrel-a-day Lagos refinery to raise up to $2.1 billion and double its capacity.

Detainees at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' were held for hours in outdoor cages of 18 square feet, which DHS's inspector general called "unprecedented among detention facilities" at a site that also failed hygiene and medical standards.

An 85-foot piling rig toppled onto Miami's Brickell district Monday morning, crushing a passing car that burned, yet the driver, the operator and two workers all escaped with minor injuries.

The Kennedy Center said it is on the brink of bankruptcy and could close as early as Tuesday absent intervention, with two board resolutions asking President Trump directly to rescue the arts institution.

The 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched 5% for the first time since 2023 Monday, and the S&P 500 slipped 0.5% to 7,619.98 as AI stocks sold off around the globe.

Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan warned third-quarter investment-banking fees will fall a bit more than 10%, a comedown from a second quarter when they jumped 50%, and shares dropped 5%.

Kalshi traders now put 71% odds on gas topping $4.60 a gallon this year, above May's $4.56 peak, with just over 40% betting the average crosses $5 for the first time since 2022.

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A 253-electrode brain implant can now decode speech and gestures at once, translating a patient's intent within seconds into on-screen text and an animated avatar for two paralyzed participants.

Reno broke ground on Nevada's first plant to turn wastewater into drinking water, purifying 2 million gallons a day into an aquifer by the early 2030s — enough for roughly 4,000 households.

Five pharmaceutical companies pooled 20,167 secret protein-drug structures to fine-tune an open AI model, which then nailed more than half of test structures versus a third for the public version.

Kawhi Leonard is a Raptor again after the Clippers and Toronto finalized a trade agreed June 30, paused by the cap-circumvention probe that cost LA five first-round picks, $30 million and a year of Steve Ballmer.

Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell won't blame Green Bay for the hit that concussed Kyler Murray on snap 11 of Sunday's 39-22 win, leaving Carson Wentz — three touchdowns in relief — on deck for Chicago.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian thinks Ohio State deserves credit for coming to Austin in 100-degree September heat, a 24-23 Longhorns comeback that made Texas No. 1 and dropped the Buckeyes to sixth.

The VAR crew from Sunday's Manchester derby has been benched for the coming weekend after allowing Erling Haaland's goal despite an apparent offside, a call the referees' body conceded was wrong.

Bob Mackie, who dressed Cher, Carol Burnett and Tina Turner in sequins, died Monday at age 87, leaving behind nine Emmys, a Tony, three Oscar nominations and Cher's 1986 Oscars look.

Oasis will return to Knebworth for four nights in summer 2027, the site of their legendary 1996 gigs, plus an 11-night residency at Manchester City's ground and five Celtic Park shows.

Macklemore is off Ed Sheeran's stadium tour after venues told promoters they wouldn't host shows featuring him after his "Free Palestine" speech at MetLife, a standoff that would otherwise have canceled the tour.

What it is: New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading 22 states into federal court in Manhattan to block a DHS "public charge" rule that takes effect Friday, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani filed a parallel suit alongside Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. The rule governs how immigration officers weigh an applicant's use of public benefits when deciding on a green card.

The detail: Both suits call the rule "arbitrary and capricious," arguing officers could count nearly any benefit against an applicant — including a US-citizen child's school lunch or state health insurance.

The rule's own text promises officers "using good judgment and discretion" will make "individualized, fact-specific" determinations; the states say that discretion is precisely the problem. DHS was unbothered: "We're shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome."

Why it matters: The stakes are practical rather than abstract. Mixed-status families make everyday enrollment decisions — school meals, Medicaid for a citizen child — and the plaintiffs argue the rule turns each one into a potential mark against a parent's application. "This rule preys on that fear," James said, and fear alone can push eligible families to drop benefits their children are entitled to.

What to watch: Friday is the clock. The plaintiffs need a judge to pause the rule before then, or officers begin applying the new standard to pending applications immediately. Watch whether the two Manhattan cases land before the same judge, whether more cities join Mamdani's suit, and how DHS's swagger holds up once it must defend the rule's breadth in a courtroom rather than a press statement.

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