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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Monday Morning
  Tim Walz and JD Vance will debate Tuesday night: With...
  Tim Walz and JD Vance will debate Tuesday night: With no more presidential debates on the schedule before the election in 34 days, the vice presidential debate will be the 2024 campaign’s final major prime-time event. The rules are mostly similar to the two presidential debates except for one key detail: Microphones will not be muted when the candidates are speaking. And both candidates will stand, marking the first time since Joe Biden and Sarah Palin faced off in 2008 that VP debate participants won’t be sitting down. George Costanza will probably try to offer them a chair anyway.
  
  SpaceX launched a mission that will eventually bring home the NASA astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. But not for another five months.
  
  Israel said it struck Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, days after assassinating Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut on Friday.
  
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom, in addition to vetoing the AI safety bill, vetoed a bill that would have required new vehicles to beep at drivers when they go at least 10 mph faster than the speed limit.
  
  Megalopolis, the $120 million passion project of writer-director Francis Ford Coppola, made just $4 million domestically in its debut weekend.
  
  Because of Hurricane Helene, the Mets and Braves will play a makeup doubleheader in Atlanta today to decide the final two playoff spots in the National League. If they split, both teams get in. If a team is swept, that team is out and the Diamondbacks get the final spot.
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• Is a new hurricane forming? As Florida recovers from Hurricane Helene, storm could pose Gulf threat
  A tropical depression or tropical storm could form between Oct. 1 through...
  A tropical depression or tropical storm could form between Oct. 1 through Oct. 4 in the western Caribbean and then head into the Gulf of Mexico.
  
  "It's too early for specifics, but anyone from the coast of Mexico through Florida will want to monitor this closely in the days ahead. Early indications are that it could be a threat to the U.S. Gulf Coast sometime either late next week" or Oct. 5-6, AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said.
  
  "It's following a similar track," as Helene, Porter said, "and it's developing very close to where Helene developed. Its path will be determined by steering winds," which could differ from conditions that determined Helene's path.
  
  "The entire Gulf Coast needs to pay attention."
  
  
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• US drillers cut oil and gas rigs for second week in a row
  According to Baker Hughes ' latest report on Friday, U.S. energy firms...
  According to Baker Hughes ' latest report on Friday, U.S. energy firms reduced the number of oil and natural gas rigs for the second straight week. The overall rig count, an early indicator of future production, dropped by 1 to 587 in the week ending September 27, marking the lowest level since early September. This leaves the total rig count 36 rigs, or 6%, lower than the same period last year.
  
  Oil rigs saw a significant drop, falling by 4 to 484, their lowest since early September, while natural gas rigs increased by 3 to 99, the highest since late July. This was the first weekly reduction in oil rigs since mid-August and the largest single-week oil rig cut since late June.
  
  Despite this week's decline, drillers still added oil rigs in September, marking the third consecutive month of gains—the first such streak since July 2022. Additionally, drillers increased the total number of oil and gas rigs by six in the third quarter, the first quarterly rise since 2022.
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• Israel Says It Killed Hezbollah Leader
  The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had killed...

  The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had killed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, in an airstrike on the organization’s underground headquarters near Beirut on Friday. Hezbollah has not commented on the Israeli claim.

  
  

  The announcement came after Israeli forces launched a series of new airstrikes in the same Hezbollah-dominated area, known as the Dahiya, sending more residents fleeing for safety. Israel’s military said the strikes were intended to destroy Hezbollah weapons caches.

  
  The bombing killed at least six people and injured dozens, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The move came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has brushed off international efforts toward a cease-fire, spoke at the UN and insisted that Israel’s campaign would continue. Lebanese and Palestinian officials addressed the assembly the day before, decrying Israel’s actions in its current conflicts.
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• U.S. crude oil posts weekly loss as Saudi supplies look set to return
  Oil prices fell this week despite Middle East tensions, as potential...
  Oil prices fell this week despite Middle East tensions, as potential increased Saudi supply outweighed China's economic stimulus efforts. U.S. crude dropped 5% and Brent nearly 4%. Analysts note that despite regional conflicts, oil supply remains unaffected, with significant unused production capacity in the Middle East.
  
  Here are Friday’s closing energy prices:
  

  
  
  • West Texas Intermediate November contract: $68.18 per barrel, down 51 cents, or 0.75%. Year to date, U.S. crude oil is down nearly 5%.
  
  
  • Brent November contract: $71.98 per barrel, off 38 cents, or 0.53%. Year to date, the global benchmark is down more than 6%.
  
  
  • RBOB Gasoline October contract: $1.953 per gallon, down 0.42%. Year to date, gasoline is down about 7%.
  
  
  • Natural Gas November contract: $2.902 per thousand cubic feet, up 5.41%. Year to date, gas is up about more than 15%.
  
  
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