The Unspun News for American Citizens · Monday, September 28, 2026 09:26 AM EDT
Noise removed — for independent thinkers.
Iran · Ads · Markets · China · ICE · FBI · Mileage · Fairford · Hurricanes · Storm
Executive Summary
The week opens on a meeting that may not happen. President Trump said Sunday he expects new talks with Iran this week; Axios reported Qatari mediators ready to shuttle Monday. Late Sunday a source close to Iran’s delegation said it has no plans to meet. The war began Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes; Iran has kept the Strait of Hormuz shut and the United States blockades its ports. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Iran two weeks. Brent rose 4 percent to $108 before dawn. Diesel is $6.45.
A Trump 2024 campaign ad ran during Sunday’s NFL games labeled “Paid for by the U.S. Government,” at a cost TIME put above $362,000; Sen. John Kennedy said no official should do that. The Transportation Department is rolling out a 34.5 mpg fuel-economy standard for 2031, down from 50.4. ICE officers told The Daily Wire they were ordered to stop arresting “non-criminals”; Homeland Security called that false. The White House said two reassigned FBI counterterrorism chiefs “stifled” the Katie Miller threat probe; the FBI said Director Patel did not order it.
British police hold five London men on terror suspicion near the base U.S. bombers fly from. Russia sent 165 drones overnight; a glide bomb wounded 38 in Kharkiv. Nolo hit 150 mph past Hawaii; the nor’easter killed a man in Brooklyn. Ahead: the migrants’ Supreme Court answer at 4 p.m., the Senate’s college-sports vote at 5:30, PCE inflation Wednesday, the jobs report Friday. The country meets a moment with a peace nobody has scheduled, an ad nobody voted for and a jobs number nobody has seen: three claims running ahead of their receipts.
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