Your Monday Morning Rundown for September 29, 2025: The shutdown clock is ticking with Trump meeting Schumer and Jeffries at 3 p.m. today. The Pentagon is pressing defense contractors to ramp up missile production, Venezuela is mobilizing militias as U.S. warships patrol the Caribbean, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is breaking ranks with Trump over the Epstein files. Big Tech is throwing money around—OpenAI with CoreWeave and NVIDIA, Musk suing OpenAI and Apple, Amazon settling for $2.5B, and Intel shopping for support. Markets are flat but defensive as new tariffs on drugs, furniture, and trucks land tomorrow. Plus: Bad Bunny locked for the Super Bowl halftime show, Europe stuns the U.S. at the Ryder Cup, and NFL Week 4 delivers chaos from Lamar’s injury to the Eagles’ dominance.
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