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Monday opens with several pressure points at once: a consequential shift in Washington’s approach to the war in Ukraine, borrowing costs hovering near a closely watched threshold, and a major Fed decision just days away.

Beyond the serious stuff, AI stocks are sliding, a 160-million-year-old discovery could help fight superbugs, and Chicago just produced an NFL opener for the history books.

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"He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," Trump said of Zelenskyy at the Irish Open, citing a global shortage two days after US diesel set a record above $6 a gallon. Russia banned diesel exports in July after months of Ukrainian refinery strikes, and those strikes are one of the few levers Kyiv controls outright.

Hours earlier, a Russian drone hit a train at Yahodyn near the Polish border shortly after Boris Johnson and senior European officials had passed through on another train; Ukraine's railway said "quite possibly" the diplomatic train was the target, and David Petraeus, at the same station, called it "terrifying."

Yemen's Houthis have seized Greater and Lesser Hanish, both government and rebel officials said Monday, extending their advance around the Bab el-Mandeb strait after Saudi-backed forces tried to rally over the weekend.

The islands sit astride the southern Red Sea lanes Saudi Arabia had used to route crude away from Hormuz, which is why AP frames the move as a direct boost to Iran's leverage in its war with the US. A week ago the Houthis held a port; now they hold the port and the islands in front of it.

"Whoever wins AI, wins," Trump said Sunday, dismissing the weekend's calls to slow development as coming from "negative forces," while Speaker Mike Johnson warned "China will overlap us" if Congress rushes to regulate. Elon Musk and Sam Altman had both publicly backed Dario Amodei's safety concerns on Saturday.

Investors took the other side: SoftBank plunged 10.7% in Tokyo and the Kospi fell 3.3% after Altman told Fortune that OpenAI won't IPO this year, with the Nikkei off 0.8% and US futures lower ahead of a Fed meeting that concludes Wednesday.

Okinawa elected conservative Genta Koja as governor, handing Japan's hawkish prime minister a win as she pushes an accelerated military buildup amid rising anxiety about China.

Indonesian rescuers intensified their search Monday for 129 people missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 passengers overturned Sunday in heavy Java Sea swells.

Canada's Mark Carney told reporters in Toronto that Ottawa will pursue a "unique alliance" with Europe, short of membership, before addressing the European Parliament.

Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air after one of the carrier's Boeing 767s overran a Miami runway on Sept. 6, killing five ground workers.

Trump has accepted much of a stringent ethics plan in the crypto bill facing a Senate vote this week, three of its main Republican authors said.

Pennsylvania reported an apparent third measles death, a 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, following two infant deaths tied to the state's ongoing outbreak in August.

The 10-year Treasury yield held near 4.97% Monday, with Fed rate-hike odds at 86.7% ahead of this week's policy decision, after touching 4.992% Friday.

Shein's Hong Kong-listed shares fell 10% after Australia and New Zealand issued urgent recalls of a contact-lens cleaning product over contamination fears, denting the retailer's push toward Western regulators.

Novo Nordisk is dropping the Nordisk, rebranding simply as Novo while chief executive Mike Doustdar works to win back obesity-drug share from rival Eli Lilly.

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Scientists revived 160-million-year-old antimicrobial peptides that outperformed modern versions against superbugs, offering promising new templates for antibiotics that can overcome drug resistance.

England is banning deep-fried food from school dinners from 2027 in the biggest overhaul in a decade, capping desserts at twice a week and processed meat at once.

A flaw in Georgia's voting machines can let ballots be matched to the voters who cast them, and researchers say advances in AI make fixing it before November more urgent.

Alexander Zverev outlasted Ben Shelton in four sets, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2, claiming his first US Open title after three hours and 33 minutes.

John Harbaugh opened his Giants tenure 28-20 over Dallas, a physical night at MetLife Stadium that the longtime former Ravens coach called really special.

The Bears hung 59 on Carolina in the highest-scoring opener in NFL history, 96 combined points, D'Andre Swift running for 124 yards and three scores.

The 78th Primetime Emmys air Monday from Los Angeles, with Mariska Hargitay hosting the ceremony and Beef, Hacks, Pluribus and The Pitt among the nominees.

"60 Minutes" opened its 59th season Sunday without addressing the firings and departures under Bari Weiss, waiting until the closing seconds to nod at change.

"Practical Magic 2" opened at No. 1 with $30 million domestic and about $46 million worldwide, ending Spider-Man's six-weekend run at the top.

What it is: A federal judge in Washington ordered the Postal Service late Sunday not to implement Trump's executive order limiting mail balloting — a second federal court freeze on a rule the Supreme Court is already poised to rule on.

The detail: Judge Carl J. Nichols, a Trump nominee, wrote that without an injunction there is "an increased risk that a significant number of otherwise appropriate absentee or mail-in ballots will ultimately not be counted."

Nichols had refused an injunction back in May because the suit came too early — the same reasoning the Supreme Court used last month to lift a parallel freeze by Judge Indira Talwani in Boston. The administration then issued its actual rule on Aug. 21, and both sets of plaintiffs refiled.

Why it matters: The rule would require the Postal Service to pre-approve every ballot envelope design, and require states to upload the identities of voters receiving ballots into an online portal that is not yet running. Election officials say that is impossible this close to a general election. A whistleblower report to Congress warned millions could be disenfranchised, and the postal workers' union has argued that verifying voter eligibility is not its job.

What to watch: The calendar is doing the arguing. Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin are already sending mail ballots out, with more states starting this week, while the Supreme Court weighs the administration's appeal. Every day the freeze holds is a day the rule cannot reach November.

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Yankees manager Aaron Boone limped to the podium in a knee brace and is day-to-day after hurting it playing long toss with Aaron Judge, which is not how the manager is supposed to make the injury report.

Buckingham Palace's £369 million refurb has turned up hobnailed boots, betting slips and a 1949 whist-drive ticket embedded in a brick under the floorboards.

An Icelandic farmer who checks her weather instruments every three hours is now the heroine of a children's picture book written by an author who admits she was envious.

Francis Scott Key writes the poem that becomes "The Star-Spangled Banner" after the bombardment of Fort McHenry (1814) · Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in hours after McKinley's death (1901) · Isadora Duncan is killed when her scarf catches in a car wheel (1927) · OPEC is founded in Baghdad by five oil states (1960) · Princess Grace of Monaco dies after a car crash (1982) · Baseball owners vote 26-2 to cancel the World Series (1994)

"This is a sad day. Nobody wanted this to happen, but the continuing player strike leaves us no choice but to take this action." — Bud Selig, acting MLB commissioner, September 14, 1994

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