Big week for anyone tracking money, machines, or moon rocks. A Chinese president is about to walk into the White House for the first time in over a decade, the Fed just moved on rates again, and NASA found a crater that nobody noticed forming. Here is what actually mattered today, in plain terms.

1. China’s Xi to Visit the US From September 23-25. This is Xi’s first state visit to America in eleven years, and it follows Trump’s own trip to Beijing in May, so watch for what the two leaders actually agree on beyond the photo op.
2. What to know after a week of Houthi attacks that threaten Saudi oil. Yemen’s Houthi rebels just made their biggest land grab in years, reigniting a 12 year civil war and pushing global fuel prices higher in the process.
3. Fed rate decision September 2026: Rates rise to 3.75%-4%. The Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since 2023 because inflation refuses to cooperate, which means borrowing gets more expensive right when people hoped for a break.
4. The AI boom and tariff uncertainty are pushing copper prices to record highs. Copper sits inside everything from EVs to data centers, so record prices quietly raise the cost of a lot of what gets built next.
5. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks. The industry’s biggest rivals are quietly coordinating on safety even as the Trump administration calls the risk overblown.
6. Google is helping write AI chatbot safety laws while pushing for loopholes. As states try to regulate chatbots, the same companies building them are getting a hand in writing the rules, and the rules end up with gaps.
7. White House withdraws nomination of Lance Schroyer to lead ICE. Trump’s pick to run ICE is out just three months after being named, with no public reason given yet.
8. It’s illegal for armed federal officers to be at polls. Lawsuits seek to ensure that. New lawsuits are trying to keep federal agents away from polling places, arguing their presence alone counts as voter intimidation.
9. NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, Once-in-Century Moon Crater. A comet or asteroid the size of a small building slammed into the moon sometime in 2024, and nobody caught it until an image analyst spotted the scar this year.
10. Scientists find youngest exoplanet on record, a newborn named Elias. This Jupiter sized planet is less than a million years old and still actively forming, giving astronomers a rare live look at how worlds come together.

That’s the day. See you tomorrow.