Yesterdays News 9/28

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Happy Monday, everyone. Welcome to Yesterday's News. I'm Monty Maider. Yesterday's News is where I cover the news in about 15 to 20 minutes. Hopefully, narrow down the stories that are really important and get rid of some of the noise. Give you some of your time back. Hopefully, you can take a break from social media, from your phone, but also stay really informed as we head into the midterms. If you are listening on Flipping Tables, this is a new feature for you. Your regularly scheduled podcast will still come out. I just thought people might also like to have this as a little daily morning tidbit. Again, to stay informed and hopefully get some of your life back. On this day, September 28th, 1781, 245 years ago, George Washington and the Comte des Rochambas arrived outside Yorktown, Virginia with roughly 20,000 American and French troops and began digging siege lines around the British army under Lord Cornwallis. A French fleet under Admiral de Grasse had already closed the Chesapeake. Behind him, Cornwallis surrendered on October 19th. It was the last major land battle of the Revolution, and it was won by an alliance, specifically the French. The Continental Army could not have taken Yorktown alone. The French supplied the fleet, half the infantry, and most of the siege artillery.

The state visit ended Thursday with tea at the White House and a tour of the National Archives. This is the state visit from Chi, Chinese leader Chi. The substance arrived on Sunday, however. David Perdue, the US ambassador to China, told Fox News Sunday that when Chi Jinping raised the pending American arms sale to Taiwan, President Trump described it as one of many such sales the United States makes around the world. And Perdue did not say when the exchange took place. He offered it as an illustration of the president's approach to negotiation. A sale of US weapons to the People's Republic would reverse policy in place since 1989 when Washington imposed an arms embargo after Tiananmen Square, and would put American military technology in the hands of the country, the Pentagon's own strategy documents identify as its pacing threat. On trade, the visit's outcome is what it was on Wednesday. The truce was extended two months to January 10th. No new tariff cuts were announced, and the last reduction from 57% to 47% dates to the Busan meeting in October of 2025 The Pentagon spent the same week in the DC Circuit Court defending its decision to designate an American AI company a supply chain risk to national security because the company wanted written limits on how its models could be used in weapons. The president spent it asking Beijing whether it was in the market.

Trump says he is, quote, very seriously considering a ban on diesel exports. Diesel averaged $6.53 a gallon this week, the highest price on record at nearly $3 above a year ago. Over the weekend, the president told reporters he was very seriously weighing a ban on diesel exports. Politico reported last week the administration had drafted a 90-day ban. Energy secretary Chris Wright says the preference is voluntary export curbs negotiated with refiners whose farmers are in the middle of the harvest once the ban. The United States is the world's largest exporter of diesel. Refiners market analysts and Trump's own former energy secretary have warned that withdrawing that supply would raise global prices and could raise domestic gasoline prices as well because US refineries produce gasoline and diesel together. Diesel is a byproduct of producing that and would cut total output if the export market is closed. The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively shut for more than six months. That's why fuel costs are what they are. On September 9th, Trump said the war would end after the election. The China truce now expires after the election. The diesel ban under consideration would run 90 days. Pentagon personnel database was open for nine months. The data was not encrypted. The Defense Manpower Data Center in the Pentagon Central Personnel Record System, which is service members, veterans, retirees, dependents, and at least 60 million records of the fiscal 2024, according to a notification letter obtained by CNN, unauthorized users gain access to the vulnerable DMDC server beginning last October. The Pentagon did not discover it until July. The stolen data includes Social Security numbers and other personal identifiers because it was not encrypted. Military Times reports that as many as 4 million current and former Defense Department personnel may be affected. The Pentagon says it has no indication of misuse and is offering a year of credit monitoring. The reference point here is the 2015 breach of the Office of Personnel Management, which Chinese state hackers obtained. Security clearance files of 21.5 million Americans, including the SF86 forms that list every foreign contact, debt and family member a clearance holder has. Counterintelligence officials called it a generational loss. Personnel data of this kind lets a foreign service match a name to a unit, a duty station, and a household. That's a different category of risk from identity theft and credit monitoring only addresses identity theft. CNN published the breach story on Friday, September 25th, the same day the DC Circuit upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic, again, as the supply chain risk for wanting restrictions on where their AI models could be used in weapons. The court clears orange order to march down Garravie Road, thousands block the route. On Friday, Northern Ireland's Parades Commission ruled that Orange Order's Drumkey Parade could return down Porta Downs, Garravie Road, and mainly Catholic and Nationalist Street for the first time since 1998 Residents won a temporary injunction Saturday. The Court of Appeal overturned it around midnight on Sunday morning in heavy rain. Thousands of people linked arms across the road and stayed. First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinfine stood with them. Police vans formed a barricade. Orange Order members and the DUP politicians gathered a mile away at Drumkey Church, began to walk and turned back. The standoff ran into the night without the parade reaching the road. DUP leader Gavin Robinson accused elected officials of breaking the law. Northern Ireland's secretary is holding talks Monday. Drumkey was a recurring flashpoint in the late 1990s. The Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal organization founded in 1795, holds a church parade at Drumkey every July and historically returned through Garravey Road. Between 1995 and 1998, the dispute produced rioting across Northern Ireland. In July of 1998, three brothers, the Quinn children, were killed when loyalists firebombed their home in Valley Money. The Parades Commission was created that year to take routing decisions away from the police, and it kept the parade off the road every year until Friday. Sunday was the first time since Good Friday Agreement that the decision was made in the street instead. So a lot of old conflicts re-brewing in Northern Ireland. Late Saturday, eight men armed with pistols and AK-47 rifles opened fire on patrons outside a tavern in Wendella, a mining town west of Johannesburg, then entered and kept shooting. There's 17 dead, 15 wounded. Provincial Police Commissioner Tommy Oumbeny said that one line of inquiry is a turf war over illegal gold mining. Early Sunday, gunmen attacked a drinking venue in Luandle outside Cape Town. There's 10 dead, 11 wounded. A police official cited business jealousy. The attacks came four days after 11 people, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead at a house party near Durban. No arrests have been announced in any of the three cases by Sunday night. President Cyril Ramfosa said this cannot go on like this. Also, South Africa recorded 5,427 murders between April and June of this year. Police statistics show that more than 100 rapes reported daily, and roughly 15 women killed a day. UN Women places the femicide rate at five times the average. The government declared gender-based violence isn't a national disaster last November. Ten days ago, nine women's bodies were found in Erkuleni, east of Johannesburg, several left in the street. Ramfosa said last week he was ashamed of what men are doing to women, and on Monday called the violence a stain on the national conscience. But also the local police departments, because I watched their interviews, basically were like, okay, women don't go outside. Watch what you're doing. Okay, so women are supposed to accommodate men. We're not the leaders. Men are supposed to lead us, right? But everything we do controls men completely, because they have no control over their urges. We are supposed to accommodate them, dance around them, protect ourselves from their violence. But it is too much to ask for men to just stop raping and killing women.