The Rundown — September 30, 2026
THE WORLD · SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
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World
- The U.S. military completes its withdrawal from Iraq on September 30, closing out a 12-year counter-ISIS mission that began in 2014, with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi confirming the date as the "fixed and final" end of the Global Coalition's operations in the country. ↗
Business & markets
- The Dow closes down 131.59 points (0.26%) to 51,349.92 and the S&P 500 slips 0.16% to 7,670.84 on September 29, with the Nasdaq off 0.09% to 26,797.54, as another rise in long-term Treasury yields weighs on stocks. ↗
- U.S. stock futures edge lower Wednesday morning, September 30, as traders await the Commerce Department's August PCE report, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge. ↗
Bitcoin & crypto
- Bitcoin opens Wednesday, September 30 at $83,624.79 and climbs to $83,767 by 7:17 a.m. ET, holding onto its gains as the month closes out. ↗
- Ethereum opens the same morning at $2,676.74, down 0.4% from Tuesday, then recovers to $2,686.56, with 24-hour trading volume running about $28.21 billion for bitcoin and $15.49 billion for ether. ↗
Technology
- Amazon permanently shuts down Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform that once connected more than 500,000 "turkers" to companies paying cents-per-task for work automation couldn't yet do. ↗
- Google begins enforcing its new Android developer identity-verification requirement on September 30, starting with users in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand across seven app stores including Google Play, Samsung's Galaxy Store and Xiaomi's GetApps. ↗
Arts & culture
- Bear 89, known as "Backpack" for riding on his mother's back as an injured cub, is crowned the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion at Katmai National Park on September 29, after more than 2.3 million votes were cast. ↗