#1Trump Backs Temporary Diesel Export Ban as Prices Hit $6.52
Diesel touched an all-time high of $6.52 a gallon Tuesday, and the President publicly endorsed a temporary ban on diesel exports to relieve the squeeze. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the administration is studying whether a full or partial ban is even feasible given refining capacity, while Interior Secretary Doug Burgum argues it won't lower consumer prices. Rural Republicans have been pressing hard for relief as wars in Iran and Ukraine choke global supply. Source: The Epoch Times — https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-backs-temporary-diesel-export-ban-as-fuel-costs-ripple-through-economy-6093714
#2Appeals Court Orders Missouri to Use GOP Congressional Map
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district judge's order requiring Missouri to run the November election on the same 2025 map used in the August primary, holding the Constitution doesn't permit a mid-cycle swap. The ruling collides with the Missouri Supreme Court, which had reinstated the 2022 lines pending a referendum. The panel stayed its own order a week, teeing up another trip to the U.S. Supreme Court. Source: Fox News — https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-orders-missouri-use-congressional-map-rejected-twice-supreme-court
#3Administration Scraps Obama-Era Rule Letting Laid-Off Visa Workers Job-Shop
The White House is junking a regulation that allowed foreign guest workers to stay in the country and hunt for a new employer after losing the specific job that justified their work permit. Officials frame it as restoring the original bargain: the visa is tied to the job, not to residency. Business groups are expected to push back hard. Source: Breitbart — https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/09/23/trump-to-shrink-job-shopping-by-visa-workers/
#4Two Ole Miss Students Found Dead, Packaged Kratom Recovered
Two University of Mississippi students were found dead at separate locations, with officials confirming packaged kratom was recovered at both scenes. Investigators have not yet released a cause of death and are treating the cases as drug-related pending toxicology. The deaths are renewing scrutiny of the largely unregulated kratom market. Source: Fox News — https://www.foxnews.com/us/ole-miss-students-found-dead-packaged-kratom-recovered-both-sites-officials
Top World Stories
#5Trump Signs Greenland Deal Granting Permanent US Military Rights
After months of friction over his push to acquire the island, the President signed a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland locking in permanent American military access across the Arctic and North Atlantic. Copenhagen gets sovereignty reaffirmed; Washington gets the basing rights it actually wanted. It's a pragmatic landing spot for a fight that had strained a NATO alliance. Source: Newsmax — https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-greenland-denmark/2026/09/22/id/1270257/
#6US and Iran Hold Three-Hour Talks at UN; Hormuz on the Table
Trump confirmed a "very good" three-hour meeting with Iranian officials on the sidelines of the General Assembly, saying he believes a settlement is close but that Tehran can never have a nuclear weapon. Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within days if Washington lifts the maritime blockade, unfreezes assets, and halts regional operations. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi separately pressed Tehran to reopen the strait. Source: Fox News — https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/iran-war-strait-hormuz-trump-talks-un-general-assembly-09-22-26
#7Russia and Ukraine Trade Deadly Strikes Before Zelensky-Trump Meeting
Russia hit at least four Ukrainian regions overnight with missiles and drones, killing five, while Ukrainian long-range strikes damaged another Russian oil refinery. The exchange landed hours before Zelensky was set to meet Trump at the UN. Refinery strikes are a direct driver of the global diesel crunch squeezing American truckers. Source: Newsmax — https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/russia-ukraine-united-nations-zelenskyy-trump-us/2026/09/22/id/1270207/
Science & Technology
#8Commerce Finalizes $300 Million for Three Quantum Computing Firms
The Commerce Department closed a $300 million package split evenly among D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Quantinuum, with the federal government taking a minority equity stake in each. It follows roughly $2 billion redirected from the CHIPS and Science Act toward quantum. The urgency is "Q-Day" — the point at which a quantum machine can break the asymmetric encryption guarding banking, defense, and basically the internet. Source: Washington Examiner — https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4718946/trump-quantum-equity-pentagon-standards/
#9FDA Approves Once-Daily Pill for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Regulators cleared Rasonque, a RAS inhibitor from Revolution Medicines, months ahead of schedule for metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. It targets the RAS protein driving roughly 95 percent of cases, and trials showed survival nearly doubling versus chemotherapy along with real tumor shrinkage. Pancreatic cancer has hovered near a 13 percent five-year survival rate, so this is a genuine inflection point. Source: Fox News — https://www.foxnews.com/health/fda-approves-once-daily-pill-deadly-cancer-patients-see-survival-nearly-double
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#10Extradition Deal Forces Texas to Drop Death Penalty in Capital Case
Lee Gilley, charged with capital murder in the 2024 death of his pregnant wife Christa, fled to Italy — and because Italy won't extradite to a death penalty jurisdiction, Texas prosecutors had to take execution off the table to get him back. A state lawmaker warns the arrangement opens a Pandora's box for future suspects. It's a quiet loophole with loud implications: flee to the right country, negotiate your own maximum sentence. Source: Fox News — https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-lawmaker-warns-accused-wife-killers-italy-escape-could-open-pandoras-box-future-suspects
