🇺🇸 Republicans are more likely to vote in the midterms per Harvard/Harris poll

% of voters who is definitely going to vote
🔴 Republicans: 63%
🔵 Democrats: 57%

🇺🇸 The House rejects amendment to the US constitution that would limit the number of US Supreme Court justices to 9

Final Vote:
🟢 Yes: 212
🔴 No: 206

(Needs 2/3 to pass)

🇨🇳Scientists are becoming the new stars of China’s city screens.

Across Chinese cities, public digital displays are replacing celebrity faces and commercial ads with portraits of scientists and researchers.

Locals are calling them the real stars — people whose achievements are worth celebrating, admiring, and looking up to.

🇺🇸 Florida has implemented regulations prohibiting the use of welfare benefits for the following items:

• Tattoos
• Theme park tickets
• Video games
• Vaping products and tobacco
• Pornography
• Concert and sports event tickets
• Streaming service subscriptions
• Lottery tickets
• Tanning and spa services
• Psychic consultations

Some welfare recipients have expressed strong opposition to these measures, characterizing them as an excessive expansion of governmental authority.

It should be noted that in 49 other states, such items may still be purchased using Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) funds.

🇪🇪🇮🇳🇺🇦 The Kyiv Independent reported that Estonia's Defence Minister has resigned following a €70 million ammunition scandal.

Estonia had paid approximately €70 million in advance to an Italian-registered, Indian-owned company for ammunition intended for Ukraine.

The ammunition was never delivered, and the dispute has now reached the courts.

Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur announced his resignation, stating he was taking political responsibility for the failure.

🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦 Slovakia refuses to finance Ukraine's military effort through EU loans.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has reiterated that Slovakia will not participate in EU financial mechanisms used to fund Ukraine's military needs, including the €90 billion EU loan mechanism.

Fico says Slovakia does not believe in a military solution to the war and will instead continue supporting Ukraine through humanitarian and non-military assistance.

🇺🇸 Democrat Nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan Abdul El-Sayed says “if you want to achieve the American Dream, you should move to Canada.”

🇺🇸 The coin, issued for America’s 250th anniversary, features Trump on the front and the U.S. seal on the reverse.

Arguably the best-looking coin in the history of the world.

🇺🇦 Cadets from the SBU academy administered their oath during the night, accompanied by torches, on the grounds of a castle-like structure situated near Kyiv.

🛢️ 🔥 August was the worst month yet for Russian oil refineries since the war began.

16 facilities got hit. The Ministry of Defense officially confirmed 12 major refineries as targets, but four more were struck too, just left off that list.

🔴 Fully offline: Kirishi (KINEF), NORSK in Kstovo, Perm, Orsk, Saratov, Novoshakhtinsk.

🟡 Running weak: YANOS in Yaroslavl lost two of three units after the August 28 strike. Only about 27% capacity left.

🟢 Hit but still running: Syzran, TANECO, Novokuybyshevsk, Ilsky, Afipsky, the three Ufa plants (Novoil, UNPZ, Ufaneftekhim), and Salavat.

Some got hit twice in one month: TANECO, Orsk, YANOS, Novoil, UNPZ. And after August 26, three Lukoil giants (Volgograd, Perm, NORSK) were down at the same time.

🇮🇱🇬🇧 Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar warned that Israel will respond to any British action against it.

“The era in which it was possible to act against Israel and Israel did not respond is over,” Sa’ar said in an interview for Ynet.

🇩🇪🇷🇺 Russia will close Goethe-Institut branches in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg in response to Germany shutting the Russian House in Berlin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.


Berlin also ordered the closure of Russia’s consulate in Bonn after blaming Moscow for the Leipzig/Halle Airport drone incident, which Russia denies.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump is privately considering declaring an end to the war with Iran, while the Pentagon is quietly extending the deployment of U.S. forces in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Trump believes economic pressure can force Tehran to back down.

🇺🇸 Zoom appoints Jeffrey E. Epstein, former Oracle CFO, to its Board of Directors.

🇷🇺🇬🇧 Weapons that would be used from the Russian side in the event of a UK-Russia war, God forbid.

🇪🇸 🇩🇪 In another blow to Sánchez, Volkswagen is reportedly considering phasing out the SEAT brand by the end of 2029, according to German business weekly WirtschaftsWoche.

SEAT denies any decision has been made. If the plan goes ahead, SEAT-badged cars could disappear by around 2030.

🇪🇸 🇲🇦 Sánchez’s government is facing an internal dispute over the migration situation in Ceuta.

While some officials have claimed Morocco coordinated the influx of migrants, Sánchez says Spanish intelligence has ruled out foreign involvement and that the government has no evidence Morocco organized or planned it.