Treasury lifted U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel until April 7, 2027, after Trump said Russia will send 4.8 million tons.
Trump said Russia agreed to send the fuel to U.S. and world markets after a call with Vladimir Putin. Treasury’s temporary license, dated Friday, Oct. 9, lets Russian diesel be sold, shipped and imported into the U.S., with no tonnage cap.
No Russian promise to stop striking Ukraine’s power grid was disclosed. Volodymyr Zelensky called it “a happy birthday present for Putin.”
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300,000 tonsImmediately
500,000 tonsNovember
1,000,000 tonsRight after thatCBS puts this one in December
3,000,000 tonsLater, if Russia’s refineries allowNo date
Given a timeNo dateEach rule: about one day of U.S. diesel and heating-oil use in 2025, 3.9 million barrels
Tons become barrels at the issue’s own figure: all 4.8 million tons is roughly 36 million barrels. The day rules use the roughly 3.9 million barrels of diesel and heating oil Americans used per day in 2025 (EIA). Both are rough, so the rules are approximate. Only the timing Trump gave is shown; the White House has not said when the fuel arrives.
Russia’s own ban on diesel exports runs through the end of October. The White House has not said who pays or when the fuel arrives. Diesel averaged $6.28 a gallon on Friday, Oct. 9, per AAA, up from $3.68 a year earlier.
- Allows
- Russian diesel to be sold, shipped and imported into the U.S. until April 7, 2027. It sets no tonnage cap.
- Still blocks
- Russia’s central bank, National Wealth Fund and Finance Ministry from drawing on accounts at U.S. banks.
- Does not cite
- The waiver in the Sept. 18 sanctions law, which requires Trump to send Congress a written national-interest certification first.
- Worth
- About $7.24 billion for all 4.8 million tons at the Oct. 8 gasoil price. No buyer or price has been disclosed.
“I believe our team is simply being used as a smokescreen.”Volodymyr Zelensky, to Politico. His team learned of the deal about an hour before Trump spoke, while meeting envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Miami.
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Hurricane Isaias reached Category 3, with winds up to 120 mph, before an expected landfall near Pensacola on Friday night.
Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, became a major storm at 8:20 a.m. ET Friday, Oct. 9. At 3 p.m. it was 125 miles south of Pensacola, Fla., with landfall expected between 8 and 10 p.m.
The bigger threat is storm surge, seawater pushed over normally dry land as the storm comes ashore.
Up to 9 feet
of water over normally dry land, forecasters warn, from the Santa Rosa/Okaloosa county line to Grayton Beach, Fla., if peak surge hits at high tide.
“You hide from the wind, but you run from the water.”Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican
- Escambia
- Zones A and B, including Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key, plus all mobile homes, from noon Thursday, Oct. 8.
- Santa Rosa
- Zones A and B, low-lying areas and mobile homes from 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Shelter buses run only while winds stay below tropical-storm force.
- Okaloosa
- Bridges may close once sustained winds reach 40 mph. Shelters at Davidson Middle School in Crestview and Raider Arena in Niceville.
- The state
- 25 Florida counties under a state of emergency. Forecasters expect 4 to 8 inches of rain, with isolated totals of 15 inches. Chevron and Shell are shutting Gulf oil production and evacuating offshore facilities.
Experts quoted by the Guardian call Isaias the biggest test yet for a FEMA cut back under Trump. More than 4,300 FEMA employees, about 17% of its workforce, left in fiscal 2025, per the Government Accountability Office. Fifty-eight senior executives left from January 2025 to January 2026; about 13 a year left before that.
“It’s not whether Fema is going to respond. They’re going to respond. It’s more about the depth.”Chris Currie, Government Accountability Office
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DHS says ICE officers shot Oscar Belgal because he drove at them. A judge has barred his deportation.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE official Marcos Charles said officers shot Belgal, a 28-year-old Dominican man, after he rammed two ICE vehicles and then sped toward officers. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said seven rounds were fired. The officers are on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.
Belgal rammed two ICE vehicles and then sped toward officers. Secretary Markwayne Mullin says officers did not know his 5-year-old son was in the car.
One agent at the driver’s window with a gun drawn and another near the front of the SUV. The car then moves out of view before the shots.
ICE’s body cameras were on, but that footage has not been released. NYPD has released its own officers’ body-camera footage of the aftermath.
Lets officers shoot a moving car’s driver only when they reasonably believe death or serious injury is imminent and no safe alternative exists.
Fleeing alone does not qualify.
A witness, Orlando Perez, told The Guardian the car’s windows had only a light tint and that ICE “had to see that the kid was inside.” Mullin called Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s response “political theater.” He said Trump offered to hand Belgal to NYPD custody if the city brought charges, and that Mamdani declined. NYPD said 5 people were taken into custody at protests on Thursday night.
- The order
Judge Paul Oetken barred Belgal’s deportation, and any move out of the New York City area or New Jersey, while his habeas petition is pending.
- The hearing
Judge John Cronan took over the case and held a hearing Friday, Oct. 9. Belgal is held at an undisclosed site outside the city.
- The letter
His lawyers owe the court a letter on Tuesday, Oct. 13. It must address the government’s claim that he was already in New Jersey when they filed.
A habeas petition is a demand that the government justify holding someone; this one seeks his release.
Still open: Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark has opened her own investigation. A Fox 9 review of 59 ICE shooting investigations from 2015 to 2021 found no agent indicted.
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Trump set a closed White House hearing for Nov. 5 on whether he has cause to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook.
The three judges are his own appointees. The date is two days after the Tuesday, Nov. 3 midterms. No president had tried to remove a Fed governor in the Fed’s 113-year history.
Trump created a “committee of inquiry” to examine mortgage-fraud allegations against Cook and report whether there is “cause” to remove her. It follows a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in June that let her keep her seat because she had not been given due process: notice and a fair chance to defend herself before being fired.
- When
- Thursday, Nov. 5 two days after the Tuesday, Nov. 3 midterms
- Where and how long
- The White House up to four hours, closed to the public; a transcript is published afterward
- Who judges
- Three Trump appointees economic adviser Kevin Hassett, the EEOC chair and the federal ethics director
- What Cook must do
- File a statement in writing, three days before the hearing
- Standard loan forms“Primary residence”
Listed both her Michigan and Atlanta homes as primary residences, per Reuters.
- Atlanta loan estimate, May 28, 2021“Vacation home”
Labeled the house a vacation home.
- Security-clearance form, December 2021“Second home”
Listed it as a second home.
The Supreme Court’s June ruling did not decide whether Trump has cause to fire her.
“We have grave doubts that this ‘hearing’ is a legitimate one.”
Cook’s lawyers, Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen, who said she may still appear“It is my job to ensure the laws are faithfully executed, including by firing subordinates who cannot be trusted to tell the truth and follow the law.”
Trump, in his memo creating the panel
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Vance doubts the Pentagon will livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution, as GOP senators, Catholic bishops and the UN object.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to stream the Army’s firing-squad execution of Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. Vice President JD Vance said he doubted the stream would happen and that he would not watch.
“I’ve seen these announcements. I don’t know that that’s going to happen.”Vice President JD Vance
- Against
“A barbaric promotion of a culture of death.”
Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Catholic bishopsSen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, backs the death sentence but condemned the stream.
Sen. John Curtis, a Utah Republican, said broadcasting death feeds an appetite for violent spectacle.
The UN human rights office said a broadcast would breach the absolute ban on torture.
- For
“Did I approve? Absolutely, I approve.”
President Trump“Public execution is what this terrorist deserves. We will be watching.”
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican“Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, asked about Hasan’s final requests
- 1961
- The Army last executed a service member, 65 years before the Dec. 3 date.
- About 90
- Years since the U.S. last held a public execution.
- Two
- Countries, Iran and Afghanistan, held public executions every year from 2022 to 2025, per Amnesty.
Army Regulation 190-55 bars anyone under 18 from witnessing an execution; experts split on whether online viewers count as witnesses. Legal experts say probably only Hasan himself could sue to stop the stream. His military appeals are finished. His lawyer, John Galligan, told ABC a federal habeas petition is possible but undecided; the likely court, the federal District of Kansas, stayed Ronald Gray’s scheduled military execution in Nov. 2008.
Still open: the Pentagon has not named a platform. The execution is set for 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, at Fort Hood, timed to echo the hour of the 2009 attack.
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U.S. measles cases reached 4,080 this year, the most since 1991, with Pennsylvania at 1,105.
Pennsylvania is the center of the outbreak. It reports five measles deaths; the CDC recognizes two of them. On Oct. 7, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a measles disaster emergency as the outbreak next door passed 1,000 cases.
U.S. measles cases this year as of Thursday, Oct. 8, including 192 new cases in the past week. In 1991, the country recorded 9,643.
- Pennsylvania
- 1,105 of the 4,080 national cases, more than any other state
- Deaths
- five vs. two Pennsylvania reports five; the CDC’s count includes only two of them
A patient with a positive lab test who dies within 30 days of symptoms, when no unrelated cause explains it.
Only deaths its statistics center verifies as caused by measles on state death records.
Lancaster County’s coroner said one infected newborn died of a lacerated spleen; Pennsylvania still counts that death.
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Top earners’ average income fell 14% from 2021 to 2024, a Fed survey finds, while their median wealth rose 31% from 2022 to 2025.
The Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, which it runs every three years, shows income and wealth moving in opposite directions for the top 10%. The gap between them and everyone else narrowed on income and widened on wealth.
| Measure | Top 10% | Typical family |
|---|---|---|
| Income2021 to 2024 | −14%average, $757,000 to $652,000 | +7% |
| Net worth2022 to 2025 | +31%median | +2%to $215,900 |
The income figures run 2021 to 2024 and the wealth figures 2022 to 2025, so the two windows are offset by a year.
The typical family’s median bank-account balance fell 6%, to $8,200. These families lost ground in the 2025 survey:
- Under 35
- −23% median net worth, to $33,000
- 25th wealth percentile
- $27,900 down from $29,600 in 2022, but up from $15,700 in 2019
- Paying over 40% of income on debt
- 8.6% of families, up from 6.5% in 2022 and last this high in 2013
“On average, outpacing prior generations controlling for age.”Economist Ernie Tedeschi, on what the data suggest about Gen Z wealth
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FBI Director Kash Patel plans a trip to Russia three weeks before the midterms, The Atlantic reports.
FBI and Justice Department officials failed to stop it, the magazine reports. Reports have said he would likely be hosted by the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service and the KGB’s main successor. The FBI has not confirmed the plans, and neither the FBI nor the White House commented. Patel is suing The Atlantic over its earlier reporting on him.
Seventeen current and former officials and others told the magazine they were worried. Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, asked him on Friday, Oct. 9, to cancel.
“In the interest of national security, we ask you to reconsider. Call off this trip.”Raskin and Himes, in their letter
- Louis Freeh
- Robert Mueller
- Robert Mueller, again
- Kash Patel
Three weeks before the Tuesday, Nov. 3 midterms. The FBI has not confirmed the plans.
Older Justice Department rules give the deputy attorney general, the department’s No. 2 official, approval over foreign travel by senior officials.
Still open: the two Democrats asked for a closed-door briefing by Monday, Oct. 12, on his itinerary, meetings, traveling companions and precautions against Russian spying if he goes. No one has said whether that briefing will happen.