Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Bad Bunny's first signature adidas shoe returns in a blue-heavy “Night Navy” colorway inspired by Puerto Rico's night sky, with indigo and navy suede over light blue nylon, for $160.

After a high-profile mission goes sideways, Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson is pulled out of forced retirement to lead a last-chance experimental S.W.A.T. unit made up of untested, unpredictable young recruits. Hondo must bridge a generational divide, navigate clashing personalities and turn a squad of outsiders into a team capable of protecting the city — and saving the program that made him who he is. Season 1 starts on STARZ.

The International Whaling Commission's biennial meeting, its 70th, opens in Hobart, with a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal and a pro-whaling 'sustainable use' resolution among the items before it.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, which it says runs more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task at the same $2 and $10 per million token prices.

The third season of the reincarnation fantasy moves to GeyeG Pictures, and its first episode airs at midnight on September 28, 2026 in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block.

The Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode's Spring/Summer 2027 womenswear calendar ran September 28 to October 6, 2026, closing Fashion Month after New York, London and Milan.

Samsung Thailand's schedule puts the Galaxy S25 series and the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 on One UI 9 from 28 September 2026, alongside the Galaxy S26, which it moved to the same day. Samsung's global announcement gave no date for older phones.

President Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET on 28 September 2026 that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in Iowa, which the White House calls the largest of its kind in US history and the first mega steel plant built in the country since the 1960s. The plant is due to start producing steel in 2030. Its first phase is put at about 7.5 million tons a year with up to 6,000 construction jobs, rising to 10 million tons a year and at least 1,750 permanent jobs. It will run on iron ore from Mesabi's new mine at Nashwauk on Minnesota's Iron Range, and Iowa lawmakers have discussed tax incentives for a plant in Lee County in the state's southeast. The announcement came weeks before the November midterm elections, as Trump pointed to his 50% steel tariffs as the driver of new US steel investment.

Ronnie Fieg brings back the GEL-LYTE III “Salmon Toe” that opened Kith's first Brooklyn store in 2011, now on the Remastered shape in pigskin nubuck with a wood-grain box.

Winners of Buffalo Trace Distillery's first Bottle Draw lottery have from 28 September to 11 October 2026 to buy the first uncut, unfiltered Elmer T. Lee single barrel bourbon, 124.8 to 138.6 proof, for $99.99 at the distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky.