SCHEDULED76% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "Phase 1 of the Al Faw Grand Port... is scheduled to be commissioned before the end of 2025."
Iraq's Al Faw Grand Port, a deep-water container port on its only stretch of coastline, is aiming to commission its first phase, positioning the country as a new global shipping hub.
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: the bridge "is set to open on 12 May 2026".
Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.
Tesla Gigafactory Texas, 1 Tesla Road, Austin, Travis County, Texas 78725, United StatesTesla·…
SCHEDULED87% CONFIDENCEThe Part 573 report's recall schedule gives "Planned Remedy Owner Notification Date: Sep 05, 2026" and NHTSA's[1][3][5][6] acknowledgement says "Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 5, 2026"; the buyback offers start with those letters, and no owner letter has been posted to NHTSA yet, so it stays scheduled (the report itself was filed July 7, 2026).
Tesla is buying back 15 Canadian-market Model 3 and Model Y cars that were imported into the US without the knee airbag and other protections US safety standards require, after wrongly certifying them as compliant; owner letters were due 5 September 2026.
SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEThe date is set by the regulation itself, per the European Commission: "New Cyber Resilience Act reporting obligations take effect on 11 September 2026".[1]
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act reaches its first live phase: manufacturers of any product with digital elements sold in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents to ENISA and their national CSIRT - an early warning within 24 hours, a full notification within 72, and a final report within 14 days.
SCHEDULED82% CONFIDENCEThe New Jersey Department of Labor's 2026 WARN Notice Archive lists "Wonder Group, Inc. | Parsippany | September | 9/16/26 - 1/8/27 | 533"; NJBIZ[4]: "the cuts will take effect between Sept. 16 and Jan. 8, 2027."
Wonder is cutting 533 jobs between 16 September 2026 and 8 January 2027 as it closes its Cranford and Fairfield, New Jersey production facilities and consolidates into a new plant in Swedesboro.
SCHEDULED73% CONFIDENCERussian law holds federal elections on a single voting day, the third Sunday of September, which is September 20 in 2026; Monocle reports voting runs across the three days from September 18, and Polymarket’s[1][2] market on the winner ends September 20.
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Russia's State Duma election runs over three days, September 18-20, 2026, its single voting day being the third Sunday of September. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket gave United Russia a 99.8% chance of winning the most seats, and its companion market had the party landing on 340-354 seats (43%) or 325-339 (34%).
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASpaceX
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCELaunch Library 2 lists this as the no-earlier-than launch time; launches slip.[1]
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. Lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Of Course I Still Love You.
Launch Area 130, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaCAS Space
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCELaunch Library 2 lists this as the no-earlier-than launch time; launches slip.[1]
Share-ride of 9 commercial Earth observation and technology demonstration satellites to SSO, details TBD. Lifts off from Launch Area 130, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China to Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
In Best Medicine a brilliant surgeon leaves Boston to become a small-town doctor where he spent childhood summers. Despite his medical skills, his rude manner alienates locals as he battles hidden phobias and struggles with personal connections. The premiere, "Be Careful What You Fish For": While Martin continues to struggle with his blood phobia, a mermaid washes ashore in Port Wenn to the amazement of everyone in town. Meanwhile, Judith, a well-meaning townsperson creates havoc while on prescribed oxygen, Louisa continues to see Martin's girlfriend Eden for medical guidance and Greg and George's success from the seas urchin boom take its toll on the both of them. Season 2 starts on FOX.
SCHEDULED76% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: Pinnacle SkyTower "will be Canada's tallest residential building when it opens in the fall of 2026."
Pinnacle SkyTower, a 106-storey, 352m tower on Toronto's waterfront, becomes Canada's tallest building, taking the title from One Bloor West.
Stamford, Western Connecticut Planning Region, United StatesNBC
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE7 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-21 as the announced premiere on NBC.
When a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents become the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Hollingsworth family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice... even if it means betraying their sworn code. The premiere, "Pilot": A family of law enforcement agents investigate a double homicide involving a U.S. Marshal. A mysterious murder hits close to home, forcing the Hollingsworths to focus on protecting each other as a family. Season 1 starts on NBC.
1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, United StatesApple TV
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE8 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-23 as the announced premiere on Apple TV.
Brothers is a heartfelt odd couple love story revolving around the strange and beautiful bond between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Matthew and Woody's friendship is tested when their combined families attempt to live together on Matthew's ranch in Texas. Season 1 starts on Apple TV.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCETSMC's[2][3] OIP site lists "Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Time: 9:30am - 6pm (Pacific Standard Time) Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, CA" (Pacific daylight time in September, UTC-7); TSMC's events page lists 2026/09/23 Santa Clara.
TSMC's 18th Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum brings chip designers, EDA and IP partners and customers to the Santa Clara Convention Center on 23 September, opening a global series that ends in Israel in December.
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEMeta's[1][6] Connect agenda lists "Wednesday, September 23 - Meta Connect Keynote at 4:00 p.m. PT", and its save-the-date places Connect "at our campus in Menlo Park, California".
Meta's Connect keynote on September 23 is expected to unveil a new pair of smart glasses that Mark Zuckerberg teased in May, with reports pointing to camera-free 'Luna' glasses shipping this fall.
Doc centers on the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Larsen, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis. After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she's treated, colleagues she's crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience. The premiere, "Wherefore Art Thou": On Amy and Sonya's first day as Co-Chief Resident, they must coach a fresh crop of interns through a mysterious case that seems to defy medical logic. Jake and TJ adjust to new roles within the hospital. Meanwhile, Dr. Ben Grant returns to Westside with a secret plan to reshape the Surgical Department. Season 3 starts on FOX.
SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCEThe President's schedule for 23 September lists "6:00 PM - THE PRESIDENT departs the White House[7] en route to Joint Base Andrews" for the "Arrival Ceremony with the President of the People's Republic of China"; AP says Xi and Peng Liyuan "are expected to arrive at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday evening". 18:30 ET is estimated from the 6 PM departure; this replaces SCMP's[9] earlier 'around 4pm'.
Trump will meet Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews at about 4pm on 23 September 2026, a reception US presidents almost never give a visiting head of state. It opens Xi's 23-25 September state visit, his first to Washington since 2015.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-03-24, gives the shutdown date as 24 September 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.
OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 24 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: Videos API, sora-2, sora-2-pro, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06.
SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCETesla's own Semi Rollout poster reads "September 24th 2026 | Semi Factory Nevada" and the invitations describe an event on September 24; no start time has been published, so the pin is all day.[1]
Tesla holds an invite-only Semi Rollout on 24 September 2026 to inaugurate its 1.7 million sq ft Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, built for up to 50,000 electric trucks a year, with factory tours and Semi ride-alongs.
South Lawn, The White House, Washington, DC, United StatesThe White House
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEThe White House[1] programme states that "on Thursday morning, September 24, the President and First Lady will host a State Arrival Ceremony". It gives the day but no hour, so the pin is all-day on 24 September.
479 military personnel from every branch, an Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon, a Rose Garden military review and a flyover by a B-2 and four F-22s: the formal welcome for Xi Jinping on the morning of 24 September 2026, his first White House arrival ceremony since 2015.
SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per help.senate.gov[1][3]: "Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026 / Time: 10:30 AM ET/ 9:30 AM CT / Location: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building"; it takes place "directly after the HELP Committee votes" on other nominations, so it may start a little later.
The Senate HELP Committee questions Dr. Heidi Overton, President Trump's pick for FDA commissioner, at 10:30 a.m. ET in 430 Dirksen. If confirmed, the White House domestic policy aide would take over an agency that has lost more than 3,000 staff in the past year.
500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, United StatesFX
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE13 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-24 as the announced premiere on FX.
American Horror Story is an horror television anthology series. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end. While some actors appear for more than one year, they play completely different roles in each season. The premiere, "13": After a near-death experience, Ben provides hospice care for a mysterious client in an eerie penthouse. Season 13 starts on FX.
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCERocket Lab's mission page and Spaceflight Now's[2] launch schedule both list the window opening at 00:15 UTC on 26 September 2026 from Launch Complex 1 (checked 2026-09-23); launches slip.
Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. Lifts off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to Low Earth Orbit.
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASpaceX
SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCESpaceflight Now[3] (checked 2026-09-23): "Window opens at 4:56 a.m. PDT (7:56 a.m. EDT / 1156 UTC)" on 26 September from SLC-4E, Vandenberg; launches slip.
A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of rocket stage drop zones being exact fits with previous Starlink Group 15 launches. Lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Of Course I Still Love You.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE10 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-25 as the announced premiere on STARZ.
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.
SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCERTD's service-change notice says "the initial service on East Colfax Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will begin along Colfax Avenue starting Sept. 27."[1]
Routes 15 and 15L move into new center-running bus-only lanes on East Colfax Avenue between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard, with passengers boarding at new island stations sheltered by steel arches. It is the first stretch of RTD's 8.5-mile bus rapid transit corridor from downtown Denver to I-225 in Aurora to carry buses, with full BRT service planned for late 2027 or early 2028.
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEThe AP reports "The pay increase is effective starting Sept. 27, the retailer said"; Amazon's own post announces the raise on September 16 without an effective date.[1]
A $1-an-hour raise lifts minimum starting pay for Amazon's U.S. full-time core operations employees to $20, with average pay nearly $24 an hour, part of a more than $1.5 billion investment in higher pay. A 10% employee grocery discount and a lifetime banking benefit come with it.
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEMyAnimeList[1][2] lists the premiere as September 28, 2026; MAL News says episode 1 airs at 12:00 a.m. that day, right after the block opens at 11:30 p.m. on September 27.
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.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2025-09-26, gives the shutdown date as 28 September 2026 (re-checked 2026-09-23, unchanged). A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.
OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 28 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106.
Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USASpaceX
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCESpaceX[1], quoted 22 Sep 2026: "Now targeting to launch Starship Flight 14 as early as Monday, September 28, pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch window will open at 7:15 a.m. CT." Already slipped once from 22 Sep, and the FAA licence was still pending.
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14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites known as Starlink Group 31-1) into stable Low Earth Orbit.
The ship is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately 6 orbits around the planet for nearly 10 hours, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile.
The booster’s primary test objective on Flight 14 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf.
Starship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Tbps of capacity to the constellation. Lifts off from Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Gulf of Mexico.
The Simpsons is the longest running scripted show in US television history. It captures the adventures of Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart and Lisa who are living in a fictional town called Springfield. The premiere, "The Children's Book Job": A British children's book author comes to Springfield to give a talk at Springfield Elementary School. Homer is tasked with picking her up from the airport, but things go bad from there. Season 38 starts on FOX.
Animal Control is a workplace comedy following a group of Animal Control workers whose lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not. The premiere, "Seahawks and Piglets": Frank leads the team in a work stoppage, but abandons his cause for the ultimate call - recovering the Seahawks' missing mascot. Season 5 starts on FOX.
Broadcasting House, City of Westminster, United KingdomBBC iPlayer
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE6 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-29 as the announced premiere on BBC iPlayer.
For three police recruits in Belfast, the pressure is immense. Facing criminal gangs and divided communities, they don't know who to trust. The odds are they won't all make it. The premiere, "Eyes": The section is challenged by escalating tensions at a community event, while the investigation into Dana Morgan's drug partnership with Tina McIntyre falters. Season 4 starts on BBC iPlayer.
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEThe New Jersey Department of Labor's 2026 WARN Notice Archive lists "Samsung Electronics America, Inc. | Englewood Cliffs | July | 9/30/26 | 739" (effective date and number affected).[1]
Samsung Electronics America's New Jersey WARN notice lists 739 roles at its Englewood Cliffs headquarters ending on 30 September 2026, about 62% of its roughly 1,200 New Jersey staff, as the unit moves to Plano, Texas.
SCHEDULED86% CONFIDENCELilly's release lists "EloraTZP symposium | Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. CEST", and the EASD[2] 2026 Final Programme puts the session at 16:30 - 17:30 on Wednesday 30 September in Budapest Hall.
First Phase 2 results for eloraTZP - Lilly's once-weekly amylin drug eloralintide combined with tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) - in adults with obesity or overweight and type 2 diabetes, unveiled at an EASD symposium on amylin in Milan.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEZalando's[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.
Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.
Juniper Building A, 1133 Innovation Way, Sunnyvale, California 94089, United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise·…
SCHEDULED84% CONFIDENCEHPE's[1][2][3][4][5] release: "HPE (NYSE: HPE) will host its Networking Investor Day on September 30, 2026, in Sunnyvale, California ... The webcast will begin Wednesday, September 30, at 10:30 a.m. CT (8:30 a.m. PT)", which is 15:30 UTC; HPE's investor events page gives the same "Wednesday, September 30 at 8:30AM PT".
Rami Rahim and his HPE Networking leadership team set out the strategy and growth plans of the business built around Juniper, now $2.9 billion of revenue a quarter, in a webcast from Sunnyvale starting at 8:30 a.m. PT.
SCHEDULED78% CONFIDENCEThe on-sale date comes from the Gamescom coverage: GamesRadar[2]+ says the Quantum 850 is 'expected to launch on October 1 later this year' and Trusted Reviews[3] that 'the 850 goes on sale 1st October for GBP 249.99 / EUR 279.99', which other outlets repeat. JBL's[1] own release of 26 August 2026 says only 'available for EUR 279.99 from August 2026'; the reported 1 October date is the specific one and is followed here.
Premium gaming headset with 50mm drivers and replaceable components.
SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCEMyAnimeList[1] and Anime News Network[2] both give an official October 1, 2026 premiere date.
Studio KAI's adaptation of Kōcha Agasawa's The Ramparts of Ice returns for a second season on TBS just three months after the first, continuing its four-way high school romance.