The Atlantic reports Trump plans to buy midterm-election ads to promote his record.

Jiangsu Power Trading Center organized provincial market participants to take part in August intra-month south-to-East China cross-grid green-power trading and simultaneously participated in Yunxiao HVDC transmission-rights trading. The transaction is the first nationwide transmission-rights deal from China Southern Power Grid to the State Grid. Seven Jiangsu participants transacted a total 622 MWh of green power, a step toward cross-grid mutual-assistance mechanisms.

Bulgaria's defense minister Stoyanov said on Aug 25 that U.S. tanker aircraft which departed the Bezmer airbase in eastern Bulgaria on Aug 21 have no plans to return. He said Bulgaria's parliament approved stationing the tankers at Bezmer until Oct 1 in July, but the U.S. has since confirmed the aircraft will not be redeployed to the base.