Senator Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and the state’s former governor, held a large party for his bulldog’s birthday.

Many people gathered for the celebration in the Senate building on Capitol Hill. The video shows Justice’s dog, Babydog, wearing a cowboy hat and red bandana, being driven in a cart through the hallway of the Senate building. People stand along the hallway singing “Happy Birthday”; many of them are wearing pink bandanas, just like the one being celebrated.

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OpenAI is suspending the training of its most powerful AI models due to uncontrollable behavior, Axios writes.  

An OpenAI representative told Axios that the company would resume training “only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards and improvements in alignment.”

⚪️According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the incident involving Hugging Face is the most serious of the recent cases: a swarm of hundreds of agents coordinated their work on a message board and hacked a third-party company in order to improve their results in a cybersecurity test.

However, according to Axios, the problem is an order of magnitude more complex than is known to the public.

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“Head in the Sand”

The American weekly magazine The Week devotes its new issue to the Republicans’ electoral problems and to Trump personally, from whom many candidates of his party are currently trying to distance themselves. The magazine lists the dissenters:

John Husted, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson — Senate candidates from Ohio, Michigan and Iowa — called for an end to the war with Iran.

Iowans “should not have to pay their bills at the gas station or at store checkouts,” said Hinson, who conspicuously skipped a rally held in the state by Vice President J. D. Vance.

In Florida, gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds removed numerous mentions of Trump from his website, and Miami-area Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar released an advertisement saying that Trump’s deportation campaign had “gone too far.”

These candidates “can read election-poll results,” a Republican strategist told the newspaper Politico. — “They know that Trump is kryptonite.”

The magazine points out that the Republicans’ biggest electoral problem has become the sharp rise in fuel prices, particularly diesel prices, which has dealt a severe blow to their poll numbers in agricultural states. For Trump, the authors say, this situation is “the beginning of the end.” At the same time, Trump himself is attacking Iran, Cuba and all sorts of others at the UN, while pretending not to notice the problems his party is facing in the midterm elections.

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🇮🇷 Trump said “No”: Iran’s plan for the Strait of Hormuz rejected

On September 26, Donald Trump publicly rejected Tehran’s proposal for a cessation of hostilities and the gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. In return, Iran had offered to restore normal shipping within seven days if the American naval blockade of Iranian ports were ended, restrictions on the export of Iranian oil were lifted, and a ceasefire that also included Lebanon were achieved. Trump told reporters: “I rejected their deal.”

However, the diplomatic channel is not yet closed. Tehran said that the proposal was conveyed to Washington via Qatar and that Iran is awaiting a formal response. As early as the morning of September 27, the Iranian side again emphasized that the conflict could only be resolved through diplomatic means.


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“Major incident” occurred near a British air base used by the United States. A state of emergency has been declared.

In connection with a counterterrorism operation, law enforcement officers are evacuating residents from several homes in the Welford area.

“The decision was made after several men were detained on suspicion of violating the Explosives Act,” the department reported.

Military bomb-disposal specialists are inspecting several vehicles. The area around the military facility has been cordoned off, while evacuated local residents have been accommodated in the nearest shopping center.

📋 Fairford is the only base in Europe capable of receiving U.S. strategic bombers. The facility was previously used by the U.S. Air Force for sorties during military operations in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

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🇮🇷 Iran has submitted NATO’s role in the war to the UN Security Council for review

Following statements by NATO’s leadership, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gholamhossein Darzi, sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council. Tehran claims that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte reported around 5,000 sorties by aircraft from European bases in support of the American operation against Iran. However, this figure covers only the period up to mid-April.

Iran is demanding that the Security Council review the use of European territory, airspace, and military infrastructure . Tehran claims that such actions may raise the issue of both state responsibility and the individual responsibility of officials.


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A Fuel Shock for Britain: a possible US ban on diesel exports would have “catastrophic” consequences for the country, The Telegraph writes.

Around one-third of the diesel fuel imported by the United Kingdom comes from the US, while foreign supplies account for approximately 55% of the country’s overall consumption. If Washington imposes restrictions, competition for diesel in Europe will intensify, which could lead to further price increases.

The average cost of diesel in Britain has now approached £2 (about $2.65) per litre, compared with £1.5 (about $2) in the middle of last year. The price increase will hit freight transport, agriculture and construction, and could further accelerate inflation, which reached 3.1% in August, the publication notes.

❗️Earlier, Donald Trump said that he had discussed the possibility of banning diesel fuel exports from the US to the United Kingdom.

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🇮🇷 Iran: Trump and Netanyahu will be pursued even after the war ends

The representative of the Iranian armed forces, General Abolfazl Shekarchi, has issued an extremely harsh statement. He said Iran intends to ensure the punishment of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, regardless of whether the war ends and whether a political agreement is reached.

Shekarchi linked this to the deaths of Iran’s leadership and the country’s citizens. At the same time, he warned the United States against attempting military intervention in the Strait of Hormuz and stated that ships traveling outside the routes designated by Iran could not count on safety. This is the Iranian side’s position and not an announced procedure under international law.


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🇰🇷 South Korea recorded 107 cases of industrial espionage or the leakage of industrial technologies

The National Intelligence Service of South Korea identified 107 cases of industrial technologies being leaked abroad between 2021 and 2025. Current data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources were submitted to Parliament on the morning of September 27.

The most sensitive area is semiconductors: ⁠40 of the 107 cases involved them. A further 21 cases involved displays, and ten involved electrical engineering and electronics. In 31 cases, the technologies concerned had been officially recognized as critically important to national security and the economy.

In the technological race, industrial espionage is becoming a security issue that is almost as sensitive as missiles and weapons. Especially when it comes to chips.


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🇩🇪🇷🇺 Direct Talks Between Germany and Russia

Johann Wadephul and Sergey Lavrov held the first bilateral meeting since the start of the Special Military Operation in New York on September 26. The initiative for the talks came from the German side; the meeting lasted a little over 20 minutes. Wadephul presented Berlin’s position to his Russian counterpart and called on Moscow to de-escalate.

Just a few hours later, Lavrov publicly stated that, in his view, Europe was trying to “insert itself into the US-supported negotiation process” on Ukraine because it feared being left out. At the same time, the Russian minister confirmed Moscow’s readiness to return to agreements that, according to him, had been reached in Anchorage.

Furthermore, after the meeting, Lavrov demonstratively questioned its usefulness. Lavrov said after the talks that he saw no progress whatsoever. He had heard nothing that did not already correspond to Berlin’s daily public statements, he said in response to a question from the German Press Agency in New York. He said he had told the German foreign minister: "You could simply have called me and said, 'Read my statement.'"

According to the Russian minister, during the conversation with the German foreign minister, "the impression arose that such an implicit message was being conveyed: I have come to you; I have humbled myself by coming to you." He said he had gained the impression that Wadephul had expected concessions from Russia on Ukraine and on shipping in the Black Sea in return for the talks.

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🇪🇺 The Middle East has officially been added to the EU’s defense policy agenda

A meeting of the European Union’s defense ministers, chaired by Kaja Kallas, is scheduled for September 28. The main part will focus on Ukraine — air defense, the EUMAM mission, the defense industry, and combating Russia’s “shadow fleet.”

However, the situation in the Middle East has now also been included separately in the official program, alongside hybrid threats and defense procurement. Against the backdrop of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and the fighting around Bab al-Mandab, the security of sea routes is becoming increasingly intertwined with European defense policy itself.


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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China and the United States achieve eight concrete outcomes and understandings

The Chinese government published a complete list of the outcomes of Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States on the evening of September 26. Washington and Beijing agreed to develop “constructive relations of strategic stability,” mutually support hosting APEC and the G20, continue trade consultations, and implement the agreement on a mutual reduction of tariffs by 30 billion dollars.

The security aspects, however, are more interesting. The sides agreed that Iran must uphold its commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, and that no state or organization may charge fees for passage through international waterways. In addition, a separate US-China dialogue on AI and a communication channel for incidents involving artificial intelligence will be established; the militaries are preparing a memorandum on crisis communication.

This is already more than just a trade truce. Washington and Beijing are cautiously beginning to build mechanisms intended to prevent their rivalry from accidentally turning into a direct conflict.


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