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Trump says the Iran war could end soon after the midterms, sending Brent down 2.8% even as key regional oil routes remain under pressure. Meanwhile, a judge rules FEMA workforce cuts unlawful, Anthropic’s CEO calls for global AI safeguards, and Oklahoma State stuns No. 6 Oregon.

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President Trump predicted the Iran war would end shortly after the midterms, sending oil prices lower. Brent settled 2.8% lower at $104.61 a barrel, while WTI fell 2.4% to $100.05.

Regional risks remain as officials prepare to open an Iran-Oman shipping route through Hormuz. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline remains closed after drone strikes, while Houthi forces have reportedly expanded their control near the Bab el-Mandeb strait.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled that the administration’s plan to halve FEMA’s workforce violated federal law, finding that DHS had improperly taken control of the agency’s personnel decisions. The ruling comes during hurricane season after earlier departures and reassignments reduced staffing.

FEMA has not said how it will respond. The decision limits DHS’s ability to restructure the agency without FEMA’s approval.

Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow frontier AI development through independent monitoring, industry regulation and eventual global rules. Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed the plan, while Anthropic has given outside evaluators employee-level access to its safety practices.

The proposal drew opposition from Grindr CEO George Arison and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The debate follows the resignation of two Anthropic safety researchers in two weeks, including one who accused the industry of “gambling with our lives.”

A fire at a Chilean nursing home killed 16 residents late Friday, a blaze at the El Edén home 400 miles south of Santiago that forced ten evacuations and pushed President José Antonio Kast to order a nationwide review of elderly care.

Uganda buried King Oyo on Saturday, and the elders' choice of a 56-year-old television presenter as successor has split the Tooro royal family, which points to a 2022 will naming the late monarch's young son instead of the man who cast nine coffee beans into the grave.

A Kalibr cruise missile flattened the apartment where Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska's family lived in Odesa, leaving her orange Roland Garros towel intact in the wreckage after a Friday-night barrage that injured 37 people, including a baby.

Ohio Senator Jon Husted fired his political director this weekend over social media activity showing a "complete lack" of judgment, including a photo referencing Nazi imagery that surfaced online.

A former CIA official found with roughly 300 gold bars worth more than $40 million has reached a tentative plea deal on a theft-of-public-money charge, pushing his indictment deadline to Oct. 8 and sparing a trial full of classified material.

More than a dozen American colleges now post sticker prices above $100,000 a year, even as average tuition discounts hit 57% for first-time private-college students — a gap that is quietly closing campuses rather than filling endowments.

Berkshire's worst modern acquisition is finally earning out: Precision Castparts, bought for $37.2 billion and later written down by $11 billion, now supplies turbine components in shortage as AI data centers strain the market, with Barron's pegging its value near $100 billion.

Managers are now rehearsing layoffs on chatbots before delivering them to people, a habit CNBC found is creeping into performance reviews and pay at companies where 42% of managers admit they struggle to deliver hard messages.

Anthropic's latest funding round valued the company at $965 billion and OpenAI at roughly $852 billion, with both labs reportedly preparing record-setting public offerings even while their own departing researchers argue the pace is the problem.

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The Atlantic has gone the longest stretch of any satellite-era season without a hurricane, with storm activity stuck at 7% of a normal season as a powerful El Niño throws up roughly 45 mph more wind shear than storms can survive.

Bangor University scientists surveying Welsh wildfire scars say the summer burns erased about 10 centimeters of soil — some 4,000 years of stored carbon — across the 2,760 acres that went up in north Wales during July's peak.

A robot that prints building plans directly onto concrete floors is spreading across US job sites, and contractor Skanska says the system cut its rework by 75% while shortening layout schedules by about a third.

Oklahoma State ended a 21-game losing streak against FBS opponents in the loudest way available, stunning No. 6 Oregon 39-31 behind Drew Mestemaker's 317 passing yards, 109 rushing yards and a diving go-ahead touchdown run.

Michigan answered a week of jokes by beating No. 11 Oklahoma 17-10, with Jyaire Hill's 24-yard interception return setting up Jordan Marshall's one-yard touchdown in Ann Arbor and Bryce Underwood adding 87 rushing yards without a turnover.

Gunner Stockton tied a Georgia record with five touchdown passes as the No. 2 Bulldogs buried Western Kentucky 70-20 Saturday, leading 49-0 at halftime in all-white uniforms the program had never worn before.

The Olympic flame reached Dakar carried by 100 women known as lingeer, opening the first Olympic event held in Africa ahead of a 2,237-mile relay that starts Monday and 2,700 athletes arriving in October.

May El-Toukhy's "Woman Unknown" took the Golden Lion at Venice, where John Malkovich won best actor by video link from a Montreal set and the ceremony paused to honor producer Jeremy Thomas, dead at 77 the day before.

Céline Dion wept on stage while opening a 16-date Paris residency, her first major concert since 2022 and a run that drew an estimated nine million ticket sign-ups, telling the crowd she had promised herself not to cry.

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" became Universal's biggest release ever, its $1.68 billion worldwide haul passing everything in the studio's 114-year history while setting records for R-rated and IMAX earnings.

What it is: The Alien Terrorist Removal Court has existed since 1996 and, until this week, had never heard anything. The Justice Department finally used it, bringing the first case in three decades against Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident arrested at her Fort Worth home in July.

The detail: Haji Zada was never criminally charged with anything. Prosecutors called her the family matriarch and said she worked to radicalize the household around her, pointing to the convictions of her 19-year-old son, sentenced to 15 years, and her 28-year-old son-in-law over an ISIS-inspired plot to attack Election Day 2024 with two AK-47s and 500 rounds of ammunition.

Senior US District Judge Joan Ericksen ordered her removal on Aug. 20 after she waived her right to challenge detention, and she has now been deported from the US to Afghanistan.

Why it matters: Her court-appointed lawyers, Matthew Farley and Mary Manning Petras, say they were never shown the evidence used against her, calling it "a plain violation of due process." Attorney General Todd Blanche called the case "a win for national security and the rule of law" and promised to use every available tool.

What to watch: Whether any judge is asked to rule on the court's constitutionality — Haji Zada's lawyers say they are confident it falls the moment one is — and whether a machinery that sat unused for 30 years now gets a second case, and a third.

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About 20,000 Romanians sat down together at a 3.1-mile table running to the Palace of Parliament, setting a Guinness world record and raising money for the country's first pediatric psychiatry hospital.

A Welsh chain named Iceland is opening the Falkland Islands' first UK high-street store in Stanley this December, timing the company calls coincidental given the geopolitics involved.

Youngstown State's Beau Brungard scored or threw for eight touchdowns against Duquesne, seven of them before halftime, in a 70-13 afternoon that rewrote two school records.

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