Your brief for September tenth. Iran fired twenty missiles at an American base in Jordan overnight into Wednesday, September ninth. Jordan says it intercepted eighteen and the other two fell in unpopulated areas. It reported no casualties, while an American official said all American troops were accounted for.

The attack followed American strikes on five Iranian oil tankers on September eighth; one sank. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard also claimed attacks on two American vessels and eight oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz. American Central Command denied that any Navy warship had been hit.

The war began with American and Israeli attacks on Iran on February twenty-eighth and has disrupted commercial shipping through Hormuz. Before the war, that passage carried twenty-one million barrels of oil a day, according to the issue’s Kpler figures.

The fighting is also keeping fuel supplies under pressure. Brent crude, an international oil benchmark, traded above one hundred dollars a barrel on September ninth for the first time since July, PBS NewsHour reports. American regular gasoline averaged four dollars and twenty-two cents a gallon, up seven cents in a day.

Diesel reached five dollars and ninety-four cents a gallon, according to PBS, compared with the Energy Information Administration’s August thirty-first observation of five dollars and sixty cents. Diesel powers freight trucks and farm equipment, so higher costs reach into food and deliveries.

Axios reports that the agency raised its forecast for average diesel prices next year to four dollars and forty cents a gallon, from four dollars and seven cents. It expects stored diesel and related fuels to remain unusually scarce through much of twenty twenty-seven. Autumn refinery maintenance reduces output as harvest and heating demand arrive.

Trump, meanwhile, predicts Iran will stop fighting after the November third congressional elections, and gasoline will fall below two dollars a gallon. He says fuel relief will take somewhat longer than the election. PBS reports that the war is now in its seventh month, after he initially predicted weeks.

In the bond market, Treasury plans to buy up to six billion dollars of older bonds on September tenth, Reuters reports. They have ten to twenty years left before repayment. The maximum purchase is triple the previous operation’s two billion dollars, and above the four billion dollar minimum announced in August.

Treasury says these purchases provide a regular buyer for bonds that are harder to trade; they aren’t intended to address acute market stress. NBC News reports that the ten-year Treasury yield reached four point eight five per cent on September ninth, its highest since November twenty twenty-three. That happened before the scheduled purchase, so it doesn’t establish that the operation failed.

California and other states have asked the Supreme Court to keep new Postal Service ballot requirements blocked. The rules would require approved envelope designs, unique barcodes and recipient data submitted through a federal portal, and allow noncompliant outgoing mailings to be returned. They remain blocked nationwide for elections through November third while the administration appeals. This dispute is separate from postal changes behind late-postmark rejections.

The Census Bureau proposes counting only citizens and permanent residents in twenty thirty, excluding temporary legal residents and immigrants without legal status. It would also drop race and ethnicity questions. The Fourteenth Amendment requires House seats to be apportioned by the whole number of persons in each state. Public comment is open; Reuters doesn’t specify what approvals the proposal needs.

Trade restrictions are expanding too. Starting September twenty-ninth, Trump’s proclamations ban selected Canadian dairy products, most alcoholic beverages, motorcycles and mopeds. He also directed agencies to bar Canadian products from long-term government procurement. The bans follow Canadian retaliatory tariffs of up to fifty per cent on hundreds of American products, themselves a response to his August tariffs.