10-Year Treasury Yield Rises Above 5% on Sept. 15, Edging Past Its October 2023 Peak as the Fed's Two-Day Meeting Opens
The benchmark U.S. government borrowing rate reached about 5.02%-5.04%, its highest since July 2007, as traders priced high odds that the Federal Reserve will raise rates on Sept. 16 for the first time since 2023.
U.S.
Senators Release Whistleblower Account Alleging DHS Officers Were Told to Pose as Voters on State Lookup Sites
An anonymous USCIS employee's disclosure, published September 14 by Sens. Alex Padilla and Chuck Schumer, says fraud officers were given about 12 minutes per voter; DHS says it used publicly available voter data to find noncitizens.
EPA Finalizes Partial Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Carbon Rules, Proposes Rescinding Power-Sector Greenhouse Gas Findings
Administrator Lee Zeldin signed the final repeal on September 14, 2026, and EPA separately proposed erasing the Clean Air Act findings that let it regulate power plant greenhouse gases at all.
House Oversight Committee Takes Up Resolution to Hold Leon Black in Contempt Over Epstein-Related Subpoenas
The panel scheduled a September 15 markup of a contempt resolution against the Apollo co-founder, who skipped a September 3 deposition and is suing the committee in federal court to block its subpoenas.
Federal Judge Issues Nationwide Injunction Against DHS Rule Capping Student and Journalist Visa Stays
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV blocked the rule on September 14, one day before it was set to take effect, finding the plaintiffs likely to win their Administrative Procedure Act claims.
Second Federal Judge Blocks Postal Service Mail-Ballot Rule; Supreme Court Appeal Pending
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols in Washington, D.C., ordered the Postal Service not to enforce its new federal ballot-mail rule, days after a Boston judge did the same in a case the Justice Department has already taken to the Supreme Court.
One Man Killed, Six Others Wounded in Humboldt Park Shooting; Chicago Police Report No Arrests
Chicago police say gunmen from two vehicles opened fire on a group in the 700 block of North Christiana Avenue around 12:17 p.m. Sunday, September 13, 2026; Area Four detectives are investigating.
N.C.
Son of Huntersville Commissioner Charged With First-Degree Murder in Charlotte Teen's Death
Police say Evin Quarles, 21, shot 17-year-old Cameron Brice on Kittansett Drive early Sunday; he is held without bond, and a second man killed nearby the same night remains an open case with no charges announced.
NC State Health Plan and Atrium Health Agree to Move 12 Hospitals Into Middle "Access" Tier for 2027
The deal keeps costs roughly flat at a dozen mostly rural Atrium hospitals and three children's hospitals, while Atrium's largest hospitals in Charlotte, Concord, Pineville and Winston-Salem stay in the higher-cost "non-preferred" tier.
Charlotte City Council Takes Up Nine-Month Extension of Data Center Building Pause
The council was scheduled to vote Monday on adding nine months to a 150-day construction moratorium that expires Nov. 5, while city staff finish new zoning, noise and power rules.
N.C. A&T Awarded Five-Year, $10 Million Department of War Grant for AI, Autonomy and Quantum Research
The Greensboro university says the award, made through a Department of War program for historically Black colleges and minority-serving institutions, will fund a new program called Accelerate-DAQ and support its bid for top-tier research status.
NC Regulators Weigh Duke Energy Progress Rate Settlement That the Company Calls a 6.8% Residential Increase and the Attorney General Calls 9.3%
Duke Energy Progress and Duke Energy Carolinas each filed settlements this summer cutting their original rate requests; both now sit with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and Attorney General Jeff Jackson declined to sign either one.
Two Progressive Groups Start Door-Knocking Campaign Against North Carolina's Income and Property Tax Amendments on the Nov. 3 Ballot
Down Home North Carolina and the Carolina Federation say they will canvass against a 3.5% state income tax ceiling and a required limit on local property tax growth, both placed on the ballot by the Republican-led General Assembly in May.
Finance
Fed Opens Sept. 15-16 Meeting With Futures Pricing About a 90% Chance of a Quarter-Point Rate Hike
The Federal Open Market Committee began a two-day meeting Tuesday, with a decision due Wednesday afternoon, after August consumer and producer price reports and public pressure from President Trump not to raise rates.
Baldwin Group Agrees to $32.50-a-Share Take-Private Deal Valued at $7.7 Billion With Sequence Holdings and Michael Dell's Family Office
The Tampa-based insurance brokerage said on September 14, 2026 that an entity formed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management will buy a majority stake in an all-cash deal, with employees rolling over equity and closing targeted for the first quarter of 2027.
Chip and AI Stocks Fall in Seoul, Tokyo and U.S. Premarket After Amodei, Altman and Musk Call for Slowing Frontier AI Development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Sept. 12, 2026 urging labs to "pace the frontier"; Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed it, and AI-linked shares fell on Monday, Sept. 14.
SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 Weighting Set to Rise to About 2.8% From 1.3% in Sept. 21 Rebalance
Nasdaq's pro forma data show SpaceX's index weight more than doubling after lockup expirations expanded its tradable share count, a change analysts say will force billions in buying by funds that track the index.
World
Taiwan's Defense Ministry Logs Four PLA Aircraft and Six Navy Ships Around the Island on Sept. 13-14, as Beijing Warns Over a Pending U.S. Arms Sale
Taiwan's military reported routine-scale Chinese air and naval activity in mid-September, while China's Foreign Ministry said a $14 billion U.S. arms package for Taiwan could cost Beijing's participation in a Sept. 24 Trump-Xi summit.
EU Ambassadors Extend Russia Sanctions List for One Week After France and Slovakia Block Six-Month Renewal
The bloc's roughly 2,600-name blacklist was due to expire September 15; envoys pushed the deadline to September 22 while Paris and Bratislava press to remove businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman.
North Korean State Media Publishes Kim Letter to Putin Backing Russia's 'Sacred War'; Ukrainian Intelligence Separately Puts Possible Deployment at 50,000
Kim Jong Un's Sept. 15 message pledged "invariable support" and broader cooperation but named no troop numbers; the 50,000 figure comes from separate Ukrainian assessments made in August.
Russian Drone Hits Locomotive of Warsaw-Bound Train at Ukraine's Yahodyn Station, About 2 Kilometers From Poland
Ukraine's railway says passengers were evacuated before the September 13 strike and no one was hurt; Russia's Defense Ministry says it struck rail infrastructure moving military cargo from Europe.
Oman Postpones Sept. 14 Salalah Talks on Strait of Hormuz After Bahrain Says It Will Not Attend
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said the Iran-Gulf meeting was delayed "in the interests of consensus" and set no new date; Bahrain had announced a day earlier that it would not sit with Iran until diplomatic ties are restored.
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What Fauci's Released Diary Documents About the U.S. COVID-19 Response — and What It Leaves Unresolved
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Eight Months of Mamdani: What New York's Record Actually Shows, and What It Cannot Yet Show
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